1459 new of 1578 responses total.
0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep
prank
horse
0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh resp:122: jep's horse wasn't good enough for you? :)
It would have been funny if you'd given his a different score. plush
Just a mindless automaton looking for word associations - reviewing previous guesses not within programming parameters. ;-) couch
0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh ----- 0 plush jep 0 couch albaugh
drowsy
drowsy is 6 letters by my math, but I'll score the first 5 letters anyway... 0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh ----- 0 plush jep 0 couch albaugh 0 drows other
what was i thinking?!! <falls off chair giggling>
You should have disqualified "drowsy". Doing so by publicly humiliating other is probably perfectly acceptable, but scoring such a word is against the rules. shine
resp:130: I'd agree if the word actually gave him points. But as it didn't, I figured I'd just further the cause. 0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh ----- 0 plush jep 0 couch albaugh 0 drows other 1 shine jep
worst
0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh 0 plush jep ----- 0 couch albaugh 0 drows other 1 shine jep 0 worst gelinas
apple
table
0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh 0 plush jep ----- 0 couch albaugh 0 drows other 1 shine jep 0 worst gelinas 1 apple slynne ----- 3 table aruba
tacks
taste
title
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whore
Sorry, I didn't put the usernames who made the guesses in #140. remmers is the winner. Apparently grex has disabled response editing, so I have to enter a new response with this. 0 renal lastword ----- 1 erase aruba 1 horse jep 0 prank remmers 1 horse albaugh 0 plush jep ----- 0 couch albaugh 0 drows other 1 shine jep 0 worst gelinas 1 apple slynne ----- 3 table aruba 2 tacks gelinas 5 taste remmers <---DING! DING! DING! We have a winnah! 2 title jep
I am thinking of a 5-letter word. taste 0 (last word)
quail
speed
comic
lakes
freak
taste 0 (last word) quail 0 jep speed 0 aruba comic 0 scott lakes 0 slynne freak 1 tonster
crank
taste 0 (last word) quail 0 jep speed 0 aruba comic 0 scott lakes 0 slynne freak 1 tonster ----- crank 0 aruba
whore
momma
whore
foist
foggy
whore
bagel
whore
felon
taste 0 (last word) quail 0 jep speed 0 aruba comic 0 scott lakes 0 slynne freak 1 tonster ----- crank 0 aruba ----- whore 0 polytarp momma 0 albaugh foist 0 other foggy 0 jep bagel 0 ea felon 1 aruba
feral
divan
recap
again
peeve
fears
censor
taste 0 (last word) quail 0 jep speed 0 aruba comic 0 scott lakes 0 slynne freak 1 tonster ----- crank 0 aruba ----- whore 0 polytarp momma 0 albaugh foist 0 other foggy 0 jep bagel 0 ea felon 1 aruba ----- feral 2 gelinas divan 1 other recap 5 aruba <--- DING DING DING!! again 0 jep peeve 1 russ fears 1 tonster Aruba's up. Nice going!
Someone should use "whore" one time, just for me.
(Scratch previous guess) relax
pills
That was a lucky guess. I'm thinking of a 5-letter word: ---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh)
(Darn, too late. Guess for new word:) spams
charm
films
---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh) ---------- spams 0 (russ) charm 0 (polly) Welcome! films 0 (cmcgee)
(thanks!) jumpy
salvo
toast
bitch
---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh) ---------- spams 0 (russ) charm 0 (polly) Welcome! films 0 (cmcgee) ---------- jumpy 0 (polly) salvo 0 (other) toast 0 (ea) bitch 0 (albaugh)
among
antic
domes
nudge
---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh) ---------- spams 0 (russ) charm 0 (polly) Welcome! films 0 (cmcgee) ---------- jumpy 0 (polly) salvo 0 (other) toast 0 (ea) bitch 0 (albaugh) ---------- among 1 (other) antic 1 (remmers) domes 0 (cmcgee) nudge 0 (polly)
armor
alibi
groin
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---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh) ---------- spams 0 (russ) charm 0 (polly) Welcome! films 0 (cmcgee) ---------- jumpy 0 (polly) salvo 0 (other) toast 0 (ea) bitch 0 (albaugh) ---------- among 1 (other) antic 1 (remmers) domes 0 (cmcgee) nudge 0 (polly) ---------- armor 3 (remmers) alibi 1 (other) groin 0 (polly)
pulls
ether
abhor
arbor
awful
I think Russ has it, but if there was a scoring mistake it could be: actor
Hmmm, still no ranking. If aruba isn't back here by 10 PM, I'll start taking guesses so as to let the game go on.
Cheater.
Hmm. Russ, be patient. Mark is pretty reliable. However, I am confident you've got it this time.
---------- recap 0 (lastword) relax 0 (russ) pills 0 (albaugh) ---------- spams 0 (russ) charm 0 (polly) Welcome! films 0 (cmcgee) ---------- jumpy 0 (polly) salvo 0 (other) toast 0 (ea) bitch 0 (albaugh) ---------- among 1 (other) antic 1 (remmers) domes 0 (cmcgee) nudge 0 (polly) ---------- armor 3 (remmers) alibi 1 (other) groin 0 (polly) ---------- pulls 0 (albaugh) ether 2 (gelinas) abhor 5 (russ) arbor 3 (tonster) awful 1 (other) actor 3 (jep) We agree to move on if guesses haven't been scored for a week in the 6- and 7-letter word games. But 29 hours is a bit impatient, I must say. :) Russ is up!
I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not abhor 0 (lastword)
whore (If russ is ignoring me, it's decidedly unfair.)
abhor 0 (lastword) ------------------- whore 0 (polytarp)
cruel
world
blink
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abhor 0 (lastword) whore 0 (polytarp) ------------------- cruel 1 (jep) world 0 (other) blink 0 (remmers)
chews
eerie
perky
sales
drown
abhor 0 (lastword) whore 0 (polytarp) cruel 1 (jep) world 0 (other) blink 0 (remmers) ------------------- chews 1 (jep) eerie 1 (aruba) perky 0 (remmers) sales 0 (janc) drown 0 (other)
cubic
It looks like this one may go pretty fast; some of these guesses look to be narrowing the field more rapidly than most previous contests. Going over the possible hits left from the zero scores, "cruel", "chews" and "eerie" seem to pin down 2 letters pretty firmly, and "cubic" appears to cement it. On the other hand, if people bark up the wrong tree... abhor 0 (lastword) whore 0 (polytarp) cruel 1 (jep) world 0 (other) blink 0 (remmers) chews 1 (jep) eerie 1 (aruba) perky 0 (remmers) sales 0 (janc) drown 0 (other) ------------------- cubic 3 (other)
civic
cynic
If it's in M-W, it has to be one of those two.
abhor 0 (lastword) whore 0 (polytarp) cruel 1 (jep) world 0 (other) blink 0 (remmers) chews 1 (jep) eerie 1 (aruba) perky 0 (remmers) sales 0 (janc) drown 0 (other) ------------------- cubic 3 (other) civic 4 (jep) cynic 5 (other) <------- DING DING DING! other's up.
Man... I get close a lot, but haven't been winning for a while. There must be some bias going on here. Yeah, that's it... it's The Man on Grex who's keeping me Down! Also, Russ's scoring stinks. "Civic" doesn't share 4 common letters with "cynic". I demand a recount!
(It was a tossup between civic and cnic - either could have been right.)
0 cynic lastword
pasta
apart
(I hope everyone understands my complaints are not serious.) stork
0 cynic lastword
-----
0 pasta remmers
0 apart aruba
1 stork jep
Score Guesses Participants
0 1 remmers
0 1 aruba
1 1 jep
_________________
3 3
attic
ocean
whore
(I'll crack up if Lynne got it.) shout
quick (I'll ask Eric to fix his scoring program if Lynne got it)
0 cynic lastword
0 pasta remmers
0 apart aruba
1 stork jep
-----
0 attic gelinas
0 ocean aruba
0 whore slynne
1 shout jep
0 quick janc
Score Guesses Participants
0 1 remmers
0 2 aruba
2 2 jep
0 1 gelinas
0 1 slynne
0 1 janc
_________________
8 6
Overall Game Statistics Update [sorted by score]:
Scorer Word Guesses
------ ----- -------
aruba bogus 25
prp0 table 24
janc unjam 24
aruba jumpy 23
other razes 22
janc ocean 22
jep pylon 21
janc haiku 20
jep dizzy 19
remmers spoor 19
other renal 19
aruba abhor 19
janc sales 18
russ story 17
other aerie 17
janc quays 17
aruba zebra 17
other thane 17
remmers lemma 17
janc llama 17
other ogler 16
janc ethic 15
kentn world 15
janc onion 15
remmers recap 15
cmcgee epics 14
scott phone 13
aruba wormy 13
remmers spook 13
tonster taste 13
janc vivid 12
aruba usurp 12
kentn donut 12
russ cynic 12
janc thief 11
other strap 9
janc havoc 9
janc quick 9
jep grind 9
janc agora 6
jep knife 6
jep heard 6
Interesting stats, other. Thanks for posting! scrap
sound
0 cynic lastword
0 pasta remmers
0 apart aruba
1 stork jep
0 attic gelinas
0 ocean aruba
0 whore slynne
1 shout jep
0 quick janc
-----
2 scrap jep
1 sound slynne
Score Guesses Participants
0 1 remmers
0 2 aruba
4 3 jep
0 1 gelinas
1 2 slynne
0 1 janc
_________________
10 6
slump
servo
motor
sloop
sloop
sires
I'll defer "sloop" to Colleen. shred
0 cynic lastword
0 pasta remmers
0 apart aruba
1 stork jep
0 attic gelinas
0 ocean aruba
0 whore slynne
1 shout jep
0 quick janc
2 scrap jep
1 sound slynne
-----
1 slump remmers
5 servo janc <-- DING!
0 motor albaugh
1 sloop cmcgee
2 sires aruba
2 shred jep
Score Guesses Participants
1 2 remmers
2 3 aruba
6 4 jep
0 1 gelinas
1 2 slynne
5 2 janc
0 1 albaugh
1 1 cmcgee
_________________
16 8
I have a little word, which is not servo 0 lastword
(complain, complain, complain... someday, if I win again and the contest lasts a while, I'll write a script to score things.) awful
crest
freak
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep
blank
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep
skink
think
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ (I think one way to get high numbers of guesses is to score infrequently. I could have let people guess words ending in "k" a long time. As it is, this one is almost solved.)
flash
flare russ, if you'd like a copy of my scoring script, let me know.
Scoring script? I can imagine Russ writing such a thing, but didn't think anyone else would. I'd like to see it, too, Mark!
Well, you gotta remember, I've been playing since 1994. And at various points during the last nine years, feathers have been ruffled because of scoring mistakes, so it made sense to do scoring automatically. kentn wrote a system that several people have used, and I wrote a simple awk program that does much the same thing. I'll mail it.
Thanks!
There is one ~gelinas/Public/do.mm, but it would need some tweaking.
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba
crumb
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba ----- crumb 0 gelinas
The scoring script I use is in HyperCard, and includes the utility I wrote to keep track of what letters have been eliminated and crosscheck against a list of 5-letter words. I keep considering writing it again in BASIC so I can compile a faster version, but I'd have to write a whole interface for it, and I just haven't felt motivated to do it.
scrip
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba ----- crumb 0 gelinas ----- scrip 0 other (I sometimes try to figure out other player's strategies based on the guesses they make. Usually I can make some sense of it, and even draw some conclusions about what kind of analysis is behind it, but those last two guesses are a mystery to me. "Scrip" for example, contradicts six out of ten previous results. It does eliminate one possible solution word, but if you wanted to eliminate that, the guessing it would be the better course, since it might be right. "Crumb" is pretty much the same, contradicting 4 of 9 previous guesses and eliminating only one possible solution. Probably I'm over-analysing. Some people are just guessing words as they pass through the conference, without playing very seriously.)
flair
Generally I just look at the list of words and try to find a new word which might fit all the criteria. My early guesses are just whatever word I think of first. Once in a while I try to get more analytical, and list all the letters which are possibles, and the ones which are eliminated for each position, and use pattern searches in on-line dictionaries, and all that. I'm not very good at doing that. No, that's not true, either. I'm pretty good at it. It's just that several others here are much better. Jan seems to be the most successful, but I suspect aruba is the real master. He never makes bad guesses.
