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rcurl
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response 150 of 1008:
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Aug 5 07:23 UTC 1994 |
quince 1 brighn (welcome! glad you joined the fun!)
mucous 2 carson
hubbub 6 kentn And, we have a WINNER.
I was trying to solve the problem myself as you-all guessed - to see if
I could follow the logic that would lead to the correct guess. Well,
I couldn't. Knowing the word made it impossible to *concentrate* on
the clues.
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kentn
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response 151 of 1008:
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Aug 5 22:43 UTC 1994 |
Well, we had a *lot* of letters eliminated and that helped. I spent
quite a bit of time looking at the words that had hits (after getting
rid of the known-wrong letters at that point):
_U_F__ (curfew 1)
NUD__K (nudnik 1)
_U____ (curlew 1) --> 2nd letter definitely a "U"
_(U)BR_C (rubric 2)
Q(U)ORUM (2)
_(U)_OUS (rufous 2)
The last two "2" hits have a "U" in common in the 5 position, which is
a possibility (it didn't seem that _UOO__ would be very likely, for
example, or if you really look at those "2"s you can see that if the 2
in rubric is _UB___ then you have to eliminate the OR in quorum, making
that 5 position U reasonably likely--although QU____ is good, too; if
the 2 in rubric is _U_R__, then the 2 in quorum will not have one of
Q_O_UM, which means for rufous you are left with _U__US, still looking
pretty probable for a _U__U_). If _U__U_ were the case, then what
about rubric? Which of the "B" "R" or "C" works? So I scanned the
dictionary for:
_UB_U_
_U_RU_
_U__UC
with the remaining first letters (DEGHIJLNOQUVWXYZ), with Q being a
very likely first letter given a U in position 2. I didn't find a
whole lot...at least many that didn't contain letters known to be
wrong. "Hubbub" was one that fit...and saved me from scanning a large
portion of the dictionary after first scanning "Q" :) I admit, I made
a few assumptions but that's what you have to do sometimes.
Okay, I'll be thinking of a word next time I log in (couldn't seem to
get through on the Internet most of today, so that's why I haven't
responded sooner).
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aruba
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response 152 of 1008:
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Aug 6 00:04 UTC 1994 |
teepee
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carson
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response 153 of 1008:
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Aug 6 03:04 UTC 1994 |
banana
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arwen
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response 154 of 1008:
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Aug 6 03:20 UTC 1994 |
curlew
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carson
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response 155 of 1008:
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Aug 6 03:25 UTC 1994 |
offset
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arwen
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response 156 of 1008:
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Aug 6 04:53 UTC 1994 |
curfew
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rcurl
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response 157 of 1008:
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Aug 6 04:55 UTC 1994 |
morbid
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carson
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response 158 of 1008:
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Aug 6 08:48 UTC 1994 |
(ok. I'll wait.)
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kentn
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response 159 of 1008:
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Aug 6 09:23 UTC 1994 |
teepee 1 (aruba)
banana 1 (carson)
curlew 0 (arwen)
offset 0 (carson)
curfew 0 (arwen)
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kentn
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response 160 of 1008:
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Aug 6 09:25 UTC 1994 |
morbid 1 (rcurl)
Okay, carson, you can guess now...
Summary is in /u/kentn/letter.match
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carson
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response 161 of 1008:
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Aug 6 10:01 UTC 1994 |
tattoo
(what, ME lurk? never!)
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aruba
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response 162 of 1008:
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Aug 6 13:58 UTC 1994 |
unease :)
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arwen
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response 163 of 1008:
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Aug 6 15:17 UTC 1994 |
coffin
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srw
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response 164 of 1008:
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Aug 6 15:53 UTC 1994 |
assets
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rcurl
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response 165 of 1008:
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Aug 6 16:35 UTC 1994 |
fibula
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kentn
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response 166 of 1008:
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Aug 6 18:09 UTC 1994 |
tattoo 0 (carson)
unease 1 (aruba) Unease strikes again!
coffin 1 (arwen)
assets 0 (srw)
fibula 0 (rcurl)
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aruba
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response 167 of 1008:
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Aug 6 18:19 UTC 1994 |
blebby (like a small blister)
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kentn
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response 168 of 1008:
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Aug 6 18:48 UTC 1994 |
blebby 0 (aruba)
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brighn
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response 169 of 1008:
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Aug 7 06:01 UTC 1994 |
puffin
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flem
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response 170 of 1008:
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Aug 7 06:53 UTC 1994 |
common
How do I read /u/kentn/letter.match?
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srw
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response 171 of 1008:
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Aug 7 06:56 UTC 1994 |
pencil
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rcurl
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response 172 of 1008:
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Aug 7 07:52 UTC 1994 |
You enter more /u/kentn/letter.match
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kentn
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response 173 of 1008:
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Aug 7 09:35 UTC 1994 |
puffin 0 (brighn)
common 1 (flem)
pencil 1 (srw)
Or, you can enter cat /u/kent/letter.match (it's not a very long list)
Or, you can enter less /u/kent/letter.match (if you like more features
than 'more')
Or, you can enter...(sed, awk, grep, perl, etc. commands)...if you
like to do things strangely.
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aruba
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response 174 of 1008:
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Aug 7 16:01 UTC 1994 |
ionize
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