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Grex > Language > #136: The Five Letter Word Game, Fourth Edition |  |
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response 494 of 1578:
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Jan 21 03:08 UTC 2003 |
knave
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jep
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response 495 of 1578:
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Jan 21 03:14 UTC 2003 |
0 exing jep
0 speed aruba
2 crate remmers
1 throb janc
0 crowd aruba
0 croon remmers
0 eking gelinas/lastword
1 tease remmers
1 blare remmers
1 white gelinas
0 tanga polytarp
1 ghats aruba
1 whore slynne
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1 knave other
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gelinas
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response 496 of 1578:
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Jan 21 03:38 UTC 2003 |
JEP, I call for a recount.
2 crate score(crate) = score(cr---) + score(--ate) = 2
0 crowd score(crowd) = score(cr---) + score(--owd) = 0
Thus, two of "ate" must be in the final answer. But:
1 tease score(tease) = score(te-s-) + score(--a-e) = 1
So it's only one of antepenultimate a and ultimate e
1 ghats score(ghats) = score(gh--s) + score(--at-) = 1
So it's only one of antepenultimate a and penultimute t
1 white score(white) = score(whi--) + score(---te) = 1
so it's only one of penultimate t and final e
Thus, it can't be
--at-
--a-e
or
---te
So how did "crate" get a 2? Or, what else was mis-scored?
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response 497 of 1578:
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Jan 21 03:51 UTC 2003 |
Something above has been scored incorrectly.
crate is scored as 2, but crowd and croon both disallow the c and r,
which leaves 2 letters of the a,t and e. If we posit the a, then both
the e and the t are excluded, by scoring blare and ghats as 1 each. If
we posit the e, then 1 white excludes the t, and 1 blare excludes the a.
Correction, please...
Joe slipped in. Heh...
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janc
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response 498 of 1578:
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Jan 21 04:09 UTC 2003 |
Joe is correct. I'm going to guess arbitrarily that "white" was mis-scored,
and say
forte
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gelinas
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response 499 of 1578:
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Jan 21 04:21 UTC 2003 |
Given
1 throb janc
and the problems with --ate , I'm inclined to think the scoring is
sufficiently confused that further guesses would be wasted.
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janc
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response 500 of 1578:
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Jan 21 04:52 UTC 2003 |
Wasted? How could they be wasted? An error in scoring just makes the game
more interesting. I've thought about a version of the game where the scorer
is allowed to lie once. Figuring out which data to discard just adds a
dimension to the game. I'm presuming that one error is more likely than two
errors. If so, "white" seems to be the best bet. If we assume "white" is
really a two, then "forte" is a plausible guess.
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gelinas
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response 501 of 1578:
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Jan 21 04:54 UTC 2003 |
But white is more likely to be a three.
And guessing at random, I might actually end up 'it'. ;)
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janc
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response 502 of 1578:
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Jan 21 05:23 UTC 2003 |
white a three? No way. First, that assumes a bigger error on JEP's part.
Seconde, if white is 3 and --ate is 2 and whore is 1 then we are stuck with
??ite which contradicts another word (I forget which - scrolled of my screen),
so we'd have to assume yet another error.
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gelinas
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response 503 of 1578:
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Jan 21 05:38 UTC 2003 |
But how else to account for the 1 throb got, when tanga got 0? It's either
-ha-e
or
-hat-
or
-h-te.
Or the scores are so wrong as to be useless. And given
1 ghats (That was the score, wasn't it?)
I'm inclined toward 'useless'.
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jep
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response 504 of 1578:
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Jan 21 13:33 UTC 2003 |
Unfortunately the storm hit after I logged off for the night.
0 exing jep
0 speed aruba
2 crate remmers
1 throb janc
0 crowd aruba
0 croon remmers
0 eking gelinas/lastword
1 tease remmers
1 blare remmers
2 white gelinas <-- my mistake, sorry!
0 tanga polytarp
1 ghats aruba
1 whore slynne
1 knave other
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5 forte janc
I do apologize for the mistake. Nice job by both other and gelinas to
notice it.
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janc
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response 505 of 1578:
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Jan 21 14:29 UTC 2003 |
Re 503: You forgot --rte.
So, time for a new word...
forte 0 lastword
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remmers
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response 506 of 1578:
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Jan 21 18:29 UTC 2003 |
piano
(Had to guess that...)
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polytarp
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response 507 of 1578:
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Jan 21 20:57 UTC 2003 |
xylem
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carson
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response 508 of 1578:
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Jan 21 22:57 UTC 2003 |
(errors are fascinating.)
error
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gelinas
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response 509 of 1578:
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Jan 21 23:07 UTC 2003 |
So I did. Thanks, Jan. :)
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aruba
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response 510 of 1578:
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Jan 21 23:21 UTC 2003 |
steep
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jep
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response 511 of 1578:
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Jan 22 02:49 UTC 2003 |
guess
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janc
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response 512 of 1578:
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Jan 22 02:50 UTC 2003 |
Holy Mackeral! Honestly, I was thinking of 'forte' as meaning a
person's strong point. It never occured to me that my word had any
relation to the previous word. But there it is, the shortest
five-letter game in history:
forte 0 lastword
piano 5 remmers
Now you know why we all agree with remmers - it's his amazing psychic
powers.
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jep
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response 513 of 1578:
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Jan 22 04:47 UTC 2003 |
Wow.
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mdw
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response 514 of 1578:
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Jan 22 06:35 UTC 2003 |
piano = soft
forte = loud
Sheet music is commonly marked with P and F for soft and loud (for some
reason, just as Latin was the official language for science and French
was the official language of diplomacy, Italian became the official
language for music.) A pianoforte is an obselete name for a keyboard
musical instrument that can play both softly and loudly, according to
how hard the keys are struck. I sure don't see anything psychic in
remmers's guess. I'd be more surprised if he didn't make that guess.
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carson
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response 515 of 1578:
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Jan 22 06:42 UTC 2003 |
(it's not psychic. Remmers is just exploiting the power of suggestion.)
mezzo
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rcurl
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response 516 of 1578:
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Jan 22 07:21 UTC 2003 |
German became the official language for physical sciences. Latin led
only in taxonomy and anatomy. Of course, all such associations are
dependent upon time and place.
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remmers
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response 517 of 1578:
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Jan 22 12:52 UTC 2003 |
O-kaaay.....
I am thinking of a 5-letter word.
piano 0 (last word)
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janc
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response 518 of 1578:
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Jan 22 13:35 UTC 2003 |
forte
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