Jan, it may be they are playing a different game. For instance, I don't want to be "it", but I enjoy playing. I am fairly certain I know which three letters are right, so the game now is to be first to the other two. :)
I never seem to get to this item at the beginning of a round. :p
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba ----- crumb 0 gelinas ----- scrip 0 other ----- flair 3 jep (Why do you want to be there at the beginning of a round? The time to be here is near the end of a round, when the odds of hitting the word are good. IE, right now. Yup, I'd guessed that some people were trying to avoid winning. I only do that before going on vacations. My instinct is to play all games to win. "flair" is the word "scrip" eliminated. In early game play I guess words likely to give information - mostly words using a lot of unused letters. Mark is usually trying to locate all the vowels, so sometimes I collaborate. Once there are a few hits, I get a scrap of paper, usually an envelope and do a combinatorial analysis. This results in a set of possible patterns like ?er?? that cover all possible solutions. (The question marks can be filled with any letter that has not been guessed for that position). I then manually try to come up with words that fit the patterns. All this is done by hand, sometimes with many distractions and in a rush (since if there are few remaining possibilities, I have to guess fast), so I screw it up sometimes. When I was playing more aggressively, and we'd have games with lots of negative information (lots of zeros) then I'd sometimes use the computer to do a word list search, because otherwise Eric would pick off all of those, and I was trying to win everything that I wasn't scoring. I've relaxed a bit now, and don't do that much. The analysis is fun. Searching word lists isn't so much.)
Oh, I'm still palying to win; I just have different vicotry conditions. :) spits
flyer
I'm still trying to figure out if I've got the way the game works right.
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba ----- crumb 0 gelinas ----- scrip 0 other ----- flair 3 jep ----- spits 0 gelinas flyer 2 ea
brown
flags
flawy Looking through a grep of "/usr/local/share/ispell/english.dict" on M- Net, I don't see any words which I know and which are still possibilities. I would never use "flawy" but I imagine I know what it means. I gave up on the 6 and 7 letter contests because many of the words seemed to be stretches, with regard to fitting into English. I don't get that much pleasure from searching through word lists to see if some weird string of characters is really a word. One 7 letter winner was "zydecos", the next was "assumpt", and I realized the others playing weren't users of the same language I call English. The last 6 letter winner I saw was "biffin"... it seemed the word choices were designed to make sure no one would guess them. Why not use random strings of characters, if obscurity is the purpose? I hope that's not about to happen to this contest as well.
I have the opposite viewpoint. I found the original five letter game (started before the 6 and 7 letter games) was too tame in this format (it is the ideal letter length for the origin of the game, which was for passing the time on long car trips, where it is played "round robin" among the passengers, and no notes can be taken - an entirely cerebral game). This led to the 6, 7, and eventually 17 letter games. After everyone got tired of playing games with the game, it settled back to 6 letters. Seven-letter LetterMatch subsequently found favor. In all of those, finding obscure words was part of the fun, although *winning* didn't hang so much upon having a large vocabulary as being able to generate and interpret useful guesses. Of course, having access to an online dictionary greatly empowered the game, for both word choices and guesses.
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flaky I think kentn is the greatest master of lettermatch on Grex. He led the charge to obscure words in the 6- and 7- letter games, to the point where brighn restarted the 5-letter game with the expressed rule that words be common. Kent's point is that it's interesting to learn new words. Which is true, to a point. I just don't like the words that turn out to mean "a pecies of slime mold found in Madagascar", because there's very little liklihood I'll ever get to use that word in conversation.
flaxy
servo 0 lastword ----- awful 0 russ crest 0 remmers freak 1 jep ----- blank 2 jep ----- skink 0 gelinas think 0 russ ----- flash 3 jep flare 3 aruba ----- crumb 0 gelinas ----- scrip 0 other ----- flair 3 jep ----- spits 0 gelinas flyer 2 ea ----- brown 0 gelinas flags 3 slynne flawy 4 jep flaky 5 aruba <===== WINNER! flaxy 4 russ
Since this game is linked to the general conference as well as the puzzle conference, I think playing a bit of a more accessible version of the game is a good choice. Using common words means that people who play without doing word list searchs aren't at a serious disadvantage. I think having different games going by different rules is a good choice - lets people with different tastes choose their poison. In this case, I deliberately chose a word not in /usr/dict/words, but nevertheless quite common. Good word lists are surprisingly hard to find.
My guessing strategy varies widely depending on what else I'm doing and whether I'm paying much attention. Inconsistency is my standard MO when it comes to games.
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word. ---------- flaky 0 (lastword)
Well, my last guess was intended to test
flawn
so let's start there. :)
(Has this item been linked to puzzles? What about language?)
Hmmm...Just found a pretty good source for word lists:
http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Some work is required to massage this into a useful form.
sales
trout
begin
mixer
Flawn (Page: 568) Flawn (?), n. [OF. flaon, F. flan, LL. flado, fr. OHG. flado, G. fladen, a sort of pancake; cf. Gr. broad. See Place.] A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser. ---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ)
Cool. Five letters to choose from. :)
treat
I've posted notes on how I do analysis a couple times, but it's improved
a bit since the last time. At this point I have it worked out so it
would be pretty plausible to program (interesting too, since you'd
likely want to do some recursion), but I don't really intend to. I do
it by scribbling over a couple square inches of scrap paper, but I'll be
more formal here.
We keep three main data structures:
NEGATIVES: For each of the 5 positions, a list of letters that we
know cannot be there.
POSSIBLES: For each of the 5 positions, a list of letters that have
been guessed for that position, not including those in NEGATIVES.
PATTERNS: A list of five-letter patterns that the word must fit one
of. These can have ? marks in them to indicate positions that
can be filed by any letter not in NEGATIVES or POSSIBLES for that
position.
Suppose we have this data so far:
crash 0
felts 0
swear 0
fleat 0
grain 1
eerie 2
grasp 1
First step is to handle all the zeros buy loading them into NEGATIVES.
NEGATIVES[1] cfs
[2] rewl
[3] ale
[4] sta
[5] hsrt
Now we pick one of the other words to work on. The order doesn't effect
the final result, but some orders are easier to do than others. We
won't worry about it and just do them in the order given, starting with
"grain 1".
First, we knock out letters from "grain" that appear in NEGATIVES. This
leaves "g##in 1", that is one (and only one) of "g" "i" or "n" must
appear in the word. These letters get added to POSSIBLES. So the word
must be "g????" or "???i?" or "????n". So we add these three
posibilities to PATTERNS. So we now have:
POSSIBLES[1] g
[2]
[3]
[4] i
[5] n
PATTERNS
g????
???i?
????n
Next word is "eerie 2". Again, we knock out the negatives, giving
"e#rie 2". We need to merge this into our list of patterns, one pattern
at a time. Let's start with old pattern "???i?". The "i" is already
there, so we need one other letter from "e#rie" to ensure that there are
two matches with it. It has to be one of "e??i?" or "??ri?" or "???ie",
so those three will be in the new pattern list.
Next we do old pattern "g????". We need to find all ways that that can
match two letters of "e#rie". Well, obviously the initial "e" can't be
right in this case, because we already know the initial letter is "g".
So you can have two of "rie". But remember that in "g????" the ? can
not be any letter in either NEGATIVE or POSSIBLES. In particular the
fourth position cannot be an "i", because "i" is listed among the
POSSIBLES for that column. If we allowed an "i" here, "grain" would
have been a 2, not a 1, so we know it can't be an "i". Thus, the only
way to merge "e#rie 2" into "g????" is "g?r?e".
Similarly the only way to merge "e#rie 2" into "????n" is "e?r?n".
If you wanted to do this more mechanically, you could draw a grid, like
this, with all possible pairs from "e#rie" across the top, and the old
patterns down the side. Compare each pair to get the new PATTERN list.
e?r?? e??i? e???e ??ri? ??r?e ???ie
+-----------------------------------------
g???? | - - - - g?r?e -
???i? | - e??i? - ??ri? - ???ie
????n | e?r?n - - - - -
It's obvious why you can't combine "e?r??" with "g????". e!=g. You
can't combine "e??i?" with "g????" because in the 4th position or
"g????" the ? cannot be an "i". You can't combine "e?r??" with "???i?"
for almost the same reason.
Either way you do the analysis, the new result is
NEGATIVES (unchanged)
POSSIBLES[1] ge
[2]
[3] r
[4] i
[5] ne
PATTERNS
g?r?e
e??i?
??ri?
???ie
e?r?n
Next word is "grasp 1". Knocking out the negatives gives "g###p 1". So
either the first letter must be a 'g' or the last must be a 'p'. We can
merge that into the list of patterns easily enough. Note that the
pattern "e?r?n" is incompatible with this, and so is dropped. Note also
that ? in column 1 cannot be turned into 'g' because 'g' is on the
POSSIBLE list for column 1.
NEGATIVES[1] cfs
[2] rewl
[3] ale
[4] sta
[5] hsrt
POSSIBLES[1] ge
[2]
[3] r
[4] i
[5] nep
PATTERNS
g?r?e
e??ip
??rip
At this point, we are in pretty good shape to guess. "gorse" doesn't
work (the 's' is a negative). The second case could only be 'equip'.
The word 'atrip' is possible for the last. 'adrip' seems like more of a
word, but m-w.com does not agree. So 'equip' is a pretty solid guess at
this point.
This process wouldn't be too hard to implement. The merge step is the
hardest, and that'd probably work cutely with a recursive algorithm. Of
course the run time is exponential in the number of letters. I'm
willing to bet that the problem is actually NP-complete (it just stinks
of satisfiability), so there is little hope of doing better. But as
long is N is just 5, that needn't concern us.
Of course, if you have a good word list, a much simpler approach is just
to read through the word list, discarding any words that don't fit all
the results to date. But that's no fun.
Touch
re #290: (yes, this item is linked to Games/Puzzle/IQ, where the 6-letter
and 7-letter variants also can be found. I'd considered *not*
linking this one, but decided otherwise after I couldn't remember
why it seemed like a good idea to not link it.)
(Games/Puzzle/IQ really needs an interested FW.)
price
It doesn't have one? I'd certainly be interested if no-one currently able to fw it.
vowel
Towel :)
slice
spice
trick
---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ) ---------- treat 0 (janc) touch 0 (bhelliom) price 1 (carson) vowel 0 (jep) slice 1 (ea) trick 0 (oval) Sylvia - I'm enforcing the "one guess per batch" rule, so I only scored your first guess. Feel free to guess the others again.
deuce
---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ) ---------- treat 0 (janc) touch 0 (bhelliom) price 1 (carson) vowel 0 (jep) slice 1 (ea) trick 0 (oval) ---------- deuce 1 (other)
trace
shore
imbue
elide
crimp
---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ) ---------- treat 0 (janc) touch 0 (bhelliom) price 1 (carson) vowel 0 (jep) slice 1 (ea) trick 0 (oval) ---------- deuce 1 (other) ---------- trace 1 (tonster) shore 2 (gelinas) imbue 1 (janc) elide 1 (other) crimp 0 (remmers)
whore (had to do it. it seems to fit.) ;)
quote
---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ) ---------- treat 0 (janc) touch 0 (bhelliom) price 1 (carson) vowel 0 (jep) slice 1 (ea) trick 0 (oval) ---------- deuce 1 (other) ---------- trace 1 (tonster) shore 2 (gelinas) imbue 1 (janc) elide 1 (other) crimp 0 (remmers) ---------- whore 2 (other) quote 2 (janc)
Gee, I think it ends with an "e". And the middle letter is "o". atone
since
above
ozone
---------- flaky 0 (lastword) ---------- flawn 0 (gelinas) sales 0 (janc) trout 1 (jep) begin 0 (remmers) mixer 0 (russ) ---------- treat 0 (janc) touch 0 (bhelliom) price 1 (carson) vowel 0 (jep) slice 1 (ea) trick 0 (oval) ---------- deuce 1 (other) ---------- trace 1 (tonster) shore 2 (gelinas) imbue 1 (janc) elide 1 (other) crimp 0 (remmers) ---------- whore 2 (other) quote 2 (janc) ---------- atone 3 (jep) since 1 (albaugh) above 2 (other) ozone 5 (janc) Jan's up!
