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Word Game 2

Post Icon Posted: Submitted by Tony on 21 November 2007 - 7:29pm.

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Here is a fresh new thread for all your word game needs. Saves on scrolling.

Darthsteven had ETO

I say: rETOrt

Now LDL

‹ 7am. Why? We're going to send the order off in one big go, and you should have your items at the start of the new year. Genius. ›
Post Icon Posted: 21 November 2007 - 7:36pm

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coLDLy

XYN
Post Icon Posted: 21 November 2007 - 8:01pm

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hexyne, some a-level chemistry type word, is that allowed?
Post Icon Posted: 22 November 2007 - 2:36am

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Yeah, I've just checked a dictionary and all the other words I found containing that were of the same type (most were actually longer and more complicated), so that might be what CJ was actually thinking about. What's the next string?

P.S. Alex, you really shouldn't have started a new thread, scrolling is less annoying than having $ \lfloor e^{e^{e^{79}}}\rfloor $ threads on the same subject. :P

P.P.S. Sam, the first word that comes to mind after reading "Polyhedron" should be "Polytope", which is what I was thnking about.
Post Icon Posted: 22 November 2007 - 8:48am

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Okay, another easy one: RUE
Post Icon Posted: 22 November 2007 - 11:50am

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rue is actually a word, so yes very easy. Or rueful for pedants.

QUY
Post Icon Posted: 22 November 2007 - 7:09pm

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Solioquy.

HEH
Post Icon Posted: 23 November 2007 - 3:57am

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You mean soliloquy. :P

HEH is pretty tough though...
Post Icon Posted: 23 November 2007 - 11:43pm

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Erm, it's impossible. Except for heh, but that barely counts.
Post Icon Posted: 24 November 2007 - 1:24am

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New substring then "AJA"
Post Icon Posted: 24 November 2007 - 3:28am

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AJAr

YSY

(Maybe we should have waited for CJ to tell us his word with HEH though. I did try in a pretty big dictionary before saying it was hard and didn't find anything legal so it might well have been impossible.)
Post Icon Posted: 24 November 2007 - 5:27pm

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polYSYnthetic

DEK

I looked up HEH with lexical.com, it gave many german words but no English ones (except heh).
Post Icon Posted: 24 November 2007 - 6:36pm

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Finally one I can do
DEKametre (and don't say it's decametre, it's both :p)
I also thought of Dedekind but well that's not valid.

RMT
Post Icon Posted: 25 November 2007 - 9:06pm

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Hows aboot "stoRMTrooper". Next one is YSL.

I like to prove it prove it.
Post Icon Posted: 25 November 2007 - 11:00pm

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Is sYSLog OK ?
If so, continue with CKR
Otherwise just ignore :p
Post Icon Posted: 25 November 2007 - 11:16pm

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"sYSLOG" so does not count, have you considered dYSLexia might be the root of all your problems?...

baCKRoom to yours old boy...

TST
Post Icon Posted: 25 November 2007 - 11:28pm

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Hey Tom, hope you're feeling much better now. Even ouTSTandingly better.

TSC
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 2:48am

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neTSCape. now move on to LLI.

I like to prove it prove it.
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 3:13am

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Hate to ouTSCheme you on this one old sausage... phaLLIc

ARQ

PS. Am feeling lovely thankyou samantha.
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 9:52am

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mARQuee

NDR

P.S. This doubles as an insomniac mathematician post. :P

P.P.S. Damn it, since when do HTML marquees not work on this forum...?
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 3:40pm

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suNDRy

BAH
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 3:48pm

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Since a long time, or more accurately, when I turned the html filter on a few months ago. The site was a ticking bomb without it.
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 5:10pm

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I want to say BAHamut, ah hell I'll say it anyway.
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 5:55pm

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Don't think that counts. :P
Post Icon Posted: 26 November 2007 - 7:05pm

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When I made this one up I had no idea whether it was a good example. However I just looked BAH up on my word list (only 112k words) and it turns out this is a horribly obscure one:P Oh, and by the way, siDEKick is the classic answer to DEK.
Post Icon Posted: 27 November 2007 - 12:44pm

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While checking the validity of Bahamut before Orry posted, i stumbled across BAHar a unit of measurement used in the middle east. Obscure indeed.

Does someone want to get the ball rolling again?

How about a race to answer an easy one.

