[GAME] LINGO, VERSION 16!! (A.A.)

[Magmar]

Game Play

• The game is like MasterMind, except with words, usually 5-12 letters long. There's a given word with a given amount of letters, and everyone guesses it. The person in charge each round rates the guesses with how many letters are in the correct places (right), how many letters are in the word but not the right places (misplaced), and how many not at all (wrong).
  
• Say I've come up with the secret word "cow". I'll tell you "Three letters". You guess "two". Someone else guesses "oar". A third person guesses "the".
  
• I'll return the results as:
• Two: 0-2-1 (None correct, two misplaced letters, one letter is irrelevant to the word.)
• Oar: 0-1-2
• The: 0-0-3
  
• Using that logic, you could recognize that two of the letters in "two" are found in the word; a third letter, which may overlap with the original two, is possibly misplaced. The letters in "the" are not found in the secret word, so you know that the "t" in "two" is not in the secret word. So "w" and "o" are found in the secret word.
  
• Following that logic, you know that it must be "o" from "oar" that is also in the secret word. Since the "o" cannot fall in the first or third slot, you can discern that "o" is the second letter. And since "w" cannot be in the second slot, it must be either in the first or third.
  
• Your word is either _ o w, or w o _. All other letters presented are not in the word.
  
• Game play continues until somebody properly guesses the word. That person then runs the next round of Lingo.

Rules

• 1. I do use a checker to verify how many right, wrong and misplaced. Please try to work them out on your own rather than search around online for a puzzle solving program. That's cheating and it kills the fun and challenge.
  
• 2. You may guess as many times as you like in each puzzle, but only guess one word at a time, and do not post twice until I have posted with the reply to your original word.
  
• 3. Choose words that are in the English language, not hyphenated or spaced, and try not to make the words too obscure. Don't use proper nouns, as they are not universal.
  
• HOWEVER: When guessing, you may use a proper, one-word noun, like Wednesday.
  
• Also, words have to be verifiable through an official English dictionary or thesaurus as real words that are not classified as "archaic" (i.e. talketh).
  
• 4. You score one point for each solved puzzle. I have the old score table, don't worry! I'll present it after this round.

The official Lingo Calculator™ by Lady Vulpix can be found here! (That's how I check the 1-2-0 etc.) No it won't help you since you don't know the original word.

[Lady Vulpix]

Alright. The next word will have 7 letters.

[Inferno_Dragon]

How about the word BIOFUEL?

[Lady Vulpix]

biofuel: 0 right, 1 misplaced, 6 wrong.

[Inferno_Dragon]

How about the word ABILITY?

[Zak]

Alright

It's been a while since I touched on this game, but I have a question about the rules, cause there's one part I don't remember writing, and I kind of have an issue with...

# 3. Choose words that are in the English language, not hyphenated or spaced, and try not to make the words too obscure. Don't use proper nouns, as they are not universal.
# HOWEVER: When guessing, you may use a proper, one-word noun, like Wednesday.
# Also, words have to be verifiable through an official English dictionary or thesaurus as real words that are not classified as "archaic" (i.e. talketh).

I dunno if you guys decided on this since the last time I touched this game, but I made it clear that you can guess ANY word as long as you didn't make it up. Like, not only proper nouns, but like slang terms or commonly used slurred versions of words like "helluva". Or like star wars or LotR or HP terms... yadda yadda yadda, basically as long as the guess comes up on google a lot then it's fine. In a nutshell, it should be okay to verify words via google and not some dictionary or thesaurus. Like if you guess a random combination of letters that looks like it will help but you made it up, for instance... "isngyru" then it should not pass.

Also, as for words to actually USE, it was also okay to use words in that range, but not reccommended. Or rather, if you're gonna use an outsider-word not in English or proper noun, to have some common sense in choosing one that at least a lot of people have heard or would know, like "Pokemon".


So did you add that rule recently or something or just assume it? Otherwise can we change it back to the above?

