Guest Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ HOURS - 0 EMUTE - 1 AORTA - 0 HORDE - 0 ACUTE - 0 EQUAL - 1 RADON - 0 ESSAY - 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 EARNS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ HOURS - 0 EMUTE - 1 AORTA - 0 HORDE - 0 ACUTE - 0 EQUAL - 1 RADON - 0 ESSAY - 2 EARNS - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) BARNS If 0, E is first letter as it is the only difference between BARNS-0 and EARNS-1 Edited September 9, 2010 by harvey45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 E _ _ _ _ HOURS - 0 EMUTE - 1 AORTA - 0 HORDE - 0 ACUTE - 0 EQUAL - 1 RADON - 0 ESSAY - 2 EARNS - 1 BARNS - 0 Harvey + 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 EMPTY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 E _ _ _ _ HOURS - 0 EMUTE - 1 AORTA - 0 HORDE - 0 ACUTE - 0 EQUAL - 1 RADON - 0 ESSAY - 2 EARNS - 1 BARNS - 0 EMPTY - 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Molly Mae Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) Y must be the last letter. E is known first. M and T from EMPTY and the first S and A from ESSAY are all wrong. (from EMUTE and EQUAL, and there being no 5 letter English words starting with ESP). S and P cannot both be the third letter, so Y must be correct. Edited September 9, 2010 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I believe your logic is faulty MM, it is impossible at this point to prove "y" is the last letter epoxy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Y must be the last letter. E is known first. M and T from EMPTY and the first S and A from ESSAY are all wrong. (from EMUTE and EQUAL, and there being no 5 letter English words starting with ESP). S and P cannot both be the third letter, so Y must be correct. I believe your logic is faulty MM, it is impossible at this point to prove "y" is the last letter epoxy I think that I agree with golfjunkie on this one. Your using what could be called a structural rule of English, when I think that we should only be allowed to use syntactic ones to build the logic. It may be true that there is no five letter English word starting with ESP (I haven't checked), but it isn't an inviolable rule that no English word can ever have five letters and start with ESP. So simply saying that no such word is not enough, it has to be provable. If you want to provide a list of all five letter English words that start with ES to show us that there are none that start with ESP, then I think that we could accept the logic, but that's an unfeasible proof and as the language is still changing, that list could be invalidated pretty quickly. ASSET If 0, then Y must be the fifth letter. E is already proven to be the first letter. The SS in ESSAY would be eliminated at possibilities and the A in ESSAY is already eliminated by EQUAL having 1 (the aforementioned E, so no room for the A as well). Which would leave only the Y in ESSAY as the available second letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) E _ _ _ _ HOURS - 0 EMUTE - 1 AORTA - 0 HORDE - 0 ACUTE - 0 EQUAL - 1 RADON - 0 ESSAY - 2 EARNS - 1 BARNS - 0 EMPTY - 2 ENEMY - 2 EPOXY - 5 So score: Harvey + 5 GJ +25 woon + 17 (12 + 5 ) GJ, your turns! Edited September 9, 2010 by woon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) Point totals: Glycereine - 438 Izzy - 386 Cherry Lane - 310 Unreality - 284 Vineetrika - 264 plainglazed - 257 t8t8t8 - 190 Framm - 177 Dawh - 149 NickFleming- 136 woon - 136 golfjunkie - 97 Blablah99 - 53 Hirkala - 36 JarZe - 25 Harvey45 - 24 yuiop - 21 Abhisk - 20 PVRoot - 20 Filly - 19 Prince Marth - 15 DudleyDude - 15 phaze - 15 Kac_cotu - 5 Edited September 9, 2010 by woon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Mae Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) I think that I agree with golfjunkie on this one. Your using what could be called a structural rule of English, when I think that we should only be allowed to use syntactic ones to build the logic. It may be true that there is no five letter English word starting with ESP (I haven't checked), but it isn't an inviolable rule that no English word can ever have five letters and start with ESP. So simply saying that no such word is not enough, it has to be provable. If you want to provide a list of all five letter English words that start with ES to show us that there are none that start with ESP, then I think that we could accept the logic, but that's an unfeasible proof and as the language is still changing, that list could be invalidated pretty quickly. ASSET If 0, then Y must be the fifth letter. E is already proven to be the first letter. The SS in ESSAY would be eliminated at possibilities and the A in ESSAY is already eliminated by EQUAL having 1 (the aforementioned E, so no room for the A as well). Which would leave only the Y in ESSAY as the available second letter. I had actually made a prior error and tried to edit it. I rushed to edit and grasped at straws. That first S in ESSAY was my undoing. =P Thanks for calling me on it, GJ. I'll be more careful in the future. Edited September 9, 2010 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 RINSE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ rinse - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Mae Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 TOURS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ rinse - 0 tours - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glycereine Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 TONES HURTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ _ _ rinse - 0 tours - 1 tones - 0 hurts - 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Mae Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 (edited) HOUSE If HOUSE-1 U is letter 3. If HOUSE-0 R is letter 4. Logic--(hopefully =P) H is eliminated by HURTS-0 O is eliminated by TONES-0 S and E are eliminated by RINSE-0 If U is incorrect, the only available letter in TOURS is the R. Edited September 9, 2010 by Molly Mae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 _ _ _ R _ rinse - 0 tours - 1 tones - 0 hurts - 0 house - 0 MM + 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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