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aruba
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response 100 of 1055:
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Jun 9 02:52 UTC 1998 |
Hi Starwolf, welcome to the six-letter word game. You can see a brief summary
of the rules by looking at response 0 in this item, and for more detailed
rules you can look at the file ~rcurl/l.m.words . A list of guesses so far
is in ~aruba/letter.match .
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rcurl
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response 101 of 1055:
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Jun 9 04:37 UTC 1998 |
~rcurl/l.m.words contains all the "target" words that have been used in
this game. The rules for the 5 letter version are in
~rcurl/lettermatch.rules, and are easily applied to this 6 letter version.
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carson
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response 102 of 1055:
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Jun 9 14:37 UTC 1998 |
greasy
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aruba
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response 103 of 1055:
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Jun 10 02:42 UTC 1998 |
Re #101: Oops, my fault. Thanks for the correction, Rane. I wonder if we
should put all the lettermatch files somewhere where people can view them
from the web, for the benefit of Backtalk users.
greasy 4 (carson)
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rcurl
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response 104 of 1055:
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Jun 10 04:26 UTC 1998 |
For others to view them, it is easiest for them to be in my home directory.
So, can I put a link to them from my www directory? Or somewhere else?
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aruba
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response 105 of 1055:
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Jun 13 05:21 UTC 1998 |
Where'd everyone go?
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kentn
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response 106 of 1055:
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Jun 13 22:57 UTC 1998 |
I have a really good guess to make, but I don't want to
be "it" again for a while.
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starwolf
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response 107 of 1055:
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Jun 14 18:16 UTC 1998 |
grouse?
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aruba
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response 108 of 1055:
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Jun 15 04:33 UTC 1998 |
grouse 1 (starwolf)
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aruba
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response 109 of 1055:
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Jun 19 16:17 UTC 1998 |
Hmmm - we seem to have hit a lull in the old 6-letter word game.
THe guesses so far may be found in ~aruba/letter.match . There's enough
information in there to make a pretty informed guess at what the word is.
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aruba
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response 110 of 1055:
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Jun 22 08:41 UTC 1998 |
Here are the guesses so far in the 6-letter word game:
whisks 0 (lastword)
supper 1 (keesan)
unease 3 (kentn)
boring 0 (bikeman)
unfair 1 (kentn)
sneeze 1 (keesan)
greasy 4 (carson)
grouse 1 (starwolf)
There's enough information there to deduce 5 out of the 6 letters.
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kentn
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response 111 of 1055:
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Jun 23 02:01 UTC 1998 |
quests
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rcurl
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response 112 of 1055:
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Jun 23 04:22 UTC 1998 |
queasy
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aruba
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response 113 of 1055:
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Jun 23 07:01 UTC 1998 |
quests 3 (kentn)
queasy 6 (rcurl)
I think Kent was just humoring me. ;) You're up, Rane!
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rcurl
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response 114 of 1055:
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Jun 23 17:33 UTC 1998 |
I've been enjoying just lurking for some time, but couldn't resist such
a short list of guesses. OK. New word is ready....and I'll be a softy
this time and give
queasy 0 (oldword)
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rcurl
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response 115 of 1055:
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Jun 23 17:40 UTC 1998 |
Uhh...would you remind me again how to run do.lm?
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kentn
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response 116 of 1055:
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Jun 24 00:21 UTC 1998 |
Re 113: well humoring a little...trying to get someone else to
guess the word :)
Re do.lm: it is an executable and readable shell script in my
home directory. If you don't trust programs in other people's
directories (and you generally shouldn't) you can read it to see
it if contains any nasty surprises. Rane, I think you copied
the program to your directory a while back. If it's still there,
I'd change the perms to make it executable (chmod 700 do.lm for
example) and then run it. It'll tell what it does and then prompt
for the word to be guessed, etc. Enough of an example should be
included in what it prints to figure out how to use it. You
can abort at any time by using ctrl-c or your interrupt key if it
is set to something else. do.lm will append to any exising
'letter.match' file, so you should not have an old one around
when starting a new game (try ~kentn/do.lmx for a version that
looks for previous letter.match files, that is, ones with a
6 in them :).
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rcurl
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response 117 of 1055:
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Jun 24 04:40 UTC 1998 |
I know all that, and have do.lm, *but I don't remember how to run it*.
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aruba
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response 118 of 1055:
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Jun 24 11:03 UTC 1998 |
Just type "./do.lm" .
teepee
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albaugh
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response 119 of 1055:
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Jun 24 14:54 UTC 1998 |
streak
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rcurl
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response 120 of 1055:
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Jun 24 15:09 UTC 1998 |
Typing ./do.lm doesn't do anything. I was running it some months ago,
but can't recall how.
teepee 0 (aruba)
streak 0 (albaugh)
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keesan
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response 121 of 1055:
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Jun 24 15:13 UTC 1998 |
Do the words all have to be in English? And is there also a version of this
game running where you count the letters if they match your word, no matter
what position they are in? That is how I learned the game (Jotto, 5-letter).
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rcurl
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response 122 of 1055:
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Jun 25 04:33 UTC 1998 |
The words must all be in an English dictionary and not proper nouns. Jotto
has not been played here.
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aruba
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response 123 of 1055:
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Jun 25 06:03 UTC 1998 |
Hmmm - I don't use Kent's system, so I don't really know how it works, but it
certainly seems like it ought to work. You put a "!" in front of it, right?
As in,
Resond or pass? !./do.lm
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entity
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rcurl
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response 124 of 1055:
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Jun 25 15:58 UTC 1998 |
teepee 0 (aruba)
streak 0 (albaugh)
entity 0 (aruba)
OK..back in business. I had tried various commands (!do.lm,....) but
not !./do.lm. I don't recall having to have the ./ the last time I
ran it. Has something changed? Is this running do.lm from my directory
or from /?
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