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#1 2012-03-18 18:38:01
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Word Game 23c
Here's a list of five words:
AR
ON
AS
THE
KING
What do these words have in common?
If you think you may have figured it out, please submit a WORD which you think may belong to this group, to test your idea.
If it's on the right track, I'll let you know.
Please don't disclose what your idea is, as that may spoil the game for others.
This game is similar to #66, only much harder I think. For the reason that there are few correct words, so submitting words at random, with no hunch or reason, is not likely to be of help. So I don't want to waste your time by encouraging you to resort to random trial and error.
Have fun!
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#2 2012-03-19 04:05:50
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hi
I'm gonna try some random words first:
hipster
hip
oyster
hippopotamus
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#3 2012-03-19 04:44:35
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here's my submission (just one word:D)
Why did the chicken cross the Mobius Band?
To get to the other ...um...!!!
#4 2012-03-20 02:24:03
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Hi anonim and hs, welcome to this game!
No correct words yet.
If and when it seems as if you guys have run out of ideas to test, I'll add more words as clues.
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#5 2012-03-20 10:37:06
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Hi gurthbruins
I want you to check this while post for words that might be correct and then tell me what they are.Thank you in advance.
PS It's a nice puzzle by the way.
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“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#6 2012-03-20 15:48:22
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Hi anonim,
Assuming you mean "whole" post (the "while" puzzled me!) ... there is one correct word in your post: "me."
Seems you like to submit words... but I suppose we must draw the line somewhere - shall we say, from now on, a maximum of ten words per player per day?
But you have vindicated your method by finding a word!
So the list is now
AR
AS
ON
THE
KING
ME
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#7 2012-03-31 13:53:37
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Hi gb
I
in
am
are
is
was
were
had
have
will
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The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#8 2012-03-31 18:31:30
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hi stefy.
No correct words among that lot. Trouble is there are so few - I'm going to run out of them soon.
I'm using SOWPODS as my referee this time. I'd have maybe liked to accept "am", but SOWPODS says it won't do.
I'll add some words : the list is now
AS AR ON THE KING ME DO FE
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#9 2012-03-31 23:47:12
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Alice just solved this on my afroditi forum, first person ever, without sight of DO and FE - I hadn't added them there yet.
So it can be done!
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#10 2012-04-01 02:02:21
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That's it, phron! Three bags full! Love STING and especially FELINE
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#11 2012-04-01 02:02:28
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Hi gurthbruins,
Is a wasp able to actually sting a feline, or only nearly?
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#12 2012-04-01 02:10:44
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Sorry about that, gurthbruins. I replaced my first post with my second and included another word, but I didn't realise you were online and now I've messed up the post order.
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#13 2012-04-01 02:11:23
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I'd say not quite, we have wasps and a feline, maybe it's quid pro quo?
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#14 2012-04-01 02:14:31
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The new word is the last word in my sentence.
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#15 2012-04-01 02:14:41
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phrontister wrote:
Hi gurthbruins,
Is a wasp able to actually sting a feline, or only nearly?
What the?
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#16 2012-04-01 02:17:25
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Hi Stefy,
Just copying what you did in post #5. 
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#17 2012-04-01 02:20:03
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but that's more than 10 words 
to gb
look at afroditi forum!
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The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#18 2012-04-01 02:25:00
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Only four of them are valid, though.
I wrote that sentence because I wanted to camouflage my answer so that gurthbruins could choose whether or not to reveal my valid words, while still recognising that I solved the puzzle.
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#19 2012-04-01 02:25:50
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which four?
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#20 2012-04-01 02:26:51
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Able
Sting
Feline
Nearly
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#21 2012-04-01 02:29:09
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Yup, phron, I missed, or would have missed, your reference to dependent vectors and independent functions: the most brilliant so far.
Very nice!
My new word - now two words - have also been hidden among the others.
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#22 2012-04-01 02:40:30
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Just smearing them at the st[able]s, I see!
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#23 2012-04-01 02:41:20
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anonimnystefy wrote:
to gb
look at afroditi forum!
The limit operator is just an excuse for doing something you know you can't.
“It's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!” ― Richard Feynman
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
#24 2012-04-01 02:59:38
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anonimnystefy wrote:
anonimnystefy wrote:
to gb
look at afroditi forum!
I saw, stefy. And I did: your answers are there.
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#25 2012-04-01 02:39:21
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Hi gurthbruins,
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." - Ted Nelson