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| 25 new of 1000 responses total. |
katie
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response 600 of 1000:
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Aug 29 19:47 UTC 1993 |
girth
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aa8ij
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response 601 of 1000:
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Aug 29 19:58 UTC 1993 |
eagle
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srw
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response 602 of 1000:
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Aug 29 20:20 UTC 1993 |
What is "hythe"? If someone can confirm that this is a word, I
will post the letter count. Both I and my Merriam-Webster's
are clueless.
hythe * (jdg)
legal 0 (rcurl)
girth 0 (katie)
eagle 1 (aa8ij)
Congratulations, aa8ij, on encountering a letter in common!
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aa8ij
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response 603 of 1000:
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Aug 30 04:33 UTC 1993 |
There is such a word as blyth although I think that it is spelled
blythe (6 letters). I think that it means light and airy. I could be
wrong, but I do an awful lot of crosswords....
terne (sea eagle, seabird ad nausea)
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rcurl
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response 604 of 1000:
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Aug 30 04:36 UTC 1993 |
pulls
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srw
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response 605 of 1000:
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Aug 30 06:31 UTC 1993 |
terne 0 (aa8ij)
pulls 0 (rcurl)
Your definitions are correct definitions of the word "tern"
I responded because "terne" is also a word.
terne n. sheet iron or steel coated with an alloy of about
4 parts lead to 1 part tin.
(This word was news to me, btw. Definition is courtesy of Webster.)
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jdg
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response 606 of 1000:
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Aug 30 12:18 UTC 1993 |
Hythe is a town in East Kent; it's a port town. The non-capitalized version
means a grassy border along a river, though it's not in my Random-House
unabridged. I think I'll have to browse my father's copy of the OED to
find it -- it's an English-English rather than American-English word.
Obviously, though, hythe's not the answer.
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srw
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response 607 of 1000:
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Aug 30 13:12 UTC 1993 |
Most of the players have been willing to be pretty flexible about what
is a word for the purposes of this game. If anyone besides jdg
thinks I should go ahead and give the count for "hythe", I'll do it.
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rcurl
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response 608 of 1000:
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Aug 30 13:35 UTC 1993 |
I'll accept hythe. That lets me offer
ennui
;-)
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srw
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response 609 of 1000:
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Aug 30 16:07 UTC 1993 |
Hey, ennui's a word regardless.
hythe 1 (jdg)
ennui 0 (rcurl)
So it seems jdg should be the one congratulated to be first to spot
a letter.
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katie
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response 610 of 1000:
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Aug 30 17:34 UTC 1993 |
bight
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srw
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response 611 of 1000:
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Aug 30 23:17 UTC 1993 |
bight 2 (katie)
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aa8ij
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response 612 of 1000:
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Aug 30 23:49 UTC 1993 |
blood
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rcurl
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response 613 of 1000:
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Aug 31 00:14 UTC 1993 |
yacht
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srw
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response 614 of 1000:
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Aug 31 05:03 UTC 1993 |
blood 0 (aa8ij)
yacht 5 (rcurl) !! Congratulations, rcurl, on the 19th guess. (whew)
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rcurl
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response 615 of 1000:
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Aug 31 13:05 UTC 1993 |
I am thinking of (another) five letter word.
(Letter.match game instructions are in /rcurl/lettermatch.rules
A listing of guesses, counts and guessors will be in /rcurl/letter.match.)
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remmers
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response 616 of 1000:
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Aug 31 16:05 UTC 1993 |
modem
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aa8ij
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response 617 of 1000:
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Aug 31 20:30 UTC 1993 |
piano
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chelsea
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response 618 of 1000:
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Aug 31 21:55 UTC 1993 |
burst
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rcurl
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response 619 of 1000:
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Sep 1 01:46 UTC 1993 |
modem 0 remmers
piano 0 aa8ij
burst 0 chelsea
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katie
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response 620 of 1000:
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Sep 1 02:04 UTC 1993 |
cloud
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rcurl
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response 621 of 1000:
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Sep 1 02:49 UTC 1993 |
cloud 0 katie
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rcurl
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response 622 of 1000:
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Sep 1 03:20 UTC 1993 |
I scanned the previous games, and have the following information:
We have completed 24 games.
The four longest surviving word were gauge (23), oomph (21), yacht (19),
and salep (18). The shortest survivor was awful (5).
The average number guesses that it took to reach a word with one or
more letters correct is 3.67. I calculated the theoretical value for
this if the words were just a sequence of five random letters, and
the expected value is 5.62. The distribution has a long tail, so the
sample size (24) is probably too small to compare theory and observation.
Word guesses, of course, are not random letter sequences, so we might
not expect the above theoretical value.
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srw
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response 623 of 1000:
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Sep 1 04:48 UTC 1993 |
troth
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remmers
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response 624 of 1000:
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Sep 1 09:27 UTC 1993 |
organ
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