In the Six Letter Word Game a person thinks of a six letter word and
others try to deduce what it is from the responses to guessed words. The
response numbers are the number of letters that match letters in the
hidden word including with respect to place. The full rules are in
/u/rcurl/lettermatch.rules (written for a five letter verson, also being
played in another itme). 

As the game proceeds a list of words guessed and their "scores" is usually
available in a file. The person that guesses the word correctly (score =
6) gets to choose the next word to be played. 

The 4th Edition (in item #70) has been discontinued because 1026 responses
creates a bit of a lag in the game.

Contestants, start your dictionaries!

594 responses total.

I am thinking of a six letter word.....

tunnel

tunnel  2       signet                                  LUCKY!

how about "crikey" from the previous game, can we assume that is 0?

Some players started giving the count for the last word w.r.t to their
new word. I haven't adopted that practice. For those that do do it - the count
has *always* been 0 - funny, isn't it?

Very funny :)  Can we assume that crikey is a 0 then?  Only one way to find
out for sure...I'll guess...hmmm...let me think...
 
crikey

        0       kentn                                   Yup......

trowel

Whoops - something weird happened on #7. "Crikey" was there when I entered
the response. So, again:

crikey  0       kentn
trowel  2       signet                                          keep digging

A list of guessed words and their counts is in /u/rcurl/letter.match

thrill

thrill 2        kentn

tawdry

tawdry  1       signet

tithal  (of or pertaining to tithes)

tithal  3       kentn

It wasn't in my dictionary, but OED says its a word....

toggle

toggle  1       signet

Hey, scare up some more players! 

I think we need that link to the games/iq cf.  I've asked the fw
there to do so, but have not heard back (that'd be carson).

And, yup, found tithal in the OED.
 
tymbal (var of timbal, a kettledrum) 

tidbit

tymbal  6       kentn BONK BONK BONK BONK (the tymbal has a crack)

Heh. Okay, I'm thinking of a six-letter word.
 
tymbal 0
 
Results of the guesses on the current word can be found in
/u/kentn/letter.match.

unease

unease  0  (rcurl)

Well, the word I'm thinking of passes the Unease Test.

rolled

rolled  1  (signet)

flight

raisin

flight  0  (rcurl)
raisin  1  (signet)
 
Ah, those flying raisins...keep a raisin swatter handy...

rufous

rufous  0  (rcurl)
 
Seeing red?

barked

barked  1  (signet)

Hmmm...there seem to be only three of us playing. Its still fun, but its
funner with more joining in - and it goes faster. This is a great game for
car travel with three or more, though, so let's just imagine we are travelling
somewhere together - and trying to keep the driver awake.

lamina

Kinda hard to drive when you're reading a dictionary :)  Figured
that one had something to do with laminations or layers (but not hens),
and so it does.  Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how much
information you can surmise):
 
lamina  0  (rcurl)
 
Still haven't heard back on the link request to the iq cf, where we
might find a few more players.  Maybe I'll try again.

When playing it when driving not only does no one have a dictionary, they may
not write down the guesses and counts! 

But then, we wouldn't be playing *six* letter word game, either...or
would we?

That's right - five letters is (more than) sufficient, when its all mental.

okay I'm here as #3 (of course)
perhaps we should allow more than one quess for awhile with just 2 of us
guessing--how about you can enter another response as long as the game runner
has responded to your first one?
BTW: where are you two for item 67? It's a ghost town there!

jetsam

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