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Grex > Language > #62: Six Letter Word Game (second edition) | |
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| 25 new of 1001 responses total. |
carson
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response 650 of 1001:
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Jun 26 04:22 UTC 1994 |
impute
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aruba
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response 651 of 1001:
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Jun 26 08:38 UTC 1994 |
scotch 0 (wjj)
sclera 0 (kentn)
impute 0 (carson)
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carson
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response 652 of 1001:
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Jun 26 09:50 UTC 1994 |
(someone hurry up and guess! it's been five and a half hours already!)
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srw
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response 653 of 1001:
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Jun 26 13:22 UTC 1994 |
muscle
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aruba
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response 654 of 1001:
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Jun 26 14:31 UTC 1994 |
muscle 0 (srw)
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other
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response 655 of 1001:
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Jun 26 18:17 UTC 1994 |
grotto
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aruba
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response 656 of 1001:
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Jun 26 18:21 UTC 1994 |
grotto 2 (other)
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oid
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response 657 of 1001:
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Jun 26 18:49 UTC 1994 |
grosse
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other
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response 658 of 1001:
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Jun 26 18:51 UTC 1994 |
ginkgo
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kentn
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response 659 of 1001:
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Jun 26 19:25 UTC 1994 |
gingko
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carson
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response 660 of 1001:
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Jun 26 20:11 UTC 1994 |
social
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aruba
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response 661 of 1001:
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Jun 27 04:05 UTC 1994 |
Ding Ding! ginkgo it is. (A ginkgo is a Chinese tree.)
other's up!
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carson
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response 662 of 1001:
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Jun 27 05:11 UTC 1994 |
(this is REALLY getting ridiculous... are you sure you're not
communicating be e-mail?)
:)
morass
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kentn
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response 663 of 1001:
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Jun 27 07:33 UTC 1994 |
unease (...what carson seems to be experiencing...hang in there carson,
it helped me at first to go back over a couple rounds of the
game to see what more expert players were using as logic and
strategy. Keeping good records helps me, as do five or six
different dictionaries.)
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carson
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response 664 of 1001:
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Jun 27 07:40 UTC 1994 |
(but that last one was guessed on a *two* count! where's the logic there?)
:)
twenty
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other
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response 665 of 1001:
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Jun 27 14:19 UTC 1994 |
The logic is in the number of zeros which preceded the two.
I'm thinking of a word which I'm sure you may have heard, and just to get my
kicks, the numbers of letters is six.
morass 0 (carson)
unease 0 (kentn)
twenty 1 (carson)
cat /u/other/letter.match to see the guess list.
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kentn
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response 666 of 1001:
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Jun 27 15:11 UTC 1994 |
uneasy
Right, given the large number of zero guesses, you could eliminate a
lot of letters from those ones and twos, narrowing the possibilites a
lot. You can also eliminate letters from those ones and twos and
threes if you are positive what one or more letters are. Then you need
to pick up on certain combinations of letters that occur regularly in
the English language (a book on elementary cryptanalysis and code-
breaking might be enlightening). The motive here isn't to send a
message (per se) but to make the guessing of a single word difficult.
This limits the kind of word that "lasts a long time" in this game.
Words with common letters in common positions or with common
combinations of letters should fall quickly (though I've been surprised
at what common words don't from time to time--a word that belongs to a
large "family" of similar words, maybe?). Given this, you can expect
weird words a lot of the time...so you start to develop an eye for the
unusual while scanning your dictionaries...
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carson
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response 667 of 1001:
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Jun 27 17:43 UTC 1994 |
(ah-ha. It'd probably help if I made guesses with six-letter words, too.)
;)
letter
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aruba
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response 668 of 1001:
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Jun 28 06:13 UTC 1994 |
ginkgo
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rcurl
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response 669 of 1001:
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Jun 28 06:30 UTC 1994 |
ballot
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kentn
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response 670 of 1001:
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Jun 28 06:40 UTC 1994 |
torsos
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other
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response 671 of 1001:
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Jun 28 15:34 UTC 1994 |
uneasy 0 (kentn)
letter 0 (carson)
ginkgo 0 (aruba)
ballot 1 (rcurl)
torsos 1 (kentn)
guesses in /u/other/letter.match
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other
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response 672 of 1001:
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Jun 28 15:38 UTC 1994 |
(Alas, I have but one dictionary and no cryptanalysis reference...)
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carson
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response 673 of 1001:
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Jun 28 16:05 UTC 1994 |
crypts
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srw
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response 674 of 1001:
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Jun 29 02:11 UTC 1994 |
absurd
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