Woo! We've known it was ??o?e for a long time, but there were an awful lot of possibilities, and no way to choose among them except blind guessing. I have a word, which is not ozone 0 lastword
easel
plain
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers
barge
ennui
sassy
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers ----- barge 1 jep ennui 0 remmers sassy 1 aruba
major
damns
radar
ranks
surge
pails
crock
potty
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers ----- barge 1 jep ennui 0 remmers sassy 1 aruba ----- damns 1 aruba radar 3 other ranks 2 tonster surge 0 bruin pails 1 jep crock 0 russ potty 0 albaugh
razor
Shouldn't my guess "major" (#333) have been scored?
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers ----- barge 1 jep ennui 0 remmers sassy 1 aruba ----- major 2 remmers <--- OOPS damns 1 aruba radar 3 other ranks 2 tonster surge 0 bruin pails 1 jep crock 0 russ potty 0 albaugh ----- razor 2 other
Interesting. Lots of positive data and little negative data makes an unusual analysis. Goes a long way - I find there are only 52 sequences of five letters that work. Mostly not words. Pity I'm not playing.
ripen
madam
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers ----- barge 1 jep ennui 0 remmers sassy 1 aruba ----- major 2 remmers damns 1 aruba radar 3 other ranks 2 tonster surge 0 bruin pails 1 jep crock 0 russ potty 0 albaugh ----- razor 2 other ----- ripen 1 gelinas madam 2 other I think all but one letter has been established at this point. There are 18 possibilities for the remaining one.
rajah
nafte
ozone 0 lastword ----- easel 1 aruba plain 0 remmers ----- barge 1 jep ennui 0 remmers sassy 1 aruba ----- major 2 remmers damns 1 aruba radar 3 other ranks 2 tonster surge 0 bruin pails 1 jep crock 0 russ potty 0 albaugh ----- razor 2 other ----- ripen 1 gelinas madam 2 other ----- rajah 5 remmers <===== WINNER nafte 1 naftee
It doesn't matter, now, but is "nafte" a word? If so, what does it mean?
My online dictionary doesn't find it and suggest that perhaps I meant lafte, rafte, or safte. I am thinking of a five letter word. rajah 0 (lastword)
paper
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster
quits
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster ----- quits 0 janc
quest
pinto
tuber
eerie
aerie
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster ----- quits 0 janc ----- quest 0 tonster pinto 0 gelinas tuber 0 jep eerie 1 janc aerie 1 polytarp
spake
forks
begun
fears
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster ----- quits 0 janc ----- quest 0 tonster pinto 0 gelinas tuber 0 jep eerie 1 janc aerie 1 polytarp ----- spake 1 janc forks 0 slynne begun 0 aruba fears 1 jep
feats
yeast
claim
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster ----- quits 0 janc ----- quest 0 tonster pinto 0 gelinas tuber 0 jep eerie 1 janc aerie 1 polytarp ----- spake 1 janc forks 0 slynne begun 0 aruba fears 1 jep ----- feats 0 gelinas yeast 0 jep claim 0 aruba
whore
Wow, that's actually possible. inure
ochre
robes
avail
I doubt John would pick this word, but for the sake of completeness: whore
skate
(Mark: see #373. I have this sneaking suspicion that that is exactly the word John picked.)
Oops, my fault.
rajah 0 (lastword) paper 0 tonster ----- quits 0 janc ----- quest 0 tonster pinto 0 gelinas tuber 0 jep eerie 1 janc aerie 1 polytarp ----- spake 1 janc forks 0 slynne begun 0 aruba fears 1 jep ----- feats 0 gelinas yeast 0 jep claim 0 aruba ----- whore 2 polytarp inure 5 janc <-- (OH MY...) ochre 2 other robes 0 albaugh avail 0 jep skate 1 ea Jan's guess was right even though his meta-guess was wrong.
Too bad. 'whore' would have been amusing. inure 0 lastword Hmmm...I'm currently scoring the 5-letter, 6-letter, and 7-letter games. If I fail to log in for a few days, the entire n-letter puzzle culture will be paralyzed.
Watch your step when walking on ice, Jan! We can't afford for anything to happen to you now. sleet
inure 0 lastword ----- sleet 0 jep
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chant
pygmy
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep
brink
uvula
eerie
whore
oasis
beast
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep ----- brink 1 remmers uvula 0 other eerie 0 aruba whore 0 polytarp oasis 0 carson beast 0 jep
glint
booty
shake
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep ----- brink 1 remmers uvula 0 other eerie 0 aruba whore 0 polytarp oasis 0 carson beast 0 jep ----- glint 0 jep booty 0 aruba shake 0 albaugh
train
vinyl
frail
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep ----- brink 1 remmers uvula 0 other eerie 0 aruba whore 0 polytarp oasis 0 carson beast 0 jep ----- glint 0 jep booty 0 aruba shake 0 albaugh ----- train 1 slynne vinyl 0 other frail 1 jep
dryer
creed
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep ----- brink 1 remmers uvula 0 other eerie 0 aruba whore 0 polytarp oasis 0 carson beast 0 jep ----- glint 0 jep booty 0 aruba shake 0 albaugh ----- train 1 slynne vinyl 0 other frail 1 jep ----- dryer 3 jep creed 2 remmers
prior
dryad
damn, he beat me to it!
triad
inure 0 lastword sleet 0 jep ----- chant 0 remmers pygmy 0 jep ----- brink 1 remmers uvula 0 other eerie 0 aruba whore 0 polytarp oasis 0 carson beast 0 jep ----- glint 0 jep booty 0 aruba shake 0 albaugh ----- train 1 slynne vinyl 0 other frail 1 jep ----- dryer 3 jep creed 2 remmers ----- prior 1 aruba dryad 5 jep triad 3 tonster JEP is UP.
whore
0 dryad LASTWORD
eerie
flees
0 dryad LASTWORD --- 1 eerie aruba 0 flees janc
whore
pelts
0 dryad LASTWORD 1 eerie aruba 0 flees janc --- 1 whore polytarp 0 pelts remmers
otter
awake
0 dryad LASTWORD 1 eerie aruba 0 flees janc 1 whore polytarp 0 pelts remmers --- 1 otter janc 1 awake aruba
sleep
bathe
chore
stile
0 dryad LASTWORD 1 eerie aruba 0 flees janc 1 whore polytarp 0 pelts remmers 1 otter janc 1 awake aruba --- 0 sleep albaugh 0 bathe aruba 2 chore remmers 0 stile janc
parts
chair
(I think Mark is up.)
(I think he is, too.) 0 dryad LASTWORD 1 eerie aruba 0 flees janc 1 whore polytarp 0 pelts remmers 1 otter janc 1 awake aruba 0 sleep albaugh 0 bathe aruba 2 chore remmers 0 stile janc --- 0 parts tonster 5 chair aruba
OK, I'm hinking of a 5-letter word. ---------- chair 0 (lastword)
copse
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas)
start
trees
short
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers)
whore
lusty
vowel
rents
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc)
(I note that #441 did not get scored.) anode (worth a 3, at best)
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas)
blink
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep)
crimp
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas)
going
breed
slimy
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster)
opens
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster) ---------- opens 1 (gelinas)
fag
using
fag
icing
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster) ---------- opens 1 (gelinas) ---------- using 3 (jep) icing 3 (other)
tying
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster) ---------- opens 1 (gelinas) ---------- using 3 (jep) icing 3 (other) ---------- tying 3 (remmers)
skein
I predict a "0" for that one. I think the "ing" for last 3 letters is proven, in which case these letters are eliminated: pos 1: abcgiloqrstuv pos 2: cehlnopqrstuy I eliminated "q" because it's not used in English without preceding a "u". So, going through combinations of 1st and 2nd letters that haven't been eliminated, I think it's got to be a pretty uncommon word. exing -- To delete or cross out: He exed each item off the to-do list.
owing
qanat (n. an underground tunnel dug inthe hills to convey
water to the plains below)
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster) ---------- opens 1 (gelinas) ---------- using 3 (jep) icing 3 (other) ---------- tying 3 (remmers) ---------- skein 1 (gelinas) (a coil of yarn) owing 3 (other) qanat 0 (kentn) I can't find a reference for "exing" - did you find it in a dictionary, jep?
Yes, an on-line dictionary, though I don't remember which one. That's why I included the definition, in hopes of establishing some credibility. Ah, here it is: http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Here's another guess. (I claim I have one coming, since "exing" obviously isn't the right answer, and since it wasn't scored.) eking
---------- chair 0 (lastword) ---------- copse 0 (gelinas) ---------- start 0 (other) trees 0 (janc) short 0 (remmers) ---------- lusty 0 (other) vowel 0 (jep) rents 0 (janc) ---------- whore 0 (polytarp) anode 0 (gelinas) ---------- blink 2 (jep) ---------- crimp 1 (gelinas) ---------- going 3 (jep) breed 0 (remmers) slimy 1 (tonster) ---------- opens 1 (gelinas) ---------- using 3 (jep) icing 3 (other) ---------- tying 3 (remmers) ---------- skein 1 (gelinas) (a coil of yarn) owing 3 (other) qanat 0 (kentn) ---------- eking 5 (jep) John's up!
whore
Man! The "ing" words can be hard! 0 eking lastword
Dang, didn't get a chance to guess the other 5-letter words that begin with q, but not qu... ;)
(I'd decided "eking" was likely, so I tested it with "skein". ;) Too easy to hit the right word, with so few clues to go by. :)
speed
crate
0 exing lastword --- 0 speed aruba 1 crate remmers
exing or eking? throb
0 exing lastword 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers ** Note correction! --- 1 throb janc
crowd
croon
0 exing lastword 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers 1 throb janc --- 0 crowd aruba 0 croon remmers
Um, john, the last word was "eKing":
eking 5 (jep)
tease
0 exing jep 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers 1 throb janc 0 crowd aruba 0 croon remmers --- 0 eking gelinas/lastword 1 tease remmers
blare
white
tanga
ghats Main Entry: ghat Pronunciation: 'got, 'gdt Function: noun Etymology: Hindi ghAt, from Sanskrit ghatta Date: 1783 : a broad flight of steps that is situated on an Indian riverbank and that provides access to the water especially for bathing
whore
0 exing jep 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers 1 throb janc 0 crowd aruba 0 croon remmers 0 eking gelinas/lastword 1 tease remmers --- 1 blare remmers 1 white gelinas 0 tanga polytarp 1 ghats aruba 1 whore slynne
knave
0 exing jep 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers 1 throb janc 0 crowd aruba 0 croon remmers 0 eking gelinas/lastword 1 tease remmers 1 blare remmers 1 white gelinas 0 tanga polytarp 1 ghats aruba 1 whore slynne --- 1 knave other
JEP, I call for a recount.
2 crate score(crate) = score(cr---) + score(--ate) = 2
0 crowd score(crowd) = score(cr---) + score(--owd) = 0
Thus, two of "ate" must be in the final answer. But:
1 tease score(tease) = score(te-s-) + score(--a-e) = 1
So it's only one of antepenultimate a and ultimate e
1 ghats score(ghats) = score(gh--s) + score(--at-) = 1
So it's only one of antepenultimate a and penultimute t
1 white score(white) = score(whi--) + score(---te) = 1
so it's only one of penultimate t and final e
Thus, it can't be
--at-
--a-e
or
---te
So how did "crate" get a 2? Or, what else was mis-scored?
