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Grex Iq Item 176: The Five Letter Word Game, Fifth Edition
Entered by kentn on Sat Apr 15 00:03:22 UTC 2006:

 In this item we will play the five letter word game.
 
 For those who have not played before, here are the rules:
 
 1. Words must be five letters long.
 
 2. Target words must be common enough that most people could be expected
    to know them,  They must appear in the m-w.com online dictionary.
 
 3. Guess words must appear in at least one published dictionary.
 
 4. Proper names, abbreviations, contractions, and punctuation marks are
    not allowed.
 
 5. No one may make two guesses in a row.  (Most people understand this
    to mean that no one may make a second guess until the scorer scores
    all guesses.)
 
 6. The scorer scores each guess, giving one point for each letter in the
    guess that matches the letter in the same position in the target 
    word.
 
 7. Anyone who scores five points becomes the scorer and thinks up a new
    target word. 
 
 8. The scorer maintains a list of all guess words and their score in a
    file named "letter.match5".  Help is available for those new to Unix
    and pico.  Some scorers prefer to post all scores again in each
    response.  This is more convenient for users of the web interface.
 
 If prp0 were the first scorer, the file ~prp0/letter.match5 might wind
 up looking like this:
 
    0 those prp0 (just to get things started)
    1 rules aruba
    1 could kentn  
  ...
    0 place aruba
    2 wells kentn
    3 forts rcurl
    5 words kentn *** Winner ***
 
 If you like this sort of thing, you might want to check out the puzzle
 conference, especially items 173 and 174.

368 responses total.

#1 of 368 by kentn on Sat Apr 15 00:07:00 2006:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not
 
  ennui  0  (Previous Word)
 
The summary of guesses on this word is in ~kentn/letter.match5

#2 of 368 by aruba on Wed Apr 19 21:00:04 2006:

peeve

#3 of 368 by kentn on Thu Apr 20 11:29:01 2006:

  peeve  0  (aruba)

#4 of 368 by remmers on Sat Apr 22 18:54:51 2006:

spoke

#5 of 368 by mcnally on Sat Apr 22 20:54:21 2006:

xylem

#6 of 368 by slynne on Sat Apr 22 20:59:41 2006:

peers

#7 of 368 by naftee on Sat Apr 22 21:43:01 2006:

whoa.  way to popularize this item.

spike

#8 of 368 by nharmon on Sat Apr 22 21:48:28 2006:

silly

#9 of 368 by scholar on Sat Apr 22 22:04:45 2006:

whore

#10 of 368 by aruba on Sun Apr 23 04:36:43 2006:

colon

#11 of 368 by kentn on Sun Apr 23 20:44:21 2006:

  spoke  0  (remmers)
  xylem  2  (mcnally)
  peers  0  (slynne)
  spike  0  (naftee)
  silly  1  (nharmon)
  whore  0  (scholar)
  colon  1  (aruba)
 
Note: usually 5 guesses is the max before scoring.

#12 of 368 by scholar on Sun Apr 23 20:50:37 2006:

whore

#13 of 368 by mcnally on Mon Apr 24 00:24:41 2006:

 ruler

#14 of 368 by naftee on Mon Apr 24 02:52:35 2006:

kentn

#15 of 368 by juicy on Mon Apr 24 06:05:43 2006:

ullet

("A European owl ({Syrnium aluco) of a tawny color", Webster's 1913)

#16 of 368 by jep on Mon Apr 24 16:45:03 2006:

paled

#17 of 368 by aruba on Tue Apr 25 03:05:52 2006:

alley

#18 of 368 by kentn on Tue Apr 25 04:25:42 2006:

  ruler  2  (mcnally)
  ullet  2  (juicy)
  paled  3  (jep)
  alley  2  (aruba)
 
Re 12: guessing the same word again yields the same score as before.
Re 14: not a word

#19 of 368 by mcnally on Tue Apr 25 05:07:25 2006:

piles

#20 of 368 by juicy on Tue Apr 25 05:29:21 2006:

galei  (the division of the elasmobranch fishes which includes the 
sharks; now largely replaced with the superorder Selachimorpha)

#21 of 368 by jep on Tue Apr 25 12:40:09 2006:

tiled

#22 of 368 by lar on Tue Apr 25 21:50:05 2006:

penis

#23 of 368 by naftee on Wed Apr 26 03:52:56 2006:

re 18
BUT IT SURE IS A PERSON !

black

#24 of 368 by tod on Wed Apr 26 04:21:28 2006:

leddy

#25 of 368 by tod on Wed Apr 26 04:23:14 2006:

geddy

#26 of 368 by aruba on Wed Apr 26 23:11:54 2006:

haler  (As in, more hale than the other guy.)

#27 of 368 by keesan on Thu Apr 27 00:11:44 2006:

haler is Czech currency (like pennies)

#28 of 368 by kentn on Fri Apr 28 03:47:02 2006:

  piles  2  (mcnally)
  galei  2  (juicy)
  tiled  3  (jep)
  penis  0  (lar)
  black  0  (naftee)

#29 of 368 by mcnally on Fri Apr 28 04:33:20 2006:

  Hmmm..  I'll be interested to see what the word is.  Unless
  there's been a scoring error I'm drawing a blank..

#30 of 368 by slynne on Fri Apr 28 18:59:19 2006:

idled

#31 of 368 by juicy on Fri Apr 28 19:41:24 2006:

/flips coin

ogled

#32 of 368 by naftee on Fri Apr 28 22:03:22 2006:

white

#33 of 368 by kentn on Sat Apr 29 15:23:11 2006:

  haler  2  (aruba)
  idled  3  (slynne)
  ogled  4  (juicy)
  white  0  (naftee)
 
(I can't find leddy or geddy quickly in my dictionaries).

#34 of 368 by cross on Sat Apr 29 15:25:46 2006:

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#35 of 368 by mcnally on Sat Apr 29 18:27:32 2006:

 It can't be "ogles", per #11, where slynne's guess of "peers"
 got a 0.  nor can it be "oiled", per #28, where jep's guess
 of "tiled" scored only 3.

#36 of 368 by kentn on Sat Apr 29 20:11:21 2006:

  ogles  3  (cross)

#37 of 368 by cross on Sat Apr 29 20:41:45 2006:

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#38 of 368 by cross on Sat Apr 29 20:43:13 2006:

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#39 of 368 by naftee on Sat Apr 29 21:03:36 2006:

mauve

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