Guest Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 I'm reticent to start one as it's 11:40pm. Wanna do another ? maurice is lurking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabpig Posted April 2, 2011 Report Share Posted April 2, 2011 I'm reticent to start one as it's 11:40pm. Wanna do another ? maurice is lurking Yeah I understand. There are very few people around at the mo, so I'll leave it a while, see if someone else wants to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 I am willing to do one If no one wants to host, I've got a word ready . If someone wants to host, please feel free to replace me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 I am willing to do one If no one wants to host, I've got a word ready . If someone wants to host, please feel free to replace me. Go for it Perry - got guests today so wont be around much. Someone will show up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabpig Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 Ok pez, let's get u started with START Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 _ _ _ _ _ START - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabpig Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 WAGER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quag Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 POKER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 3, 2011 Report Share Posted April 3, 2011 TRYST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) _ _ _ _ _ START - 0 WAGER - 0 POKER - 1 TRYST - 0 Edited April 4, 2011 by Perry the Platypus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 ANKHS - ? (after trying the Vulcan mind meld) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 PAGER if 1 then P is first as WAGER = 0 rules out all other letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) _ _ _ _ _ START - 0 WAGER - 0 POKER - 1 TRYST - 0 ANKHS - 0 PAGER - 0 Edited April 4, 2011 by Perry the Platypus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 COUCH - ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) As POKER=1 & PagER=anKhs=0 only scoring letter was O so ?O??? is proven, COUCH score > 0 will confirm this. Edited April 4, 2011 by WombatBreath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 _ O _ _ _ START - 0 WAGER - 0 POKER - 1 TRYST - 0 ANKHS - 0 PAGER - 0 COUCH - 1 +5 WombatBreath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 _ O _ _ _ START - 0 WAGER - 0 POKER - 1 TRYST - 0 ANKHS - 0 PAGER - 0 COUCH - 1 +5 WombatBreath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quag Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 GOLDY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 BOSOM - ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curr3nt Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 DOOZY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabpig Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 WOMAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curr3nt Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) I was curious so this is what I did... From the wordlist, score each word with the number of words in the list that contained the same letters in that position. Example: AROMA = 514(A-1) + 666(R-2) + 697(O-3) + 279(M-4) + 394(A-5) = 2550 Then pick the first (in case of tie) with the highest score. SORES = 7856 Run the process in iterations for a word score of 0 to 4. Rescoring words in the list to only other words left in the list. Stop the iterations once the wordlist was less than or equal to 5 words. These were the longest: SORES - 1 | BAALS - 2 | MALTS - 2 | RAIAS - 1 | FELLS - 3 | DILLS - 4 | GILLS - 4 | HILLS - 4 | JILLS - 4 | KILLS - 4 | NILLS - 4 | PILLS - 4 | SORES - 1 | BAALS - 1 | LEETS - 0 | PALED - 3 | RATED - 3 | CAWED - 3 | FAZED - 3 | WADED - 3 | GAMED - 3 | MANED - 3 | TAPED - 3 | TILLS VILLS WILLS YILLS ZILLS One of the longest 0-1 point list SORES - 0 | CEASE - 0 | BANTY - 0 | AREAL - 0 | MILIA - 0 | ELINT - 0 | TUMOR - 1 | DUOMO - 1 | THORP - 0 | NUDZH - 1 | The longest 0 point list SORES - 0 | CEASE - 0 | BANTY - 0 | AREAL - 0 | MILIA - 0 | ELINT - 0 | TUMOR - 0 | OVOLI - 0 | INURN - 0 | On average it would take 7.1 guesses to get to within 5 (average 2.6) words of the correct word. Was thinking of trying different methods for picking words...Any ideas? Edited April 4, 2011 by curr3nt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 Lots of logical stuff... Was thinking of trying different methods for picking words...Any ideas? I prefer to try and get inside the QM's head rather than just use statistics, but I guess when curr3nt is QM they are the same thing Even tho I'm only a fair, amateur, programmer I'm still quite capable of programming a suitable word selection / search algorithm but I'm here for the vocabulary/intellectual challenge. I've deliberately only given myself tools for the grunt filtering of a wordlist to relieve the boring part of the exercise. I appreciate some words for their shape, structure or history, so things like letter frequency tend to get ignored by me. Just a look inside a wombat's mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 4, 2011 Report Share Posted April 4, 2011 (edited) I was curious so this is what I did... From the wordlist, score each word with the number of words in the list that contained the same letters in that position. Example: AROMA = 514(A-1) + 666(R-2) + 697(O-3) + 279(M-4) + 394(A-5) = 2550 Then pick the first (in case of tie) with the highest score. SORES = 7856 Run the process in iterations for a word score of 0 to 4. Rescoring words in the list to only other words left in the list. Stop the iterations once the wordlist was less than or equal to 5 words. These were the longest: SORES - 1 | BAALS - 2 | MALTS - 2 | RAIAS - 1 | FELLS - 3 | DILLS - 4 | GILLS - 4 | HILLS - 4 | JILLS - 4 | KILLS - 4 | NILLS - 4 | PILLS - 4 | SORES - 1 | BAALS - 1 | LEETS - 0 | PALED - 3 | RATED - 3 | CAWED - 3 | FAZED - 3 | WADED - 3 | GAMED - 3 | MANED - 3 | TAPED - 3 | TILLS VILLS WILLS YILLS ZILLS One of the longest 0-1 point list SORES - 0 | CEASE - 0 | BANTY - 0 | AREAL - 0 | MILIA - 0 | ELINT - 0 | TUMOR - 1 | DUOMO - 1 | THORP - 0 | NUDZH - 1 | The longest 0 point list SORES - 0 | CEASE - 0 | BANTY - 0 | AREAL - 0 | MILIA - 0 | ELINT - 0 | TUMOR - 0 | OVOLI - 0 | INURN - 0 | On average it would take 7.1 guesses to get to within 5 (average 2.6) words of the correct word. Was thinking of trying different methods for picking words...Any ideas? I prefer to try and get inside the QM's head rather than just use statistics, but I guess when curr3nt is QM they are the same thing Even tho I'm only a fair, amateur, programmer I'm still quite capable of programming a suitable word selection / search algorithm but I'm here for the vocabulary/intellectual challenge. I've deliberately only given myself tools for the grunt filtering of a wordlist to relieve the boring part of the exercise. I appreciate some words for their shape, structure or history, so things like letter frequency tend to get ignored by me. Just a look inside a wombat's mind I guess to each their own. I don't have a list per se, not like curr and Maq have. I look up words on a list, not delete them from my list. I take pleasure in proving letters and coming up with words that will do so. Looking at 4 words that have a 0 and trying to mix and match letters to form a word that can only score with one letter...that's fun . Edited April 4, 2011 by maurice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 _ O _ _ _ START - 0 WAGER - 0 POKER - 1 TRYST - 0 ANKHS - 0 PAGER - 0 COUCH - 1 GOLDY - 1 BOSOM - 2 DOOZY - 1 WOMAN - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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