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gelinas
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response 125 of 388:
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Nov 30 19:26 UTC 2001 |
"Solution" was Jim's word, not mine. And I'm gettin' just as tired of
the 1,1 scores as you are. ;/ Maybe this will generate something:
guardian
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brighn
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response 126 of 388:
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Nov 30 20:00 UTC 2001 |
solution 1,1 (blaise) sorry!
guardian 3,2 (gelinas) ... back on track?
I'm finding all the 1,1's ironic, but I won't say why just yet. =}
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brighn
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response 127 of 388:
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Nov 30 20:09 UTC 2001 |
how would I use the checker program, blaise?
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blaise
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response 128 of 388:
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Nov 30 20:12 UTC 2001 |
Paul, would you mind double-checking your scores? Using the only word that
matches based on simple exact-only clues, I get a couple of different results.
(Specifically, struggle and shutters give me one additional loose match.)
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blaise
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response 129 of 388:
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Nov 30 20:42 UTC 2001 |
Either put ~blaise/bin in your path or copy ~blaise/bin/check.mm and
~blaise/bin/mm.awk into a directory in your path. Then put a file readable
only by yourself in your home directory called word.mm containing the word
that you have chosen. Then run check.mm and feed it each guess as a single
line:
guess user
and after you've entered all the guesses you're scoring enter a period alone
on the line (like ending a response in bbs). It will generate two files, matm
(which contains the current session's guesses with scores) and master.match
(which contains all of the guesses with scores).
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blaise
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response 130 of 388:
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Nov 30 20:46 UTC 2001 |
Ah, I hadn't thought to look at that before. It will be trickier for you
because you use the bbs as your login shell. Let me experiment and I'll let
you know.
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blaise
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response 131 of 388:
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Nov 30 21:26 UTC 2001 |
Paul, if you need more detailed instructions, email me. I think this should
be plenty for general distribution in this forum.
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brighn
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response 132 of 388:
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Nov 30 21:45 UTC 2001 |
Geez, how did that happen... maybe scoring is getting difficult, and it's
distracting from the game. Jim's correct, there's an error. For review, here
are the correct scores:
starting 2,2
software 2,1
struggle 1,3
sandwich 1,1
shutters 1,2
shysters 1,1
manatees 0,3
solution 1,1
guardian 3,2
Since struggle and shutters were both indeed off by one on the second value,
I presume you have the correct answer. It's humbling to have made two goofs;
the second value is hard to score mentally, so I've also written my own code
to check for me, and that code verifies the scores I gave here. My algorithm,
which is in VB:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim sSolution As String, sGuess As String
Dim bCount As Integer, wCount As Integer
Dim gFlags() As Boolean
Dim I As Integer, J As Integer
sSolution = txtSolution.Text
sGuess = txtGuess.Text
bCount = 0
wCount = 0
If Len(sSolution) <> Len(sGuess) Then
MsgBox "Solution and Guess should be the same length"
Exit Sub
End If
ReDim gFlags(Len(sGuess))
For I = 1 To Len(sGuess)
If Mid(sGuess, I, 1) = Mid(sSolution, I, 1) Then
bCount = bCount + 1
gFlags(I) = True
End If
Next I
For I = 1 To Len(sGuess)
For J = 1 To Len(sGuess)
If Not gFlags(J) Then
If Mid(sGuess, I, 1) = Mid(sSolution, J, 1) Then
wCount = wCount + 1
gFlags(J) = True
End If
End If
Next J
Next I
txtScore.Text = CStr(bCount) & "," & CStr(wCount)
End Sub
Simpe enough algorithm, too bad I was too lazy to write it before I started
scoring. =} Anyway, you can either pop the word, or let Joe have a go, or call
foul and have me come up with another word.
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blaise
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response 133 of 388:
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Nov 30 21:57 UTC 2001 |
I don't think we need to restart.
continue
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brighn
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response 134 of 388:
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Nov 30 22:05 UTC 2001 |
continue 1,2 (blaise)
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gelinas
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response 135 of 388:
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Dec 1 02:23 UTC 2001 |
I'm shooting blind, I think.
cochlear
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gelinas
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response 136 of 388:
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Dec 1 03:12 UTC 2001 |
One comment re 130: !csh gives a bbs user C Shell, which can then be used
to modify paths and set up directories. It does require (or induce) some
familiarity with csh.
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brighn
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response 137 of 388:
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Dec 1 03:33 UTC 2001 |
cochlear 0,3 (gelinas)
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blaise
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response 138 of 388:
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Dec 1 20:28 UTC 2001 |
tripwire
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brighn
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response 139 of 388:
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Dec 1 22:51 UTC 2001 |
tripwire 3,0 (blaise)
Methinks Jim doesn't want this one, and is hoping to coax Joe into the correct
answer. I just hope that Joe doesn't start doing the same thing, else we'll
be here a while... trapped in the swamps, the bog, the goo, the ... oops, ran
out of words.
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blaise
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response 140 of 388:
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Dec 2 01:21 UTC 2001 |
A noun, Senator, we need a noun!
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gelinas
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response 141 of 388:
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Dec 2 04:40 UTC 2001 |
I'd love to solve this one, but nothing's coming up yet. I'm hoping to
come up with a word that actually eliminates some letters, but no joy, yet.
wildfire
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blaise
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response 142 of 388:
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Dec 2 19:22 UTC 2001 |
networks
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brighn
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response 143 of 388:
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Dec 3 04:32 UTC 2001 |
wildfire 3,0 (gelinas)
networks 0,2 (blaise)
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gelinas
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response 144 of 388:
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Dec 3 04:40 UTC 2001 |
This doesn't fit, but it may help me figure it out:
auguries
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brighn
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response 145 of 388:
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Dec 3 14:38 UTC 2001 |
auguries 2,4 (gelinas)
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brighn
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response 146 of 388:
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Dec 3 14:42 UTC 2001 |
Hints: Six of the eight letters appear in auguries; of the other two letters,
one has appeared only once, and the other hasn't appeared at all yet. All
eight letters are different.
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blaise
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response 147 of 388:
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Dec 3 14:55 UTC 2001 |
quixotic
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brighn
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response 148 of 388:
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Dec 3 17:52 UTC 2001 |
quixotic 2,1 (blaise)
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gelinas
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response 149 of 388:
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Dec 3 19:11 UTC 2001 |
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