Grex Language Conference

Item 122: Six-letter word game, 11th edition

Entered by aruba on Sun Mar 16 23:56:50 2003:

 ______  __                     
/\__  _\/\ \      __            
\/_/\ \/\ \ \___ /\_\    ____   is the 6-letter word game.  It works like 
   \ \ \ \ \  _ `\/\ \  /',__\  this:  One person is "it". That person    
    \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\__, `\ thinks of a six-letter word.  It must be a
     \ \_\ \ \_\ \_\ \_\/\____/ real, English word, which can be found in 
      \/_/  \/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/  some dictionary.                          

Other players try to guess the word, and their guesses must also be real,
English words.  The person who is "it" scores the guesses according to how
many letters in the guess match those in the word he's thinking of.  So for
instance, if the word is "spring", then the scoring might go like this:

/--------------------------------------------------------------\
| waffle  0  (no letters in common with spring)                |
| cranny  1  (both cranny and spring have n as the 5th letter) |
| apples  1  (both apples and spring have p as the 2nd letter) |
| string  5  (string and spring match in 5 places)             |
\--------------------------------------------------------------/

etc.  The game continues until someone guesses a word, and then that person
becomes "it", and the whole thing starts over again.

Complete rules are in ~rcurl/letter.match .  A list of all words used
throughout the history of the game is in ~rcurl/l.m.words .  It's customary
for the person who's "it" to store a list of all the current guesses in a file
called letter.match6 in his or her home directory.  So for instance if kentn
is "it", the guesses so far will be in ~kentn/letter.match6 .

1013 responses total.

#1 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Mar 16 23:57:46 2003:

I'm currently thinking of a six-letter word.

orchil  0  (lastword)

#2 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Mar 17 02:03:12 2003:

waffle

#3 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Mar 17 04:30:32 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)

#4 of 1013 by carson on Mon Mar 17 04:48:13 2003:

melena

#5 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Mar 17 15:31:39 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.

#6 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Mar 18 04:09:54 2003:

accord

#7 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Mar 18 05:22:47 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)

#8 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Mar 18 11:43:32 2003:

adjust

#9 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Mar 18 14:28:16 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)

#10 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Mar 18 18:59:22 2003:

insure

#11 of 1013 by kingjon on Tue Mar 18 21:07:31 2003:

making

#12 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Mar 19 02:33:51 2003:

ensued

#13 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Mar 19 15:20:54 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)

#14 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Mar 20 03:44:11 2003:

divert

#15 of 1013 by carson on Thu Mar 20 04:19:49 2003:

nobody

#16 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Mar 20 06:04:21 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)

#17 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Mar 20 14:59:29 2003:

upsets

#18 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Mar 21 12:09:44 2003:

thwart

#19 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Mar 21 20:36:03 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)

#20 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Mar 22 03:26:14 2003:

impart

#21 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Mar 22 04:58:55 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)
impart  3  (gelinas)

#22 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Mar 22 19:21:01 2003:

jumart  (The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare. --Locke.)

#23 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Mar 23 19:14:54 2003:

orchil  0  (lastword)
waffle  0  (gelinas)
melena  0  (carson)      My, that's a word I didn't want to know.
accord  1  (gelinas)
adjust  1  (kentn)
insure  1  (albaugh)
making  0  (kingjon)
ensued  0  (kentn)
divert  2  (gelinas)
nobody  0  (carson)
upsets  0  (gelinas)
thwart  3  (kentn)
impart  3  (gelinas)
jumart  6  (kentn)

I figured there was enough there.  You're up, Kent!

#24 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Mar 23 23:09:56 2003:

Okay, I'll try to have a word in mind next time.

#25 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Mar 29 17:06:04 2003:

All right, I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not
 
  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses can be found in ~kentn/letter.match6
as well as this item.

#26 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Mar 29 22:22:36 2003:

refers

#27 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Mar 30 05:30:45 2003:

coffee

#28 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Mar 30 16:56:21 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#29 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Mar 31 02:49:05 2003:

armory

#30 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Mar 31 03:31:25 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#31 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Mar 31 20:54:28 2003:

erenow

#32 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Mar 31 23:09:06 2003:

guards

#33 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Apr 1 02:13:31 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------

#34 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Apr 2 13:37:38 2003:

augrim

\Au"grim\, n. See Algorism. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration.

Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. --Chaucer.

(There seems to be some disagreement as to whether it should be capitalized,
but dictionary.com has it uncapitalized.)

#35 of 1013 by prp on Wed Apr 2 17:11:42 2003:

grasps

#36 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Apr 3 03:27:42 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  augrim  3  (aruba)
  grasps  1  (prp)
  ----------

#37 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Apr 3 06:18:16 2003:

agaric

#38 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Apr 3 11:54:02 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  augrim  3  (aruba)
  grasps  1  (prp)
  ----------
  agaric  3  (gelinas)
  ----------

#39 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Apr 4 18:36:58 2003:

handle

#40 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Apr 5 13:56:53 2003:

alarum (variant of alarm)

#41 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Apr 5 14:26:42 2003:

  jumart  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  armory  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  erenow  0  (aruba)
  guards  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  augrim  3  (aruba)
  grasps  1  (prp)
  ----------
  agaric  3  (gelinas)
  ----------
  handle  0  (albaugh)
  alarum  6  (aruba)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  ----------
 
You're up, Mark!

#42 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 6 00:30:36 2003:

Wow, I've actually heard that word before!  (Well, read it, in Poe's poem
"The Bells".)

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

alarum  0  (lastword)

#43 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Apr 6 03:19:22 2003:

refers

#44 of 1013 by carson on Sun Apr 6 05:43:36 2003:

papaya

#45 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 6 05:54:46 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)

#46 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Apr 6 15:05:59 2003:

series

#47 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 6 22:20:25 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)

#48 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Apr 7 03:01:44 2003:

bunker

#49 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Apr 7 04:41:01 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)

#50 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Apr 7 11:11:44 2003:

bygone

#51 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Apr 7 14:41:32 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)

#52 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Apr 12 00:43:38 2003:

Wow, it's Friday all ready and there haven't been any
guesses since Monday!

#53 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Apr 12 00:54:38 2003:

Been a strange week.

broker

#54 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Apr 12 04:19:34 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)
broker  1  (gelinas)

#55 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Apr 12 14:33:21 2003:

fickle

#56 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Apr 12 16:03:26 2003:

eggler

#57 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 13 01:54:51 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)
broker  1  (gelinas)
fickle  1  (kentn)
eggler  0  (gelinas)

eggler

\Egg"ler\, n. One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

#58 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Apr 13 03:08:25 2003:

bitmap

#59 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 13 03:54:05 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)
broker  1  (gelinas)
fickle  1  (kentn)
eggler  0  (gelinas)
bitmap  1  (kentn)

#60 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Apr 13 04:21:56 2003:

bounty

#61 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 13 16:22:11 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)
broker  1  (gelinas)
fickle  1  (kentn)
eggler  0  (gelinas)
bitmap  1  (kentn)
bounty  3  (gelinas)

#62 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Apr 15 23:51:31 2003:

bobfly  (The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.)

#63 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Apr 16 14:06:46 2003:

alarum  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
papaya  0  (carson)
series  0  (kentn)
bunker  1  (gelinas)
bygone  1  (kentn)
broker  1  (gelinas)
fickle  1  (kentn)
eggler  0  (gelinas)
bitmap  1  (kentn)
bounty  3  (gelinas)
bobfly  6  (kentn)

Kent's up!

#64 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Apr 17 03:06:38 2003:

Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time.

#65 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Apr 19 14:04:52 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#66 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Apr 19 14:28:57 2003:

refers

#67 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Apr 19 18:26:06 2003:

emerge

#68 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Apr 20 15:54:58 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#69 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Apr 20 20:20:53 2003:

aborts

#70 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 20 22:23:24 2003:

gooier

#71 of 1013 by kip on Mon Apr 21 22:39:22 2003:

unjust

#72 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Apr 22 11:15:18 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  aborts  0  (gelinas)
  gooier  0  (aruba)
  unjust  0  (kip)
  ----------

#73 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Apr 22 13:13:10 2003:

banana

#74 of 1013 by kingjon on Tue Apr 22 20:06:58 2003:

unfair

#75 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Apr 23 00:24:11 2003:

chintz

#76 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Apr 24 06:12:12 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  aborts  0  (gelinas)
  gooier  0  (aruba)
  unjust  0  (kip)
  ----------
  banana  0  (aruba)
  unfair  0  (kingjon)
  chintz  0  (gelinas)
  ----------

#77 of 1013 by kingjon on Thu Apr 24 12:56:55 2003:

looted

#78 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Apr 24 13:45:24 2003:

graham

#79 of 1013 by kip on Thu Apr 24 18:48:52 2003:

wisdom

#80 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Apr 27 01:46:40 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  aborts  0  (gelinas)
  gooier  0  (aruba)
  unjust  0  (kip)
  ----------
  banana  0  (aruba)
  unfair  0  (kingjon)
  chintz  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  looted  0  (kingjon)
  graham  3  (aruba)
  wisdom  1  (kip)
  ----------

#81 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Apr 27 17:54:35 2003:

brands

#82 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Apr 27 20:48:51 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  aborts  0  (gelinas)
  gooier  0  (aruba)
  unjust  0  (kip)
  ----------
  banana  0  (aruba)
  unfair  0  (kingjon)
  chintz  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  looted  0  (kingjon)
  graham  3  (aruba)
  wisdom  1  (kip)
  ----------
  brands  2  (aruba)
  ----------

#83 of 1013 by kip on Mon Apr 28 01:16:01 2003:

drachm   Alternative form of drachma, an eighth of an ounce.

#84 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Apr 28 04:20:26 2003:

tracks

#85 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Apr 28 11:36:06 2003:

  bobfly  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  emerge  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  aborts  0  (gelinas)
  gooier  0  (aruba)
  unjust  0  (kip)
  ----------
  banana  0  (aruba)
  unfair  0  (kingjon)
  chintz  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  looted  0  (kingjon)
  graham  3  (aruba)
  wisdom  1  (kip)
  ----------
  brands  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  drachm  6  (kip)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  tracks  3  (gelinas)
  ----------

Kip's up!

#86 of 1013 by kip on Mon Apr 28 17:18:11 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word)

A summary of guesses is in ~kip/letter.match6 and this item.

#87 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Apr 28 18:53:57 2003:

teepee

#88 of 1013 by kingjon on Mon Apr 28 19:36:21 2003:

darned

#89 of 1013 by kip on Mon Apr 28 21:38:33 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ----------

#90 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Apr 28 22:26:23 2003:

easels

#91 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Apr 28 23:52:26 2003:

bounty

#92 of 1013 by kip on Tue Apr 29 14:54:55 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------

#93 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Apr 29 15:48:53 2003:

assets

#94 of 1013 by kingjon on Tue Apr 29 19:23:09 2003:

county

#95 of 1013 by kip on Tue Apr 29 21:10:02 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  assets  0  (aruba)
  county  0  (kingjon)
  ---------

#96 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Apr 29 23:16:48 2003:

banana

#97 of 1013 by kip on Wed Apr 30 01:07:26 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  assets  0  (aruba)
  county  0  (kingjon)
  ---------
  banana  1  (aruba)

#98 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Apr 30 01:47:53 2003:

rabbit

#99 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Apr 30 04:25:14 2003:

magick

American Heritage Dictionary:

NOUN:
An action or effort undertaken because of a personal need to effect change,
especially as associated with Wicca or Wiccan beliefs. 

ETYMOLOGY:
Variant of magic.

#100 of 1013 by kip on Wed Apr 30 11:39:50 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  assets  0  (aruba)
  county  0  (kingjon)
  ---------
  rabbit  1  (kentn)
  magick  2  (aruba)
  ---------

#101 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed Apr 30 12:06:54 2003:

robber

#102 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Apr 30 14:12:58 2003:

famish

#103 of 1013 by kip on Wed Apr 30 15:32:25 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  assets  0  (aruba)
  county  0  (kingjon)
  ---------
  rabbit  1  (kentn)
  magick  2  (aruba)
  ---------
  robber  1  (kingjon)
  famish  1  (aruba)
  ---------

#104 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed Apr 30 19:32:02 2003:

robbed

#105 of 1013 by kip on Wed Apr 30 20:29:19 2003:

  drachm  0  (The Previous Word) Mon Apr 28 13:12:11 2003
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  darned  1  (kingjon)
  ---------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  bounty  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  assets  0  (aruba)
  county  0  (kingjon)
  ---------
  rabbit  1  (kentn)
  magick  2  (aruba)
  ---------
  robber  1  (kingjon)
  famish  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  robbed  0  (kingjon)
  ---------

#106 of 1013 by kentn on Thu May 1 01:48:12 2003:

jaguar  (seems to be pronounced jag-you-are in the car commercials ;)
 
Oh, did you forget banana got a 1?

#107 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 1 05:01:59 2003:

Kent got it!

banana?  Wasn't that in the previous game?

#108 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 1 05:06:47 2003:

Never mind, I see I messed up on remembering to :write after the banana guess
in #96.  My apologies if that slowed anyone down.

#109 of 1013 by kentn on Thu May 1 11:08:02 2003:

Jaguar is a 7?  Okay, I'll try to have a word in mind next time.

#110 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 3 16:01:47 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
 
(I should learn to count, also, based on #109 ;)

A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#111 of 1013 by kingjon on Sat May 3 16:59:08 2003:

people

#112 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 3 20:57:08 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------

#113 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 3 21:40:29 2003:

sleeve

#114 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun May 4 02:16:55 2003:

This response has been erased.

#115 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun May 4 02:18:20 2003:

enmity

(I can't count, either.  First, I put 'jaguar' in l.m7.words, and then I
guessed a five-letter word.)

