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Author:  kingjon [ September 20th, 2018, 12:03 am ]
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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.

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 20th, 2018, 7:18 am ]
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World

Author:  kingjon [ September 20th, 2018, 10:40 am ]
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world (AuthorFaith): 1

Author:  atpollard [ September 21st, 2018, 8:50 am ]
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least

Author:  kingjon [ September 21st, 2018, 12:16 pm ]
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least (atpollard): 0

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 21st, 2018, 2:18 pm ]
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whirl

Author:  kingjon [ September 21st, 2018, 4:49 pm ]
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whirl (AuthorFaith): 0

Author:  atpollard [ September 24th, 2018, 12:51 pm ]
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Guess = "hunch"

Author:  kingjon [ September 24th, 2018, 1:05 pm ]
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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

Author:  atpollard [ September 24th, 2018, 1:34 pm ]
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kingjon wrote:
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.

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 24th, 2018, 7:16 pm ]
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Girth

Author:  kingjon [ September 24th, 2018, 10:59 pm ]
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Thank you for pointing out the error in the example, atpollard; I've fixed the original post.

girth (AuthorFaith): 4

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 27th, 2018, 6:33 am ]
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I think I know what the word is. Can I guess or not?

Author:  kingjon [ September 27th, 2018, 12:21 pm ]
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AuthorFaith wrote:
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.)

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 28th, 2018, 6:42 am ]
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Birth

Author:  atpollard [ September 28th, 2018, 9:58 am ]
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Mirth

(can I hope that I don't win) ;)

Author:  kingjon [ September 28th, 2018, 10:09 am ]
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(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.)

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 29th, 2018, 8:15 am ]
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I am thinking of a five letter word.

Birth = 0

Author:  kingjon [ September 29th, 2018, 11:04 am ]
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wreak

Author:  atpollard [ September 29th, 2018, 6:01 pm ]
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thing

Author:  Faith_Blum [ September 30th, 2018, 7:09 am ]
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wreak (kingjon) = 0

thing (atpollard) = 0

Author:  kingjon [ September 30th, 2018, 8:27 am ]
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rowdy

Author:  atpollard [ September 30th, 2018, 10:17 am ]
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Stoic

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 1st, 2018, 6:24 am ]
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rowdy (kingjon) = 0

stoic (atpollard) = 0

Author:  kingjon [ October 1st, 2018, 8:25 am ]
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angel

Author:  atpollard [ October 1st, 2018, 9:12 am ]
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bland

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 3rd, 2018, 5:46 am ]
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Angel (kingjon) = 0

Bland (atpollard) = 2

Author:  kingjon [ October 3rd, 2018, 11:45 am ]
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class

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 4th, 2018, 6:55 am ]
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Class (kingjon) = 4

Author:  atpollard [ October 7th, 2018, 12:04 pm ]
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Clasp

Author:  kingjon [ October 7th, 2018, 12:07 pm ]
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(atpollard may well have gotten it, but I'll make my guess of the other possibility anyway ...)

glass

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 8th, 2018, 6:47 am ]
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We have a winner...

*drumroll*

Congratulations to kingjon! The word is Glass!

Author:  atpollard [ October 8th, 2018, 8:15 am ]
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AuthorFaith wrote:
We have a winner...
*drumroll*
Congratulations to kingjon! The word is Glass!

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

Congratulations.

Author:  kingjon [ October 8th, 2018, 9:45 am ]
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I am thinking of a five letter word.

glass (lastword): 0

Author:  Rachel Newhouse [ October 8th, 2018, 12:53 pm ]
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juicy

Author:  kingjon [ October 8th, 2018, 1:13 pm ]
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(Good to see someone other than the 3 of us joining in ... :))

juicy (Lt. General Hansen): 0

Author:  atpollard [ October 8th, 2018, 2:46 pm ]
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tipsy

Author:  kingjon [ October 8th, 2018, 3:05 pm ]
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tipsy (atpollard): 2

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 9th, 2018, 9:36 am ]
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Tight

Author:  kingjon [ October 9th, 2018, 12:32 pm ]
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tight (AuthorFaith): 1

Author:  Rachel Newhouse [ October 9th, 2018, 12:54 pm ]
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dicey

Author:  kingjon [ October 9th, 2018, 1:14 pm ]
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dicey (Lt. General Hansen): 2

(Not long now ... :))

Author:  atpollard [ October 9th, 2018, 2:03 pm ]
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ripen

Author:  kingjon [ October 9th, 2018, 2:12 pm ]
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ripen (atpollard): 3

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 11th, 2018, 8:23 am ]
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piped

Author:  kingjon [ October 11th, 2018, 8:31 am ]
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piped (AuthorFaith): 4

Author:  Rachel Newhouse [ October 12th, 2018, 12:17 am ]
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wiped

Author:  kingjon [ October 12th, 2018, 12:21 am ]
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wiped (Lt. General Hansen): 3

Author:  Faith_Blum [ October 12th, 2018, 6:51 am ]
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Piper

Author:  kingjon [ October 12th, 2018, 8:15 am ]
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Ding ding ding ding ding!

piper (AuthorFaith): 5

You're up again! :)

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