GAME: *LINGO* Revival Round (14)!! [M.A. Lady Vulpix]

[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.

The first word has nine letters.

[Knight of Time]

Threesome

[mr_pikachu]

Awesome! It's back! I loved this game back in the day...

analogous

[Magmar]

Threesome: 1-2-6
Analogous: 1-3-5

[Knight of Time]

Authentic

[Blademaster]

Sweet! I love word games!

METRONOME.

[Magmar]

Authentic: 1-2-6
Metronome: 0-4-5

[Knight of Time]

Aeroblast

[Magmar]

Aeroblast: 0-4-5

[Shadow Wolf]

Let's see if I can help

Adventure

[Magmar]

Adventure: 0-5-4

[Shadow Wolf]

Hmm, not much help...

Let's go with:

Universal

[Blademaster]

How about BREAKFAST?

[Magmar]

Universal: 3-2-4
Breakfast: 0-3-6

Getting closer!

[Blademaster]

Well, this *is* a Pokemon message board...

How about TORTERRAS?

[Magmar]

Torterras: 3-0-6

[Blademaster]

How about...

LADDERMAN?

[Magmar]

Ladderman: 3-2-4

[Blademaster]

Um...

YESTERDAY?

[mr_pikachu]

I have a question. In the old days of Lingo, we were allowed to use the Grep program, but only to eliminate choices based on certain traits. (For instance, if we knew that a certain letter was in a certain spot, we could eliminate any words that didn't fit that specific criteria. Likewise, we could eliminate words that had letters which we knew weren't in the puzzle.) Is such limited use of the Grep program still legal?

(If you don't recall what Grep is, ask Gabi. She's the one who gave me my copy. And incidentally, I need to ask her for another copy of the word list; mine got corrupted.)

As for a guess... corrupted works.

[Magmar]

Well, most of the members here don't have Grep. Wait and ask Gabi what she thinks, I trust her decision.

Yesterday: 2-1-6
Corrupted: 1-4-4

[mr_pikachu]

Okay, let's try a different tactic. xylophone

[Blademaster]

I agree - if I've figured out what that 1 right-place letter is, this may help...

MARSUPIAL?

[Lady Vulpix]

I think it's ok to use Grep, it doesn't really make much of a difference, it just helps you do an easy task faster. And you can download it for free.

I'm not using it yet, though. I'm posting a guess to help confirm or discard something:

UNIVERSES

[Magmar]

Xylophone: 0-4-5
Marsupial: 1-2-6
Universes: 2-2-5

[Blademaster]

AMSTERDAM, maybe?

[Magmar]

Are you getting somewhere, or did you get lost in:

Amsterdam: 2-1-6

[Blademaster]

Maybe... SINCERELY?

[Lady Vulpix]

This is WONDERFUL!

[Magmar]

Yes! It is indeed wonderful.

Congrats and a point to Lady Vulpix! *Waves wand*

[Lady Vulpix]

Thanks! *Updates plushie list.* I guess it's my turn now, right?

_ _ _ _ _ _ (6)

[Shadow Wolf]

Now that you say it, why don't we try an Update?

[Lady Vulpix]

update: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

Interesting beginning.

[Shadow Wolf]

Thanks! I appreciate it. ^_^

[Blademaster]

How about DEVICE?

[Magmar]

Could there be some sort of Mishap here? Doubt it.

[Zak]

Oh shit I never thought this game would return. lol

This post was brought to you by the creator of this game.

[mr_pikachu]

Let's see what happens with armada.

[Lady Vulpix]

It's nice to see you again, Zak!

thanks: 2 right, 1 misplaced, 3 wrong.
device: 0 right, 0 misplaced, 6 wrong. Valuable!
mishap: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.
return: 1 right, 2 misplaced, 3 wrong.
armada: 0 right, 1 misplaced, 5 wrong.

[Zak]

I miss going to my Auntie's house.

EDIT: Please, Gabi, if you are going to save that plushie list in that form, is there any way you can take out that atrocious sig of mine?

If that is not possible, could you copy it onto something else?