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aruba
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response 250 of 1008:
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Aug 11 12:10 UTC 1994 |
osprey
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carson
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response 251 of 1008:
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Aug 11 14:25 UTC 1994 |
nuzzle
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srw
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response 252 of 1008:
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Aug 11 22:40 UTC 1994 |
I concur with carson that the word is of the for nu..e., and I know it's not
nuclei (or bucket would have been 3 instead of 2) and I know it's not
nuzzer (or hugger would have been 3 instead of 2).
For exactly the reasons you posted in 244, I prefer not to search for
letters. Since this is a game, I like to *win*. However, I am stymied
and have no chance to win if I don't know the word, so I'll switch into
letter guessing mode at this point, and the game will continue.
"payoff"
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aruba
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response 253 of 1008:
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Aug 11 22:40 UTC 1994 |
spooky
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aruba
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response 254 of 1008:
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Aug 11 22:41 UTC 1994 |
Ack! Steve slipped in and put me over the limit!
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rcurl
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response 255 of 1008:
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Aug 12 03:10 UTC 1994 |
nuclei 4 swa
nuzzer 3 kentn (I'm taking his word for it....er...his word?)
osprey 2 aruba
nuzzle 2 carson
payoff 0 srw
Short pause in observance of the 5 word limit.
spooky 0 aruba
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srw
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response 256 of 1008:
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Aug 12 03:22 UTC 1994 |
midway
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aruba
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response 257 of 1008:
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Aug 12 03:25 UTC 1994 |
nudrei (Don't know what it means; just guessing)
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dang
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response 258 of 1008:
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Aug 12 04:00 UTC 1994 |
nudged
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kentn
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response 259 of 1008:
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Aug 12 04:40 UTC 1994 |
duplex
(Rane, "nuzzer" came out of that Shorter OED I sometimes quote from)
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aruba
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response 260 of 1008:
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Aug 12 04:42 UTC 1994 |
nuhrei (No idea)
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carson
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response 261 of 1008:
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Aug 12 04:50 UTC 1994 |
This response has been erased.
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kentn
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response 262 of 1008:
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Aug 12 04:54 UTC 1994 |
Say, if any of these "no clue" guesses are right, I'd not reveal
it unless I saw a source... In fact, I'l be awfully irate if
one of them is correct without a source.
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carson
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response 263 of 1008:
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Aug 12 05:05 UTC 1994 |
nuxrei
;)
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rcurl
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response 264 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:01 UTC 1994 |
Wow! This word has stood up for over 30 guesses, and is even sending
players around the bend. They must live too close to a ------.
midway 0 srw
nudrei aruba you're kidding!
nudged 2 dang
duplex 5 kentn there, that ought to stir things up.
nuhrei aruba yes, he is kidding,
nuxrei carson and so is he.
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kentn
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response 265 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:02 UTC 1994 |
Okay, I haven't a clue what "nudrei", "nuhrei", or "nuxrei" mean,
which is to say I've looked in five dictionaries and can't find
any one of them. To the guessers of those words, please provide
the definitions and reputable sources to back up your guesses.
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kentn
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response 266 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:10 UTC 1994 |
nuplex
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kentn
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response 267 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:11 UTC 1994 |
nuplex = NUclear comPLEX (and I have a source for that; couldn't
guess it until I did)
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rcurl
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response 268 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:27 UTC 1994 |
nuplex 6 kentn Good Job!
My dictionary says: "Coined (1968) by the AEC....any of a number of
proposed concentrations of industrial facilities clustered around a large
nuclear reactor as their source of power."
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kentn
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response 269 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:36 UTC 1994 |
Mine says "a nuclear-powered complex of industrial manufacturers".
Wasn't in my 1988 Web 9th New Collegiate, but it was in a 1990 World
Book Dict.
One confusing aspect of this puzzle was NUCLEI 4. Or maybe I should
say YELLOW 0...shouldn't that be a 1? I had the 4 in nuclei as (I
think everyone else did, too) NU__EI since YELLOW knocked out the L
and BECKON knocked out the C.
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carson
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response 270 of 1008:
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Aug 12 06:52 UTC 1994 |
(bingo! the error I'd been looking for!)
(BTW, with aruba and I having illegitimate guesses, kentn went twice in
a row.)
(I won't guess, because that would be stealing from the sweat of another
man's brow.)
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kentn
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response 271 of 1008:
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Aug 12 08:20 UTC 1994 |
I assume no self-respecting scholar would enter an "illegitimate"
guess, especially after all the challenges you've seen me put to
on the legitimate words I've entered as guesses. While I may not
be able to find your guesses in *my* dictionaries, it's up to Rane
or you to decide if they are illegitimate. I can only ask for proof.
I would be a fool to wwait for you to get your shit together; and
no one stopped playing while I defended my challenged guesses. If
you didn't want me to guess again, you should have refrained from
entering a guess.
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aruba
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response 272 of 1008:
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Aug 12 13:53 UTC 1994 |
I have to disagree with Kent quite strongly. Not all of us have huge
dictionary resources; if someone picks a word that's not in my dictionary,
and the rule is that I can't even *guess* a word that I don't have a
reference for, then I have absolutely *no hope* of winning. I didn't
expect those guesses to be scored if they weren't correct, but I do
think that absolutely they should have been winners if they *were*
correct.
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carson
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response 273 of 1008:
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Aug 12 14:47 UTC 1994 |
(I couldn't care less, as long as kentn has picked the next word. ;>)
scored
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asp
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response 274 of 1008:
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Aug 12 15:52 UTC 1994 |
hunter
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