This 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.match in his or her home directory.  So for instance if kentn
is "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match .

905 responses total.

I was the last one to guess a word correctly in the previous item, so I'm
currently "it".

crimps  0  (lastword)

BTW this game has to be the longest-running single topic on Grex.  The first 7
items ecompassed a total of 6707 responses.

streak

Well, I'll go with a traditional long-running guess
 
unease

streak  0  (albaugh)
unease  0  (kentn)

taller

taller  1  (albaugh)

author

author  0  (kentn)

thanks

thanks  0  (albaugh)

violin

violin  0  (kentn)

master

issued

master  1  (albaugh)
issued  2  (kentn)

pelted

osprey

pelted  1  (albaugh)
osprey  6  (kentn)

Kent's up!

Yikes! That was a lucky guess...  Okay, I'll try to conjure up
a new work next time.

(I'm going to assume Kent has a word by now).

teepee

Actually, I do have a word in mind and it's not
 
  osprey  0  (lastword)
  teepee  0  (aruba)

A summary of guesses on the current word can be found in the file
~kentn/letter.match

Where'd everyone go?

Dunno...

streak

essays

  streak  2  (albaugh)
  essays  0  (aruba)

tricky

voodoo

  tricky  0  (albaugh)
  voodoo  0  (aruba)

Anybody want to guess?

suntan

strays

  suntan  1  (orinoco)
  strays  2  (aruba)

stolid   Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin stolidus dull, stupid   Date: circa 1600
: having or expressing little or no sensibility : UNEMOTIONAL
synonym see IMPASSIVE

  stolid  1  (albaugh)

sprint

  sprint  3  (aruba)

sarong   Function: noun   Etymology: Malay   Date: 1830
: a loose garment made of a long strip of cloth wrapped around the body that 
  is worn as a skirt or dress by men and women chiefly of the Malay 
  Archipelago and the Pacific islands

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