______  __                     
 /\__  _\/\ \      __            
 \/_/\ \/\ \ \___ /\_\    ____   is the 6-letter word game.  It works like 
    \ \ \ \ \  _ `\/\ \  /',__\  this:  One person is "it". That person    
     \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\__, `\ thinks of a six-letter word.  It must be a
      \ \_\ \ \_\ \_\ \_\/\____/ real, English word, which can be found in 
       \/_/  \/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/  some dictionary.                          
 
Other players try to guess the word, and their guesses must also be real,
English words.  The person who is "it" scores the guesses according to how
many letters in the guess match those in the word he's thinking of.  So for
instance, if the word is "spring", then the scoring might go like this:

 /--------------------------------------------------------------\
 | waffle  0  (no letters in common with spring)                |
 | cranny  1  (both cranny and spring have n as the 5th letter) |
 | apples  1  (both apples and spring have p as the 2nd letter) |
 | string  5  (string and spring match in 5 places)             |
 \--------------------------------------------------------------/

etc.  The game continues until someone guesses a word, and then that
person becomes "it", and the whole thing starts over again.

Complete rules are in ~rcurl/letter.match .  A list of all words used
throughout the history of the game is in ~rcurl/l.m.words .  It's customary
for the person who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a
file called letter.match6 in his or her home directory.  So for instance
if kentn is "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match6 .

1012 responses total.

So I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  omnium  0  (lastword)

batter

  batter  1  (naftee)

The current state of the guess is in ~gelinas/letter.match6

series

  series  0  (kentn)

worlds

  worlds  0  (albaugh)

WOw, gelinas is on the ball.

bitter

  bitter  2  (naftee)

bistro

beasts

  bistro  3  (aruba)
  beasts  0  (albaugh)

bilked

  bilked  1  (blaise)

saving

sitter

  saving  0  (albaugh)
  sitter  2  (naftee)

waiter

  waiter  1  (albaugh)

canary

distal

  canary  0  (aruba)
  distal  4  (kentn)

pistol

  pistol  6  (aruba)

You are up, aruba; that didn't take long. :)

Damn you guys are good.

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

pistol  0  (lastword)

taking

series

whores

pistol  0  (lastword)
taking  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
whores  0  (naftee)

ardent

pistol  0  (lastword)
taking  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
whores  0  (naftee)
ardent  1  (gelinas)

apples

indent

pistol  0  (lastword)
taking  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
whores  0  (naftee)
ardent  1  (gelinas)
apples  1  (naftee)
indent  0  (gelinas)

blinks

eyeing

pistol  0  (lastword)
taking  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
whores  0  (naftee)
ardent  1  (gelinas)
apples  1  (naftee)
indent  0  (gelinas)
blinks  0  (kingjon)
eyeing  0  (albaugh)

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