This is the new version of the five letter word game.
This item is for those of us who like the letter word game, but don't
 like the obscurity of the words.  Two rules are different, then:
 words are five letters long, not six; the target words must be
 common enough that most people could be expected to know them,
 and they should appear in the standard student (high school, not
 graduate) desk dictionary.  The old rules apply to guesses:  they
 can be obscure or as common as desired, as long as they are words.

861 responses total.

I'm thinking of a five-letter word, and in the finest tradition:
melon = 0

eagle


[btw, is the number you type when you respond to a guess the number of 
correct letters? or the number of correct letters in the correct place?]

eagle = 1

1 means that you have one correct letter in the correct spot.  If you get a
correct letter, but not in the correct spot, I will respond with 0, assuming
you have nothing else in the correct spot.  So you might have all the correct
letters, but arranged to form a different word, and I would still say 0.

how about "error"?

The game rules are in /a/r/c/rcurl/lettermatch.rules

Thanks

error = 0

how about "lasts?"

adania, you had the last guess (error) ettiquette suggests you wait until
someone els has guessed to make your next guess.  

eager

eager = 1 kentn
lasts = 1 adania

satin

satin = 1 (cecille)

campy

campy = 1

ranch

sandy

sandy = 1 kentn
ranch = 1 adania

The complete list of guesses is in /a/e/4/e4808mc/lettergame/letter5.match

tacks

Someone help us out here, adania really wants to play!

fault

tacks = 1 adania
fault = 3 rcurl

sorry, i just read the cf's pretty often...i keep forgetting if 
someone else has guessed...

mauls

mauls = 2 adania

jaunt

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Er...what's the count on 'jaunt', again?

jaunt = 4

gaunt

Heh...now, its sheer luck..

haunt

gaunt = 4 adania
haunt = 4 rcurl

daunt

taunt

vaunt

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daunt = 5 BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.  You're it, ryan1

Cool! my first correct guess :)

Alright, I got a 5 letter word.

daunt = 0

board

board = 2 e......

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