[Lady Vulpix]

I don't know, sort it out with Magmar. He was the one who revived the game and wrote the current rules. I don't mind either way.

ability: 0 right, 1 misplaced, 6 wrong.
alright: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 5 wrong.

[mr_pikachu]

For an odd one, let's look at isthmus.

[Lady Vulpix]

Is that an odd isthmus? It could be an even one.

isthmus: 0 right, 3 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[mr_pikachu]

Bleh. What about Kakunas?

This prompts the eternal question of the proper way to pluralize the names of Pokemon. Yes, it's an eternal question! Eternal, I tell you!

[Lady Vulpix]

You could always ask the people at Nintendo.

kakunas: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 5 wrong.

That reminds me of one of the first topics I saw on TPM: "Female Eevees and male Vulpixes?" (It was posted by someone who was trying in vain to get those pokemon.)

[Zak]

hmm... supreme.

[Inferno_Dragon]

How about the word TSUNAMI?

[Lady Vulpix]

It's a nice word as long as it's used to refer to my vaporeon and not a catastrophe.

supreme: 1 right, 3 misplaced, 3 wrong.
tsunami: 1 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Inferno_Dragon]

How about the word PALADIN?

[Lady Vulpix]

Sorry I was away yesterday. i was out of my house all day.

paladin: 0 right, 1 misplaced, 6 wrong.

[Magmar]

Usurped?

[mr_pikachu]

I believe the rule is that guesses can use fictional characters/ideas, and that only solutions are at question right now. Keeping that in mind, I'll seek the Cthulhu.

[Lady Vulpix]

Posts! *Grabs them.*


usurped: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 5 wrong.
cthulhu: 0 right, 0 misplaced, 7 wrong. You were lucky. Why would you want to seek Ctulhu? O_o

[mr_pikachu]

I do love eliminating letters. So, do we have any hutches?

[Dark Dragonite]

any dragons in here?

[Inferno_Dragon]

Maybe some (harmony) would make this game go a lot faster?

[Lady Vulpix]

Here be dragons, or so they say on a certain map I've seen. But not in my word.


hutches: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 5 wrong.
dragons: 0 right, 3 misplaced, 4 wrong.
harmony: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 5 wrong.

[Number1ChanseyFan]

A gourami is a type of tropical fish.

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't think is right to pop out of nowhere and steal the show, but if you know the message, then you can't help to say it, right?

[Lady Vulpix]

I guess so, Louis. Nicely done, by the way. The Message plushie's yours.

[Shadow Wolf]

Thanks Gabi!

OK, time to proceed faster. (I hope...)

Nine letters, Go!

[Inferno_Dragon]

How about the word punctilio?

[Lady Vulpix]

I think it can make a scary combination if combined with a sixteenth note.

[Shadow Wolf]

Whoa, I feel kinda dumb about this words. Better get help from wikipedia.

punctilio: zero right, three misplaced, six wrong.

sixteenth: zero right, four misplaced, five wrong.

[Lady Vulpix]

I think it's a good thing that you want to improve your musical knowledge.

[Shadow Wolf]

I think that the music is leading step-by-step to the answer, or something like that.

knowledge: one right, three misplaced, five wrong.

[mr_pikachu]

Is anyone else envious of Alakazams?

[Shadow Wolf]

alakazams: zero right, two misplaced, seven wrong.

[mr_pikachu]

What about good ol' Sudowoodo?

[Crazy Elf Boy]

I pick Standings

[Blademaster]

Who's that Pokemon?

It's Bulbasaur!

[Shadow Wolf]

Whoa, speaking about old (quotes, to be exact)...

sudowoodo: zero right, two misplaced, seven wrong.

standings: zero right, four misplaced, five wrong.

bulbasaur: zero right, three misplaced, six wrong.

[mr_pikachu]

Have you ever been to Ulladulla?

[Lady Vulpix]

I've just noticed a surprising similarity between the words Alakazams and kaimakams. I wonder how similar the results will be.