Something above has been scored incorrectly. crate is scored as 2, but crowd and croon both disallow the c and r, which leaves 2 letters of the a,t and e. If we posit the a, then both the e and the t are excluded, by scoring blare and ghats as 1 each. If we posit the e, then 1 white excludes the t, and 1 blare excludes the a. Correction, please... Joe slipped in. Heh...
Joe is correct. I'm going to guess arbitrarily that "white" was mis-scored, and say forte
Given
1 throb janc
and the problems with --ate , I'm inclined to think the scoring is
sufficiently confused that further guesses would be wasted.
Wasted? How could they be wasted? An error in scoring just makes the game more interesting. I've thought about a version of the game where the scorer is allowed to lie once. Figuring out which data to discard just adds a dimension to the game. I'm presuming that one error is more likely than two errors. If so, "white" seems to be the best bet. If we assume "white" is really a two, then "forte" is a plausible guess.
But white is more likely to be a three. And guessing at random, I might actually end up 'it'. ;)
white a three? No way. First, that assumes a bigger error on JEP's part. Seconde, if white is 3 and --ate is 2 and whore is 1 then we are stuck with ??ite which contradicts another word (I forget which - scrolled of my screen), so we'd have to assume yet another error.
But how else to account for the 1 throb got, when tanga got 0? It's either
-ha-e
or
-hat-
or
-h-te.
Or the scores are so wrong as to be useless. And given
1 ghats (That was the score, wasn't it?)
I'm inclined toward 'useless'.
Unfortunately the storm hit after I logged off for the night. 0 exing jep 0 speed aruba 2 crate remmers 1 throb janc 0 crowd aruba 0 croon remmers 0 eking gelinas/lastword 1 tease remmers 1 blare remmers 2 white gelinas <-- my mistake, sorry! 0 tanga polytarp 1 ghats aruba 1 whore slynne 1 knave other --- 5 forte janc I do apologize for the mistake. Nice job by both other and gelinas to notice it.
Re 503: You forgot --rte. So, time for a new word... forte 0 lastword
piano (Had to guess that...)
xylem
(errors are fascinating.) error
So I did. Thanks, Jan. :)
steep
guess
Holy Mackeral! Honestly, I was thinking of 'forte' as meaning a person's strong point. It never occured to me that my word had any relation to the previous word. But there it is, the shortest five-letter game in history: forte 0 lastword piano 5 remmers Now you know why we all agree with remmers - it's his amazing psychic powers.
Wow.
piano = soft forte = loud Sheet music is commonly marked with P and F for soft and loud (for some reason, just as Latin was the official language for science and French was the official language of diplomacy, Italian became the official language for music.) A pianoforte is an obselete name for a keyboard musical instrument that can play both softly and loudly, according to how hard the keys are struck. I sure don't see anything psychic in remmers's guess. I'd be more surprised if he didn't make that guess.
(it's not psychic. Remmers is just exploiting the power of suggestion.) mezzo
German became the official language for physical sciences. Latin led only in taxonomy and anatomy. Of course, all such associations are dependent upon time and place.
O-kaaay..... I am thinking of a 5-letter word. piano 0 (last word)
forte
mezzo
easel
re resp:518: Hahaha! doubt
piano 0 (last word) forte 0 janc mezzo 0 carson easel 0 aruba doubt 0 jep
speak
spoke
great
piano 0 (last word) forte 0 janc mezzo 0 carson easel 0 aruba doubt 0 jep ----- speak 0 aruba spoke 1 tonster great 2 slynne
green
grown
gross
growl
grasp
growwhore
group (Grex translated to English)
YOU! JAN WOLTERRR IS COOl , BUT I DON"T KNOW IF HE EVER HEEDED MY BACKTALK BUG REPORT
I heed all Backtalk bug reports
piano 0 (last word) forte 0 janc mezzo 0 carson easel 0 aruba doubt 0 jep ----- speak 0 aruba spoke 1 tonster great 2 slynne ----- green 2 polytarp grown 3 aruba gross 5 slynne <--- DING DING DING growl 3 jep grasp 3 tonster group 3 janc Slynne Guessed Gross and Gets to Go!
I am thinking of a word that is not gross 0
fatso
kraut
egads
polytarp ... umm, I mean inane
gross 0 (last word) -------- fatso 1 albaugh kraut 1 polytarp egads 0 tonster inane 0 other
grase
gross 0 (last word) -------- fatso 1 albaugh kraut 1 polytarp egads 0 tonster inane 0 other --------- grase 0 polytarp
xmql1
fried
drugs
trust
scott
kited
score
steve
stout
kraut
cadet
I am going to enforce the one guess between scorings rule so I;ll only score polytarp once
gross 0 (last word) ------------------- fatso 1 albaugh kraut 1 polytarp egads 0 tonster inane 0 other ------------------- grase 0 polytarp ------------------- fried 0 aruba drugs 0 polytarp trust 0 jep kited 3 carson score 0 ea stout 0 tonster cadet 0 janc
dashy
dashy 1 gelinas
kitty
kitty
kitty 5 jep <--- winner!
Oops, John slipped in. Well, then kithe (fat chance)
And slynne slipped in too. Not that kithe was possible, on second glance.
Lynne slipped in on me, too, when I was trying to enter "kitty". 0 kitty lastword
dashy
aspic
crumb
easel
folds
beers
whore
timed
0 kitty lastword --- 0 dashy gelinas 0 aspic other 1 crumb remmers 0 easel carson 0 folds janc 1 beers aruba 1 whore polytarp 0 timed tonster
spurt
juice
0 kitty lastword 0 dashy gelinas 0 aspic other 1 crumb remmers 0 easel carson 0 folds janc 1 beers aruba 1 whore polytarp 0 timed tonster --- 0 spurt remmers 0 juice albaugh
wrote
write
0 kitty lastword 0 dashy gelinas 0 aspic other 1 crumb remmers 0 easel carson 0 folds janc 1 beers aruba 1 whore polytarp 0 timed tonster 0 spurt remmers 0 juice albaugh --- 2 wrote tonster 1 write gelinas
reich
front
backe
brown
quits
0 kitty lastword 0 dashy gelinas 0 aspic other 1 crumb remmers 0 easel carson 0 folds janc 1 beers aruba 1 whore polytarp 0 timed tonster 0 spurt remmers 0 juice albaugh --- 2 wrote tonster 1 write gelinas 0 reich polytarp 2 front gelinas 5 brown janc 0 quits cmcgee You're up, Jan!
OK, was feeling uninspired so selected the first five letter word I saw when looking around the room. brown 0 lastword
white
books
train
avian
cluck
quits
(I doubt he saw a Quit in the room with his computer. ;)
Maybe he saw a round tuit?
Hmmm... Could be; he doesn't seem to have problem getting one. :)
bucks
beers
woman
WORD ASOCIATION :" WHORE~!
Oh, good grief. That's like 9 guesses. Gotta log on more. brown 0 lastword ----- white 0 polytarp books 1 gelinas (hmmm...you'd think he'd been in my house) train 0 kentn (actually, yeah, my house is full of those too) avian 0 other cluck 0 remmers (mind readings a bit out of calibration today) quits 1 cmcgee bucks 3 tonster beers 0 aruba (in my house?) woman 0 jep
laser
beams
downy
lucky
juice
brown 0 lastword white 0 polytarp books 1 gelinas train 0 kentn avian 0 other cluck 0 remmers quits 1 cmcgee bucks 3 tonster beers 0 aruba woman 0 jep ----- laser 1 polytarp beams 0 albaugh downy 1 gelinas lucky 5 remmers <== WINNER juice 1 cmcgee My mind is obviously way too readable these days. I plucked the word off one of Arlo's games - a hideous thing called "Lucky Ducky" (with electronic quacking noises, God save us). Remmers' first guess is "cluck" and tonster's first guess is "bucks". I ask you? Combine "bucks 3" with "beers 0" and we have it narrowed to "-uck-" after the first scoring. I think we should ban all mind reading from this game.
(I was thinking "ducky" was the word. If I were playing to be "it", imagine where we'd be. :)
All righty - I am thinking of a 5-letter word that is not lucky 0 (last word)
downy
fight
idiot
knows
eerie
lucky 0 (last word) downy 1 gelinas fight 0 polytarp idiot 1 other knows 0 albaugh eerie 1 carson
Hmm... three words with no letters in common. Let's try
dishy
dealt
whore
spine
lucky 0 (last word) downy 1 gelinas fight 0 polytarp idiot 1 other knows 0 albaugh eerie 1 carson ----- dishy 0 gelinas dealt 0 jep whore 1 polytarp spine 4 janc
outer
spike
lucky 0 (last word) downy 1 gelinas fight 0 polytarp idiot 1 other knows 0 albaugh eerie 1 carson ----- dishy 0 gelinas dealt 0 jep whore 1 polytarp spine 4 janc ----- outer 0 gelinas spike 3 cmcgee
Interesting. Hmmm...
steel
swine
shine
seine
Oops, I screwed up in the scoring. (Again. Sigh...) Apologies. See below. lucky 0 (last word) downy 1 gelinas fight 0 polytarp idiot 1 other knows 0 albaugh eerie 1 carson ----- dishy 0 gelinas dealt 0 jep whore 1 polytarp spine 4 janc ----- outer 1 gelinas <--- NOTE CORRECTION spike 3 cmcgee ----- steel 0 gelinas swine 3 janc shine 3 polytarp seine 3 jep
opine
I think #629 just about has to be right.
yup.
Indeed, one can prove that Carson is correct.
Proof shmoof. He's correct because I say he's correct. opine 5 carson Carson's up.
(I'm thinking of a common five-letter word...) opine 2 lastword
lemon
faith
every
sling
opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep
pains
slope
point
shirk
rhino
epics
whore
momma
opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep --- slope 2 gelinas pains 1 jep point 1 remmers shirk 2 aruba rhino 1 janc epics 1 cmcgee whore 1 polytarp momma 0 albaugh
opens
shine
slant
plane
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swive (kind of obscure, but unlike the above guesses, it actually works) For those who'd like to practice their word guessing skills (or win without having to supply the next word), I've installed a program under /usr/games called 'letter' The computer chooses a word, you guess it. Does 5 letter words by default, but you can also run things like 'letter -6' to do six letter words. Dictionary's exist for word lengths from 1 to 20. It will remember for each word what the smallest number of guesses ever taken to solve it was. If you beat a previous record, it will tell you. However, this won't happen much at first, as the dictionary has an awful lot of words in it. Control-R or Control-L redisplays the scores so far. More details are in 'man letter'
(I expect "opens" to score a zero. But I need that information.)
opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep --- slope 2 gelinas pains 1 jep point 1 remmers shirk 2 aruba rhino 1 janc epics 1 cmcgee whore 1 polytarp momma 0 albaugh --- opens 0 gelinas shine 3 polytarp slant 1 tonster plane 1 jep swive 3 janc (looks close.)
suite
snape
CAN"T BE THAT!
No, but that *can* score a 4.
sieve
CAN"T BE!
opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep --- slope 2 gelinas pains 1 jep point 1 remmers shirk 2 aruba rhino 1 janc epics 1 cmcgee whore 1 polytarp momma 0 albaugh --- opens 0 gelinas shine 3 polytarp slant 1 tonster plane 1 jep swive 3 janc --- suite 3 polytarp snape 2 gelinas sieve 2 ea (what's that about a 4?)
slice
(I said it *could* be. That it isn't eliminates a couple of other words.)
Another possible 4:
utile.
