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janc
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The Five Letter Word Game, Fourth Edition
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Dec 23 01:41 UTC 2002 |
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 161 and 162.
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janc
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response 1 of 1578:
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Dec 23 01:43 UTC 2002 |
Not that the general conference version of this game has diverged
slightly in the rules from the puzzle conference version. I've modifed
the rules above slightly to reflect this.
In the previous general conference, I guessed cmcgee's word "epics". I
now start a new word, which is not
epics 0 lastword
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aruba
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response 2 of 1578:
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Dec 23 04:07 UTC 2002 |
seedy
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janc
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response 3 of 1578:
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Dec 23 05:49 UTC 2002 |
epics 0 lastword
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seedy 0 Mark "got any Es?" Conger
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remmers
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response 4 of 1578:
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Dec 23 10:35 UTC 2002 |
gloam
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remmers
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response 5 of 1578:
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Dec 23 11:36 UTC 2002 |
(Does anybody actually maintain a letter.match5 file?)
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cmcgee
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response 6 of 1578:
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Dec 23 12:23 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
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cmcgee
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response 7 of 1578:
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Dec 23 12:27 UTC 2002 |
match
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jep
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response 8 of 1578:
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Dec 23 14:16 UTC 2002 |
I always maintain a letter.match5 file, though it's inconvenient. I
have to telnet in specially for that. Would it be all right to ask
everyone to keep janc's convention of re-posting the previous guesses
each time the scores are determined?
scrum
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russ
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response 9 of 1578:
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Dec 23 14:26 UTC 2002 |
moxie
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janc
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response 10 of 1578:
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Dec 23 14:31 UTC 2002 |
epics 0 lastword
seedy 0 aruba
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gloam 1 remmers
match 0 cmcgee
scrum 0 jep
moxie 0 russ
I believe several people maintain the file. I never do. These days I'm
usually using Backtalk. I started posting the full history with each
response as a substitute. Nobody has complained.
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cmcgee
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response 11 of 1578:
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Dec 23 15:46 UTC 2002 |
grins
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cmcgee
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response 12 of 1578:
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Dec 23 15:49 UTC 2002 |
(carson, could you link this?)
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janc
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response 13 of 1578:
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Dec 23 16:07 UTC 2002 |
epics 0 lastword
seedy 0 aruba
gloam 1 remmers
match 0 cmcgee
scrum 0 jep
moxie 0 russ
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grins 0 cmcgee
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albaugh
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response 14 of 1578:
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Dec 23 17:26 UTC 2002 |
frown
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scott
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response 15 of 1578:
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Dec 23 17:33 UTC 2002 |
groin
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aruba
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response 16 of 1578:
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Dec 23 18:18 UTC 2002 |
alien
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oval
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response 17 of 1578:
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Dec 23 19:14 UTC 2002 |
cream
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omni
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response 18 of 1578:
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Dec 23 19:19 UTC 2002 |
toledo. (Is that 5 letters?)
clams
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russ
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response 19 of 1578:
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Dec 24 00:44 UTC 2002 |
clunk
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janc
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response 20 of 1578:
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Dec 24 01:44 UTC 2002 |
epics 0 lastword
seedy 0 aruba
gloam 1 remmers
match 0 cmcgee
scrum 0 jep
moxie 0 russ
grins 0 cmcgee
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frown 0 albaugh
groin 0 scott
alien 1 aruba
cream 0 oval
clams 3 omni
clunk 1 russ
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scott
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response 21 of 1578:
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Dec 24 02:54 UTC 2002 |
plans
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jep
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response 22 of 1578:
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Dec 24 04:05 UTC 2002 |
claim
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