______  __                     
/\__  _\/\ \      __            
\/_/\ \/\ \ \___ /\_\    ____   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 .

1013 responses total.

I'm currently thinking of a six-letter word.

orchil  0  (lastword)

waffle

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)

melena

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.

accord

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)

adjust

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)

insure

making

ensued

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)

divert

nobody

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)

upsets

thwart

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)

impart

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)
impart  3  (gelinas)

jumart  (The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare. --Locke.)

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)
impart  3  (gelinas)
jumart  6  (kentn)

I figured there was enough there.  You're up, Kent!

Okay, I'll try to have a word in mind next time.

All right, I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not
 
  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses can be found in ~kentn/letter.match6
as well as this item.

refers

coffee

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------

armory

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

erenow

guards

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------

augrim

\Au"grim\, n. See Algorism. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration.

Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. --Chaucer.

(There seems to be some disagreement as to whether it should be capitalized,
but dictionary.com has it uncapitalized.)

grasps

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  augrim  3  (aruba)
  grasps  1  (prp)
  ----------

agaric

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  augrim  3  (aruba)
  grasps  1  (prp)
  ----------
  agaric  3  (gelinas)
  ----------

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