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smile
opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep --- slope 2 gelinas pains 1 jep point 1 remmers shirk 2 aruba rhino 1 janc epics 1 cmcgee whore 1 polytarp momma 0 albaugh --- opens 0 gelinas shine 3 polytarp slant 1 tonster plane 1 jep swive 3 janc --- suite 3 polytarp snape 2 gelinas sieve 2 ea --- slice 3 polytarp utile 3 gelinas seize 3 janc (the end is near.)
smile
Well, I guessed seize, thought up smile, thought that was a more carsonish word, so deleted the seize guess and inserted smile, but looks like carson slipped in during the few minutes when seize was up.
sluts
(I'll give it to you.) opine 2 lastword --- lemon 0 janc faith 1 remmers every 0 aruba sling 2 jep --- slope 2 gelinas pains 1 jep point 1 remmers shirk 2 aruba rhino 1 janc epics 1 cmcgee whore 1 polytarp momma 0 albaugh --- opens 0 gelinas shine 3 polytarp slant 1 tonster plane 1 jep swive 3 janc --- suite 3 polytarp snape 2 gelinas sieve 2 ea --- slice 3 polytarp utile 3 gelinas smile 5 janc <- WINNER (Jan, you're up!)
It's amazing that a word like "smile" lasted so long, especially since carson gave us two letter right up front. However, it is difficult to handle games with so few zeros. I have a new word which is not... smile 0 lastword
grunt
kraut
other
smile 0 lastword ----- grunt 0 jep kraut 0 polytarp other 0 cmcgee
livid
madly
smile 0 lastword grunt 0 jep kraut 0 polytarp other 0 cmcgee ----- livid 1 jep madly 2 albaugh
maven
skate
apply
smile 0 lastword grunt 0 jep kraut 0 polytarp other 0 cmcgee livid 1 jep madly 2 albaugh ----- mavin 2 jep skate 0 ea apply 0 carson
manic
match
ovoid
marin
first
smile 0 lastword grunt 0 jep kraut 0 polytarp other 0 cmcgee livid 1 jep madly 2 albaugh mavin 2 jep skate 0 ea apply 0 carson ----- manic 2 remmers match 1 jep ovoid 1 gelinas marin 2 tonster first 0 cmcgee
logic
radii
radix
smile 0 lastword grunt 0 jep kraut 0 polytarp other 0 cmcgee livid 1 jep madly 2 albaugh mavin 2 jep skate 0 ea apply 0 carson manic 2 remmers match 1 jep ovoid 1 gelinas marin 2 tonster first 0 cmcgee ----- logic 1 jep radii 5 aruba <==== YIPPEE!! radix 4 remmers
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word. ---------- radii 0 (lastword) Any reason why the word files for your game are not publicly readable, Jan?
space
clock
haste
corks
---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc)
armed
sonar
---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc) ---------- sonar 1 (remmers)
strap
locks
---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc) ---------- sonar 1 (remmers) ---------- locks 1 (tonster) strap 0 (remmers) I scored remmers second since he went last in th eprevious batch.
(I guess there's a rule about no two guesses in a row by the same person, even if they're in different scorings?) You didn't score polytarp's "armed" guess in resp:701.
Yes, that's the traditional rule. I guess it's up to the person who's "it" which rules he wants to enforce. ---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc) ---------- sonar 1 (remmers) ---------- locks 1 (tonster) strap 0 (remmers) ---------- armed 0 (polytarp)
boink
moxie
hoard
toast
---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc) ---------- sonar 1 (remmers) ---------- locks 1 (tonster) strap 0 (remmers) ---------- armed 0 (polytarp) ---------- boink 1 (tonster) moxie 1 (jep) hoard 2 (gelinas) toast 2 (janc)
foamy
herds
tramp
koala
house
---------- radii 0 (lastword) ---------- space 1 (remmers) clock 0 (jep) haste 0 (tonster) corks 1 (janc) ---------- sonar 1 (remmers) ---------- locks 1 (tonster) strap 0 (remmers) ---------- armed 0 (polytarp) ---------- boink 1 (tonster) moxie 1 (jep) hoard 2 (gelinas) toast 2 (janc) ---------- foamy 2 (carson) herds 0 (ea) tramp 1 (albaugh) koala 5 (remmers) <--- Ding! house 1 (jep) John's up!
All righty.... I am thinking of a 5-letter word that is not koala 0 (last word)
night
eerie
koala 0 (last word) night 1 carson eerie 0 aruba
kites
bagel
nouns
thing
avers
koala 0 (last word) night 1 carson eerie 0 aruba ----- kites 1 gelinas bagel 0 carson nouns 0 jep thing 0 albaugh avers 0 aruba
silky
livid
koala 0 (last word) night 1 carson eerie 0 aruba ----- kites 1 gelinas bagel 0 carson nouns 0 jep thing 0 albaugh avers 0 aruba ----- silky 2 janc livid 1 jep
misty
sicko
comer
koala 0 (last word) night 1 carson eerie 0 aruba ----- kites 1 gelinas bagel 0 carson nouns 0 jep thing 0 albaugh avers 0 aruba ----- silky 2 janc livid 1 jep ----- misty 2 jep sicko 1 aruba comer 0 albaugh
windy
musts
jiffy
kinky
dizzy
koala 0 (last word) night 1 carson eerie 0 aruba ----- kites 1 gelinas bagel 0 carson nouns 0 jep thing 0 albaugh avers 0 aruba ----- silky 2 janc livid 1 jep ----- misty 2 jep sicko 1 aruba comer 0 albaugh ----- windy 2 aruba musts 0 gelinas jiffy 2 janc kinky 2 tonster dizzy 5 kentn <-- BINGO! You're up, kentn.
Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not dizzy 0 (The Last Word) A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match5 and in this item.
draft
argot
eerie
sound
dizzy 0 (The Last Word) ---------- draft 0 (gelinas) argot 0 (carson) eerie 0 (aruba) sound 0 (remmers) ----------
bleep
trout
scrod
climb
dizzy 0 (The Last Word) ---------- draft 0 (gelinas) argot 0 (carson) eerie 0 (aruba) sound 0 (remmers) ---------- bleep 0 (aruba) trout 0 (jep) scrod 0 (other) climb 0 (remmers) ----------
friar
grist
nanny
flunk
dizzy 0 (The Last Word) ---------- draft 0 (gelinas) argot 0 (carson) eerie 0 (aruba) sound 0 (remmers) ---------- bleep 0 (aruba) trout 0 (jep) scrod 0 (other) climb 0 (remmers) ---------- friar 0 (jep) grist 0 (gelinas) nanny 1 (carson) flunk 0 (remmers) ----------
wasps
maven
viand
hallo
pansy
quota
dizzy 0 (The Last Word) ---------- draft 0 (gelinas) argot 0 (carson) eerie 0 (aruba) sound 0 (remmers) ---------- bleep 0 (aruba) trout 0 (jep) scrod 0 (other) climb 0 (remmers) ---------- friar 0 (jep) grist 0 (gelinas) nanny 1 (carson) flunk 0 (remmers) ---------- wasps 0 (janc) maven 0 (remmers) viand 0 (jep) hallo 0 (aruba) pansy 1 (other) quota 1 (carson) ----------
lunch
umbra
month
mince
ratio
props
empty
lunch 5 (remmers) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! Your word, John!
All right... I am cogitating upon a five letter word which in no way resembles lunch 0 (last word)
Is carson a LIBERTARIAN SCUM?
crith
eerie
under
horse
lunch 0 (last word)
crith 1 gelinas
eerie 0 aruba
under 0 kentn
horse 0 carson
[crith = the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0
degrees centigrade and 760 millimeters
pressure]
proud
treat
couch
taboo
skate
whore
lunch 0 (last word) crith 1 gelinas eerie 0 aruba under 0 kentn horse 0 carson ----- proud 0 kentn treat 0 carson couch 2 gelinas taboo 0 aruba skate 0 ea whore 1 polytarp
chuck
chick
(My guess: chuck will score 4 and chick will score 3)
chump
chunk
lunch 0 (last word) crith 1 gelinas eerie 0 aruba under 0 kentn horse 0 carson ----- proud 0 kentn treat 0 carson couch 2 gelinas taboo 0 aruba skate 0 ea whore 1 polytarp ----- chuck 4 gelinas chick 3 jep chump 3 aruba
#792 slipped in... chunk 5 kentn <--- ALL RIGHTY! Kentn's up.
Okey-doke, I'll try to have a new word next time.
Cool! I had the right word. :)
Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that by all indications is not chunk 0 (The Last Word) A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match5 and in this item.
plain
tinge
easel
spare
chunk 0 (The Last Word) ---------- plain 1 (remmers) tinge 0 (jep) easel 2 (aruba) spare 0 (carson) ----------
poser
poser 1 (gelinas)
gruel
chunk 0 (The Last Word) ---------- plain 1 (remmers) tinge 0 (jep) easel 2 (aruba) spare 0 (carson) ---------- poser 1 (gelinas) ---------- gruel 1 (jep) ----------
eerie
maven
felon
fears
pared
chunk 0 (The Last Word) ---------- plain 1 (remmers) tinge 0 (jep) easel 2 (aruba) spare 0 (carson) ---------- poser 1 (gelinas) ---------- gruel 1 (jep) ---------- eerie 1 (gelinas) maven 0 (remmers) felon 1 (bhelliom) fears 1 (tonster) pared 0 (aruba) ----------
level
fusil Main Entry: 1fu7sil Pronunciation: 'fy|-z&l Variant(s): or fu7sile /'fy|-z&l, -"zIl/ Function: adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fusilis, from fundere Date: 14th century 1 archaic a : made by melting and pouring into forms : CAST b : liquefied by heat 2 archaic : FUSIBLE
trail
(wow. what happened to the "common word" concept?) fatal
chunk 0 (The Last Word) Tue Feb 11 07:09:59 2003 ---------- plain 1 (remmers) tinge 0 (jep) easel 2 (aruba) spare 0 (carson) ---------- poser 1 (gelinas) ---------- gruel 1 (jep) ---------- eerie 1 (gelinas) maven 0 (remmers) felon 1 (bhelliom) fears 1 (tonster) pared 0 (aruba) ---------- level 1 (remmers) fusil 5 (aruba) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! Thu Feb 13 08:25:59 2003 trail 2 (gelinas) fatal 2 (carson) ---------- Given the extensive amount of analysis used recently by players of the 5-letter game, I assumed "simple" had taken on a new meaning. As you can see, it did not take long to guess this word, even though you may think it is not a simple one. Your word, Mark!
(the analysis comes chiefly from players who then apply those skills to the 6-letter and 7-letter games [found in the games conference!]. anyway, it's just an observation, not a complaint; Agora certainly could use a dose of sophistication!)
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word. ---------- fusil 0 (lastword)
lakes
I never, ever would have guessed "fusil", and so was essentially disqualified from that round of the contest. I left the 6 and 7 letter contests over similar issues. Why not just have random strings of characters, if the words aren't English words anyway? I'm not trying to stop anyone from whatever they want in this item. However, if this contest is going to be for unrecognizable words, like the other two turned out to be, I'll soon find myself excluded from further participation.
icing
spork
forks
---------- fusil 0 (lastword) ---------- lakes 1 (slynne) icing 0 (carson) spork 0 (remmers) forks 0 (cmcgee) I guess I think it's up to who's "it" to decide how obscure he/she wants the word to be. If you see that Kent's it, better expect obscure. ;)
watch
slide
taboo
zarfs
---------- fusil 0 (lastword) ---------- lakes 1 (slynne) icing 0 (carson) spork 0 (remmers) forks 0 (cmcgee) ---------- watch 1 (carson) taboo 2 (remmers) zarfs 1 (gelinas) According to dictionary.com, a zarf is: A chalicelike holder for a hot coffee cup, typically made of ornamented metal, used in the Middle East.
