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signet
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response 400 of 1032:
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Feb 6 14:24 UTC 1996 |
people
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kentn
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response 401 of 1032:
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Feb 7 05:20 UTC 1996 |
Interesting guesses...
dilute 1 (rywfol)
rattan 0 (rcurl)
people 1 (signet)
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rywfol
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response 402 of 1032:
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Feb 7 06:23 UTC 1996 |
advice
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kentn
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response 403 of 1032:
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Feb 7 13:14 UTC 1996 |
advice 0 (rywfol)
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signet
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response 404 of 1032:
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Feb 7 13:54 UTC 1996 |
simply
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rcurl
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response 405 of 1032:
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Feb 7 15:26 UTC 1996 |
pinxit
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albaugh
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response 406 of 1032:
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Feb 7 19:58 UTC 1996 |
enigma
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kentn
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response 407 of 1032:
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Feb 8 04:03 UTC 1996 |
Hmmm...
simply 2 (signet)
pinxit 1 (rcurl)
enigma 2 (albaugh)
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signet
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response 408 of 1032:
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Feb 9 18:25 UTC 1996 |
mimosa
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rywfol
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response 409 of 1032:
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Feb 10 08:03 UTC 1996 |
miasma
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kentn
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response 410 of 1032:
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Feb 11 05:01 UTC 1996 |
mimosa 3 (signet)
miasma 2 (rywfol)
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sweetbrd
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response 411 of 1032:
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Feb 11 18:45 UTC 1996 |
HI, I just joined this cf, and I would like to know if the #s next to the
words mean how many letters there are in the word guessed that are correct,
or if it means that there are the number of correct letters in the right
places.
if it is just the #of correct letters, I think that there is a flaw in the
program.
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kentn
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response 412 of 1032:
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Feb 11 20:16 UTC 1996 |
They are the number of correct letters, by position, in the word
that was guessed. Part of the game is deducing which letters are
correct and in which positions they lie, based on previous guesses.
(The other part being guessing the actual word before all the letters
and their positions are known).
For example, if I were thinking of "YELPED" and you guessed "helped"
that'd be a 5 (the "h" being wrong for its position). Continuing the
example, "yelled" would also be a 5; "helper" would be a 4; "yellow"
would be a 3. "yearly" would be a 2. "unease" would be a 0. Et cetera.
The rules for the 5-letter version of the game are in the file
/u/rcurl/lettermatch.rules. The rules are the same here except we are
using 6-letter words. (The 6-letter game tends to have more obscure
words, although occasionally a very everyday word baffles everyone--for
a while).
I assure you, those are the correct numbers for the word I have in
mind. So, for example, rywfol *has* guessed two correct letters by
position in the word "miasma."
Please feel free to join in. A summary of the guesses for the current
game can be found in /u/kentn/letter.match. This particular word should
be guessed soon; most words don't last beyond a dozen or so guesses.
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signet
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response 413 of 1032:
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Feb 14 13:48 UTC 1996 |
diploma
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kentn
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response 414 of 1032:
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Feb 15 02:40 UTC 1996 |
That's seven letters... :)
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orinoco
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response 415 of 1032:
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Feb 17 01:30 UTC 1996 |
<orinoco considers teh relative merits of "Diplomat" and "Diplomacy", but
declines>
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kentn
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response 416 of 1032:
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Feb 17 05:12 UTC 1996 |
That's very diplomatic
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carson
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response 417 of 1032:
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Feb 18 17:26 UTC 1996 |
myopia
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kentn
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response 418 of 1032:
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Feb 18 22:54 UTC 1996 |
myopia 1 (carson)
Maybe this word is too obscure, but I found it in several
dictionaries. I don't believe it is as obscure as Rane's
"nuplex" though (which I found in only one dictionary after
a long search). So have faith, you have lots of clues to the
word already and as a last resort you can always try to eliminate
individual letters (which I think we've done several times in
the history of this game).
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rcurl
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response 419 of 1032:
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Feb 19 05:50 UTC 1996 |
"too obscure"? Heck, if you want easy stuff, play the Five Letter Common
Word game in another item. So, Kent....you still bear a grudge?... 8}.
eidola
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kentn
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response 420 of 1032:
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Feb 20 02:09 UTC 1996 |
eidola 6 (rcurl)
Ding! We have a winner!
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kentn
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response 421 of 1032:
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Feb 20 02:47 UTC 1996 |
After some of the comments I've seen in this game regarding the
difficulty of the words, I'm not sure what is "too obsure" hence the
"Maybe". I don't know if I'd call it a "grudge"...I was very glad to
find "nuplex" as up to that point nothing else was fitting the clues.
I was led on a rather long search, but I think that's one of the fun
things about this game. Others may not see it the same way, though.
Congrats to Rane on discovering the phantom(s)! Your word...
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rcurl
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response 422 of 1032:
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Feb 20 17:59 UTC 1996 |
I think eidola was a GREAT word. After I had winnowed the options it took
more than one search through my Webster's New World Dict. (2nd College Ed.
- which so far has had every word used in this game) because the word is
entered as eidolon, and its pluralization is not self-evident (to me).
So - I'm thinking of a new word, and its not
eidola 0
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srw
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response 423 of 1032:
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Feb 21 07:30 UTC 1996 |
rubric
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signet
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response 424 of 1032:
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Feb 21 19:41 UTC 1996 |
(sorry about the 7 ltr "diploma" I was having a hard time coming up with a
word)
stairs
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