Mentioned in the "Letter Match" item:

51:184 Johann Hermann Remmers (remmers) Tue, Dec  7, 1993 (16:01)
 We could escalate the game and think of 6-letter words.

 . . . . 

I'm thinking of a six letter word.

1007 responses total.

New worlds to conquer!

worlds

revive

Take note that I have modified davel's awk script.
To produce accurate letter counting, run awk -f /u/srw/match.awk

adjust

I would use your match.awk, Steve, if permissions were set for me to use
it.  I'll start out doing this by hand.

worlds 0 (rcurl)
revive 1 (srw)
adjust 0 (remers)

I am intrigued by why a 6-letter versionn of Letter Match has reignited
interest in the game, which in its 5-letter version was getting.....
shall we say, "old"? This is not an inquiry into the merits of the two
versions, but into the psychology of leaving the old for the new. I am
also intrigued by the as-yet unknown consequences of going to 6 letters,
while my pattern of approaching 5 letters was more-or-less settled. Is
this the same phenomenon that led people to leave the comfort of their
ordinary lives, to venture into new frontiers, be they the "West", or
"Space"? [Be that as it may, someone should give the coup de grace to
item 51, 5-Letter Match. If someone would enter the correct word, I
will freeze the Item, even short of a full Millennium.] Oh yes.....
  
should

(Hey, if I *really* had wanted to leave the comfort of my ordinary
life, I'd have suggested going to FOUR-letter words...)

string

should 0 (rcurl)
string 0 (remmers)

puzzle?

obtain

Re #5: Oops! The perms are fixed, sorry everyone.
/u/srw/match.awk can now be seen by all

Quoting liberally from davel's response 43:77

>For the sake of anyone who wants to use it, I've created an awk script
>to check for matches.  (I did this after I made a mistake.)  To run it,
>from a unix shell prompt enter
>awk -f /u/davel/match.awk
except now its's in /u/srw for the 6-letter version

>(and, of course, the output may be redirected to a file).  It will
>prompt you for the match word (that's the one everyone's trying to
>guess) and then for a succession of words & usernames.  It will generate
>lines of the general form we've been posting. Respond with a control-D
>or a single period to end entry.

hawker

puzzle  1  (carl)
obtain  1  (rcurl)
hawker  1  (srw)

damagedamage

crunch

damage  2  (rcurl)
crunch  0  (srw)

efface

Now, why did damage repeat itself? I didn't write it twice, and didn't
have ECHO ON (;->). 

efface  1  (rcurl)

Steve, just because no one else wants to play, doesn't me we can't. Go
ahead - guess a word.

nature

faerie

sexton

nature  2  (srw)
faerie  3  (rcurl)
sexton  0  (aa8ij)

lovely

magpie

lovely  0  (power)
magpie  6  (rcurl)  !!!  ^G^G^G^G   !!!

Your turn, Rane.  Good job!

grrrr.

My Powerbook gave four (or was it 6?) beeps just as I read that. Was that
sent, or was it a coincidence (though there was no local reason for beeps).
I'm happy to keep this going if other players are, so

I am thinking of a 6 letter word.

lonely

lonely  1       srw

 you and that *&^() powerbook...  

 lovely

lovely  1       aa8ij

(Don't impugn my powerbook or I'll give you the wrong count :))

re 30: they were included.  

licker

friend

licker  0       jdg
friend  3       srw

This has been linked to the new puzzle conference as item 5.
Hmm.  Linked?

Yes, now on with the games, er, words, er whatever.

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