(Also used in the US: made of plastic, with disposable, cone-shaped cups.)
manic
bacon
---------- fusil 0 (lastword) ---------- lakes 1 (slynne) icing 0 (carson) spork 0 (remmers) forks 0 (cmcgee) ---------- watch 1 (carson) taboo 2 (remmers) zarfs 1 (gelinas) ---------- manic 2 (remmers) bacon 2 (kentn)
piggy
---------- fusil 0 (lastword) ---------- lakes 1 (slynne) icing 0 (carson) spork 0 (remmers) forks 0 (cmcgee) ---------- watch 1 (carson) taboo 2 (remmers) zarfs 1 (gelinas) ---------- manic 2 (remmers) bacon 2 (kentn) ---------- piggy 0 (albaugh)
havoc
Surprisingly large number of possibilities left. I'll say banjo
---------- fusil 0 (lastword) ---------- lakes 1 (slynne) icing 0 (carson) spork 0 (remmers) forks 0 (cmcgee) ---------- watch 1 (carson) taboo 2 (remmers) zarfs 1 (gelinas) ---------- manic 2 (remmers) bacon 2 (kentn) ---------- piggy 0 (albaugh) ---------- havoc 1 (kentn) banjo 5 (janc) Jan's up!
OK, I have a word. banjo 0 lastword
ingot
oozed
reads
banjo 0 lastword ----- ingot 0 remmers oozed 0 aruba reads 1 prp
brats
where
tepid
adobo
banjo 0 lastword ingot 0 remmers oozed 0 aruba reads 1 prp ----- brats 2 gelinas where 0 carson adobo 0 aruba
crack
banjo 0 lastword ingot 0 remmers oozed 0 aruba reads 1 prp brats 2 gelinas where 0 carson adobo 0 aruba ----- crack 2 jep
train
tramp
grain
banjo 0 lastword ingot 0 remmers oozed 0 aruba reads 1 prp brats 2 gelinas where 0 carson adobo 0 aruba crack 2 jep ----- train 5 blaise <=== WINNER tramp 3 aruba grain 4 remmers Not a great word, I admit, but I was trying to think of a five-letter word and Arlo as talking and talking at me, and he really only talks about one thing....
I figured that might have happened. :)
Glunk. I hadn't quite expected that. Ok. Lemme think. I'm thinking of a word that's not train 0 (lastword)
wreck
gloss
eerie
shunt
plunk
aware
Sorry, let's try that again. train 0 (lastword) wreck 0 (albaugh) gloss 0 (remmers) eerie 0 (aruba) shunt 0 (janc) plonk 0 (tonster) aware 0 (zone2)
blaise - I'm afraid that response came up blank. I see you've updated the letter.match5 file in your home directory, though, so I'll read it in here: train 0 (lastword) wreck 0 (albaugh) gloss 0 (remmers) eerie 0 (aruba) shunt 0 (janc) plonk 0 (tonster) aware 0 (zone2) And I'll guess caper
caper 0 (aruba)
xylem
crazy
loyal
comma
phloem WORD UP REMMERS THE BIOLOGIST whore
hours
HAHAHAH WORD UP slynne the TIMESMOLOGIST whore
horse
WORD UP! !! HAHA
blaise has been gone for almost 2 weeks now; maybe if he's not back by tomorrow someone should start a new game.
I think we should start a new game.
(I think we should start a new game next season.)
Since I got reaped and no longer remember the word, I'll restart the game. I'm thinking of a word that's not train 9 (lastword)
Gah. Bloody typos. That's train 0 (lastword)
repay
repay 0 (prp)
furor
furor 0 (gelinas)
steel
furor 0 (prp)
nails
Note that #886 steel was not scored. limit
steel 0 (prp -- scored late; sorry!) nails 1 (kentn) limit 0 (prp)
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lairs
Er, sorry, Paul, but you need to wait for someone else.
olive
olive 0 (kentn) lairs 0 (prp)
notch
notch 0 (kentn)
among
among 0 (prp)
whelk
chump
whelk 2 (kentn) chump 1 (prp)
phial
phial 2 (kentn)
phyla
chroma 0 (lastword) Congrats, Paul!
I think that "chroma 0 (lastword)" belongs in the Six Letter item, #162 as I remember. In anycase: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
Sorry, I read in the wrong file (mat instead of mat5). That obviously should have read "phyla 6 (prp)". items
________________________________ ___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise) ___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
rhumb
________________________________ ___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise) ___ 1: items 0 (blaise) ___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
abhor
________________________________ ___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise) ___ 1: items 0 (blaise) ___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas) ___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
grope
________________________________ ___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise) ___ 1: items 0 (blaise) ___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas) ___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen) ___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
swank
filmy
________________________________
___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
5: swank 0 (gelinas)
___ 6: filmy 0 (blaise)
moist
heist
japed
________________________________
___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
5: swank 0 (gelinas)
___ 6: filmy 0 (blaise)
7: moist 2 (gelinas)
8: heist 2 (kentn)
___ 9: japed 0 (blaise)
evict
avast
________________________________
___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
5: swank 0 (gelinas)
___ 6: filmy 0 (blaise)
7: moist 2 (gelinas)
8: heist 2 (kentn)
___ 9: japed 0 (blaise)
10: evict 2 (kentn)
___11: avast 1 (blaise)
flirt
skirt
________________________________
___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
5: swank 0 (gelinas)
___ 6: filmy 0 (blaise)
7: moist 2 (gelinas)
8: heist 2 (kentn)
___ 9: japed 0 (blaise)
10: evict 2 (kentn)
___11: avast 1 (blaise)
12: flirt 3 (gelinas)
___13: skirt 3 (blaise)
quoin
________________________________
___ 0: phyla 0 (lastword, blaise)
___ 1: items 0 (blaise)
___ 2: rhumb 0 (gelinas)
___ 3: abhor 0 (Kent Nassen)
___ 4: grope 0 (blaise)
5: swank 0 (gelinas)
___ 6: filmy 0 (blaise)
7: moist 2 (gelinas)
8: heist 2 (kentn)
___ 9: japed 0 (blaise)
10: evict 2 (kentn)
___11: avast 1 (blaise)
12: flirt 3 (gelinas)
___13: skirt 3 (blaise)
___14: quoin 2 (gelinas)
quirt
___ 15: quirt 5 (blaise). Jim is up next.
I'll have a word later today.
I'm thinking of a word that is not quirt 0 (lastword)
roast
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp)
Anybody still interested in the Five Letter Word Game?
"still".
tramp
break
----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn)
shock
field
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn)
bagel
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) bagel 0 (prp)
swear
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) bagel 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) swear 2 (gelinas)
scene
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) bagel 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) swear 2 (gelinas) ----- 0 (--------) scene 2 (kentn)
slews
seeds
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) bagel 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) swear 2 (gelinas) ----- 0 (--------) scene 2 (kentn) slews 2 (gelinas) seeds 2 (kentn)
steel
skein
quirt 0 (lastword) ----- 0 (--------) roast 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) still 1 (twenex) tramp 0 (prp) break 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) shock 1 (prp) field 1 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) bagel 0 (prp) ----- 0 (--------) swear 2 (gelinas) ----- 0 (--------) scene 2 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) slews 2 (gelinas) seeds 2 (kentn) ----- 0 (--------) steel 2 (gelinas) skein 5 (kentn) You're up, Kent!
Yikes! Okay, I'll try to get a new word going quickly.
Just a reminder, Kent is up.
Oops, thanks for the reminder, Paul. I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not: skein 0 (The Previous Word) A summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match5
shift
shift 0 (blaise)
tramp
blurt
tramp 0 (prp) blurt 0 (blaise)
river
river 0 (prp)
evade
lurch
evade 0 (blaise) lurch 0 (prp)
camel
posts
camel 0 (blaise) posts 0 (prp)
floss
aster
melam
floss 1 (blaise) aster 1 (gelinas) melam 1 (prp)
fetid
fetid 0 (gelinas)
among
acorn
among 1 (blaise) acorn 1 (prp)
asoak
asoak 1 (gelinas)
abysm (archaic variant of abyss)
abysm 5 (blaise) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! Okay, Jim, it's your word!
Sorry, I was offline for the holiday weekend. I'll have a new word up later tonight.
OK, I'm thinking of a word that's not: ___0 abysm 0 lastword ___
silly
darts
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
drags
brisk
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
3 drags 0 prp
___ 4 brisk 0 gelinas ___
rarer
force
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
3 drags 0 prp
___ 4 brisk 0 gelinas ___
5 rarer 1 prp
___ 6 force 1 kentn ___
route
enrol
cache
there
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
3 drags 0 prp
___ 4 brisk 0 gelinas ___
5 rarer 1 prp
___ 6 force 1 kentn ___
7 route 1 prp
8 enrol 0 gelinas
___ 9 cache 2 kentn ___
Paul, I have only scored your first guess for this round; let me know
whether you still want your last guess scored.
No, I'll try: lance
gaffe
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
3 drags 0 prp
___ 4 brisk 0 gelinas ___
5 rarer 1 prp
___ 6 force 1 kentn ___
7 route 1 prp
8 enrol 0 gelinas
___ 9 cache 2 kentn ___
10 lance 3 prp
___11 gaffe 2 kentn ___
mange
latke
___ 0 abysm 0 lastword ___
1 silly 0 prp
___ 2 darts 1 kentn ___
3 drags 0 prp
___ 4 brisk 0 gelinas ___
5 rarer 1 prp
___ 6 force 1 kentn ___
7 route 1 prp
8 enrol 0 gelinas
___ 9 cache 2 kentn ___
10 lance 3 prp
___11 gaffe 2 kentn ___
12 mange 2 gelinas
___13 latke 5 prp *WINNER* ___
You're up, Paul.
OK, __0 latke 0 last blaise__
winds
north
__0 latke 0 last blaise__ 1 winds 2 gelinas __2 north 0 blaise ____
lungs
notch
__0 latke 0 last blaise__ 1 winds 2 gelinas __2 north 0 blaise ____ 4 lungs 2 gelinas __5 notch 0 cyberpunk _
lenes
__0 latke 0 last blaise__ 1 winds 2 gelinas __2 north 0 blaise ____ 4 lungs 2 gelinas __5 notch 0 cyberpunk _ __6 lenes 1 geninas ___
bingo
curds
__0 latke 0 last blaise__ 1 winds 2 gelinas __2 north 0 blaise ____ 4 lungs 2 gelinas __5 notch 0 cyberpunk _ __6 lenes 1 geninas ___ 7 bingo 6 kentn __8 curds 0 blaise ____ Bingo! We have a winner
Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not bingo 0 (Previous Word) Game status is in the usual location.
flops
flops 0 (gelinas)
shift
shift 0 (blaise)
amity
amity 0 (gelinas)
tryst
tryst 0 (blaise)
clank
paten
clank 0 (gelinas) paten 0 (blaise)
I guess I, like everyone else, forgot that this game was underway during the newGrex changeover. Does anyone have a guess?
I was waiting for someone else to guess; I'll guess again tomorrow if no one else has.
remix
disks
remix 0 (prp) disks 0 (gelinas)
force
force 2 (blaise)
souse
souse 3 (gelinas)
youze
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :
Youze \Youze\, n. [From a native East Indian name.] (Zo["o]l.)
The cheetah.
youze 3 (juicy)
gouge
gouge 3 (gelinas)
joule
joule 5 (blaise) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! Congrats, your word!
OK, I'm thinking of a word that's not __ joule 0 lastword __
yours
banal
__ joule 0 lastword __ yours 0 kentn __ banal 0 gelinas ___
sloop
windy
I really wanted to guess 'johnb' after 'sloop' but I couldn't find that in the dictionary :^) sales
__ joule 0 lastword __ yours 0 kentn __ banal 0 gelinas ___ sloop 0 prp windy 0 gelinas __ sales 0 kentn _____ Kent, I fully understand your predicament; if I were guessing I'd be hard pressed not to follow yours with "soupy"...
crwth
(ancient musical instrument, the first to be played with a bow)
("vowels? we don't need no stinking vowels!")
music
humid
__ joule 0 lastword __ yours 0 kentn __ banal 0 gelinas ___ sloop 0 prp windy 0 gelinas __ sales 0 kentn _____ crwth 0 juicy music 0 gelinas __ humid 0 kentn _____
As in the six-letter game, I did something wrong with my scoring routine. Here are the corrected scores: 0 joule 0 lastword 1 yours 0 kentn 2 banal 0 gelinas 3 sloop 1 prp 4 windy 0 gelinas 5 sales 0 kentn 6 crwth 0 juicy 7 music 2 gelinas 8 humid 2 kentn
tulip
0 joule 0 lastword 1 yours 0 kentn 2 banal 0 gelinas 3 sloop 1 prp 4 windy 0 gelinas 5 sales 0 kentn 6 crwth 0 juicy 7 music 2 gelinas 8 humid 2 kentn 9 tulip 2 gelinas
quoin
0 joule 0 lastword 1 yours 0 kentn 2 banal 0 gelinas 3 sloop 1 prp 4 windy 0 gelinas 5 sales 0 kentn 6 crwth 0 juicy 7 music 2 gelinas 8 humid 2 kentn 9 tulip 2 gelinas 10 quoin 4 kentn
Oh. Right. This one only has five letters. So
quoit
Looks good to me.
