Five Letter Word Game

kingjon · **Posted:** December 14th, 2018, 10:49 am

glide (Minstrelgirl451): 3

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 15th, 2018, 12:00 pm

slide

kingjon · **Posted:** December 15th, 2018, 5:29 pm

slide (Lt. General Hansen): 3

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Pride

kingjon · **Posted:** December 19th, 2018, 9:42 pm

pride (Minstrelgirl451): 3

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 19th, 2018, 11:06 pm

abide

kingjon · **Posted:** December 19th, 2018, 11:11 pm

abide (Lt. General Hansen): 4

kingjon · **Posted:** December 19th, 2018, 11:11 pm

abide (Lt. General Hansen): 4

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Hmmm... Bride. Not sure how helpful that will be, but I'm having trouble thinking of words today.

kingjon · **Posted:** December 24th, 2018, 7:34 pm

bride (Minstrelgirl451): 3

(Remember that not all words are nouns, or even verbs

)

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Thanks for the tip! I shall ponder that over Christmas...

And Merry Christmas to all the game participants!

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 27th, 2018, 11:48 pm

aside

kingjon · **Posted:** December 28th, 2018, 12:10 am

At last!

aside (Lt. General Hansen): 5

You're up, Aubrey!

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 28th, 2018, 11:56 am

VICTORY IS MINE!! *cough* Sorry, the coffee is kicking in. :dieshappy:

*computes for a second*

aside (winning guess): 0

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Congratulations, Lt. General Hansen! (Should I call you General, rather than your full username?)

Hatch

kingjon · **Posted:** December 28th, 2018, 7:56 pm

angel

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 29th, 2018, 11:46 am

(You can call me whatever you want, ma'am. :dieshappy:

)

hatch (Minstrelgirl451): 1
angel (kingjon): 0

Faith_Blum · **Posted:** December 31st, 2018, 9:42 am

later

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** December 31st, 2018, 11:15 am

later (AuthorFaith): 0

kingjon · **Posted:** December 31st, 2018, 11:35 am

witty

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** January 2nd, 2019, 11:56 am

witty (kingjon): 0

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 6th, 2019, 1:45 am

hedge

kingjon · **Posted:** January 6th, 2019, 2:02 pm

plush

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Scims

Lt. General Hansen wrote:

(You can call me whatever you want, ma'am. :dieshappy:

)

Alright, Fearsome Dragon of the North!

Actually, I looked it up, and it seems it is fine to say "General Hansen" or write Ltg. Hanson as the abbreviation. Lieutenant General Hansen would be required in a more formal venue, though.

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** January 6th, 2019, 9:13 pm

Minstrelgirl451 wrote:

Scims

Lt. General Hansen wrote:

(You can call me whatever you want, ma'am. :dieshappy:

)

Alright, Fearsome Dragon of the North!

Actually, I looked it up, and it seems it is fine to say "General Hansen" or write Ltg. Hanson as the abbreviation. Lieutenant General Hansen would be required in a more formal venue, though.

(I did not know that, actually. Look at you, educating me on my own username. :dieshappy:

)

kingjon wrote:

plush

HOW DID YOU--never mind, yes, that's correct.

kingjon · **Posted:** January 7th, 2019, 10:51 pm

Lt. General Hansen wrote:

kingjon wrote:

plush

HOW DID YOU--never mind, yes, that's correct.

Wait, what? :shock:

My strategy is usually to choose a word that fits the clues given so far at random (words scoring "0" are most useful of all, by the way), and at this point there were still hundreds if not thousands of common five-letter words fitting the five data points you'd given.

If it's my turn again, then I am thinking of a five-letter word that is not

plush (lastword): 1

(And since I was not expecting this, I'll also score the last couple of guesses that people made in the last round, to speed up this one.)

hedge (Alias Ember): 0
skims (Minstrelgirl451): 1

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 8th, 2019, 12:27 am

slack

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Splat

kingjon · **Posted:** January 8th, 2019, 11:38 am

slack (Alias Ember): 1
splat (Minstrelgirl451): 0

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** January 8th, 2019, 5:21 pm

flood

kingjon · **Posted:** January 8th, 2019, 5:25 pm

flood (Lt General Hansen): 0

(Not long now ...)

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Which

kingjon · **Posted:** January 10th, 2019, 4:49 pm

And, of the seven or so common words that fit the scores I've given so far ...

which (Minstrelgirl451): 5

... you guessed the very one I had in mind! It's now your turn to choose a word.

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Yay!!!

My mom and dad have been enjoying following this game, and have been excited to hear the scores. So, kingjon, your game is a hit!

(Dad asked if I win $1000. I told him I get to pick the next word. Which Mom said is better than $1000. :rofl:

)

Ok, after a bit of thought, I have the perfect word!

Which - 0

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 10th, 2019, 8:20 pm

plaid

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Plaid - 0 (Alias Ember)

kingjon · **Posted:** January 10th, 2019, 9:56 pm

budge

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Budge - 0 (kingjon)

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** January 10th, 2019, 10:45 pm

merry

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 10th, 2019, 11:51 pm

saved

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Merry - 1 (Lt. General Hansen)
Saved - 0 (Alias Ember)

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 11th, 2019, 3:20 pm

mills

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Mills - 0 (Alias Ember)

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 12th, 2019, 1:02 am

Enemy

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Enemy - 1 (Alias Ember)

Just a reminder (I messed up on this earlier) that you need to wait both for your guess to be scored, and for someone else to play before guessing again. Here is kingjon's reminder:

kingjon wrote:

I'll allow it just this once, but as per the rules in my post introducing this game, please wait until at least one other player has made a guess before guessing again.

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** January 12th, 2019, 11:30 am

scaly

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Scaly - 2 (Lt. General Hansen)

Alias Ember · **Posted:** January 12th, 2019, 9:48 pm

Minstrelgirl451 wrote:

Enemy - 1 (Alias Ember)

Just a reminder (I messed up on this earlier) that you need to wait both for your guess to be scored, and for someone else to play before guessing again. Here is kingjon's reminder:

kingjon wrote:

I'll allow it just this once, but as per the rules in my post introducing this game, please wait until at least one other player has made a guess before guessing again.

Oops, sorry! I forgot about that. :blush:

Um, the only word I can find matching all the clues (if I've read them aright) is an obsolete word meaning "to calm or to soothe" dating back to the days of Edmund Spencer. I'd never heard of it until today:
Accoy

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

Alias Ember wrote:

Oops, sorry! I forgot about that. :blush:

It's fine.

Alias Ember wrote:

Um, the only word I can find matching all the clues (if I've read them aright) is an obsolete word meaning "to calm or to soothe" dating back to the days of Edmund Spencer. I'd never heard of it until today:
Accoy

Ummm... I hadn't heard of that word either... Let me double-check the scores...

Minstrelgirl451 · **Joined:** December 3rd, 2018, 2:56 pm **Posts:** 333

(Edited to fix typing errors... I was really tired when I wrote this. :roll:

)

Alright, here are all the words so far. A score of 0 doesn't mean none of the letters are in the word, just that none are in the word in the right position. So if the word is tar, rat would get a score of 1, even though all three letters are in both words.

Which - 0
Plaid - 0
Budge - 0
Merry - 1
Saved - 0
Mills - 0
Enemy - 1
Scaly - 2
Accoy - 2
I had assumed my solution was pretty common... But it isn't the "main heading" form of the word in the dictionary... I shall apologize profusely if this is a weird bit of vocabulary I picked up from reading older books in my youth... If the consensus is that there aren't any more words that fit the clues, I can give you the part of speech (Which I think will get everyone on the right track)

Five Letter Word Game

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