fabpig
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Should I take that as a "no", then?
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ETUIS....5! . . . The crossword compiler's best friend +15 plainglazed +25 vineetrika +7 fabpig Glycereine - 561 plainglazed - 443 Izzy - 386 Vineetrika - 362 Unreality - 284 t8t8t8 - 190 dawh - 184 Framm - 177 golfjunkie - 170 NickFleming- 136 woon - 136 Blablah99 - 89 Harvey45 - 77 MollyMae - 46 Fabpig - 42 Hirkala - 36 JarZe - 25 yuiop - 21 Abhisk - 20 PVRoot - 20 Filly - 19 Prince Marth - 15 DudleyDude - 15 phaze - 15 Kac_cotu - 5 Over to you vineetrika....
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Ahh but look at the letters we've eliminated...! (ok not many really) cordial
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Thanks for the explanation. The bit that does it best for me is the "we decided we could use 1 word contingency logic". Which is probably back there somewhere but as there are 270+ pages ....... My sincere apologies if I set anybody's hackles on end. And thanks too to dawh for the input. It was nice to know that at least I did make a bit of sense. Once again, my apologies. And why has nobody asked what a 370/148 is/was?
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OK, here's an example from 2 games ago......I've thought of the word - the scoring is the same P _ _ _ _ +5 Glyc FLAME-0 SPORT-0 REPLY-0 MANIA-1 LUCRE-0 PANDA-2 PANIC-2 PACED-2 MANIC-1 DICED - if 0, 2nd letter is A. PACED is 2, first letter is P, last 3 letters can't be right cause of CED in DICED. So A must be 2nd. DICED=2 Now your logicked word doesn't hold true. What I'm saying is that when using a "logick", you must be able to guarantee that a letter will be input to the target word irrespective of the points scored. Otherwise it's just a guess. Incidentally, the word I thought of is PINES
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Used to play this game to wile away the nightshift when operating the ol' 370/148.....Nice to see it's still going strong. I have a few things I need clarifying tho... Can words be "challenged"? dawh had spellers block in the last game and unfortunately the word had quite an influence on the final outcome. Also, the word TORDO is Italian for "thrush". If you're going to allow non English/American words, you could be opening a whole new can of vermi. And finally......I've noticed that some of the logicking says (e.g) If word abcde = 0, then first letter = b (one letter difference between bbcde = 1). Which is fine, but is incomplete . i.e. shouldn't the logic also conclude that if abcde = 1 then some other POSITIVE conclusion? I'm not wording this very well, but what I think I'm trying to say is that abcde=0 is not the only possible outcome and the other alternatives are not being taken into consideration. Perhaps one of our more eloquent wordsmiths may be able to interpret my ramblings. Edit - typos
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As for feedback. It took a little while to get into the swing of things - being not really sure what was going on - but really enjoyed it when I thought I was on to something. I most definitely wouldn't have got the answer without the comments of the other players. It'll be interesting to see a similar thing can be done again without becoming 'stale'. I guess the only way to find out is for someone to start a new one.
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