11 quoit 5 gelinas You're up, Joe.
Looks like this is the first time I've been up in this game. Or maybe I scored by hand before. Any way, I'm thinking of a five-letter word that is not quoit 0 (lastword) The State of the Guess is in ~gelinas/letter.match5
sales
sales 0 (kentn)
blare
Well, I'm off to a roaring start. Apparently, I forgot my word between "lastword" and "kentn". So the score of "sales" was wrong and has now been corrected. I'm sorry. :( quoit 0 (lastword) sales 2 (kentn) blare 0 (blaise)
pines
parts
pines 1 (kentn) parts 3 (blaise)
yarns
lasts
yarns 3 (kentn) lasts 2 (blaise)
warps
warps 3 (kentn)
farms
farms 3 (blaise)
marks
marks 3 (kentn)
barns
barns 3 (blaise)
cards
cards 3 (kentn)
taros
taros 3 (blaise)
earls
earls 3 (kentn)
narcs
narcs 3 (blaise)
varus (a deformity in which the foot is turned inward)
varus 3 (kentn)
harks
harks 3 (blaise)
zarfs (zarf=an ornamental cupholder)
garbs
zarfs 5 (kentn) garbs 3 (blaise) I've long liked that word. :) You're up, Ken. BTW, the first ones I ever saw were plastic, used with disposable plastic inserts for coffee.
Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not zarfs 0 (Previous Word) The status file is ~kentn/letter.match5
refer
refer 1 (gelinas)
bidet
(1. A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon
for carrying his baggage. --B. Jonson.
2. A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.)
bidet 1 (juicy)
typed
prodd (a weapon similar to a crossbow that shoots sling pellets)
typed 2 (gelinas) prodd 2 (blaise)
pried
plied
pried 4 (gelinas) plied 3 (blaise)
fried
cried
fried 4 (gelinas) cried 4 (blaise)
funds
funds 0 (gelinas)
dried
wried
dried 4 (blaise)
wried 5 (juicy) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
Your word, JCat.
Wry \Wry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wrying}.] [OE. wrien. See {Wry}, a.]
To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's
neck were wried. --R. Browning.
I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that's not wried 0 (lastword)
felts
party
pleat
wried 0 (lastword) felts 0 (gelinas) party 0 (kentn) pleat 2 (blaise)
inept
clout
inept 1 (kentn) clout 0 (gelinas)
ocean
steak
wried 0 (lastword) felts 0 (gelinas) party 0 (kentn) pleat 2 (blaise) inept 1 (kentn) clout 0 (gelinas) ocean 2 (kentn) steak 2 (gelinas) i see a bit of a pattern here. . . .
cline
cline 1 (cyberpnk)
queue
queue 2 (gelinas)
zoeae
apparently i'm repeating myself. . . . kent, you're up. wried 0 (lastword) felts 0 (gelinas) party 0 (kentn) pleat 2 (blaise) inept 1 (kentn) clout 0 (gelinas) ocean 2 (kentn) steak 2 (gelinas) cline 1 (cyberpnk) queue 2 (gelinas) zoeae 5 (kentn)
Okay, I'll have to dream something up by the next time I log in.
Hey, Kent, did you forget about us? ;->
Oh my...between way too much time spent at work and the outage we had at grex, I completely forgot! Okay, here's a new word (I hope) that is not: zoeae 0 (The Previous Word) The summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match5.
refer
refer 0 (gelinas)
locus
locus 0 (blaise)
fling
fling 0 (gelinas)
opera
opera 0 (blaise)
chuck
chuck 0 (gelinas)
bravo
bravo 2 (blaise)
braid
braid 2 (cyberpnk)
fluid
fluid 0 (gelinas)
brown
brown 2 (blaise)
trawl
trawl 4 (gelinas)
drawl
drawl 4 (blaise)
worst
worst 1 (gelinas)
crawl
chump
crawl 4 (blaise) chump 0 (gelinas)
brawl
brawl 4 (cyberpnk)
Come on, folks, get with the program:
worst 1 (gelinas)
crawl 4 (blaise)
chump 0 (gelinas)
wrawl
(Hey, what can I say? I'm going for the hat trick...) The definition of wrawl, btw, is "cry, as a cat", according to the 1913 Merriam Webster. (The current is now subscription-only. :( )
trawl?
(See response #1159, above, cyberpnk.)
wrawl 5 (blaise) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! trawl 4 (cyberpnk) Your word, again, Jim!
OK, I'm thinking of a word that's not wrawl 0 (lastword)
refer
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 (gelinas)
party
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 (gelinas) party 1 kentn
IQ item #166 has been linked to language item #136.
mules
THanks for the link, Rane - I didn't know this item had been revived. plant
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba
foods
mural
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas
rally
fungi
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba
spore
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh
manga (It appears to made it into some English dictionaries.)
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba
merge
lumpy
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn
cache
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn cache 1 aruba
money
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn cache 1 aruba money 1 albaugh
masks
patsy
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn cache 1 aruba money 1 albaugh masks 2 gelinas patsy 1 aruba
disks
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn cache 1 aruba money 1 albaugh masks 2 gelinas patsy 1 aruba disks 0 gelinas
modem
maqui
mauls
wrawl 0 (lastword) refer 0 gelinas party 1 kentn mules 1 albaugh plant 0 aruba foods 0 albaugh mural 1 gelinas rally 1 albaugh fungi 1 aruba spore 0 albaugh manga 2 aruba merge 1 gelinas lumpy 0 kentn cache 1 aruba money 1 albaugh masks 2 gelinas patsy 1 aruba disks 0 gelinas modem 1 albaugh maqui 5 kentn mauls 2 gelinas You're up, Kent! maqui SYLLABICATION: ma qui PRONUNCIATION: m k NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ma quis 1. A Chilean evergreen shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) bearing edible purple berries. 2. A Chilean wine made from the fruit of this plant. ETYMOLOGY: American Spanish, of Araucanian origin. (The American Heritage Dictionary, http://www.bartleby.com/61)
I thought it was those rebel separatists in DSN... ;-)
That was Maquis.
Uh, yes, I knew that... Make sure to check for the smilies: ;-)
Okay, I'm thinking of 5-letter word that is not... maqui 0 (Previous Word) The summary of the guess is in ~kentn/letter.match5.
easel
easel 0 (aruba)
ledge
steps
tepid
ledge 1 (blaise) steps 0 (aruba) tepid 1 (albaugh)
lodge
apple
livid
video
lodge 0 (gelinas) apple 0 (aruba) livid 0 (blaise) video 0 (albaugh)
peach
revet
peach 1 (aruba) revet 2 (gelinas)
heist
heist 4 (aruba)
hoist
feist
hoist 3 (gelinas) feist 4 (aruba) (OED: feist, var. fist sb.2)
wrung
wrung 0 (gelinas)
ghost
flats
geist (joyman for ghost, so I'm told) BTW, this item should be restarted, now that there are > 1K responses...)
ghost 2 (aruba) flats 0 (gelinas) geist 4 (albaugh)
Well, obviously no one knows this word. So we keep going until somone gets it by trial and error, or someone looks it up. :) waist
The only definition I could find for "geist" was an expansion of an acronym. Is there another? dodge
waist 3 (aruba) dodge 1 (gelinas) OED 2d ed: geist g /enticons/ipa322.gif ist. [G., = spirit: see ghost sb. ] Spirit; spirituality; intellectuality; intelligence. (You've probably seen it in "zeitgeist")
OK, that makes the word deist What's it mean?
deist di/enticons/macr.gif.ist. [a. Fr. diste, f. L. de-us god: see -ist. ] One who acknowledges the existence of a God upon the testimony of reason, but rejects revealed religion. (OED)
heist
deist 5 (aruba) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! heist 4 (albaugh) Your word again, Mark.
Doh! I see, I was pronouncing it wrong, which is why I didn't recognize the word.
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that's not deist 0 (lastword)
sales
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn)
ailed
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh)
lunge
cycle
motor
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh)
enemy
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise)
wrong
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise) ---------- wrong 2 (kentn)
write
essay
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise) ---------- wrong 2 (kentn) ---------- write 0 (blaise) essay 0 (albaugh)
going
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise) ---------- wrong 2 (kentn) ---------- write 0 (blaise) essay 0 (albaugh) ---------- going 2 (blaise)
flung
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise) ---------- wrong 2 (kentn) ---------- write 0 (blaise) essay 0 (albaugh) ---------- going 2 (blaise) ---------- flung 2 (kentn)
grins
rinse
twang
deist 0 (lastword) ---------- sales 0 (kentn) ---------- ailed 0 (albaugh) ---------- lunge 0 (blaise) cycle 0 (kentn) motor 0 (albaugh) ---------- enemy 0 (blaise) ---------- wrong 2 (kentn) ---------- write 0 (blaise) essay 0 (albaugh) ---------- going 2 (blaise) ---------- flung 2 (kentn) ---------- grins 1 (blaise) rinse 0 (albaugh) twang 5 (kentn) Kent's up again!
Can't respond...no space
OK, I have a 5-letter word in mind twang 0 (Previous Word) Guess status in ~kentn/letter.match5
drawl
easel
spice
drawl 1 (albaugh) easel 2 (aruba) spice 0 (naftee)
twill
quill
twill 1 (aruba) quill 2 (naftee)
music
spell
mural
draws
music 1 (aruba) spell 1 (naftee) mural 2 (blaise) draws 0 (albaugh)
morel
story
morel 2 (blaise) story 0 (albaugh)
messy
hyped
drive
super
faces
Uh, naftee, you're expected to only make one guess per round (of up to five guesses).
uh whoops, i forgot I had already guessed. s0rry
messy 0 (naftee) hyped 1 (aruba) drive 0 (albaugh) super 2 (blaise)
I'll score #1292 after someone else guesses.
thankx
manly
bebop
panel
manly 0 (albaugh) faces 1 (naftee) bebop 0 (aruba) panel 2 (blaise)
nodes
nodes 1 (aruba)
label
gaffe
quilt
label 2 (blaise) gaffe 0 (aruba) quilt 1 (juicy)
kugel
kugel 3 (blaise)
ouzel
"One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird
({Merula merula, or Turdus merula)" --- Webster's 1913.
ouzel 5 (juicy) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! Your word, Juicy Cat!
