Grex Language Conference

Item 112: Word Guess, Mastermind rules

Entered by brighn on Sun Jun 10 19:24:02 2001:

13 new of 388 responses total.

#376 of 388 by aruba on Wed Jul 31 02:34:09 2002:

maelstrom

#377 of 388 by brighn on Wed Jul 31 03:58:30 2002:

maelstrom 0,3 (aruba)

#378 of 388 by aruba on Sat Aug 3 19:34:05 2002:

aerospace

#379 of 388 by brighn on Mon Aug 5 03:32:30 2002:

aerospace 0,2 (aruba)

#380 of 388 by aruba on Mon Aug 5 21:17:21 2002:

deodorant

#381 of 388 by brighn on Mon Aug 5 21:45:55 2002:

deodorant 0,1 (aruba)

#382 of 388 by brighn on Mon Aug 12 15:27:56 2002:

the word was symbiosis
 
I'm going to be trying to cold turkey Grex for a little while, and I didn't
want to just leave this item in the lurch. (Actually, I"m not all that certain
I'll be back to Grex anytime soon.)

#383 of 388 by aruba on Wed Aug 14 13:18:02 2002:

Well, thanks for resolving it, then.  I guess that leaves me as the only
player; it seems silly to start a word and keep checking the item when no
one else is playing, so I'll let it languish.

#384 of 388 by gelinas on Sat Jan 25 03:25:20 2003:

And I'm still not up to playing this game. :(

#385 of 388 by cmcgee on Sat Jan 25 14:34:06 2003:

I play better when the words are small.

#386 of 388 by sholmes on Wed Jul 30 03:50:18 2003:

heh we used to call his game cow-bull game . The number of letters in correct
positions are cows and number of correct leters in wrong positions are bulls
. so the responses are liek 2-cow 1 bull .. etc .. Also we wer restricted to
five letter words and 4 guesses and you have to get the word in the fifth
guess.

#387 of 388 by rcurl on Wed Jul 30 05:44:24 2003:

It's interesting that there is an antecedent. I learned it in the form
played here, but as a verbal (no dictionary, no notes) five letter game
for car travel. Even though it wasn't restricted to five guesses, people
always got the word in the end. It takes a memory feat, however, and does
sometimes degenerate into some argument about what word got what score.
Having the additional information of how many letters are in the wrong
position should make it easier.

#388 of 388 by dcat on Wed Jul 30 22:08:01 2003:

resp:386 There is just such a game around here, somewhere, but I can't
either think of its name nor find it at the moment.    It's with 4 numbers, not
five letters, though.

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