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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 161 and 162.
1578 responses total.
Not that the general conference version of this game has diverged slightly in the rules from the puzzle conference version. I've modifed the rules above slightly to reflect this. In the previous general conference, I guessed cmcgee's word "epics". I now start a new word, which is not epics 0 lastword
seedy
epics 0 lastword ----- seedy 0 Mark "got any Es?" Conger
gloam
(Does anybody actually maintain a letter.match5 file?)
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match
I always maintain a letter.match5 file, though it's inconvenient. I have to telnet in specially for that. Would it be all right to ask everyone to keep janc's convention of re-posting the previous guesses each time the scores are determined? scrum
moxie
epics 0 lastword seedy 0 aruba ----- gloam 1 remmers match 0 cmcgee scrum 0 jep moxie 0 russ I believe several people maintain the file. I never do. These days I'm usually using Backtalk. I started posting the full history with each response as a substitute. Nobody has complained.
grins
(carson, could you link this?)
epics 0 lastword seedy 0 aruba gloam 1 remmers match 0 cmcgee scrum 0 jep moxie 0 russ ----- grins 0 cmcgee
frown
groin
alien
cream
toledo. (Is that 5 letters?) clams
clunk
epics 0 lastword seedy 0 aruba gloam 1 remmers match 0 cmcgee scrum 0 jep moxie 0 russ grins 0 cmcgee ----- frown 0 albaugh groin 0 scott alien 1 aruba cream 0 oval clams 3 omni clunk 1 russ
plans
claim
stick
lemma
llama
epics 0 lastword seedy 0 aruba gloam 1 remmers match 0 cmcgee scrum 0 jep moxie 0 russ grins 0 cmcgee frown 0 albaugh groin 0 scott alien 1 aruba cream 0 oval clams 3 omni clunk 1 russ ----- plans 2 scott claim 2 jep stick 0 ea lemma 3 aruba llama 5 remmers <-------- WINNER
Nuts, I thought I had it with "claim". I demand a recount!
("claim" was impossible after "cream" scored 0:
score(cream) = score(c---m) + score(-rea-) = 0
since all scores are positive, score(c---m) = 0
score(claim) = score(c---m) + score(-lai-)
since score(c---m) has already determined to be 0,
score(claim) =< 3
FOUL! Unnecessary precision. Five letters.
I am thinking of a five-letter word. llama 0 (previous word)
whore
event
janc; I can't tell you. <STOP> Put me on your .yesright or equivelent. <STOP>
llama 0 (previous word) whore 1 polytarp event 0 janc
white
llama 0 (previous word) whore 1 polytarp event 0 janc ----- white 0 polytarp
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aegis
sting
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