We need the man from U.N.C.L.E. to defeat *that* word! ;-)
Ah, hell. I suppose I should've known this was going to happen :) I'll try to remember to get on with a terminal (rather than by backtalk, though which I don't know how to edit files, if it's even possible) in the next day or so, and to have a new word ready. . .
ouzel 0 (lastword) Begin!
begin
sales
ouzel 0 (lastword) begin 0 (naftee) sales 0 (kentn)
every
arace
There is also an American Ouzel, the Water Ouzel found in California, which feeds under water in fast flowing streams. It is also called the Water Thrush. Not many songbirds feed this way.
ouzel 0 (lastword) begin 0 (naftee) sales 0 (kentn) every 0 (aruba) arace 2 (kentn)
frank
poach
Gee, same two people every item. . . . frank 0 (aruba) poach 0 (kentn)
edges
spite
apple
fruit
ouzel 0 (lastword) begin 0 (naftee) sales 0 (kentn) every 0 (aruba) arace 2 (kentn) frank 0 (aruba) poach 0 (kentn) edges 0 (naftee) spite 1 (aruba) apple 2 (kentn) fruit 1 (albaugh)
amuse
sweet
acute
abuse
unuse
ouzel 0 (lastword) begin 0 (naftee) sales 0 (kentn) every 0 (aruba) arace 2 (kentn) frank 0 (aruba) poach 0 (kentn) edges 0 (naftee) spite 1 (aruba) apple 2 (kentn) fruit 1 (albaugh) amuse 3 (kentn) sweet 0 (naftee) acute 3 (blaise) abuse 3 (aruba) unuse 2 (albaugh)
aquae (pl of aqua)
flare
agree
kentn's up! ouzel 0 (lastword) begin 0 (naftee) sales 0 (kentn) every 0 (aruba) arace 2 (kentn) frank 0 (aruba) poach 0 (kentn) edges 0 (naftee) spite 1 (aruba) apple 2 (kentn) fruit 1 (albaugh) amuse 3 (kentn) sweet 0 (naftee) acute 3 (blaise) abuse 3 (aruba) unuse 2 (albaugh) aquae 5 (kentn) flare 1 (aruba) agree 2 (blaise)
Okay, I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.
All right, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not aquae 0 (Previous Word) The summary of guesses is in ~kentn/letter.match5
blame
words
bevel
blame 2 (naftee) words 0 (juicy) bevel 0 (aruba)
blast you've got some extra lines in your letter.match, kentn
pinto
blast 2 (juicy) pinto 0 (blaise) Summary file should be fixed now.
gland
ovary
apple
gland 2 (aruba) ovary 1 (albaugh) apple 0 (juicy)
slack
lined
slack 4 (aruba) lined 0 (albaugh)
spike
flack
lacks
spike 0 (naftee) flack 5 (aruba) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! lacks 0 (albaugh) Your word, Mark! (I thought we were supposed to use easy words in the 5-letter game, and this one certainly qualifies).
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that's not ---------- flack 0 (lastword)
camel
ounce
cured
sales
---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn)
clock
locks
aruba
cheap
mummy
---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn) ---------- clock 1 (juicy) locks 0 (albaugh) cheap 2 (kentn) mummy 1 (blaise)
daddy
---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn) ---------- clock 1 (juicy) locks 0 (albaugh) cheap 2 (kentn) mummy 1 (blaise) ---------- daddy 0 (albaugh)
aruba, why didn't you score the word "aruba" ?! :(
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chime
Re #1374: "Aruba" is a proper noun, I'm afraid, so not a legal guess. However I see that you also guessed "ounce" in #1363, and I missed it. My apologies. ---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn) ---------- clock 1 (juicy) locks 0 (albaugh) cheap 2 (kentn) mummy 1 (blaise) ---------- daddy 0 (albaugh) ---------- ounce 0 (naftee) chime 3 (blaise)
inner
---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn) ---------- clock 1 (juicy) locks 0 (albaugh) cheap 2 (kentn) mummy 1 (blaise) ---------- daddy 0 (albaugh) ---------- ounce 0 (naftee) chime 3 (blaise) ---------- inner 0 (albaugh)
crimp
thumb
---------- flack 0 (lastword) ---------- camel 1 (juicy) cured 1 (albaugh) sales 0 (kentn) ---------- clock 1 (juicy) locks 0 (albaugh) cheap 2 (kentn) mummy 1 (blaise) ---------- daddy 0 (albaugh) ---------- ounce 0 (naftee) chime 3 (blaise) ---------- inner 0 (albaugh) ---------- crimp 5 (kentn) thumb 1 (blaise) Kent's up!
Thumbs up !
Okay! I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.
All right I have a 5-letter word in mind that is not: crimp 0 (Previous Word) The guess summary is in ~kent/letter.match5
beets
beets 1 (aruba)
spell
spell 0 (naftee)
elude
loots
elude 0 (blaise) loots 3 (albaugh)
larks
rooms
fools
larks 1 (naftee) rooms 3 (aruba) fools 3 (albaugh)
goods
cooks
goods 3 (blaise) cooks 3 (albaugh)
hoops
dooms
cocks
stole
hoops 4 (blaise) dooms 3 (albaugh) cocks 2 (naftee) stole 1 (cyberpnk)
poops (a crappy guess ;-)
poops 3 (albaugh)
stick (that'll glue your eyes to the screen ;-)
stick 0 (naftee)
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hoofs
That must be it. (variant of hooves)
hoofs 5 (blaise) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! hoofs, it is! Your word, Jim.
dong dong dong dong
All right, I have a word that is not hoofs 0 lastword
blaze
sadly
hoofs 0 lastword blaze 1 naftee sadly 0 albaugh
blase
begin
hoofs 0 lastword blaze 1 naftee sadly 0 albaugh blase 1 naftee begin 0 kentn
fires
shoot
hoofs 0 lastword blaze 1 naftee sadly 0 albaugh blase 1 naftee begin 0 kentn fires 0 naftee shoot 0 albaugh
ensue
suing
blame
cling
hoofs 0 lastword blaze 1 naftee sadly 0 albaugh blase 1 naftee begin 0 kentn fires 0 naftee shoot 0 albaugh ensue 1 kentn suing 0 albaugh blame 2 juicy cling 0 aruba
links
hoofs 0 lastword blaze 1 naftee sadly 0 albaugh blase 1 naftee begin 0 kentn fires 0 naftee shoot 0 albaugh ensue 1 kentn suing 0 albaugh blame 2 juicy cling 0 aruba links 0 albaugh
theme
azyme (unleavened bread)
theme 2 aruba azyme 5 kentn You're up here too, Kent!
Okay, I'm off to think up a new 5-letter word...
Okay, I have a 5-letter word in mind that is not... azyme 0 (Previous Word) The summary of gueses is in ~kentn/letter.match5
brake
pedal
brake 0 (naftee) pedal 0 (albaugh)
emeer
spade
emeer 1 (aruba) spade 0 (naftee)
faked
faked 2 (blaise)
moped
moped 2 (aruba)
baked
baked 2 (naftee)
lined
tapes
showy
lined 2 (blaise) tapes 1 (aruba) showy 0 (albaugh)
manid (any species of the genus Manis or family Manidae)
woman
manid 1 (blaise) woman 0 (albaugh)
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fused
parts
spoon
spicy
fused 2 (blaise) parts 0 (albaugh) spoon 0 (naftee) spicy 0 (cyberpnk)
glued
glued 3 (blaise)
greed
goods
plied
greed 3 (aruba) goods 1 (albaugh) plied 2 (blaise)
tyros
tyros 1 (aruba)
flake
flake 0 (naftee)
frost
frost 0 (albaugh)
boats
boats 0 (naftee)
abbot
botts plural of bott, a variant of bot Function: noun Etymology: Middle English; akin to Dutch leverbot liver fluke : the larva of a botfly; especially : one infesting the horse
abbot 0 (aruba) botts 0 (albaugh)
spice
isles
gyved
lover
spice 0 (naftee)
isles 1 (albaugh)
gyved 5 (blaise) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
lover 2 (aruba)
Your word, Jim.
Gyve \Gyve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gyved} (j[imac]vd); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Gyving}.]
To fetter; to shackle; to chain. --Spenser.
(j[imak]cd'{;}); p. pp.
It's been a while since we've seen any activity in this item (ahem).
heh. jim blaise froze the game.
Same here - lloks like blaise has been a way from Grex for a while. Anyone got a 5-letter word?
for a penny...
I'm very new here.
How ya' doin' Jan?
JUST IN CASE you're not a troll, I'd like to gently inform you that we do not appreciate the same item entered into every conference, thankyou. Once is QUITE enough, unless they're important enough to be linked, in which case someone more official than your good self will be responsible.
Not me. I have yet to enter a new topic.
Don't bother with twenex, man.
Sorry I've been away during the system problems. I should have a word ready later today.
OK, I'm thinking of a word that's not gyved 0 (lastword)
eerie
posse
eerie 0 aruba posse 0 kingjon
blaze
lifts
blaze 0 naftee lifts 0 kingjon
hitch
afoot
Jim - any chance you could reset your letter.match5 file? spend
blase
drink
(BTW the convention has been to start a new game item after 1000 responses...)
hitch 0 albaugh afoot 0 kingjon spend 0 aruba blase 0 naftee drink 2 kentn I will update letter.match5 by the end of the day; do we want to try to start a new game item midgame or just wait for this round to finish?
trial I don't care.
I think every new item should start with a fresh game, in hopes of luring new people. Let's link the next new item to Agora, too. spank
butts Yep, let this game finish before creating a new item.
flame
trial 1 kingjon spank 1 aruba butts 1 albaugh flame 0 naftee
rabbi
quick
rabbi 0 kingjon quick 4 aruba
draws
quica Dictionary.net gives (claiming as its source Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)) "A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit."
quirk
spite
draws 0 albaugh quica 3 kingjon quirk 5 kentn spite 1 naftee Kent's up!
Okay, I'll have a word in mind next time I'm here.
All right, I have a 5-letter word in mind that is not quirk 0 (Previous Word) Results are in ~kentn/letter.match5
abate
abash
abate 0 (kingjon) abash 0 (naftee)
bagel
grain
bagel 0 (kingjon) grain 0 (naftee)
cleat
cleat 0 (kingjon)
every
dizzy
every 0 (aruba) dizzy 0 (kingjon)
henna
forum
henna 0 (aruba) forum 0 (kingjon)
spoor
oxbow
spoor 2 (aruba) oxbow 1 (kingjon)
spare
rhomb
bongs
troop
spare 0 (cyberpnk) rhomb 0 (kingjon) bongs 0 (naftee) troop 1 (aruba)
indoor
ichor
fives
lower
ichor 5 (aruba) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner! fives 0 (naftee) lower 1 (albaugh) Mark's got it! Your word.
OK, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that's not ---------- ichor 0 (lastword)
sages
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn)
thyme
books
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn)
learn
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) ---------- learn 0 (albaugh)
bongs
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) ---------- learn 0 (albaugh) ---------- bongs 1 (naftee)
finch
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) ---------- learn 0 (albaugh) ---------- bongs 1 (naftee) ---------- finch 1 (kentn)
birdy
cynic
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) ---------- learn 0 (albaugh) ---------- bongs 1 (naftee) ---------- finch 1 (kentn) ---------- birdy 0 (albaugh) cynic 1 (kentn)
pests
urnal
---------- ichor 0 (lastword) ---------- sages 0 (kentn) ---------- thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) ---------- learn 0 (albaugh) ---------- bongs 1 (naftee) ---------- finch 1 (kentn) ---------- birdy 0 (albaugh) cynic 1 (kentn) ---------- pests 0 (albaugh) urnal 1 (kentn) urnal apparently means "Of or pertaining to an urn".
urine
ichor 0 (lastword) sages 0 (kentn) thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) learn 0 (albaugh) bongs 1 (naftee) finch 1 (kentn) birdy 0 (albaugh) cynic 1 (kentn) pests 0 (albaugh) urnal 1 (kentn) ---------- urine 0 (albaugh)
ennui
newly
ichor 0 (lastword) sages 0 (kentn) thyme 0 (albaugh) books 0 (kentn) learn 0 (albaugh) bongs 1 (naftee) finch 1 (kentn) birdy 0 (albaugh) cynic 1 (kentn) pests 0 (albaugh) urnal 1 (kentn) ---------- urine 0 (albaugh) ---------- ennui 5 (kentn) newly 0 (albaugh) Sorry for holding up the game. Kent's up!
No problem, Mark (he said, three days later). I'll try to have a new word in mind next time I'm on.
Hey, how about entering a new item? THen maybe w can link it to agora, which just restarted.
Yeah, freeze this puppy.
I think Jan needs to do that since he entered the item. I've created a new 5-letter game item. It's item 176.
Um, item 176 in what conference?
Looks like item 176 in the puzzle conference.
You have several choices: