This is the six-letter word game.  The way it works is like this:  whoever is
"it" thinks of a six-letter word, and everyone else tries to guess what it is.
The word must be a real word found in some English dictionary, and likewise
each guess must be a real word.  The person who is "it" scores each guess
with the number of letters it has in common with the goal.  So for instance
if the goal is

waffle

then the guesses might go like this:

angles  0  (no letters in common)
banter  1  (both have an 'a' as the second letter)
puddle  2  (both end in "le")
wobble  3  (both begin with 'w' and end with "le")

etc.  The game continues until someone guesses the word, at which point the
guesser becomes "it".

Complete rules may be found in ~rcurl/lettermatch.rules, and a list of all
the words used over the past 4 years is in ~rcurl/l.m.words .

1012 responses total.

I am currently "it" by virtue of having guessed kentn's last word, "palter".
Now I'm thinking of a six-letter word.

palter  0  (lastword)

You can find all the guesses so far in ~aruba/letter.match .

enigma

vowels

enigma  1  (adania)
vowels  0  (rcurl)

By the way, if you are reading this item at a time when it has a lot of
responses, you probably want to skip to the bottom and pick up the current 
game there.  Type "q" to get out of the pager, type "last" to see the last
response, and then type "-20" to see the last 20 responses.

danger

danger  0  (adania)

treble

treble  1  (albaugh)

tumble

unease

fellow

tumble  0  (adania)
unease  1  (kentn)
fellow  1  (rcurl)

friend

friend  1  (adania)

At aruba's request, I have linked this item from Language to Intro.  Any of
you language regulars have a thing or two to say to the intro people about
why they should join language?

fiesta

fiesta  1  (albaugh)

Hi, intro people. You should join the language conference because you
would find lots of interesting language activities there. This game
happens to be the most active at the moment, but there are also active
items with users conversing in different languages. Then, you can also
learn when to use the restricitive and when to use the non-restrictive
relative pronouns!

[After you join language, you can forget this item in intro, and still
read the others, by entering the command forget at the Respond or Pass
prompt.]

groovy

groovy  0  (rcurl)

fanged

fanged  1  (adania)

eyelid

futons

i do not understand what the hell is going on !!!

flange

iceman97, the instructions for the game can be read by entering the
command  !more /a/r/c/rcurl/lettermatch.rules  at an Ok prompt.

eyelid  6  (albaugh)
futons  0  (otaking)
flange  0  (sprice)

And albaugh has it - good job!  iceman97 - you can also type "only 0" at
the "respond or pass" prompt for a brief rundown of the rules.

You're up, Kevin!

Kevin?

Sorry, got bogged down with slow response etc.  :-(

Meanwhile, you now know that:

eyelid  0  (lastword)

closet

banana

unease

lizard

closet  1  (rcurl)
banana  0  (aruba)
unease  0  (kentn)
lizard  0  (bruin)

adrift

voices

adrift  0  (rcurl)
voices  1  (otaking)

cohere

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