[GAME] LINGO, ROUND 15!! (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.

The first word has five letters.

[mr_pikachu]

Guess who zooms into the thread and guesses first!

[Shadow Wolf]

*Later, shinypkmnchaser guesses second*

[Blademaster]

Even later, yours truly guesses FIFTH... third.

[Magmar]

Zooms: 0-0-5
Later: 2-0-3
Fifth: 0-0-5

[mr_pikachu]

Has anyone else seen Mark McGwire hit a homer?

[Blademaster]

Grep's still broke...

LANKY.

[Magmar]

Homer: 1-0-4
Lanky: 1-0-4

[mr_pikachu]

I don't want to be a loser.

[Lady Vulpix]

I'll try level.

[Magmar]

Level: 5-0-0
Good guess, Gabi I have so much to do for the next few days with back-to-school and feeling better, finally, so I picked an easy yet slightly tricky one ^_^ "Later" was a lucky early guess.

Your turn!

[Shadow Wolf]

Nice move Gabi. Who would've thought that a first guess would have been able to reveal almost half of the real word.

I'll be waiting for the next word.

Later!

[Lady Vulpix]

Indeed, Louis. I think all the guesses were lucky. All of them had a 0 somewhere.

6 letters now.

[Magmar]

Freeze, like, my feet are doing right now

[Lady Vulpix]

freeze: 1 right, 0 misplaced, 5 wrong. Good start!

[mr_pikachu]

Does anyone else remember Pslightly Psycho Psychic?

[Zak]

Ataxia.

[Magmar]

Rhythm

[Lady Vulpix]

Pslightly?

psycho: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.
ataxia: 1 right, 0 misplaced, 5 wrong.
rhythm: 0 right, 0 misplaced, 6 wrong!

[Magmar]

Escape this madness

[Blademaster]

MISHAP.

[Lady Vulpix]

escape: 1 right, 3 misplaced, 2 wrong.
mishap: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Blademaster]

PATENT.

[mr_pikachu]

Pslightly. Yes, I know. It was very hard on the psyche.

[Magmar]

I'm getting close... I already guessed thrice, may as well make it four times...

[Lady Vulpix]

patent: 1 right, 1 misplaced, 4 wrong.
psyche: 0 right, 3 misplaced, 3 wrong. And now you know what you wanted to know, I pressume.
thrice: 0 right, 2 misplaced, 4 wrong.

[Blademaster]

PLACES.

[Zak]

Does anyone else find this game more fun and enjoyable and challenging without having access to grep? I sure do.

[Lady Vulpix]

More challenging, yes. More enjoyable? I don't know. It's fun to try to figure out how to filter the list, and filtering it by hand is too much of a hassle.

Anyway, you have access to the next round now.

[Zak]

Hmm... okay, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by filtering the list, but all these years I'm actually not sure if we even used the same method.

Anyway, the next one's a niney.

EDIT: and by the way, I DO remember Pslightly Psycho Psychic.

[Lady Vulpix]

Ah, yes, Zak remembers.

I haven't always used the same method, but I'm currently using the word list to help me find possible words.

[Magmar]

In Lapras Valley High, nobody likes Exeggcute.

[mr_pikachu]

Doesn't everybody just love aardvarks?

[Blademaster]

SWAZILAND.

[Zak]

Just a random note, I'm waiting for the day when someone's gonna be psychic and guess the word before any results are posted.

Remembers: 0-2-7

Exeggcute: 0-1-8

Aardvarks: 2-2-5

Swaziland: 2-2-5

[mr_pikachu]

As you already know, I'm a big fan of the xylophone.

[Zak]

Tell me something I don't know...

Xylophone: 1-0-8

[mr_pikachu]

Then you should be able to predict my next guess.

holophone

[Lady Vulpix]

The psychic thing actually happened to me once when I was playing oral Lingo in Spanish with a friend. The word was ANANÁ (pineapple).

marijuana

[Magmar]

Thrusting