#116 of 1013 by kip on Sun May 4 05:51:58 2003:

impact

#117 of 1013 by kentn on Sun May 4 16:04:28 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  sleeve  1  (aruba)
  enmity  0  (gelinas)
  impact  1  (kip)
  ----------

#118 of 1013 by aruba on Sun May 4 21:48:35 2003:

coffee

#119 of 1013 by kip on Sun May 4 22:19:35 2003:

sculpt

#120 of 1013 by kentn on Mon May 5 11:19:23 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  sleeve  1  (aruba)
  enmity  0  (gelinas)
  impact  1  (kip)
  ----------
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  sculpt  1  (kip)
  ----------

#121 of 1013 by aruba on Mon May 5 14:22:00 2003:

smirks

#122 of 1013 by kip on Mon May 5 14:31:57 2003:

switch

#123 of 1013 by kingjon on Mon May 5 21:13:32 2003:

singer

#124 of 1013 by kentn on Tue May 6 11:14:36 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  sleeve  1  (aruba)
  enmity  0  (gelinas)
  impact  1  (kip)
  ----------
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  sculpt  1  (kip)
  ----------
  smirks  0  (aruba)
  switch  0  (kip)
  singer  1  (kingjon)
  ----------

#125 of 1013 by aruba on Tue May 6 14:09:08 2003:

divert

#126 of 1013 by kip on Tue May 6 16:06:02 2003:

divest

#127 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue May 6 22:12:41 2003:

monies

#128 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 10 12:52:33 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  sleeve  1  (aruba)
  enmity  0  (gelinas)
  impact  1  (kip)
  ----------
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  sculpt  1  (kip)
  ----------
  smirks  0  (aruba)
  switch  0  (kip)
  singer  1  (kingjon)
  ----------
  divert  5  (aruba)
  divest  4  (kip)
  monies  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#129 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat May 10 19:37:45 2003:

covert

#130 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 10 20:10:43 2003:

  jaguar  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  people  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  sleeve  1  (aruba)
  enmity  0  (gelinas)
  impact  1  (kip)
  ----------
  coffee  0  (aruba)
  sculpt  1  (kip)
  ----------
  smirks  0  (aruba)
  switch  0  (kip)
  singer  1  (kingjon)
  ----------
  divert  5  (aruba)
  divest  4  (kip)
  monies  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  covert  3  (gelinas)
  ----------

#131 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 10 21:38:54 2003:

disert  (meaning "eloquent")

#132 of 1013 by kentn on Sun May 11 19:48:34 2003:

  disert  6  (aruba)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 

After that "5" it probably wasn't too hard...  You're up, Mark!

#133 of 1013 by aruba on Sun May 11 22:08:55 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

disert  0  (lastword)

#134 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon May 12 02:11:56 2003:

refers

#135 of 1013 by kip on Mon May 12 14:51:44 2003:

sample

#136 of 1013 by aruba on Mon May 12 16:41:40 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)

#137 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon May 12 17:46:53 2003:

junior

#138 of 1013 by aruba on Tue May 13 04:35:23 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)

#139 of 1013 by kentn on Tue May 13 10:56:36 2003:

series

#140 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue May 13 13:55:35 2003:

ambled

#141 of 1013 by aruba on Tue May 13 18:56:47 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)

#142 of 1013 by kip on Tue May 13 18:59:09 2003:

toiled

#143 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed May 14 12:05:51 2003:

ambles

#144 of 1013 by aruba on Wed May 14 13:28:12 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)

#145 of 1013 by kip on Wed May 14 15:43:54 2003:

polled

#146 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed May 14 15:59:03 2003:

taxing

#147 of 1013 by aruba on Wed May 14 20:30:36 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)
polled  4  (kip)
taxing  0  (albaugh)

#148 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed May 14 22:26:14 2003:

coding

#149 of 1013 by aruba on Thu May 15 01:41:05 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)
polled  4  (kip)
taxing  0  (albaugh)
coding  1  (kingjon)

#150 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu May 15 03:30:15 2003:

bawdry

#151 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 15 12:15:15 2003:

wooled  

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Wooled \Wooled\, a.
     Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

#152 of 1013 by aruba on Thu May 15 15:42:32 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)
polled  4  (kip)
taxing  0  (albaugh)
coding  1  (kingjon)
bawdry  1  (gelinas)
wooled  4  (kip)

Main Entry: bawdzry 
Pronunciation: 'bo-drE
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English bawderie, from bawde
Date: 15th century
1 obsolete : UNCHASTITY
2 : suggestive, coarse, or obscene language

#153 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 15 17:35:06 2003:

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#154 of 1013 by kingjon on Thu May 15 19:43:24 2003:

bardic

#155 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 15 22:59:53 2003:

howled

#156 of 1013 by aruba on Thu May 15 23:18:59 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)
polled  4  (kip)
taxing  0  (albaugh)
coding  1  (kingjon)
bawdry  1  (gelinas)
wooled  4  (kip)
bardic  0  (kingjon)
howled  5  (kip)

bardic apparently means "bard-like".

#157 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri May 16 02:46:51 2003:

fairie

#158 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 04:09:57 2003:

I fear that I feel compelled to "cherry pick" this apparently easy one (easy
*now* because everyone else did the work, and I happen to be here now).
Perhaps I'll get lucky and be wrong, but I think not:

yowled

Main Entry: yowl   Function: verb   Etymology: Middle English
Date: 13th century
intransitive senses
1 : to utter a loud long cry of grief, pain, or distress : WAIL
2 : to complain or protest with or as if with yowls
transitive senses : to express with yowling

#159 of 1013 by aruba on Fri May 16 04:11:15 2003:

disert  0  (lastword)
refers  0  (gelinas)
sample  0  (kip)
junior  0  (albaugh)
series  1  (kentn)
ambled  3  (gelinas)
toiled  4  (kip)
ambles  2  (kingjon)
polled  4  (kip)
taxing  0  (albaugh)
coding  1  (kingjon)
bawdry  1  (gelinas)
wooled  4  (kip)
bardic  0  (kingjon)
howled  5  (kip)
fairie  0  (gelinas)
yowled  6  (albaugh)

Kevin's up!

#160 of 1013 by kip on Fri May 16 12:25:28 2003:

No problem, I needed to be put out of my continuing misery anyway.  :)

#161 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 16:50:31 2003:

While I select a new word, it would be my observation that
/a/r/c/rcurl/l.m.words no longer seems to reflect all the words that appear
in this item...

#162 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 16:53:53 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of another 6-letter word, and it's not:

  yowled  1  (lastword)

#163 of 1013 by rcurl on Fri May 16 17:04:37 2003:

Re #161: which words are missing (and between which words should they
fall)? I thought I was current.

#164 of 1013 by aruba on Fri May 16 17:40:18 2003:

teepee

#165 of 1013 by kip on Fri May 16 18:53:46 2003:

thwack

#166 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 19:06:38 2003:

Re: #163, e.g. none of the words from this item (#122) appear to be in the
file...

#167 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 19:07:32 2003:

  teepee  1  (aruba)
  thwack  2  (kip)

#168 of 1013 by rcurl on Fri May 16 19:32:20 2003:

I just went through this item, and found that every target word in it has
appeared in /a/r/c/rcurl/l.m.words.

#169 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 16 20:09:05 2003:

Never mind - I now see it's a LIFO instead of a FIFO.

#170 of 1013 by rcurl on Fri May 16 22:42:15 2003:

It began as a FIFO but it became too much of a hassle to scroll to
the bottom to add new words, so I inverted it and made it a LIFO.
While on the subject...I'm not sure what good the list is, but it
got so long that it seemed somehow worthwhile maintaining it.  Maybe,
just to not throw away all that work (and lots of obscure words).

#171 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat May 17 01:45:46 2003:

(There is a similar list, also LIFO, for the seven-letter game in
~gelinas/l.m7.words)

#172 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 17 14:50:56 2003:

unease

#173 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat May 17 16:57:16 2003:

  unease  1  (kentn)

#174 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 17 21:38:57 2003:

tomato

#175 of 1013 by kentn on Sun May 18 13:04:06 2003:

uneasy

#176 of 1013 by kip on Mon May 19 14:53:08 2003:

totals

#177 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon May 19 17:29:18 2003:

  tomato  1  (aruba)
  uneasy  1  (kentn)
  totals  1  (kip)

#178 of 1013 by aruba on Mon May 19 19:06:19 2003:

thread

#179 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon May 19 19:11:02 2003:

  thread  0  (aruba)

#180 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue May 20 04:19:39 2003:

beware

#181 of 1013 by kentn on Tue May 20 11:12:24 2003:

bewail 
  (to express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over)

#182 of 1013 by prp on Wed May 21 15:57:22 2003:

nights

#183 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed May 21 21:31:58 2003:

kentn has got it, "bewail" it is.

#184 of 1013 by kentn on Thu May 22 01:28:37 2003:

Okay, I'm bewailing the fact that now I need to figure out a new
word...but will try to have one in mind next time.

#185 of 1013 by kentn on Fri May 23 15:24:09 2003:

All right, I have a 6-letter word in mind and it is not:
 
  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#186 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri May 23 17:26:10 2003:

moaned

#187 of 1013 by kip on Fri May 23 17:57:37 2003:

talcum

#188 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 24 08:17:50 2003:

teepee

#189 of 1013 by kentn on Sat May 24 16:04:33 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#190 of 1013 by prp on Sat May 24 17:29:02 2003:

rivets

#191 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 24 20:19:16 2003:

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#192 of 1013 by aruba on Sat May 24 20:23:41 2003:

enamor

#193 of 1013 by kentn on Sun May 25 05:03:49 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  rivets  1  (prp)
  enamor  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#194 of 1013 by kip on Sun May 25 15:18:03 2003:

viking

#195 of 1013 by aruba on Sun May 25 19:53:45 2003:

divert

#196 of 1013 by kingjon on Sun May 25 20:43:04 2003:

bemoan

#197 of 1013 by kentn on Mon May 26 01:07:22 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  rivets  1  (prp)
  enamor  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  bemoan  0  (kingjon)
  divert  2  (aruba)
  ----------

"Viking" is a proper noun as far as I know.

#198 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon May 26 02:31:43 2003:

dipped

#199 of 1013 by aruba on Mon May 26 05:24:16 2003:

donors

#200 of 1013 by kip on Mon May 26 13:33:04 2003:

superb

Sorry about Viking, forgot about the proper noun rule.

#201 of 1013 by kentn on Mon May 26 18:47:15 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  rivets  1  (prp)
  enamor  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  bemoan  0  (kingjon)
  divert  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  dipped  0  (gelinas)
  donors  0  (aruba)
  superb  2  (kip)
  ----------

#202 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue May 27 01:39:05 2003:

simple

#203 of 1013 by kip on Tue May 27 03:14:12 2003:

purest

#204 of 1013 by prp on Tue May 27 19:45:25 2003:

sweets

#205 of 1013 by kentn on Tue May 27 23:27:03 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  rivets  1  (prp)
  enamor  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  bemoan  0  (kingjon)
  divert  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  dipped  0  (gelinas)
  donors  0  (aruba)
  superb  2  (kip)
  ----------
  simple  0  (gelinas)
  purest  3  (kip)
  sweets  1  (prp)
  ----------

#206 of 1013 by kip on Tue May 27 23:47:05 2003:

lucent

#207 of 1013 by aruba on Wed May 28 01:32:13 2003:

lucent is the only word in onelook that fits.

#208 of 1013 by prp on Wed May 28 18:59:35 2003:

While I believe lucent in the only one, I don't see that there is
any convient way to prove it.

#209 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed May 28 19:16:34 2003:

pureed

#210 of 1013 by prp on Wed May 28 19:32:39 2003:

bevies

#211 of 1013 by kentn on Wed May 28 23:22:26 2003:

  bewail  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  moaned  0  (albaugh)
  talcum  0  (kip)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  rivets  1  (prp)
  enamor  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  bemoan  0  (kingjon)
  divert  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  dipped  0  (gelinas)
  donors  0  (aruba)
  superb  2  (kip)
  ----------
  simple  0  (gelinas)
  purest  3  (kip)
  sweets  1  (prp)
  ----------
  lucent  6  (kip)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  pureed  2  (kingjon)
  bevies  0  (prp)
  ----------
 
Your word, again, kip!
 
  Lucent \Lu"cent\, a. [L. lucens, p. pr. of lucere to shine, fr.
     lux, lucis, light.]
     Shining; bright; resplendent. `` The sun's lucent orb.''
     --Milton.

#212 of 1013 by kip on Thu May 29 16:38:14 2003:

I'm thinking of a 6-letter word in mind and it is not:
  
  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  
A summary of guesses is in ~kip/letter.match6 and this item.

#213 of 1013 by kentn on Thu May 29 23:27:30 2003:

unease

#214 of 1013 by kip on Fri May 30 02:40:31 2003:

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------

#215 of 1013 by aruba on Fri May 30 03:42:50 2003:

eerier

#216 of 1013 by kentn on Fri May 30 11:18:34 2003:

series

#217 of 1013 by kip on Fri May 30 15:00:44 2003:

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------
  errier  0  aruba
  series  0  kentn
  ---------

#218 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri May 30 21:59:18 2003:

Uh... aruba guessed "eerier" in #215, but you scored "errier" in #217, kp.

jumper

#219 of 1013 by aruba on Fri May 30 23:02:57 2003:

Well, I think we can deduce that eerier would have gotten a 0 too.

abacus

#220 of 1013 by kentn on Fri May 30 23:07:22 2003:

blurry

#221 of 1013 by prp on Sat May 31 18:22:39 2003:

rotten

#222 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jun 2 12:10:05 2003:

Yes, given that series got a zero, you can safely assume that eerier would
get a 0 as well.  Thanks for pointing out the error.  I'll leave the incorrect
guess in as it does give you a bit more information.

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------
  errier  0  aruba
  series  0  kentn
  ---------
  jumper  1  gelinas
  abacus  0  aruba
  blurry  0  kentn
  rotten  1  prp
  ---------

#223 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jun 2 14:51:57 2003:

banana

#224 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Jun 2 18:16:18 2003:

fruity

#225 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jun 2 22:12:33 2003:

(What does "errier" mean?)

#226 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jun 2 22:54:54 2003:

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------
  eerier  0  aruba
  series  0  kentn
  ---------
  jumper  1  gelinas
  abacus  0  aruba
  blurry  0  kentn
  rotten  1  prp
  ---------
  banana  1  aruba
  fruity  0  albaugh
  ---------

Good point about errier not meaning anything.  I'm changing it back to the
correct guess and will assume everyone is having a good laugh about this.

#227 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jun 2 23:07:19 2003:

Oh sure.  No big deal.

raspis ("The raspberry")

#228 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Jun 2 23:31:05 2003:

scabby

#229 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jun 3 02:14:58 2003:

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------
  eerier  0  aruba
  series  0  kentn
  ---------
  jumper  1  gelinas
  abacus  0  aruba
  blurry  0  kentn
  rotten  1  prp
  ---------
  banana  1  aruba
  fruity  0  albaugh
  ---------
  raspis  0  aruba
  scabby  1  albaugh
  ---------

#230 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 3 02:31:48 2003:

jitney

#231 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 3 10:54:49 2003:

jojoba

#232 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jun 3 17:56:48 2003:

That looks good to me.

#233 of 1013 by prp on Tue Jun 3 19:32:44 2003:

jacked

#234 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jun 3 20:08:50 2003:

  lucent  0  (The Previous Word)
  ---------
  unease  0  kentn
  ---------
  eerier  0  aruba
  series  0  kentn
  ---------
  jumper  1  gelinas
  abacus  0  aruba
  blurry  0  kentn
  rotten  1  prp
  ---------
  banana  1  aruba
  fruity  0  albaugh
  ---------
  raspis  0  aruba
  scabby  1  albaugh
  ---------
  jitney  1  gelinas
  jojoba  6  kentn   (Winner!)
  jacked  1  prp
  ---------

#235 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 3 23:02:34 2003:

what does it mean?

