This item is for the "five letter word game."

I am thinking of a five-letter word. Post guesses in this thread, and I will reply how many letters match my word in both letter and place: for example, if my word were "color," "crisp" and "bilge" would both receive a score of 1, and "solar" would receive a score of 3. Whoever first guesses the word correctly wins and becomes "it" (responsible for selecting the next word and scoring guesses) for the next game.

If we were in a room together, or in a car traveling somewhere, everyone would be limited to one guess per round and would have to make their guesses in order, but for this electronic medium, we'll loosen that restriction to say merely that each player is limited to one guess before the player who is "it" gives the scores on all pending guesses, and (unless the player who is "it" decides it's been too long and waives this restriction) no one may make two guesses in a row.

Words (to be guessed) must be "common English words," that will be found in pretty much any dictionary; players may guess rarer words, so long as they can find an ordinary dictionary listing the word. As in Scrabble, words cannot require capital letters, internal spaces, periods, hyphens, or any other punctuation.

I am thinking of a five-letter word.

World

world (AuthorFaith): 1

least

least (atpollard): 0

whirl

whirl (AuthorFaith): 0

Guess = "hunch"

Remember that a letter has to be in the target word in the same position to get a point; if the word were "angel" then "glean" would be scored as 0 despite it having all the same letters.

hunch (atpollard): 1

I can live with that (it makes it harder), but you need to fix your example ...

"cooks" would receive a score of 3 implies that position is not important.

Girth

Thank you for pointing out the error in the example, atpollard; I've fixed the original post.

girth (AuthorFaith): 4

I think I know what the word is. Can I guess or not?

It's been long enough that I'll waive the no-consecutive-guesses rule. Go ahead.

(And this thread is hereby moved to General Discussion so we can continue the game once someone locks and archives the Party Room.)

Birth

Mirth

(can I hope that I don't win)

(In reverse order:)

mirth (atpollard): 4
birth (AuthorFaith): 5

DING DING DING!

Faith, you can choose the next word; post to say so when you've thought of one. (In the forum where I learned this game, it's common to start by scoring the word you just correctly guessed, to give an initial not-very-helpful hint, but that's not required if you don't want to.)

I am thinking of a five letter word.

Birth = 0

wreak

thing

wreak (kingjon) = 0

thing (atpollard) = 0

rowdy

Stoic

rowdy (kingjon) = 0

stoic (atpollard) = 0

angel

bland

Angel (kingjon) = 0

Bland (atpollard) = 2

class

Class (kingjon) = 4

Clasp

(atpollard may well have gotten it, but I'll make my guess of the other possibility anyway ...)

glass

We have a winner...

*drumroll*

Congratulations to kingjon! The word is Glass!

HOORAY! I don't have to think of a word!

Congratulations.

I am thinking of a five letter word.

glass (lastword): 0

juicy

(Good to see someone other than the 3 of us joining in ... )

juicy (Lt. General Hansen): 0

tipsy

tipsy (atpollard): 2

Tight

tight (AuthorFaith): 1

dicey

dicey (Lt. General Hansen): 2

(Not long now ... )

ripen

ripen (atpollard): 3

piped

piped (AuthorFaith): 4

wiped

wiped (Lt. General Hansen): 3

Piper

Ding ding ding ding ding!

piper (AuthorFaith): 5

You're up again!