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Grex > Iq > #176: The Five Letter Word Game, Fifth Edition | |
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kentn
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The Five Letter Word Game, Fifth Edition
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Apr 15 00:03 UTC 2006 |
In this item we will play the five letter word game.
For those who have not played before, here are the rules:
1. Words must be five letters long.
2. Target words must be common enough that most people could be expected
to know them, They must appear in the m-w.com online dictionary.
3. Guess words must appear in at least one published dictionary.
4. Proper names, abbreviations, contractions, and punctuation marks are
not allowed.
5. No one may make two guesses in a row. (Most people understand this
to mean that no one may make a second guess until the scorer scores
all guesses.)
6. The scorer scores each guess, giving one point for each letter in the
guess that matches the letter in the same position in the target
word.
7. Anyone who scores five points becomes the scorer and thinks up a new
target word.
8. The scorer maintains a list of all guess words and their score in a
file named "letter.match5". Help is available for those new to Unix
and pico. Some scorers prefer to post all scores again in each
response. This is more convenient for users of the web interface.
If prp0 were the first scorer, the file ~prp0/letter.match5 might wind
up looking like this:
0 those prp0 (just to get things started)
1 rules aruba
1 could kentn
...
0 place aruba
2 wells kentn
3 forts rcurl
5 words kentn *** Winner ***
If you like this sort of thing, you might want to check out the puzzle
conference, especially items 173 and 174.
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kentn
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response 1 of 368:
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Apr 15 00:07 UTC 2006 |
Okay, I'm thinking of a 5-letter word that is not
ennui 0 (Previous Word)
The summary of guesses on this word is in ~kentn/letter.match5
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aruba
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response 2 of 368:
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Apr 19 21:00 UTC 2006 |
peeve
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kentn
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response 3 of 368:
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Apr 20 11:29 UTC 2006 |
peeve 0 (aruba)
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remmers
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response 4 of 368:
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Apr 22 18:54 UTC 2006 |
spoke
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mcnally
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response 5 of 368:
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Apr 22 20:54 UTC 2006 |
xylem
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slynne
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response 6 of 368:
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Apr 22 20:59 UTC 2006 |
peers
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naftee
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response 7 of 368:
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Apr 22 21:43 UTC 2006 |
whoa. way to popularize this item.
spike
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nharmon
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response 8 of 368:
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Apr 22 21:48 UTC 2006 |
silly
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scholar
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response 9 of 368:
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Apr 22 22:04 UTC 2006 |
whore
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aruba
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response 10 of 368:
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Apr 23 04:36 UTC 2006 |
colon
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kentn
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response 11 of 368:
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Apr 23 20:44 UTC 2006 |
spoke 0 (remmers)
xylem 2 (mcnally)
peers 0 (slynne)
spike 0 (naftee)
silly 1 (nharmon)
whore 0 (scholar)
colon 1 (aruba)
Note: usually 5 guesses is the max before scoring.
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scholar
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response 12 of 368:
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Apr 23 20:50 UTC 2006 |
whore
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