#236 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jun 4 00:51:33 2003:

Whoops, my bad.  

jojoba  
A dioecious shrub (Simmondsia chinensis) of the southwest United States and
northern Mexico, having opposite, leathery leaves and edible seeds that
contain a valuable oil used in cosmetics and as a lubricant. Also called
goat-nut.  -The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition

#237 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 4 01:07:09 2003:

Thanks. :)

#238 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jun 4 03:04:06 2003:

Okey-doke, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time.

#239 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jun 5 02:46:38 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not:
 
  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#240 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jun 5 03:16:57 2003:

refers

#241 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jun 5 04:54:05 2003:

eleven

#242 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jun 5 10:51:22 2003:

  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  eleven  1  (aruba)
  ----------

#243 of 1013 by prp on Thu Jun 5 18:04:35 2003:

olefin

#244 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jun 5 20:00:10 2003:

around

#245 of 1013 by prp on Thu Jun 5 20:18:21 2003:

earner

#246 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 6 01:24:22 2003:

  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  eleven  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  olefin  1  (prp)
  around  1  (kip)
  earner  0  (prp)
  ----------

#247 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 6 02:11:22 2003:

skeine (variant spelling of skean, a short knife)

#248 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 6 03:05:58 2003:

atavic

\A*tav"ic\, a. [Cf. F. atavique.] Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to
atavism.

#249 of 1013 by kip on Fri Jun 6 05:03:39 2003:

dragon

#250 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 6 11:39:45 2003:

  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  eleven  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  olefin  1  (prp)
  around  1  (kip)
  earner  0  (prp)
  ----------
  skeine  3  (gelinas)
  atavic  0  (aruba)
  dragon  0  (kip)
  ----------

#251 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 6 13:36:48 2003:

cueing

#252 of 1013 by prp on Fri Jun 6 18:30:09 2003:

bleach

#253 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 6 19:46:48 2003:

  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  eleven  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  olefin  1  (prp)
  around  1  (kip)
  earner  0  (prp)
  ----------
  skeine  3  (gelinas)
  atavic  0  (aruba)
  dragon  0  (kip)
  ----------
  cueing  3  (aruba)
  bleach  1  (prp)
  ----------

#254 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 6 19:57:38 2003:

sluing

slue1 also slew    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (sl)
v. slued, also slewed slu7ing, slew7ing slues, slews 
v. tr.
To turn (something) on an axis; rotate: slued the swivel chair around;
sluing the boom of a crane. 
To turn sharply; veer: braked and slued the car around. 

v. intr.
To turn about an axis; pivot. 
To turn or slide sideways or off course; skid. 

n. 
The act of sluing. 
The position to which something has slued.

#255 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 6 21:52:39 2003:

  jojoba  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  refers  0  (gelinas)
  eleven  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  olefin  1  (prp)
  around  1  (kip)
  earner  0  (prp)
  ----------
  skeine  3  (gelinas)
  atavic  0  (aruba)
  dragon  0  (kip)
  ----------
  cueing  3  (aruba)
  bleach  1  (prp)
  ----------
  sluing  6  (aruba)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  ----------
 
Those two 3's kinda made the case, eh?  Your word again, Mark.

#256 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 6 22:53:44 2003:

Huh.  No, actually, I didn't expect that to be right; it seemed more likely
that the word would match ??ein?.

I'll try to think of a 6-letter word before next time.

#257 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jun 7 02:39:48 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

sluing  0  (lastword)

#258 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Jun 7 02:41:32 2003:

footed

#259 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jun 7 02:44:36 2003:

wander

#260 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jun 7 06:14:18 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)

#261 of 1013 by prp on Sat Jun 7 18:05:45 2003:

rumble

#262 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jun 7 18:42:47 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)

#263 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Jun 7 20:15:35 2003:

maniac

#264 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jun 7 21:03:12 2003:

covert

#265 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 8 01:47:14 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)

#266 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jun 8 02:06:36 2003:

fizzle

#267 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 8 04:37:39 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)

#268 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jun 8 04:52:25 2003:

growth

#269 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 8 06:08:09 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)

#270 of 1013 by prp on Sun Jun 8 19:18:48 2003:

abates

#271 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 8 19:19:26 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)
abates  2  (prp)

#272 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jun 8 19:31:38 2003:

abraid  (To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out.)

#273 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 8 21:38:32 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)
abates  2  (prp)
abraid  0  (kentn)

#274 of 1013 by prp on Sun Jun 8 23:53:20 2003:

redone

#275 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jun 9 04:39:28 2003:

heated

#276 of 1013 by kingjon on Mon Jun 9 19:26:09 2003:

panics

#277 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jun 9 19:41:56 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)
abates  2  (prp)
abraid  0  (kentn)
redone  0  (prp)
heated  1  (gelinas)
panics  1  (kingjon)

#278 of 1013 by prp on Mon Jun 9 20:11:13 2003:

thatch

#279 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jun 9 21:42:46 2003:

brutes

#280 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jun 9 22:06:31 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)
abates  2  (prp)
abraid  0  (kentn)
redone  0  (prp)
heated  1  (gelinas)
panics  1  (kingjon)
thatch  1  (prp)
brutes  2  (gelinas)

#281 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 10 11:01:54 2003:

xystus (A long and open portico)

#282 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jun 10 15:11:18 2003:

sluing  0  (lastword)
footed  1  (albaugh)
wander  0  (gelinas)
rumble  0  (prp)
maniac  0  (albaugh)
covert  0  (kentn)
fizzle  0  (gelinas)
growth  0  (kentn)
abates  2  (prp)
abraid  0  (kentn)
redone  0  (prp)
heated  1  (gelinas)
panics  1  (kingjon)
thatch  1  (prp)
brutes  2  (gelinas)
xystus  6  (kentn)

He just waits for everyone to set him up, then goes in for the kill. :)
Kent's up!

#283 of 1013 by prp on Tue Jun 10 19:04:29 2003:

You wouldn't think giving him ---t-s would be a setup.

#284 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 10 19:11:37 2003:

Well, we'd eliminated a lot of initial and penultimate letters, too.

#285 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 10 23:28:27 2003:

A lot of vowels were also eliminated from positions 2 and 5...

Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time.

#286 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jun 12 23:42:17 2003:

All right, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)

A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#287 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 13 02:52:01 2003:

island

#288 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 13 03:01:20 2003:

teepee

#289 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 13 10:48:29 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#290 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 13 12:10:44 2003:

eulogy

#291 of 1013 by kingjon on Fri Jun 13 14:31:12 2003:

intern

#292 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 13 14:57:03 2003:

banana

#293 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 13 22:30:26 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  intern  0  (kingjon)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#294 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Jun 14 19:30:49 2003:

fruits

#295 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jun 14 21:40:02 2003:

adagio

#296 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jun 14 23:59:54 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  intern  0  (kingjon)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  fruits  1  (albaugh)
  adagio  1  (aruba)
  ----------

#297 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jun 15 00:36:32 2003:

flasks

#298 of 1013 by kip on Sun Jun 15 02:55:37 2003:

flavor

#299 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 15 04:15:11 2003:

artist

#300 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jun 15 13:42:39 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  intern  0  (kingjon)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  fruits  1  (albaugh)
  adagio  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  flasks  1  (gelinas)
  flavor  1  (kip)
  artist  1  (aruba)
  ----------

#301 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jun 15 17:07:57 2003:

brazen

#302 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 15 19:10:51 2003:

wraith

#303 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jun 15 19:20:57 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  intern  0  (kingjon)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  fruits  1  (albaugh)
  adagio  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  flasks  1  (gelinas)
  flavor  1  (kip)
  artist  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  brazen  2  (gelinas)
  wraith  3  (aruba)
  ----------

#304 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jun 16 01:18:20 2003:

trance

#305 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jun 16 05:53:34 2003:

crunch

#306 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jun 16 14:23:07 2003:

grumpy

#307 of 1013 by kingjon on Mon Jun 16 16:16:14 2003:

braved

#308 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Mon Jun 16 22:06:53 2003:

crazed

#309 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 17 03:46:40 2003:

  xystus  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  island  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  intern  0  (kingjon)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  fruits  1  (albaugh)
  adagio  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  flasks  1  (gelinas)
  flavor  1  (kip)
  artist  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  brazen  2  (gelinas)
  wraith  3  (aruba)
  ----------
  trance  4  (gelinas)
  crunch  5  (kip)
  grumpy  1  (aruba)
  braved  2  (kingjon)
  crazed  3  (cyberpnk)
  ----------

#310 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 17 05:58:21 2003:

Let's see if we can't put him out of his misery:

        cranch

#311 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 17 10:44:04 2003:

  cranch  6  (gelinas)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 
 
Yay!  Your word, Joe.
 
  Cranch \Cranch\ (kr?nch), v. t.
     See {Craunch}.

  Craunch \Craunch\ (kr?nch), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Craunched}
     (kr?ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Craunching}.] [See {Crunch}.]
     To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to
     crunch. --Swift.

#312 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 17 12:43:51 2003:

So I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  cranch  0  (lastword)

Current guesses are in the file ~gelinas/letter.match6

#313 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jun 17 14:26:23 2003:

teepee

#314 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Tue Jun 17 16:08:06 2003:

cosmos

#315 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 17 16:35:24 2003:

  teepee  0  (aruba)
  cosmos  0  (cyberpnk)

#316 of 1013 by kingjon on Tue Jun 17 17:41:38 2003:

copped (i.e., a plea)

#317 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jun 17 21:00:39 2003:

  copped  0  (kingjon)

#318 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jun 17 23:00:25 2003:

baryon

can i submit more than one per post?
proton

#319 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Jun 18 02:12:18 2003:

beamed

#320 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 18 03:52:07 2003:

No, dcat, you can't.  We usually score only one guess per person per
scoring session.  Also, we do not score two guesses for the same person
back to back.  That is, we have to wait for someone else to guess before
we guess again.  Exception:  if the number of players is really low,
and no one guesses for a couple of days, the last guesser can go again.
I've not checked recently, but I think the rules are in the item text.

  baryon  1  (dcat)
  beamed  0  (albaugh)

#321 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 18 05:05:51 2003:

easels

#322 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jun 18 10:28:01 2003:

salary

#323 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Wed Jun 18 14:44:03 2003:

broken

#324 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 18 15:56:52 2003:

  easels  0  (aruba)
  salary  0  (kentn)
  broken  1  (cyberpnk)

#325 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 18 18:05:55 2003:

pippin  (a kind of apple)

#326 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 18 20:27:22 2003:

(I thought Pippin was a son of Charlemagne.)

  pippin  2  (aruba)

#327 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 18 20:41:40 2003:

Pippin was the name of Charlemagne's father, son, and grandson.

#328 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 18 20:56:10 2003:

Cool!  Thanks. :)

#329 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Jun 18 21:55:15 2003:

resp:320  there's nothing in the item text about submitting multiple
guesses.  It does say, "Complete rules are in ~rcurl/letter.match .",
but that file has only a list of guessed words.

so, again :) :
proton

#330 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 18 22:03:25 2003:

Hmmm, that must be an error.  The rules are in
/--------------------------\
| ~rcurl/lettermatch.rules |
\--------------------------/

#331 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 18 22:05:23 2003:

Sorry about getting that filename wrong.  Whoever starts the next item
should remember to fix that in #0.

#332 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Wed Jun 18 22:23:36 2003:

raisin

#333 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jun 18 23:15:16 2003:

adjoin

#334 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jun 19 03:17:54 2003:

  proton  1  (dcat)
  raisin  2  (cyberpnk)
  adjoin  2  (kentn)

#335 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Thu Jun 19 16:33:29 2003:

insert

#336 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jun 19 17:11:50 2003:

dubbin  (grease for softening and waterproofing leather)

#337 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jun 19 21:12:28 2003:

  insert  0  (cyberpnk)
  dubbin  3  (aruba)

#338 of 1013 by kingjon on Fri Jun 20 14:42:57 2003:

dubbed

#339 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Fri Jun 20 15:49:14 2003:

chorus

#340 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 20 16:57:34 2003:

  dubbed  1  (kingjon)
  chorus  0  (cyberpnk)

#341 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Jun 20 17:16:12 2003:

singer

#342 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 20 17:26:49 2003:

  singer  0  (albaugh)

#343 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Fri Jun 20 18:25:16 2003:

dressy

#344 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 20 20:00:29 2003:

muffin

#345 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 20 20:53:05 2003:

outwin  \Out*win"\, v. t. To win a way out of. [Obs.]

#346 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 20 23:05:59 2003:

  dressy  0  (cyberpnk)
  muffin  6  (kentn)
  outwin  3  (aruba)

Not bad, Kent.  You're up!  :)

#347 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jun 21 19:32:44 2003:

Okay.  I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm
logged in.

#348 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jun 22 21:09:21 2003:

All right, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#349 of 1013 by carson on Sun Jun 22 21:24:54 2003:

bottle

#350 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jun 22 22:38:09 2003:

teepee

#351 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jun 23 01:46:02 2003:

format

#352 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Mon Jun 23 15:50:34 2003:

morbid

#353 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jun 23 22:30:31 2003:

visual

#354 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jun 24 23:34:43 2003:

  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  bottle  0  (carson)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  format  0  (kip)
  morbid  0  (cyberpnk)
  visual  0  (dcat)
  ----------

#355 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Jun 25 00:35:52 2003:

evolve

#356 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jun 25 02:32:06 2003:

anchor

#357 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 25 03:40:41 2003:

banana

#358 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jun 25 05:22:36 2003:

droopy

#359 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jun 25 10:27:14 2003:

  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  bottle  0  (carson)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  format  0  (kip)
  morbid  0  (cyberpnk)
  visual  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  evolve  0  (dcat)
  anchor  0  (kip)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  droopy  0  (gelinas)
  ----------

#360 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jun 25 11:54:34 2003:

phlegm

#361 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jun 25 15:03:29 2003:

hyaena (alternate of hyena)

#362 of 1013 by eskarina on Wed Jun 25 15:39:15 2003:

cactus

#363 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Wed Jun 25 17:27:52 2003:

sunlit

#364 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jun 25 23:52:40 2003:

  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  bottle  0  (carson)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  format  0  (kip)
  morbid  0  (cyberpnk)
  visual  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  evolve  0  (dcat)
  anchor  0  (kip)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  droopy  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  phlegm  0  (kip)
  hyaena  0  (aruba)
  cactus  0  (eskarina)
  sunlit  1  (cyberpnk)
  ----------

#365 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jun 26 01:14:28 2003:

serape

#366 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jun 26 02:09:59 2003:

spurts

#367 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jun 26 03:39:17 2003:

squish

#368 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jun 26 11:32:47 2003:

  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  bottle  0  (carson)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  format  0  (kip)
  morbid  0  (cyberpnk)
  visual  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  evolve  0  (dcat)
  anchor  0  (kip)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  droopy  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  phlegm  0  (kip)
  hyaena  0  (aruba)
  cactus  0  (eskarina)
  sunlit  1  (cyberpnk)
  ----------
  serape  1  (gelinas)
  spurts  2  (aruba)
  squish  2  (kip)
  ----------

#369 of 1013 by kingjon on Thu Jun 26 12:50:59 2003:

squash

#370 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jun 26 14:04:48 2003:

stucco

#371 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jun 26 20:06:12 2003:

smirch  synonym of besmirch, to slander

#372 of 1013 by eskarina on Thu Jun 26 23:47:52 2003:

sludge

#373 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 27 00:33:55 2003:

  muffin  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  bottle  0  (carson)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  format  0  (kip)
  morbid  0  (cyberpnk)
  visual  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  evolve  0  (dcat)
  anchor  0  (kip)
  banana  0  (aruba)
  droopy  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  phlegm  0  (kip)
  hyaena  0  (aruba)
  cactus  0  (eskarina)
  sunlit  1  (cyberpnk)
  ----------
  serape  1  (gelinas)
  spurts  2  (aruba)
  squish  2  (kip)
  ----------
  squash  2  (kingjon)
  stucco  2  (aruba)
  smirch  6  (kip)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  sludge  1  (eskarina)
  ----------

Your word, again, Kip.

#374 of 1013 by kip on Fri Jun 27 18:32:30 2003:

I am thinking of a 6 letter word that is not

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------

#375 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jun 27 19:42:16 2003:

teepee

#376 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Jun 27 20:26:14 2003:

estate

#377 of 1013 by kip on Fri Jun 27 20:35:16 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------

#378 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jun 27 20:55:20 2003:

series

#379 of 1013 by eskarina on Fri Jun 27 22:20:10 2003:

danger :)

#380 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jun 27 23:09:54 2003:

ghosts

#381 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Jun 27 23:43:30 2003:

resp:379 : oi! that's *my* word!

kitten

#382 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jun 28 03:33:28 2003:

foment

#383 of 1013 by eskarina on Sat Jun 28 18:25:45 2003:

lol at the combination of 379 and 381 :)

#384 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 1 13:28:59 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------

#385 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 2 00:48:49 2003:

dipole

#386 of 1013 by prp on Thu Jul 3 17:43:05 2003:

kingly

#387 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jul 3 20:29:38 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------

#388 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jul 4 01:37:19 2003:

pinche

#389 of 1013 by kip on Fri Jul 4 04:06:00 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------

#390 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Jul 4 04:48:40 2003:

dreams

#391 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jul 4 13:10:47 2003:

poachy

#392 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Jul 4 14:41:03 2003:

ginkgo

#393 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jul 4 16:14:51 2003:

window

#394 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Sat Jul 5 14:24:30 2003:

insert

#395 of 1013 by kip on Sun Jul 6 14:40:47 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------
  dreams  0  albaugh
  poachy  0  gelinas
  ginkgo  2  dcat
  window  2  kentn
  insert  0  cyberpnk
  ---------

#396 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jul 6 17:33:16 2003:

styryl  (A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of
         styrolene and cinnamic acid)

#397 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Jul 6 18:24:26 2003:

cinnyl

#398 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Jul 7 04:57:35 2003:

gagged

#399 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 7 10:56:11 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------
  dreams  0  albaugh
  poachy  0  gelinas
  ginkgo  2  dcat
  window  2  kentn
  insert  0  cyberpnk
  ---------
  styryl  0  kentn
  cinnyl  3  dcat
  gagged  0  albaugh
  ---------

#400 of 1013 by prp on Mon Jul 7 23:53:38 2003:

finned

#401 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 8 06:05:17 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------
  dreams  0  albaugh
  poachy  0  gelinas
  ginkgo  2  dcat
  window  2  kentn
  insert  0  cyberpnk
  ---------
  styryl  0  kentn
  cinnyl  3  dcat
  gagged  0  albaugh
  ---------
  finned  3  prp
  ---------

#402 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 8 06:38:26 2003:

mostly

#403 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 8 18:48:09 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------
  dreams  0  albaugh
  poachy  0  gelinas
  ginkgo  2  dcat
  window  2  kentn
  insert  0  cyberpnk
  ---------
  styryl  0  kentn
  cinnyl  3  dcat
  gagged  0  albaugh
  ---------
  finned  3  prp
  ---------
  mostly  0  gelinas
  ---------

#404 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Jul 10 03:00:46 2003:

lessen

#405 of 1013 by prp on Thu Jul 10 19:38:32 2003:

arcing

#406 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jul 10 21:34:10 2003:

  smirch  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  teepee  0  arbua
  estate  0  dcat
  ---------
  series  0  kentn
  danger  1  eskarina
  ghosts  0  gelinas
  kitten  1  dcat
  foment  0  aruba
  ---------
  dipole  1  gelinas
  kingly  2  prp
  ---------
  pinche  2  gelinas
  ---------
  dreams  0  albaugh
  poachy  0  gelinas
  ginkgo  2  dcat
  window  2  kentn
  insert  0  cyberpnk
  ---------
  styryl  0  kentn
  cinnyl  3  dcat
  gagged  0  albaugh
  ---------
  finned  3  prp
  ---------
  mostly  0  gelinas
  ---------
  lessen  0  albaugh
  arcing  0  prp
  ---------

#407 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 10 22:06:11 2003:

zinnia

#408 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jul 11 11:10:36 2003:

That looks good to me.

#409 of 1013 by kip on Sat Jul 12 23:28:51 2003:

  zinnia  6  dcat

Congratulations, you're up next.

#410 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Jul 13 14:38:46 2003:

I've a 6-letter word in mind.  It's not

zinnia  0 (lastword)
--------------------


Guesses in ~dcat/letter.match6.

#411 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jul 14 15:27:36 2003:

refers

#412 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 14 15:31:16 2003:

switch

#413 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jul 14 17:44:27 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------

#414 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Jul 14 18:46:24 2003:

alight

#415 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jul 14 19:34:45 2003:

soared

#416 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jul 14 22:32:37 2003:

eleven

#417 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 14 23:29:45 2003:

survey

#418 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jul 15 01:39:20 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------

#419 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 15 02:51:14 2003:

action

#420 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jul 15 07:11:48 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------

#421 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jul 15 11:14:39 2003:

palace

#422 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jul 15 11:16:55 2003:

grille

#423 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jul 15 14:16:29 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------

#424 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 15 14:27:57 2003:

knifed

#425 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 15 15:17:03 2003:

mythic

#426 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jul 15 21:53:39 2003:

things

#427 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jul 16 00:33:16 2003:

bhisti  (A water carrier)

#428 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Wed Jul 16 17:01:33 2003:

travel

#429 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 17 03:36:24 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------
knifed  1 (gelinas)
mythic  0 (kip)
things  1 (aruba)
bhisti  1 (kentn)       (A water carrier)
travel  1 (cyberpnk)
---------

#430 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jul 17 03:56:53 2003:

ghosts

#431 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 17 04:59:41 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------
knifed  1 (gelinas)
mythic  0 (kip)
things  1 (aruba)
bhisti  1 (kentn)       (A water carrier)
travel  1 (cyberpnk)
---------
ghosts  0 (gelinas)
---------

#432 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jul 17 10:20:35 2003:

ooidal  (shaped like an egg)

#433 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jul 17 10:57:52 2003:

If "soared" was correctly scored as a zero, then "ooidal" can't be the
word, though I'll be interested to see how it scores otherwise.

#434 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Jul 17 22:44:12 2003:

spooky

#435 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Jul 18 01:29:46 2003:

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------
knifed  1 (gelinas)
mythic  0 (kip)
things  1 (aruba)
bhisti  1 (kentn)       (A water carrier)
travel  1 (cyberpnk)
---------
ghosts  0 (gelinas)
---------
ooidal  3 (aruba)       (shaped like an egg)
spooky  0 (albaugh)
---------

#436 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jul 18 02:23:37 2003:

laical

#437 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jul 18 10:21:11 2003:

bridal

#438 of 1013 by kip on Fri Jul 18 12:58:02 2003:

epical

#439 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Jul 18 18:25:12 2003:

raptor

#440 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jul 18 19:14:27 2003:

Can't be any of those based on previous scoring (laical
is out due to palace 0, bridal is out due to bhisti 1,
epical is out due to eleven 0, and raptor is gone due to
refers 0).  This seems to be a very unusual word.

I'll guess 'tribal' though that can't be it, either, due to
grille 1 and travel 1.

#441 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Jul 18 20:36:56 2003:

Travel was previously misscored.  My apologies.

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------
knifed  1 (gelinas)
mythic  0 (kip)
things  1 (aruba)
bhisti  1 (kentn)       (A water carrier)
travel  0 (cyberpnk)    (previously misscored)
---------
ghosts  0 (gelinas)
---------
ooidal  3 (aruba)       (shaped like an egg)
spooky  0 (albaugh)
---------
laical  2 (gelinas)
bridal  3 (aruba)
epical  2 (kip)
raptor  0 (albaugh)
tribal  2 (kentn)
---------

#442 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jul 19 03:59:17 2003:

caveat

#443 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Jul 19 11:42:09 2003:

caveat  1 (gelinas)

#444 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jul 19 14:30:39 2003:

usurps

#445 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Jul 19 22:18:04 2003:

usurps  0 (kentn)

#446 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jul 20 00:43:17 2003:

aplomb

#447 of 1013 by kip on Sun Jul 20 01:37:34 2003:

quidam  someone unknown

(note I still thing something not scored right)

#448 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jul 20 19:01:29 2003:

oxygen  (I agree, something doesn't seem to be scored right)

#449 of 1013 by carson on Sun Jul 20 19:34:33 2003:

(there are a couple of scripts/programs on Grex that can be used
for checking letter matches.  I recommend /a/k/e/kentn/do.lm 
of course, before using it, you should look it over, copy it to your own
directory, etc.)

#450 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jul 20 20:16:25 2003:

indigo

It's kind of nostalgic to have mistakes in the scoring...
(Don't let it bother you, Jonathan - we all used to make mistakes before we
got tired enough of them to automate the process.)

#451 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Jul 20 20:43:24 2003:

Didn't know about Kent's script, but I'll check that out.  I do believe only
the one mistake was made, however.

Congratulations, Kip.

zinnia  0 (lastword)
---------
refers  0 (gelinas)
switch  1 (kip)
---------
alight  1 (albaugh)
soared  0 (gelinas)
eleven  0 (aruba)
survey  0 (kip)
---------
action  0 (gelinas)
---------
palace  0 (aruba)
grille  1 (kentn)
---------
knifed  1 (gelinas)
mythic  0 (kip)
things  1 (aruba)
bhisti  1 (kentn)       (A water carrier)
travel  0 (cyberpnk)    (previously misscored)
---------
ghosts  0 (gelinas)
---------
ooidal  3 (aruba)       (shaped like an egg)
spooky  0 (albaugh)
---------
laical  2 (gelinas)
bridal  3 (aruba)
epical  2 (kip)
raptor  0 (albaugh)
tribal  2 (kentn)
---------
caveat  1 (gelinas)
---------
usurps  0 (kentn)
---------
aplomb  0 (gelinas)
quidam  6 (kip)         (someone unknown)  <----
oxygen  0 (kentn)
indigo  0 (aruba)
---------

#452 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jul 20 22:15:34 2003:

"quidam" can't be 6 because "sUrvey" was scored as zero.  Perhaps
survey should have a score of one?

#453 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 21 01:54:24 2003:

Well, we're all human.  I know I will appreciate the pointer to Kent's script
as I too have been doing my scoring on these games by hand.

I'll try to have a new word tomorrow morning.

#454 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jul 21 02:06:00 2003:

Yes, survey should've been a 1.  Yes, I missed that several times.  As much
as I hate to admit it, I make mistakes every once in a while, too :).

#455 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jul 21 03:11:11 2003:

I have a script too, though so far no one else has ever used it. ;)  Let me
know if you want to try, and I'll send a copy and instructions.

#456 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jul 21 03:29:19 2003:

I hacked Kent's, coming up with separate verions for 5, 6, 7, and mastermind.

#457 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 21 13:24:17 2003:

I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------

A summary of guesses will be found in ~kip/letter.match6 and this item.

#458 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Jul 21 17:34:32 2003:

mister

#459 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jul 21 17:55:11 2003:

window

#460 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jul 22 03:53:37 2003:

unease

#461 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 22 15:59:49 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------

#462 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Tue Jul 22 16:31:47 2003:

defect

#463 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 22 16:39:00 2003:

abound

#464 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 22 16:45:24 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------

#465 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jul 22 22:21:25 2003:

exacta

#466 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jul 23 01:23:32 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  exacta  0  (aruba)
  ---------

#467 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 23 01:30:48 2003:

occurs

#468 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jul 23 01:36:14 2003:

baroko

\Ba*ro"ko\, n. [A mnemonic word.] (Logic) A form or mode of syllogism of
which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two
are particular negative.

#469 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jul 23 02:11:30 2003:

series

#470 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jul 23 12:25:13 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  exacta  0  (aruba)
  ---------
  occurs  0  (gelinas)
  baroka  0  (aruba)
  series  0  (kentn)
  ---------

#471 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Jul 23 16:43:42 2003:

aruba's last word was 'baroko', not '-ka', as indicated in the scoring.

coggle

Cog"gle (?), n. [See Cog small boat.] A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

#472 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jul 23 16:59:10 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  exacta  0  (aruba)
  ---------
  occurs  0  (gelinas)
  baroko  0  (aruba)
  series  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  coggle  0  (dcat)
  ---------

Whoops, guess it shows that I haven't started using anyone's scripts yet. 
I better go find some time to work that out.

Anyway, aruba's word still scores a 0.

#473 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Jul 23 19:39:17 2003:

physic

#474 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jul 23 23:31:41 2003:

inunct

v.t. anoint. inunction, n. act of anointing; ointment; rubbing of ointment
into skin. inunctum, n. lanolin ointment.

#475 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jul 24 00:41:32 2003:

fluffy

#476 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jul 24 03:03:52 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  exacta  0  (aruba)
  ---------
  occurs  0  (gelinas)
  baroko  0  (aruba)
  series  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  coggle  0  (dcat)
  ---------
  inunct  0  (aruba)
  physic  2  (dcat)
  fluffy  0  (kentn)
  ---------

If I recall correctly, we don't normally score two consecutive guesses from
the same person.

#477 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jul 24 03:31:51 2003:

phylum

#478 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 24 05:32:56 2003:

Yes, I'm sorry.  I got distracted by the scoring and didn't see no-one had
actually *guessed* since I had last.

#479 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jul 24 10:39:57 2003:

yanqui

Main Entry: yan7qui 
Pronunciation: 'yd[ng]-kE
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Spanish, from English 1Yankee
Date: 1928

Since it says "often capitalized", not "always capitalized", I think it
falls within the rules of the game.

#480 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jul 24 12:08:42 2003:

yttric (pertaining to yttrium)

#481 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 24 18:09:21 2003:

hydric (pertaining to hydrogen)

#482 of 1013 by rcurl on Thu Jul 24 18:16:12 2003:

(Also describes a habitat having a plentiful supply of water, in constrast
to mesic (medium supply) or xeric (dry).)

#483 of 1013 by kip on Thu Jul 24 18:43:58 2003:

  quidam  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  mister  0  (albaugh)
  window  0  (gelinas)
  unease  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  defect  0  (cyberpnk)
  abound  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  exacta  0  (aruba)
  ---------
  occurs  0  (gelinas)
  baroko  0  (aruba)
  series  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  coggle  0  (dcat)
  ---------
  inunct  0  (aruba)
  physic  2  (dcat)
  fluffy  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  phylum  0  (gelinas)
  yanqui  1  (aruba)
  yttric  6  (kentn)  Winner!
  hydric  3  (dcat)
  ---------

You're up Kent.  Thought I might have been able to stump everyone a little
longer with an obscure word.  :)

#484 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jul 25 02:26:45 2003:

Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.

#485 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jul 26 03:13:08 2003:

All right, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#486 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jul 26 04:20:49 2003:

wounds

#487 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jul 26 14:11:45 2003:

  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  wounds  0  (gelinas)
  ----------

#488 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jul 26 19:10:40 2003:

teepee

#489 of 1013 by kip on Sat Jul 26 22:14:18 2003:

winter

#490 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Jul 27 01:11:04 2003:

flavor

#491 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jul 27 01:12:51 2003:

insane

#492 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jul 27 15:06:34 2003:

  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  wounds  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  winter  0  (kip)
  flavor  0  (dcat)
  insane  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#493 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Jul 27 17:24:57 2003:

pencil

#494 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jul 27 20:36:34 2003:

easels

#495 of 1013 by kip on Mon Jul 28 00:14:59 2003:

urgent

#496 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Jul 28 01:06:06 2003:

  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  wounds  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  winter  0  (kip)
  flavor  0  (dcat)
  insane  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  pencil  0  (dcat)
  easels  1  (aruba)
  urgent  4  (kip)
  ----------

#497 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jul 28 01:26:25 2003:

advent

#498 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jul 28 02:55:57 2003:

ardent

#499 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Jul 28 11:59:45 2003:

  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  wounds  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  winter  0  (kip)
  flavor  0  (dcat)
  insane  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  pencil  0  (dcat)
  easels  1  (aruba)
  urgent  4  (kip)
  ----------
  advent  4  (dcat)
  ardent  5  (aruba)
  ----------

Timing is very important in this game...

#500 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jul 28 13:15:39 2003:

arpent

#501 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jul 28 21:36:47 2003:

argent

#502 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Jul 28 21:37:18 2003:

oh, damn.

#503 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Jul 29 00:07:59 2003:

  yttric  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  wounds  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  winter  0  (kip)
  flavor  0  (dcat)
  insane  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  pencil  0  (dcat)
  easels  1  (aruba)
  urgent  4  (kip)
  ----------
  advent  4  (dcat)
  ardent  5  (aruba)
  ----------
  arpent  6  (gelinas)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  argent  5  (dcat)
  ----------

Your word, Joe.  Oh, and arpent is a former French unit of land,
approximately one acre (unless you were in Paris, in which case it was
about 5/6 of an acre).

#504 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 29 05:17:58 2003:

So I am thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  arpent  0  (lastword)

#505 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jul 29 05:54:21 2003:

micron

#506 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 29 12:39:52 2003:

  micron  0  (dcat)

Guesses and scores so far are in ~gelinas/letter.match6

#507 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 29 13:56:14 2003:

writer

#508 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 29 14:11:24 2003:

  writer  0  (kip)

#509 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jul 29 15:06:36 2003:

teepee

#510 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jul 29 16:32:11 2003:

  teepee  0  (aruba)

#511 of 1013 by kip on Tue Jul 29 19:12:43 2003:

option

#512 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Jul 29 19:19:31 2003:

sodomy

#513 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jul 30 03:17:41 2003:

series

#514 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 30 03:54:00 2003:

  option  0  (kip)
  sodomy  0  (dcat)
  series  0  (kentn)

#515 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jul 30 04:48:12 2003:

easily

#516 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 30 05:49:22 2003:

  easily  0  (aruba)

#517 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Jul 30 10:35:54 2003:

guffaw

#518 of 1013 by kip on Wed Jul 30 13:19:00 2003:

fulcra

#519 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jul 30 14:21:20 2003:

blotto

#520 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 30 21:17:51 2003:

  guffaw  0  (kentn)
  fulcra  1  (kip)
  blotto  1  (aruba)

#521 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Jul 30 22:53:37 2003:

flanch

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :

  Flanch \Flanch\, n.; pl. Flanches. [Prov. E., a projection,
     OF. flanche flank. See Flank.]
     1. A flange. [R.]. (Her.) A bearing consisting of a segment
        of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

#522 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jul 30 23:24:26 2003:

  flanch  2  (dcat)

#523 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jul 31 01:53:28 2003:

placid

#524 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jul 31 02:04:43 2003:

  placid  6  (kentn)

You're up, Kent. :)

#525 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Jul 31 05:01:02 2003:

Damn, that was my next guess. :)

#526 of 1013 by carson on Fri Aug 1 10:19:14 2003:

(you'd've been two letters off and two letters short.)

#527 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 1 11:10:07 2003:

OK, I'll try to have new word next time I'm on.

#528 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 6 00:40:12 2003:

Okay, I have a 6-letter word in mind now that is not:
 
  placid  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#529 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Aug 6 01:17:18 2003:

borrow

(So imagination is not my strong suit. ;)

#530 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Aug 6 03:21:46 2003:

Me either.

teepee

#531 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Aug 6 06:09:49 2003:

sparks

#532 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 6 11:40:14 2003:

  placid  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  borrow  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  sparks  1  (dcat)
  ----------

#533 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Aug 6 13:56:03 2003:

stewed

#534 of 1013 by kip on Wed Aug 6 15:17:58 2003:

uplift

#535 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Aug 6 16:00:22 2003:

easels

#536 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Wed Aug 6 16:13:13 2003:

season

#537 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Aug 6 16:55:46 2003:

summer

#538 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Aug 6 19:18:19 2003:

medals

#539 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Aug 7 00:19:08 2003:

  placid  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  borrow  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  sparks  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  stewed  1  (gelinas)
  uplift  2  (kip)
  easels  0  (cyberpnk)
  summer  1  (albaugh)
  medals  0  (dcat)
  ----------

#540 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Aug 7 00:40:16 2003:

shrink

#541 of 1013 by kip on Thu Aug 7 01:17:42 2003:

silica

#542 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Aug 7 05:25:28 2003:

spiffy

#543 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Aug 7 11:13:59 2003:

  placid  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  borrow  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  sparks  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  stewed  1  (gelinas)
  uplift  2  (kip)
  easels  0  (cyberpnk)
  summer  1  (albaugh)
  medals  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  shrink  3  (gelinas)
  silica  2  (kip)
  spiffy  1  (dcat)
  ----------

#544 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Aug 7 12:34:50 2003:

squint

#545 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Aug 7 14:42:49 2003:

squint looks pretty good to me.

#546 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Aug 7 22:02:12 2003:

eyeing

#547 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Aug 7 23:54:15 2003:

  placid  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  borrow  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  sparks  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  stewed  1  (gelinas)
  uplift  2  (kip)
  easels  0  (cyberpnk)
  summer  1  (albaugh)
  medals  0  (dcat)
  ----------
  shrink  3  (gelinas)
  silica  2  (kip)
  spiffy  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  squint  6  (gelinas)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
  eyeing  2  (albaugh)
  ----------

It's your turn, Joe!

#548 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 8 02:59:07 2003:

So I am thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  squint  0  (lastword)

#549 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Aug 8 03:56:36 2003:

teepee

#550 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Aug 8 03:59:06 2003:

window

#551 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 8 04:02:32 2003:

  teepee  0  (aruba)
  window  1  (dcat)

#552 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 8 10:50:15 2003:

wriest

#553 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 8 15:42:44 2003:

  wriest  1  (kentn)

#554 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Aug 8 17:44:07 2003:

leased

#555 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 8 19:38:23 2003:

  leased  0  (albaugh)

#556 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Aug 8 21:13:30 2003:

wormul

"Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild 
 animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and
  allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See 
 Gadfly."
        -- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

#557 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Aug 9 03:27:00 2003:

  wormul  0  (dcat)

#558 of 1013 by kip on Sat Aug 9 15:09:58 2003:

editor

#559 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Aug 9 15:50:47 2003:

proton

#560 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Aug 9 20:51:19 2003:

gryfon

#561 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Aug 10 04:26:07 2003:

  editor  1  (kip)
  proton  0  (kentn)
  gryfon  0  (dcat)

#562 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Aug 10 18:42:51 2003:

avidly

#563 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Aug 10 18:57:15 2003:

  avidly  3  (kentn)

#564 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Aug 10 19:32:21 2003:

acidic

#565 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Aug 10 23:03:46 2003:

smiddy (smithy)

#566 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Aug 11 00:15:58 2003:

  acidic  6  (dcat)
  smiddy  2  (kentn)

Your word, dcat. :)

#567 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Aug 11 19:41:50 2003:

I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not 

  acidic  0  (lastword)

#568 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Mon Aug 11 19:51:28 2003:

mutant

#569 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Aug 11 20:54:35 2003:

quorum

#570 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Aug 11 22:22:15 2003:

  acidic  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  mutant  0  (cyberpnk)
  quorum  0  (gelinas)

#571 of 1013 by kip on Mon Aug 11 22:32:32 2003:

frames

#572 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Aug 11 22:40:13 2003:

boring

#573 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Aug 12 00:20:12 2003:

  frames  0  (kip)
  boring  0  (gelinas)

#574 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Aug 12 17:56:44 2003:

holier

#575 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Aug 12 18:44:19 2003:

replay

#576 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Aug 12 21:22:29 2003:

  acidic  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  mutant  0  (cyberpnk)
  quorum  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  frames  0  (kip)
  boring  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  holier  0  (albaugh)
  replay  0  (gelinas)

#577 of 1013 by kip on Tue Aug 12 23:07:15 2003:

camera

#578 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Aug 13 02:14:51 2003:

distal

#579 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 13 03:46:50 2003:

castle

#580 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Aug 13 19:57:50 2003:

  acidic  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  mutant  0  (cyberpnk)
  quorum  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  frames  0  (kip)
  boring  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  holier  0  (albaugh)
  replay  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  camera  1  (kip)
  distal  0  (gelinas)
  castle  0  (kentn)

#581 of 1013 by kip on Thu Aug 14 01:26:48 2003:

speech

#582 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Aug 14 03:52:29 2003:

  speech  0  (kip)

#583 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Aug 14 13:25:36 2003:

enigma

#584 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Aug 16 15:36:20 2003:

  enigma  2  (gelinas)

#585 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Aug 16 18:06:16 2003:

zygoma  (cheek bone)

#586 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Aug 16 18:55:18 2003:

Your word, kent.

  acidic  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  mutant  0  (cyberpnk)
  quorum  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  frames  0  (kip)
  boring  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  holier  0  (albaugh)
  replay  0  (gelinas)
  ---------
  camera  1  (kip)
  distal  0  (gelinas)
  castle  0  (kentn)
  ---------
  speech  0  (kip)
  ---------
  enigma  2  (gelinas)
  ---------
  zygoma  6  (kentn)

#587 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Aug 17 15:05:29 2003:

Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.

#588 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Aug 17 22:08:27 2003:

I'm think of a six-letter word that is not
 
  zygoma  0  (lastword)
 
A summary of guesses on this word is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and
this item.  Good luck!

#589 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Aug 18 03:19:30 2003:

refers

#590 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Aug 18 11:06:50 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
 
Oh, and s/think/thinking/ in #588.

#591 of 1013 by cyberpnk on Mon Aug 18 15:06:40 2003:

nature

#592 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Aug 18 17:03:38 2003:

teepee

#593 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Aug 18 19:42:55 2003:

wigwam

#594 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Aug 19 11:01:27 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

#595 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Aug 19 11:55:23 2003:

misery

#596 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Aug 19 16:29:23 2003:

window

#597 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Aug 19 22:40:18 2003:

shoppe

#598 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 20 01:31:41 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (Mr Middle English er...albaugh)
  ----------

#599 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Aug 20 03:01:23 2003:

bicorn

#600 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 20 11:17:59 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------

#601 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Aug 20 16:43:34 2003:

bunion

#602 of 1013 by kingjon on Wed Aug 20 17:24:24 2003:

python

#603 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Aug 21 03:39:25 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------

#604 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Aug 21 04:26:10 2003:

libant

#605 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Aug 21 11:04:23 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#606 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Aug 21 17:17:53 2003:

drinks

#607 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 22 03:07:02 2003:

nickle

#608 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 22 03:12:15 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#609 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Aug 22 16:54:51 2003:

excuse

#610 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 22 22:57:19 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#611 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Aug 23 04:05:42 2003:

humiri

#612 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Aug 23 14:29:10 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  humiri  3  (gelinas)
  ----------

#613 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Aug 25 19:05:54 2003:

hummer

#614 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Aug 25 23:49:03 2003:

civery

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling (Webster's 1913, dict.org)

#615 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Aug 26 11:42:47 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  humiri  3  (gelinas)
  ----------
  hummer  1  (albaugh)
  civrey  1  (dcat)
  ----------

#616 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Aug 26 13:55:45 2003:

hiatus

#617 of 1013 by kip on Tue Aug 26 15:49:06 2003:

I can't jump in at this late date and snipe this one.

Think Europe.

#618 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Aug 26 16:38:05 2003:

breath

#619 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Aug 27 01:40:06 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  humiri  3  (gelinas)
  ----------
  hummer  1  (albaugh)
  civrey  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  hiatus  1  (gelinas)
  breath  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#620 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Aug 27 02:30:17 2003:

Sure you can, Kip; we've all come in late at one time or another.

gimlet

#621 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Aug 27 18:11:16 2003:

glowed

#622 of 1013 by kip on Wed Aug 27 21:14:48 2003:

okay, now watch me be wrong.  :)

cimbri  an ancient tribe that lived in the Jutland Penisula, now the south
of Denmark

#623 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 29 00:44:04 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  humiri  3  (gelinas)
  ----------
  hummer  1  (albaugh)
  civrey  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  hiatus  1  (gelinas)
  breath  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  gimlet  3  (gelinas)
  glowed  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

Cimbri: isn't that like guessing "Dutch" or "American"?  It seems to
me that's a little too close to a proper noun.  It's capitalized in my
dictionary.

#624 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Aug 29 03:07:06 2003:

goblet

#625 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Aug 29 14:30:49 2003:

wining

#626 of 1013 by kip on Fri Aug 29 18:12:41 2003:

Fair enough, I was running out of possible words and didn't think 
about the proper noun rule.  Expanding my usual dictionary rounds
at the library has brought me to this guess:

gimbri  a stringed percussion instrument or lute  native to Morocco

#627 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Aug 29 22:24:39 2003:

  zygoma  0  (lastword)
  ----------
  refers  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  nature  1  (cyberpnk)
  teepee  0  (dcat)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  misery  2  (gelinas)
  window  1  (dcat)
  shoppe  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  bicorn  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  bunion  0  (albaugh)
  python  0  (kingjon)
  ----------
  libant  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drinks  0  (albaugh)
  nickle  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  excuse  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  humiri  3  (gelinas)
  ----------
  hummer  1  (albaugh)
  civrey  1  (dcat)
  ----------
  hiatus  1  (gelinas)
  breath  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  gimlet  3  (gelinas)
  glowed  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  goblet  1  (gelinas)
  wining  1  (albaugh)
  gimbri  6  (kip)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!  Fri Aug 29 18:24:18 2003
  ----------

Your word, Kip!

#628 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Aug 30 13:09:58 2003:

My dictionary didn't have a definition for 'gimbri'.

#629 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Aug 30 21:31:07 2003:

Sometimes I use dictionaries that most people don't have instead of the
dict server's usual set of dictionaries or m-w.com.

#630 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Aug 31 02:14:36 2003:

Not complaining; merely explaining why I didn't guess the answer.

#631 of 1013 by kip on Tue Sep 2 18:07:02 2003:

I'm thinking of a six letter words which is not 

  gimbri  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------

A summary of guesses can be found at ~kip/letter.match6 and this item.

#632 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 3 02:36:42 2003:

prefer

#633 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Sep 3 03:15:36 2003:

uneasy

#634 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 3 14:54:24 2003:

revere

#635 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Sep 3 20:54:32 2003:

appall

#636 of 1013 by kip on Thu Sep 4 01:19:45 2003:

  gimbri  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  prefer  1  (gelinas)
  uneasy  0  (kentn)
  revere  0  (aruba)
  appall  0  (albaugh)
  ---------

#637 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Sep 4 02:29:06 2003:

pounds

#638 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Sep 4 04:24:45 2003:

bantam

#639 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Sep 4 11:11:06 2003:

series

#640 of 1013 by kip on Thu Sep 4 16:45:56 2003:

  gimbri  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  prefer  1  (gelinas)
  uneasy  0  (kentn)
  revere  0  (aruba)
  appall  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  pounds  0  (gelinas)
  bantam  0  (arbua)
  series  1  (kentn)
  ---------

#641 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Sep 4 17:24:37 2003:

worded

#642 of 1013 by kingjon on Thu Sep 4 20:59:48 2003:

banter

#643 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Sep 4 21:03:51 2003:

quanta

#644 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Sep 4 23:26:13 2003:

(I hate Quantas.)

cutter

#645 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Sep 5 01:21:37 2003:

cursor

#646 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Sep 5 04:29:52 2003:

Hey, I thought Quantas was the only airline that had never crashed!

#647 of 1013 by kip on Fri Sep 5 14:20:54 2003:

  gimbri  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  prefer  1  (gelinas)
  uneasy  0  (kentn)
  revere  0  (aruba)
  appall  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  pounds  0  (gelinas)
  bantam  0  (arbua)
  series  1  (kentn)
  ---------
  worded  1  (albaugh)
  banter  1  (kingjon)
  quanta  1  (aruba)
  cutter  2  (gelinas)
  cursor  4  (kentn)
  ---------

#648 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Sep 5 16:15:52 2003:

cutout

#649 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Sep 5 18:38:17 2003:

racket

#650 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Sep 6 02:19:47 2003:

turgor

the normal state of turgidity and tension in living cells; especially : the
distension of the protoplasmic layer and wall of a plant cell by the fluid
contents

#651 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Sep 6 13:53:05 2003:

Turgor looks good to me.

#652 of 1013 by kip on Mon Sep 8 07:06:34 2003:

  gimbri  0  (The Last Word)
  ---------
  prefer  1  (gelinas)
  uneasy  0  (kentn)
  revere  0  (aruba)
  appall  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  pounds  0  (gelinas)
  bantam  0  (arbua)
  series  1  (kentn)
  ---------
  worded  1  (albaugh)
  banter  1  (kingjon)
  quanta  1  (aruba)
  cutter  2  (gelinas)
  cursor  4  (kentn)
  ---------
  cutout  1  (gelinas)
  racket  0  (albaugh)
  turgor  6  (aruba)  Winner!
  ---------

You're up aruba!

#653 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Sep 8 21:29:24 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

turgor  0  (lastword)

#654 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 9 02:11:10 2003:

sleepy

#655 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 9 03:42:20 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)

#656 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Sep 9 11:16:40 2003:

series

#657 of 1013 by kip on Tue Sep 9 13:29:43 2003:

reload

#658 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 9 16:43:51 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)

#659 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Sep 9 17:13:55 2003:

firing

#660 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 9 17:24:40 2003:

rought

#661 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 9 21:21:11 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)

#662 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Sep 10 01:12:46 2003:

byword

#663 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 10 01:37:22 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)

#664 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 10 02:06:23 2003:

byplay

#665 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Sep 10 18:30:11 2003:

walker

#666 of 1013 by kip on Wed Sep 10 18:31:30 2003:

pylori  plural of pylorus, a posterior division of the stomach in some
invertebrates.

#667 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 10 20:23:30 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performe by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)

#668 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Sep 11 03:42:32 2003:

accord

#669 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Sep 11 03:58:36 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performe by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)

#670 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Sep 11 17:47:06 2003:

ionize

#671 of 1013 by kip on Thu Sep 11 22:21:33 2003:

zymoid  resembling an enzyme

#672 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Sep 12 15:44:04 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)

#673 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Sep 12 15:58:14 2003:

xyloid

#674 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Sep 12 18:01:31 2003:

loiter

#675 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Sep 12 21:35:55 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)
xyloid  4  (gelinas)
loiter  0  (albaugh)

#676 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Sep 13 02:51:25 2003:

divest

#677 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Sep 13 19:20:38 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)
xyloid  4  (gelinas)
loiter  0  (albaugh)
divest  0  (gelinas)

#678 of 1013 by albaugh on Sun Sep 14 04:59:57 2003:

suitor

#679 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Sep 14 13:48:06 2003:

gyrate

#680 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Sep 14 17:15:48 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)
xyloid  4  (gelinas)
loiter  0  (albaugh)
divest  0  (gelinas)
suitor  0  (albaugh)
gyrate  1  (gelinas)

#681 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Sep 14 17:58:37 2003:

cytoid

#682 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Sep 14 22:10:16 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)
xyloid  4  (gelinas)
loiter  0  (albaugh)
divest  0  (gelinas)
suitor  0  (albaugh)
gyrate  1  (gelinas)
cytoid  4  (kentn)

#683 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Sep 15 00:54:37 2003:

myxoid

#684 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Sep 15 02:50:58 2003:

turgor  0  (lastword)
sleepy  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
reload  2  (kip)
firing  0  (albaugh)
rought  0  (gelinas)
byword  3  (kentn)
byplay  1  (gelinas)     (Incidental activity performed by an actor)
walker  0  (albaugh)
pylori  2  (kip)
accord  2  (gelinas)
ionize  0  (albaugh)
zymoid  4  (kip)
xyloid  4  (gelinas)
loiter  0  (albaugh)
divest  0  (gelinas)
suitor  0  (albaugh)
gyrate  1  (gelinas)
cytoid  4  (kentn)
myxoid  6  (gelinas)

Yay!  Joe's up.

myxoid: Containing mucus; mucoid.

#685 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Sep 15 04:06:52 2003:

And I didn't have to wild-card Onelook. :)

So I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  myxoid  0  (lastword)

#686 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Sep 15 10:48:27 2003:

series

#687 of 1013 by kip on Mon Sep 15 14:02:08 2003:

budget

#688 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Sep 15 17:36:40 2003:

rental

"Hey, Billy, wipe that myxoid off your face!"  ;-)

#689 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Sep 15 20:04:42 2003:

  series  0  (kentn)
  budget  0  (kip)
  rental  0  (albaugh)

A summary of guesses is in ~gelinas/letter.match6

#690 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Sep 15 22:14:37 2003:

effete

#691 of 1013 by kip on Mon Sep 15 22:34:19 2003:

twelve

#692 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Sep 15 23:57:48 2003:

  effete  0  (aruba)
  twelve  0  (kip)

#693 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Sep 16 04:31:22 2003:

oclock

If that ain't gonna fly, go with dozens

#694 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 16 05:01:20 2003:

banana

#695 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 16 15:22:45 2003:

(My dictionary says "o'clock".)

  dozens  0  (albaugh)
  banana  0  (aruba)

#696 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 16 22:22:55 2003:

alarum

#697 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Sep 16 23:39:24 2003:

choppy

#698 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Sep 17 03:42:47 2003:

wavers

#699 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 17 04:13:10 2003:

  alarum  0  (aruba)
  choppy  1  (kentn)
  wavers  0  (albaugh)

#700 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 17 05:21:21 2003:

orison  (A reverent petition to a deity)

#701 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 17 05:27:56 2003:

  orison  1  (aruba)

#702 of 1013 by kip on Wed Sep 17 06:37:53 2003:

grouch

#703 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 17 11:28:38 2003:

  grouch  3  (kip)

#704 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 17 15:34:13 2003:

around

#705 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 17 16:38:09 2003:

  around  1  (aruba)

#706 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Sep 18 04:21:50 2003:

blocks

#707 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Sep 18 11:27:39 2003:

crunch

#708 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Sep 18 17:42:02 2003:

  blocks  0  (albaugh)
  crunch  6  (kentn)


We Have a Winnah!  You're up, Kent.

#709 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Sep 19 22:05:17 2003:

That was interesting.  Lots of zeroes, then a few hits.
Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.

#710 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Sep 20 18:20:21 2003:

I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
  
  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6.

#711 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Sep 21 03:22:59 2003:

teepee

#712 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Sep 21 03:26:43 2003:

supper

#713 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Sep 21 13:31:19 2003:

  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  supper  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#714 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Sep 21 14:22:40 2003:

easels

#715 of 1013 by albaugh on Sun Sep 21 19:12:23 2003:

 tripod

#716 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Sep 22 00:23:34 2003:

  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  supper  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  tripod  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#717 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Sep 22 01:23:39 2003:

pastry

#718 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Sep 22 03:16:46 2003:

salary

#719 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Sep 22 18:03:57 2003:

paying

#720 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Sep 23 01:25:01 2003:

  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  supper  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  tripod  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  pastry  0  (aruba)
  salary  1  (gelinas)
  paying  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

#721 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 23 03:09:48 2003:

eulogy

#722 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 23 03:30:16 2003:

spawns

#723 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Sep 23 04:17:20 2003:

salmon

#724 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Sep 24 02:31:54 2003:

  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  supper  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  tripod  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  pastry  0  (aruba)
  salary  1  (gelinas)
  paying  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  spawns  1  (aruba)
  salmon  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

#725 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 24 03:57:59 2003:

shunts

#726 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Sep 24 04:03:29 2003:

trains

#727 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Sep 24 13:56:33 2003:

  crunch  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  supper  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  easels  1  (aruba)
  tripod  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  pastry  0  (aruba)
  salary  1  (gelinas)
  paying  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  eulogy  0  (gelinas)
  spawns  1  (aruba)
  salmon  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  shunts  2  (gelinas)
  trains  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

#728 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Sep 24 14:03:12 2003:

hooray

#729 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Sep 24 17:40:16 2003:

shrill

#730 of 1013 by kip on Thu Sep 25 14:10:41 2003:

shrill looks good to me.

#731 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Sep 25 16:49:53 2003:

  hooray  0  (aruba)
  shrill  6  (gelinas)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 

Woohoo! Two in a row!  Your word again, Joe.

#732 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 30 01:19:39 2003:

And I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  shrill  0  (lastword)

#733 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 30 02:33:38 2003:

teepee

#734 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 30 02:57:36 2003:

  teepee  1  (aruba)

#735 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Sep 30 14:52:59 2003:

wigwam

#736 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Sep 30 15:46:21 2003:

easels

#737 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Sep 30 18:26:19 2003:

  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  easels  0  (aruba)

#738 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Oct 1 10:47:45 2003:

series

#739 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Oct 1 14:39:04 2003:

  series  1  (kentn)

BTW, the current state of the guess is in ~gelinas/letter.match6

#740 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Oct 1 15:02:01 2003:

behind

#741 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Oct 1 19:32:06 2003:

  behind  0  (aruba)

#742 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Oct 1 23:39:06 2003:

donkey

#743 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Oct 2 02:21:56 2003:

  donkey  1  (kentn)

#744 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Oct 2 02:40:05 2003:

kuchen  (a coffee cake)

#745 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Oct 2 03:11:03 2003:

  kuchen  2  (aruba)

#746 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Oct 2 17:14:59 2003:

eating

#747 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Oct 2 17:30:16 2003:

  eating  0  (albaugh)

#748 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Oct 2 23:06:28 2003:

duster

#749 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Oct 3 05:35:53 2003:

  duster  3  (aruba)

#750 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Oct 3 11:11:17 2003:

quiver

#751 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Oct 3 12:27:12 2003:

Well, that went more quickly than I had hoped.

  quiver  6  (kentn)

You're up, Kent.  I'm curious: did you expect that?

#752 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Oct 4 16:46:04 2003:

I knew it was possible, but did not expect it to be right.
I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.

#753 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Oct 5 05:06:09 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#754 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Oct 5 05:15:29 2003:

teepee

#755 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Oct 5 15:15:58 2003:

wombat

#756 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Oct 6 18:05:22 2003:

batter

#757 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Oct 8 02:42:06 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#758 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Oct 8 03:03:33 2003:

cupola

#759 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Oct 8 03:53:10 2003:

easels

#760 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Oct 8 11:25:59 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#761 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Oct 8 13:05:51 2003:

ghosts

#762 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Oct 8 13:51:01 2003:

abacus

#763 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Oct 8 18:36:20 2003:

beaded

#764 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Oct 9 23:23:08 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  ghosts  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  beaded  0  (albaugh)
  ----------

#765 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Oct 10 03:08:57 2003:

octavo   the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of
         paper three times to form eight leaves

#766 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Oct 10 04:45:27 2003:

eighty

#767 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Oct 10 05:15:46 2003:

minima

#768 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Oct 11 16:07:17 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  ghosts  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  beaded  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  octavo  0  (aruba)
  eighty  0  (albaugh)
  minima  1  (gelinas)
  ----------

#769 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Oct 12 12:40:14 2003:

stupor

#770 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Oct 12 14:13:40 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  ghosts  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  beaded  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  octavo  0  (aruba)
  eighty  0  (albaugh)
  minima  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  stupor  1  (aruba)
  ----------

#771 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Oct 12 14:17:07 2003:

undams

#772 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Oct 12 14:29:00 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  ghosts  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  beaded  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  octavo  0  (aruba)
  eighty  0  (albaugh)
  minima  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  stupor  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  undams  0  (gelinas)
  ----------

#773 of 1013 by janc on Sun Oct 12 18:20:19 2003:

period

#774 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Oct 12 19:42:01 2003:

fruity

#775 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Oct 14 15:48:58 2003:

tooted

#776 of 1013 by kip on Wed Oct 15 20:42:06 2003:

Given that it is Kent, I'm going to try and snipe with

syrinx   A wind instrument made of tied together reeds or also the lower
larnyx of a bird

#777 of 1013 by kingjon on Thu Oct 16 20:29:54 2003:

maxima

#778 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Oct 17 22:53:41 2003:

  quiver  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wombat  0  (gelinas)
  batter  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  cupola  0  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  ----------
  ghosts  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  beaded  0  (albaugh)
  ----------
  octavo  0  (aruba)
  eighty  0  (albaugh)
  minima  1  (gelinas)
  ----------
  stupor  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  undams  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  period  1  (janc)
  fruity  1  (aruba)
  tooted  0  (albaugh)
  syrinx  3  (kip)
  maxima  1  (kingjon)
  ----------

#779 of 1013 by janc on Sat Oct 18 02:20:48 2003:

scrimp

#780 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Oct 18 06:05:55 2003:

saving

#781 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Oct 18 19:40:42 2003:

skying

Main Entry: 2sky
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): skied or skyed; sky7ing
Date: 1802
1 chiefly British : to throw or toss up : FLIP
2 : to hang (as a painting) above the line of vision
3 : to hit (a ball) high into the air

#782 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Oct 18 21:15:55 2003:

  scrimp  2  (janc)
  saving  4  (albaugh)
  skying  6  (aruba)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 
 
Okay, your word, Mark!

#783 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Oct 18 21:24:38 2003:

Oops, guess I need a word then.  I'll have one next time.

#784 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Oct 19 14:13:23 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of a word with a perfect number of letters.  It's not

skying  0  (lastword)

#785 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Oct 20 01:21:51 2003:

series

#786 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Oct 20 02:43:00 2003:

rotted

#787 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Oct 20 13:29:40 2003:

skying  0  (lastword)
series  0  (kentn)
rotted  0  (gelinas)

#788 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Oct 20 17:36:53 2003:

fruity

#789 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Oct 20 17:55:52 2003:

blowsy

#790 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Oct 20 20:08:02 2003:

skying  0  (lastword)
series  0  (kentn)
rotted  0  (gelinas)
fruity  1  (albaugh)
blowsy  0  (gelinas)

#791 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Oct 21 01:53:42 2003:

taught

#792 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Oct 21 03:31:14 2003:

faerie

#793 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Oct 21 03:52:34 2003:

skying  0  (lastword)
series  0  (kentn)
rotted  0  (gelinas)
fruity  1  (albaugh)
blowsy  0  (gelinas)
taught  3  (kentn)
faerie  0  (gelinas)

#794 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Oct 21 11:24:00 2003:

wright

#795 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Oct 21 13:27:27 2003:

skying  0  (lastword)
series  0  (kentn)
rotted  0  (gelinas)
fruity  1  (albaugh)
blowsy  0  (gelinas)
taught  3  (kentn)
faerie  0  (gelinas)
wright  6  (kentn)

Kent's up!

#796 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Oct 26 01:29:34 2003:

Yikes.  All right I'll try to have something in mind next time.

#797 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Oct 29 12:18:18 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  wright  0  (The Previous Word)

A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6 and this item.

#798 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Oct 29 13:40:14 2003:

smiths

#799 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Oct 29 13:56:36 2003:

teepee

#800 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Oct 30 19:06:01 2003:

wigwam

#801 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Oct 31 03:53:59 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------

#802 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Oct 31 04:09:03 2003:

digger

#803 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Oct 31 12:19:07 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------

#804 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Oct 31 13:33:56 2003:

drawer

#805 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 1 00:59:18 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------

#806 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Nov 1 03:53:37 2003:

dishes

#807 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 1 20:51:01 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  dishes  2  (gelinas)
  ----------

#808 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Nov 1 22:23:03 2003:

jaguar

#809 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Nov 2 01:17:45 2003:

waning

#810 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Nov 2 22:51:08 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  dishes  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  jaguar  0  (aruba)
  waning  0  (gelinas)
  ----------

#811 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Nov 3 00:52:09 2003:

dimity  (a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers
and curtains)

#812 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Nov 3 11:58:12 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  dishes  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  jaguar  0  (aruba)
  waning  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  dimity  2  (aruba)
  ----------

#813 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Nov 4 22:40:01 2003:

dimwit

#814 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Nov 6 01:37:40 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  dishes  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  jaguar  0  (aruba)
  waning  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  dimity  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  dimwit  2  (albaugh)
  ----------

#815 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Nov 6 02:07:08 2003:

belord

#816 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Nov 6 04:44:04 2003:

cloaca  (a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water)

#817 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Nov 6 11:59:13 2003:

  wright  0  (The Previous Word)
  ----------
  smiths  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  1  (albaugh)
  ----------
  digger  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  drawer  1  (aruba)
  ----------
  dishes  2  (gelinas)
  ----------
  jaguar  0  (aruba)
  waning  0  (gelinas)
  ----------
  dimity  2  (aruba)
  ----------
  dimwit  2  (albaugh)
  ----------
  belord  1  (gelinas)
  cloaca  0  (aruba)
  ----------

#818 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Nov 6 12:25:42 2003:

bemoan

#819 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Nov 6 21:33:07 2003:

whiner

#820 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Nov 7 03:16:05 2003:

hereof

#821 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 8 16:03:55 2003:

  bemoan  0  (gelinas)
  whiner  0  (albaugh)
  hereof  1  (aruba)

#822 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Nov 8 17:44:55 2003:

heroes

#823 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Nov 8 21:37:01 2003:

dolent

#824 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 8 22:33:57 2003:

  heroes  0  (albaugh)
  dolent  2  (gelinas)

#825 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Nov 9 02:25:39 2003:

foulup

#826 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Nov 9 14:31:37 2003:

  foulup  0  (aruba)
 
(The scoring on the word has not fouled up yet, in case you were
wondering.  And no, this word is not impossible to find, though 
it is not in free part of m-w.com)

#827 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Nov 9 14:36:43 2003:

Oh, I didn't mean to imply anything - I was just guessing.

#828 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Nov 9 17:43:15 2003:

pillow

#829 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Nov 10 04:28:19 2003:

paddle

#830 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Nov 10 19:39:11 2003:

canoes

#831 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Nov 12 04:28:52 2003:

  pillow  1  (gelinas)
  paddle  0  (aruba)
  canoes  0  (albaugh)

#832 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Nov 12 04:40:58 2003:

divers

#833 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Nov 12 12:29:15 2003:

  divers  5  (gelinas)

#834 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Nov 12 15:08:05 2003:

hobnob

#835 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Nov 13 00:53:21 2003:

  hobnob  1  (aruba)

#836 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Nov 13 08:13:18 2003:

Hmmm.... 

        score(canoes) = score(canoe-) + score(-----s) = 0
                => score(-----s) = 0

        score(divers) = score(diver-) + score(-----s) = 5
                      = score(diver-) +      0        = 5
                => score(diver-) = 5

        since score(diver-) = 5 , score(hobno-) = 0

        score(hobnob) = score(hobno-) + score(-----b) = 1
                      =      0        + score(-----b) = 1
                => score(-----b) = 1

        thus

        score(diverb) = score(diver-) + score(-----b) 
                      =      5        +      1
                      =               6

I will leave it to Kent to provide the definition of my guess:

        diverb

#837 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Nov 16 04:42:52 2003:

  diverb  6  (gelinas)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 

Your word, Joe!

  From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
  Diverb \Di"verb\, n. [L. diverbium the colloquial part of a
     comedy, dialogue; di- = dis- + verbum word.]
     A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted;
     an antithetical proverb. [Obs.]
  
           Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the
           diverb goes.                             --Burton.

#838 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Nov 19 02:22:33 2003:

So I'm thinking of a six-letter word that is not

  diverb  0  (lastword)

#839 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Nov 19 12:24:48 2003:

series

#840 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Nov 19 13:48:39 2003:

  series  0  (kentn)

The current state of the guess is in ~gelinas/letter.match6

#841 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Nov 19 19:26:56 2003:

enerve

#842 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Nov 20 05:01:43 2003:

  enerve  0  (aruba)

#843 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Nov 21 18:22:09 2003:

nervey

#844 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Nov 21 19:51:13 2003:

banana

#845 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Nov 21 20:01:52 2003:

  nervey  1  (albaugh)
  banana  3  (aruba)

#846 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 22 04:47:00 2003:

botany

#847 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Nov 22 05:05:15 2003:

  botany  6  (kentn)

You're up, Kent. :)

#848 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Nov 23 18:42:24 2003:

Okay!  I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.

#849 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Nov 24 19:36:44 2003:

All right, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not:
 
  botany  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses on the current word is in ~kentn/letter.match6.

#850 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Nov 24 20:07:41 2003:

teepee

#851 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Nov 24 20:20:49 2003:

wigwam

#852 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Nov 24 23:22:46 2003:

square

#853 of 1013 by kentn on Tue Nov 25 23:04:29 2003:

  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  square  0  (gelinas)

#854 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Nov 26 03:47:13 2003:

easels

#855 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Nov 26 03:53:42 2003:

harper

#856 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Nov 26 19:50:49 2003:

slaves

#857 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Nov 26 21:11:38 2003:

  easels  2  (aruba)
  harper  0  (gelinas)
  slaves  0  (albaugh)

#858 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Nov 26 23:24:16 2003:

ensign

#859 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Nov 27 06:41:29 2003:

costly

#860 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Nov 27 15:32:27 2003:

  ensign  1  (gelinas)
  costly  1  (aruba)

#861 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Nov 27 20:31:50 2003:

equals

#862 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Nov 28 03:31:22 2003:

assent

#863 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Nov 28 04:28:08 2003:

musjid  (syn for mosque)

#864 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Nov 28 17:22:27 2003:

  equals  2  (gelinas)
  assent  0  (aruba)
  musjid  0  (dcat)

#865 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Nov 28 17:43:26 2003:

engulf

#866 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Nov 28 18:17:45 2003:

extill

#867 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Nov 28 22:11:36 2003:

  engulf  3  (aruba)
  extill  2  (gelinas)

#868 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Nov 29 05:19:29 2003:

rumble

#869 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Nov 29 14:28:08 2003:

insult

#870 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Nov 29 16:03:32 2003:

  rumble  1  (albaugh)
  insult  2  (gelinas)

#871 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Nov 29 18:48:22 2003:

downer

#872 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Nov 29 19:32:27 2003:

resume

#873 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Nov 29 23:08:16 2003:

emblem

#874 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Nov 29 23:53:03 2003:

embulk

"To enlarge in the way of bulk."

#875 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Dec 1 13:17:20 2003:

  downer  0  (albaugh)
  resume  1  (gelinas)
  emblem  3  (aruba)
  embulk  6  (dcat)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 
 
You're up, dcat!

#876 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Dec 2 02:36:35 2003:

yowie.  i guess i'll have to start logging in more often again. . . . usual
things in the usual places.

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)

#877 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Dec 2 03:08:10 2003:

absent

#878 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Dec 2 13:56:05 2003:

teepee

#879 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Dec 2 20:43:10 2003:

wigwam

#880 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Dec 3 22:46:44 2003:

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)

#881 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Dec 3 22:49:11 2003:

banner

#882 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Dec 4 14:55:51 2003:

abacus

#883 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Dec 4 15:51:13 2003:

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  banner  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  1  (aruba)

#884 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Dec 4 18:18:40 2003:

arctic

#885 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Dec 4 18:56:08 2003:

stacks

#886 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Dec 4 21:49:07 2003:

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  banner  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  arctic  1  (gelinas)
  stacks  1  (aruba)

#887 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 5 03:44:25 2003:

coccyx

#888 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Dec 5 13:02:31 2003:

grassy

#889 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 5 15:15:21 2003:

stable

#890 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Dec 5 16:47:30 2003:

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  banner  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  arctic  1  (gelinas)
  stacks  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  coccyx  0  (gelinas)
  grassy  2  (kentn)
  stable  1  (aruba)

#891 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 5 16:59:50 2003:

gloomy

#892 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 5 18:10:42 2003:

pragma

#893 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Dec 5 19:49:59 2003:

matter

#894 of 1013 by prp on Fri Dec 5 22:31:57 2003:

prissy

#895 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Dec 5 23:04:37 2003:

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  banner  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  arctic  1  (gelinas)
  stacks  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  coccyx  0  (gelinas)
  grassy  2  (kentn)
  stable  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  gloomy  0  (gelinas)
  pragma  3  (aruba)
  matter  0  (albaugh)
  prissy  1  (prp)

#896 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 5 23:21:16 2003:

studio

#897 of 1013 by naftee on Sat Dec 6 00:30:15 2003:

We're in trouble.

   pragma  3  (aruba)
   gloomy  0  (gelinas)
   absent  0  (gelinas)
   wigwam  0  (albaugh)
   banner  0  (gelinas)

I'm confused.  This word has three letters in common with pragma, and yet the
letters g,m,a and r aren't found in it.

#898 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Dec 6 01:13:49 2003:

A score of 1 means that one letter is the right position.  A zero means that
the right letter may be present, but it is not in the right position.

Thus:

        score(gloomy) = score (g-----) + score(-l----) + 
                                score(--o---) + score(---o--) + 
                                score(----m-) + score(-----y)

#899 of 1013 by naftee on Sat Dec 6 04:42:01 2003:

O, I see.  Thanks.

