Game: Lingo 9 (MA)

[Lady Vulpix]

Ok, I'll start with straw. Not the final straw, the first one. Yes, it's late and my normally bad jokes are getting worse.

[Aipom Of Doom]

Straw - 0/0/5

[Lady Vulpix]

punch <- yes, that's a null smilie.

[Aipom Of Doom]

punch - 0/0/5

[Lady Vulpix]

What about gloom?

[Aipom Of Doom]

gloom - 1/0/4

[Lady Vulpix]

Hmmmm.... (which meand thinking but is not really a word). What about bedim?

[Aipom Of Doom]

bedim - 0/3/2. Best one so far I guess .

[Lady Vulpix]

The word gybed fits, but it's a strange one.

[Aipom Of Doom]

gybed - 0/2/3

[Pichu]

Leads should clear it up.

[mr_pikachu]

gloom - 1/0/4

gybed - 0/2/3

Huh? Something doesn't add up here...

There must be one letter in gloom that is in the word and in the correct spot. But think about it. It can't be g, because gybed begins with a g, and it is has no letters in the correct place. None of the other letters in gloom is even in gybed, and gybed has two letters within it that are correct (albeit in the wrong place). Therefore, none of the letters in gloom can be in the correct spot, yet it seems by the score given for it that there is one.

Am I being a stupid newbie in this game and missing something, or is there something awry here?

[mr_pikachu]

The word gleam should help narrow things down.

[Aipom Of Doom]

leads - 1/1/3
gleam - 0/1/4

[Lady Vulpix]

It must be diode.

[Aipom Of Doom]

Correct. Gabi wins a diode plushie.

[Lady Vulpix]

Thanks. I had th feeling you'd do something chemistry-related. Though I wasn't sure until I got _ _ O D _, has an I and an E and has none of the letters from {S,T,R,A,W,P,U,N,C,H,M,G,U,L,B} and E isn't second and D isn't last. (That's all the information I'd gathered by the time I realized what the word was).

Ok, my next word has 6 letters.
_ _ _ _ _ _

Zak will have to do some work to update the scores after his one day off.

[Aipom Of Doom]

pizzaz

And since when are diodes chemistry related

[Lady Vulpix]

Since they're electron tubes.

pizzaz: 1 misplaced, 5 wrong. Closer than the first guesses for the last 2 words.

[Aipom Of Doom]

pickax

[Lady Vulpix]

pickax: 1 right, 1 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Everoy]

papaya

[Lady Vulpix]

Yummy!
papaya: 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Aipom Of Doom]

pickle

[Lady Vulpix]

pickle: 1 misplaced, 5 wrong.
I won a pickle plushie here once.

[Everoy]

I think I'll start trying to find 6 wrong words.
zenith

[Lady Vulpix]

If that was your aim, you've failed this time.
zenith: 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Everoy]

Hmm...
crabby

[Lady Vulpix]

crabby: 1 misplaced, 5 wrong.
No one's managed to get 6 wrong yet.

[Aipom Of Doom]

sphinx

[Everoy]

relics

[Lady Vulpix]

sphinx: 5 right, 1 wrong. O_O
relics: 1 misplaced, 5 wrong.

[Aipom Of Doom]

sphynx? I don't see what else it could possibly be, despite this not being a word as far as I know o_O.

[Everoy]

Hmm...
Er....
Sphanx?

[Lady Vulpix]

It IS a word.

[google]sphynx[/google]

Ok, your turn.

[Aipom Of Doom]

dictionary.com says otherwise... but whatever =p.

Five letters this time .

[Everoy]

radon!!!

[Lady Vulpix]

It would be nice if Chris made a dictionary tag.

[Aipom Of Doom]

radon - 0/0/5
would - 0/1/4

[Lady Vulpix]

licks.