This is the 7-letter word game.  It works like this:  One person is "it".
That person thinks of a seven-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 "privacy", then the scoring might go like this:

waffles  0  (no letters in common with privacy)
splashy  1  (both splashy and privacy have y as the 7th letter)
spinach  3  (spinach and privacy match in 3 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 .  It's customary for the person

who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a file called 
letter.match7 in his or her home directory.  So for instance if kentn is 
"it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match7 .

1124 responses total.

I guessed the last word correctly, so I'm now "it", and I'm thinking of a
7-letter word.  It's become traditional to score the last word as if it were
the first guess, so:

mugwump  0  (lastword)

Incidently, if you're reading this at a time when this item has many
responses, you might want to to this:

1. Hit "q" to get to the "Respond or Pass" prompt.
2. Enter "last" to see the last response in the item.
3. Enter "-20" to see the last 20 responses in the item.  That's usually
enough to get you back to the beginning of the current game.

That's all if you're reading this through Picospan.  If you're reading this
on the Web via Backtalk, there's some other way to do it, which shouldn't be
too hard to figure out.

unearth

mystery

unearth  0  (kentn)
mystery  0  (kami)       Welcome, Kami!

Guesses so far are in ~aruba/letter.match7 .

secrets

secrets  1  (albaugh)

vitriol

vitriol  0  (kentn)

reflect

baffles

reflect  0  (kami)
baffles  1  (kentn)

careers

Note that this item is not yet linked into the Puzzle conference.

stripes

trained

almonds

careers  1  (gelinas)
stripes  1  (prp)
trained  0  (albaugh)
almonds  3  (kentn)

albumen

albumen  0  (prp)

records

records  2  (albaugh)

remodel

remodel  2  (prp)

ovation

ovation  1  (albaugh)

osmotic

osmotic  5  (kentn)

traffic

traffic  1  (prp)

mimesis (Imitation; mimicry.)

mimesis  4  (kentn)

striped

striped  0  (prp)
You guys are just playing with me now...

chassis

chassis  3  (kentn)

No one seems to want to win this one.

I don't have much time to run the game at this point...
figured there were enough clues for someone else to guess it.

- Backtalk version 1.3.30 - Copyright 1996-2006, Jan Wolter and Steve Weiss