#900 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Dec 7 04:55:57 2003:

dragon

#901 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Dec 8 21:10:21 2003:

puffed

#902 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Dec 10 18:31:41 2003:

aruba's up.

  ---------
  embulk  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  absent  0  (gelinas)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  wigwam  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  banner  0  (gelinas)
  abacus  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  arctic  1  (gelinas)
  stacks  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  coccyx  0  (gelinas)
  grassy  2  (kentn)
  stable  1  (aruba)
  ---------
  gloomy  0  (gelinas)
  pragma  3  (aruba)
  matter  0  (albaugh)
  prissy  1  (prp)
  ---------
  studio  0  (gelinas)
  dragon  6  (aruba)
  puffed  0  (albaugh)

#903 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Dec 10 22:27:02 2003:

Doh!  Good word.  OK, I'll try to think of a word before the next time I
log in.

#904 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 12 05:15:38 2003:

OK, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that's not

dragon  0  (lastword)

#905 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 12 05:26:54 2003:

teepee

#906 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Dec 12 12:04:24 2003:

series

#907 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 12 14:57:27 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)

#908 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 12 15:08:19 2003:

wander

#909 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 12 17:57:06 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)

#910 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Dec 13 14:16:59 2003:

almond

#911 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Dec 13 17:03:31 2003:

chintz

#912 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Dec 14 01:04:19 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)

#913 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Dec 14 14:42:15 2003:

attend

#914 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Dec 14 19:11:52 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)
attend  1  (kentn)

#915 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Dec 15 02:57:07 2003:

simony

#916 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Dec 15 03:40:39 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)
attend  1  (kentn)
simony  4  (gelinas)

#917 of 1013 by dcat on Mon Dec 15 04:09:32 2003:

homony

#918 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Dec 15 14:56:25 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)
attend  1  (kentn)
simony  4  (gelinas)
homony  3  (dcat)

Looks like "homony" is a variant of "hominy", though most dictionaries don't
have it.  (Dictionary.com does, though.)

#919 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Dec 15 16:07:56 2003:

gritty

#920 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Dec 15 18:55:07 2003:

thrift

#921 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Dec 15 19:59:50 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)
attend  1  (kentn)
simony  4  (gelinas)
homony  3  (dcat)
gritty  0  (albaugh)
thrift  0  (gelinas)

#922 of 1013 by albaugh on Mon Dec 15 20:22:05 2003:

layoff

#923 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Dec 15 21:02:31 2003:

mimosa

#924 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Dec 16 01:46:42 2003:

kimono

#925 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Dec 16 01:49:49 2003:

(dcat's guess looks good to me. ;)

#926 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Dec 16 02:58:10 2003:

dragon  0  (lastword)
teepee  0  (gelinas)
series  0  (kentn)
wander  0  (gelinas)
almond  3  (kentn)
chintz  0  (gelinas)
attend  1  (kentn)
simony  4  (gelinas)
homony  3  (dcat)
gritty  0  (albaugh)
thrift  0  (gelinas)
mimosa  3  (gelinas)
kimono  6  (dcat)

Jonathon's up!

#927 of 1013 by naftee on Tue Dec 16 04:37:09 2003:

Go jonathan!

#928 of 1013 by dcat on Fri Dec 19 05:18:09 2003:

sorry for the delay; it's been a long week.

i'm thinking of a six-letter word.
  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)

#929 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Dec 19 05:22:36 2003:

oceans

#930 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Dec 19 13:37:15 2003:

revere

#931 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Dec 19 15:11:40 2003:

series

#932 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Dec 19 17:09:37 2003:

paired

#933 of 1013 by dcat on Sun Dec 21 05:16:21 2003:

  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  oceans  0  (gelinas)
  revere  1  (aruba)
  series  3  (kentn)
  paired  0  (albaugh)

#934 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Dec 21 05:26:14 2003:

merits

#935 of 1013 by albaugh on Sun Dec 21 05:49:59 2003:

lawyer

#936 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Dec 21 15:32:15 2003:

scrimp

#937 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Dec 21 16:45:03 2003:

aerial

#938 of 1013 by naftee on Tue Dec 23 08:37:37 2003:

cesium

#939 of 1013 by dcat on Tue Dec 23 20:58:17 2003:

  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  oceans  0  (gelinas)
  revere  1  (aruba)
  series  3  (kentn)
  paired  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  merits  2  (gelinas)
  lawyer  0  (albaugh)
  scrimp  3  (aruba)
  aerial  2  (kentn)
  cesium  1  (naftee)

#940 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Dec 23 21:54:13 2003:

shrike

#941 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Dec 23 23:30:22 2003:

goblin

#942 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Dec 24 03:47:41 2003:

shrive

#943 of 1013 by naftee on Wed Dec 24 05:28:57 2003:

testes

(heh)

#944 of 1013 by dcat on Wed Dec 24 05:45:49 2003:

  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  oceans  0  (gelinas)
  revere  1  (aruba)
  series  3  (kentn)
  paired  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  merits  2  (gelinas)
  lawyer  0  (albaugh)
  scrimp  3  (aruba)
  aerial  2  (kentn)
  cesium  1  (naftee)
  ---------
  shrike  5  (gelinas)
  goblin  0  (albaugh)
  shrive  4  (kentn)
  testes  0  (naftee)

#945 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Dec 24 05:49:48 2003:

attend

#946 of 1013 by naftee on Wed Dec 24 05:53:00 2003:

uuuhhhh

 shrike  5  (gelinas)
 shrive  4  (kentn)

uuh? huuuh?

#947 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Dec 24 05:56:13 2003:

Makes sense to me: five letters in "shrike" are the right ones, in the
right places, but only four letters in "shrive" are right.  Not that hard
to figure out.

#948 of 1013 by dcat on Thu Dec 25 05:53:58 2003:

  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  oceans  0  (gelinas)
  revere  1  (aruba)
  series  3  (kentn)
  paired  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  merits  2  (gelinas)
  lawyer  0  (albaugh)
  scrimp  3  (aruba)
  aerial  2  (kentn)
  cesium  1  (naftee)
  ---------
  shrike  5  (gelinas)
  goblin  0  (albaugh)
  shrive  4  (kentn)
  testes  0  (naftee)
  ---------
  attend  1  (gelinas)

Merry Christmas.

#949 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Dec 25 17:29:21 2003:

strike

#950 of 1013 by naftee on Fri Dec 26 05:23:01 2003:

re 947 6-letter word game, my bad.

#951 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Dec 27 03:39:35 2003:

Looks to me like Kent has it. :)

#952 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Dec 27 06:12:13 2003:

balled

#953 of 1013 by dcat on Sat Dec 27 15:31:50 2003:

  ---------
  kimono  0  (lastword)
  ---------
  oceans  0  (gelinas)
  revere  1  (aruba)
  series  3  (kentn)
  paired  0  (albaugh)
  ---------
  merits  2  (gelinas)
  lawyer  0  (albaugh)
  scrimp  3  (aruba)
  aerial  2  (kentn)
  cesium  1  (naftee)
  ---------
  shrike  5  (gelinas)
  goblin  0  (albaugh)
  shrive  4  (kentn)
  testes  0  (naftee)
  ---------
  attend  1  (gelinas)
  ---------
  strike  6  (kentn)
  balled  0  (albaugh)

Merry Christmas, Kent, you're up.

#954 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Dec 27 21:52:40 2003:

Happy Holidays!  Why do I get the feeling Joe didn't want that
word?  Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm
logged in.

#955 of 1013 by kentn on Wed Dec 31 15:56:19 2003:

Okay, I'm thinking of a 6-letter word that is not
 
  strike  0  (The Previous Word)
 
A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match6

#956 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Dec 31 17:04:26 2003:

teepee

#957 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Dec 31 17:18:26 2003:

banana

#958 of 1013 by naftee on Wed Dec 31 17:58:12 2003:

morbid

#959 of 1013 by albaugh on Thu Jan 1 07:05:13 2004:

curios  (plural of curio)

#960 of 1013 by kentn on Thu Jan 1 20:58:13 2004:

  strike  0  (The Previous Word)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  banana  0  (gelinas)
  morbid  0  (naftee)
  curios  1  (albaugh)

#961 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jan 1 21:12:39 2004:

custom

#962 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jan 1 23:02:23 2004:

easels

#963 of 1013 by kentn on Fri Jan 2 20:24:08 2004:

  custom  1  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)

#964 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jan 2 20:31:16 2004:

abacus

#965 of 1013 by gelinas on Fri Jan 2 22:16:00 2004:

chance

#966 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jan 3 03:42:21 2004:

  strike  0  (The Previous Word)
  teepee  0  (aruba)
  banana  0  (gelinas)
  morbid  0  (naftee)
  curios  1  (albaugh)
  custom  1  (gelinas)
  easels  0  (aruba)
  abacus  0  (aruba)
  chance  3  (gelinas)

#967 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jan 3 05:58:02 2004:

Whoops, I went twice in a row.  Sorry!

#968 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Jan 3 07:18:11 2004:

gamble

#969 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jan 3 10:11:52 2004:

chintz

#970 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jan 3 13:59:28 2004:

clinch

#971 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jan 3 18:08:28 2004:

  gamble  0  (albaugh)
  chintz  3  (gelinas)
  clinch  6  (aruba)  ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! 
 
Oops, I didn't notice the 2-in-a-row guessing, either.  Oh well.
 
It's your word, Mark.

#972 of 1013 by naftee on Sat Jan 3 19:29:36 2004:

It's against the rules to guess twice in a row?

#973 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jan 3 22:57:07 2004:

Yes, unless no one else has played in 48 or 72 hours.  It is also against
the rules to enter a second guess before the first one is scored.

For convenience, we often pause after five unscored guesses.

#974 of 1013 by rcurl on Sun Jan 4 03:20:57 2004:

The latter is not just for convenience but was recommended in the rules in
order to have the clues keep pace with the guesses. This also helps reduce
the possibility of a player winning because they might just be the only
person reading when a larger number of guesses are scored all at once.

#975 of 1013 by naftee on Tue Jan 6 01:58:59 2004:

Ah, I see. Thanks

#976 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jan 9 20:14:10 2004:

Oh! Geez, I completely missed that it was my turn.  OK, I'm thinking of a
6-letter word that's not

clinch  0  (lastword)

#977 of 1013 by albaugh on Fri Jan 9 22:38:46 2004:

grabby

#978 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jan 10 01:05:44 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)

#979 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jan 10 02:29:13 2004:

refers

#980 of 1013 by aruba on Sat Jan 10 03:29:53 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)

#981 of 1013 by albaugh on Sat Jan 10 04:25:18 2004:

madden

#982 of 1013 by gelinas on Sat Jan 10 05:48:51 2004:

toasty

#983 of 1013 by kentn on Sat Jan 10 16:57:38 2004:

series

#984 of 1013 by naftee on Sat Jan 10 22:21:26 2004:

poodle

#985 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jan 11 02:19:33 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)

#986 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jan 11 08:18:31 2004:

Did you miss response 984, Mark?

        splays

#987 of 1013 by kentn on Sun Jan 11 15:52:19 2004:

simple

#988 of 1013 by aruba on Sun Jan 11 16:40:03 2004:

Yes I did - thanks Joe.  Sorry naftee.

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)

#989 of 1013 by gelinas on Sun Jan 11 18:35:04 2004:

abrade

#990 of 1013 by naftee on Sun Jan 11 23:19:39 2004:

No problem, aruba.  Thanks Joe.

satire

#991 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jan 12 04:04:38 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)
abrade  0  (gelinas)
satire  1  (naftee)

#992 of 1013 by naftee on Mon Jan 12 05:23:02 2004:

empire

#993 of 1013 by gelinas on Mon Jan 12 06:29:58 2004:

busily

#994 of 1013 by kentn on Mon Jan 12 12:04:58 2004:

insist

#995 of 1013 by aruba on Mon Jan 12 17:26:07 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)
abrade  0  (gelinas)
satire  1  (naftee)
busily  1  (gelinas)
empire  2  (naftee)
insist  1  (kentn)

#996 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jan 13 03:58:01 2004:

excise

#997 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jan 13 14:38:23 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)
abrade  0  (gelinas)
satire  1  (naftee)
busily  1  (gelinas)
empire  2  (naftee)
insist  1  (kentn)
excise  1  (gelinas)

#998 of 1013 by albaugh on Tue Jan 13 19:22:51 2004:

taxing

#999 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jan 13 20:48:41 2004:

wiping

#1000 of 1013 by aruba on Tue Jan 13 21:39:58 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)
abrade  0  (gelinas)
satire  1  (naftee)
busily  1  (gelinas)
empire  2  (naftee)
insist  1  (kentn)
excise  1  (gelinas)
taxing  1  (albaugh)
wiping  1  (gelinas)

#1001 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jan 13 21:57:17 2004:

(Looks like another good word: seventeen guesses so far.)

#1002 of 1013 by naftee on Tue Jan 13 22:32:41 2004:

(And over 1000 responses.  Are we rolling over?)

#1003 of 1013 by gelinas on Tue Jan 13 23:17:30 2004:

(At the end of this game.)

#1004 of 1013 by aruba on Wed Jan 14 03:08:13 2004:

Right, whoever wins this game should start a new item.

#1005 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jan 14 03:29:17 2004:

But we aren't going to make progress until someone offers a guess.

I guessed last, so I'm on hold.

#1006 of 1013 by albaugh on Wed Jan 14 17:11:20 2004:

assail

#1007 of 1013 by gelinas on Wed Jan 14 19:21:02 2004:

omnium

#1008 of 1013 by naftee on Thu Jan 15 00:00:06 2004:

umpire

#1009 of 1013 by aruba on Thu Jan 15 00:43:43 2004:

clinch  0  (lastword)
grabby  0  (albaugh)
refers  0  (gelinas)
madden  0  (albaugh)
toasty  0  (gelinas)
series  1  (kentn)
poodle  0  (naftee)
splays  0  (gelinas)
simple  0  (kentn)
abrade  0  (gelinas)
satire  1  (naftee)
busily  1  (gelinas)
empire  2  (naftee)
insist  1  (kentn)
excise  1  (gelinas)
taxing  1  (albaugh)
wiping  1  (gelinas)
assail  0  (albaugh)
omnium  6  (gelinas)

Joe's up!  Look for his word in a new item.

#1010 of 1013 by gelinas on Thu Jan 15 02:58:50 2004:

(You missed naftee's offering, again, Mark.)

#1011 of 1013 by naftee on Thu Jan 15 03:50:35 2004:

(Am I on his twit filter or something?! :( 

Not that my response much mattered anyhow)

#1012 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jan 16 20:56:45 2004:

Oops, sorry:

umpire  2  (naftee)

#1013 of 1013 by aruba on Fri Jan 16 21:00:36 2004:

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