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Grex Language Item 109: Six-letter word game, 9th edition
Entered by prp on Mon Feb 12 16:22:39 UTC 2001:

 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 .

1037 responses total.

#1 of 1037 by prp on Mon Feb 12 16:29:29 2001:

The 8th edition was item puzzle:131. 

The lastword there was scatch.  So ... 

scatch 0 lastword kentn

#2 of 1037 by rcurl on Mon Feb 12 17:09:06 2001:

Puzzle item 149 has been linked to Language item 109.

#3 of 1037 by aruba on Mon Feb 12 21:16:37 2001:

Thanks for the link, Rane.

teepee

#4 of 1037 by prp on Mon Feb 12 21:26:54 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn

teepee 0 aruba

#5 of 1037 by kentn on Tue Feb 13 02:50:07 2001:

unease

#6 of 1037 by aruba on Tue Feb 13 04:30:25 2001:

easels

#7 of 1037 by prp on Tue Feb 13 21:53:04 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba

unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba

#8 of 1037 by prp on Thu Feb 15 16:10:58 2001:

Maybe this item should be linked to agora to drum up some new players.

#9 of 1037 by kentn on Sat Feb 17 14:53:04 2001:

taxing

#10 of 1037 by aruba on Sat Feb 17 19:18:36 2001:

voodoo

#11 of 1037 by prp on Sun Feb 18 19:06:03 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba

taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba

#12 of 1037 by kentn on Sun Feb 18 20:08:51 2001:

author

#13 of 1037 by aruba on Sun Feb 18 21:07:59 2001:

icicle

#14 of 1037 by gelinas on Sun Feb 18 23:08:42 2001:

chintz

#15 of 1037 by prp on Mon Feb 19 00:55:34 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba 

author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas

#16 of 1037 by aruba on Mon Feb 19 02:34:06 2001:

looker

#17 of 1037 by kentn on Mon Feb 19 11:57:12 2001:

midday

#18 of 1037 by kingjon on Mon Feb 19 12:20:54 2001:

fishes

#19 of 1037 by prp on Mon Feb 19 15:40:44 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba 
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas

looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon

#20 of 1037 by gelinas on Mon Feb 19 17:03:37 2001:

verges

#21 of 1037 by kentn on Tue Feb 20 01:39:02 2001:

bodkin

#22 of 1037 by prp on Tue Feb 20 03:28:28 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba 
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon

verges 0 gelinas
bodkin 1 kentn

#23 of 1037 by gelinas on Tue Feb 20 19:28:30 2001:

hockey

#24 of 1037 by aruba on Wed Feb 21 16:30:02 2001:

logjam

#25 of 1037 by prp on Wed Feb 21 20:15:27 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba 
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon
verges 0 gelinas
bodkin 1 kentn

hockey 1 gelinas
logjam 3 aruba

#26 of 1037 by gelinas on Wed Feb 21 21:27:52 2001:

larked

#27 of 1037 by aruba on Thu Feb 22 01:15:35 2001:

loquat

   Main Entry: lo7quat
   Pronunciation: 'lO-"kwdt
   Function: noun
   Etymology: Chinese (Guangdong) l`uh-gwAt
   Date: 1820
   : an Asian evergreen tree (Eriobotrya japonica) of the rose family
   often cultivated for its fruit; also : its small yellow edible fruit
   used especially for preserves

#28 of 1037 by prp on Fri Feb 23 19:03:05 2001:

scatch 0 lastword kentn
teepee 0 aruba
unease 0 kentn
easels 0 aruba
taxing 0 kentn
voodoo 1 aruba 
author 0 kentn
icicle 0 aruba
chintz 0 gelinas
looker 2 aruba
midday 1 kentn
fishes 0 kingjon
verges 0 gelinas
bodkin 1 kentn
hockey 1 gelinas
logjam 3 aruba

larked 1 geinas
loquat 6 aruba


We have a winner.  Mark is up next.

#29 of 1037 by aruba on Fri Feb 23 20:12:32 2001:

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word.

loquat  0  (lastword)

#30 of 1037 by gelinas on Sat Feb 24 05:35:38 2001:

teepee

#31 of 1037 by aruba on Sat Feb 24 18:58:47 2001:

teepee  0  (gelinas)

#32 of 1037 by prp on Sat Feb 24 22:06:59 2001:

arrear

#33 of 1037 by aruba on Sun Feb 25 02:48:39 2001:

arrear  0  (prp)

#34 of 1037 by kentn on Sun Feb 25 03:08:31 2001:

uneasy

#35 of 1037 by aruba on Sun Feb 25 21:04:27 2001:

uneasy  1  (kentn)

#36 of 1037 by gelinas on Sun Feb 25 21:38:52 2001:

umbers

#37 of 1037 by aruba on Mon Feb 26 02:58:49 2001:

umbers  0  (gelinas)

#38 of 1037 by prp on Mon Feb 26 18:53:18 2001:

annals

#39 of 1037 by aruba on Mon Feb 26 21:26:10 2001:

annals  0  (prp)

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