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| 25 new of 1000 responses total. |
chelsea
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response 200 of 1000:
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Jul 21 19:59 UTC 1993 |
Well, if you put it that way, competing. ;-)
ovens
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katie
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response 201 of 1000:
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Jul 21 20:02 UTC 1993 |
plait
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srw
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response 202 of 1000:
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Jul 21 20:20 UTC 1993 |
guess
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robh
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response 203 of 1000:
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Jul 21 23:29 UTC 1993 |
chews
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rcurl
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response 204 of 1000:
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Jul 22 05:07 UTC 1993 |
ovens 2 (chelsea)
plait 0 (katie)
guess 5 (srw)
chews 2 (robh) - in case someone can't figure it out.
Steve has gone and done it, so he's "it". How'd you do it, Steve?
Up to this round, logic yielded ..e.s It looks like chelsea, srw
and robh were pursuing that. True? Or shear (dumb) luck?
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srw
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response 205 of 1000:
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Jul 22 06:16 UTC 1993 |
Well, I think this time it was a combination. I certainly had it narrowed
down to ..e.s as did others. Also note that a lot of letters were
eliminated in the 1st 2nd and 4th space. I wrote down the letters
that were left in each pile and a big E and a big S and stared at
it and hoped something would happen. This is the luck part,
something did. (I saw "guess") I guess it could as easily have been
ovens, but since that guess was already taken, I had to guess guess.
It's all very scientific, but at the same time pretty chancy and fun,
'cause you never know if you're going to see anything when you stare
at piles of letters.
Hmm. Well this is a lot of fun, so I see no reason not to think of
another 5 letter word, so I have done so and I am ready for the
next game to begin. I hope this word doesn't get figured out from
out of the blue like my last one.
I am thinking of a 5 letter word.
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robh
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response 206 of 1000:
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Jul 22 11:32 UTC 1993 |
going
(Yes, rcurl, I had narrow it down to ??e?s, but as soon as I saw srw's
guess, I figured he had it.)
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rcurl
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response 207 of 1000:
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Jul 22 13:17 UTC 1993 |
flush
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srw
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response 208 of 1000:
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Jul 22 13:57 UTC 1993 |
going 0 (robh)
flush 0 (rcurl)
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remmers
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response 209 of 1000:
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Jul 22 16:30 UTC 1993 |
pearl
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rcurl
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response 210 of 1000:
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Jul 22 21:08 UTC 1993 |
light
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robh
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response 211 of 1000:
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Jul 22 22:18 UTC 1993 |
march
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chelsea
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response 212 of 1000:
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Jul 22 23:16 UTC 1993 |
outer
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srw
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response 213 of 1000:
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Jul 23 00:45 UTC 1993 |
pearl 1 (remmers)
light 1 (rcurl)
march 0 (robh)
outer 0 (chelsea)
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robh
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response 214 of 1000:
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Jul 23 03:29 UTC 1993 |
abort
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srw
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response 215 of 1000:
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Jul 23 04:51 UTC 1993 |
abort 0 (robh)
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rcurl
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response 216 of 1000:
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Jul 23 05:37 UTC 1993 |
pique
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srw
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response 217 of 1000:
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Jul 23 12:47 UTC 1993 |
pique 1 (rcurl)
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katie
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response 218 of 1000:
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Jul 23 15:53 UTC 1993 |
press
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srw
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response 219 of 1000:
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Jul 23 16:46 UTC 1993 |
press 1 (katie)
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rcurl
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response 220 of 1000:
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Jul 23 18:31 UTC 1993 |
pygmy
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katie
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response 221 of 1000:
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Jul 23 21:14 UTC 1993 |
dress
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srw
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response 222 of 1000:
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Jul 23 21:35 UTC 1993 |
pygmy 5 (rcurl)
Congratulations. Over to you, rcurl.
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rcurl
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response 223 of 1000:
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Jul 24 02:40 UTC 1993 |
Anyone interested in the successful analyses? Just in case: all those
ones on p words *suggested* p was the first letter. If so, it had to
be p?g?? or p??h?. But aeio and u would not fit in the second place, so
it had to be pyg??. However pygmy was not the *only* word that matched
all the cluses! I chose the most probable one. OK: next round.
I am thinking of a 5 letter word.
(Letter.match rules in /u/rcurl/lettermatch.rules; accumulated guesses
in /u/rcurl/letter.match)
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srw
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response 224 of 1000:
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Jul 24 02:54 UTC 1993 |
Of course when you pick a word, you can never predict what clues people
will have at their disposal to discover its secrets. Nevertheless,
this one went very well. I was hoping the lack of conventional vowels
would force someone to conclude that the vowel must be a "y", however
unlikely.
A related 5-letter word game, Jotto, is very unkind to words like
pygmy, because you can eliminate letters in all 5 positions at once.
This game is much kinder to words with few common letters (from the
pov of the person choosing the target word) because the letters
must be eliminated independently at each of the 5 positions.
Hence words like pygmy are less ill-advised here.
"stain"
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