BSC
Post Icon Posted: 27 November 2007 - 3:18pm

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aBSCond

Try TYM

The answer I found was djellabah which is an item of clothing originating in Africa.
Post Icon Posted: 27 November 2007 - 3:47pm

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TYMpan (I'm sure Cosmin will recognise how french that guess is)
RDR as a logical continuation
Post Icon Posted: 28 November 2007 - 4:42am

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eaRDRum (who would have thought speaking French would ever be useful :p)

DDA (just for the heck of it)
Post Icon Posted: 28 November 2007 - 9:23am

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(Manx Oak Smoked) CheDDAr !

YBL
Post Icon Posted: 29 November 2007 - 3:31pm

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Now this one kept me up last night (don't ask me why- I AM obsessive...) and try as I might I couldn't figure it out, at five A.M. I gave up and checked on a word finder. The only result turned out to be something I'd dismissed as 'clearly not a word'. Has anyone heard flYBLown before?!...

Anyway, I believe my obsessiveness (and the fact noone else seems to have got it) merits me a string- SDA
Post Icon Posted: 29 November 2007 - 4:09pm

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Well if you wish to check a word just use Google's define function. Define: flyblown gave this result:

  1. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
  2. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
  3. besmirched: especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"

However my answer "crosSDAting" only appears in the ordinary Google search results. It's definitely a genuine technical term though.

New substring "CSI" bonus marks if you can get the good answer to this question.
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 1:54am

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arCSIne

i never use this notation but it works for me now.

FTW
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 2:08am

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Alex is a plagiarist
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 4:06am

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craFTWork

YRH

P.S. This would have had 101 posts if you hadn't split it into two Alex, fulfilling your ultimate dream of a 100-reply thread :p. Also, I don't think arcsine should have been accepted but it doesn't matter now.
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 8:39am

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pYRHeliometer

QIR
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 11:35am

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faCSImile is the standard answer to CSI but the amazing answer was pneumonoultramicroscopiCSIlicovolcanoconiosis.

faQIR (one of those freaky scrabble words)

JAH
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 3:53pm

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How am I a plagiarist?
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 6:55pm

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Does JAHweh count as a proper noun?

If not: YEP
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 7:01pm

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I think Jahweh would count as a proper noun, being most definitely capitalised, but on a similar vein, wouldn't hallelujah be ok? (Also, I presume the jah at the end of hallelujah comes etymologically speaking from the same root as the jah in Jahweh?)

We'll stick with Steven's "YEP" to continue
Post Icon Posted: 30 November 2007 - 10:55pm

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Well Alex, Planktonboy (:p) asked for CSI in MS.01 last night saying that there was a very good answer and I said arcsine. Apparently you didn't hear but I think you heard unconsciously.
Post Icon Posted: 1 December 2007 - 2:20am

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Doesn't matter because arcsine wasn't a good answer anyway. :P
Post Icon Posted: 1 December 2007 - 5:40pm

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Cosmin <=> Dave McCormick
Post Icon Posted: 1 December 2007 - 7:47pm

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What? Why? It wasn't a pedantic comment at all (and neither is this one) if that's what you're insinuating. I was pointing out that it didn't matter, which is pretty much the opposite! :P
Post Icon Posted: 2 December 2007 - 4:53pm

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Okay okay, still looking for a YEP
Post Icon Posted: 2 December 2007 - 5:31pm

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Do you even have a word for it? You've had us stumped for days now
Post Icon Posted: 2 December 2007 - 9:22pm

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rYEPeck

An easy one to get things going: ENI
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 12:03am

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dENIgrate.

WEW
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 2:54am

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all I have so far is "shoWEWes", perhaps some kind of erotic sheep?...
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 3:05am

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In fact, how about aWEWorthy? The wordfinder, couldn't find anything, so my made up (but correct sounding) word may have to do...

If we agree, try GHL...
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 3:15am

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This word game is getting out of hand, every answer is just plain impossible now
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 3:19am

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Mine's double easy on toast.
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 6:48am

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Yes, fairly easy if you think thorouGHLy about it.

next up: HLE
Post Icon Posted: 3 December 2007 - 12:48pm

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Truly yours is a matcHLEss wit Chris...

PCH...
Post Icon Posted: 5 December 2007 - 6:08pm

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You might just have to help us out on this one Tom, I can't think of anything sensible (English).
Post Icon Posted: 6 December 2007 - 12:41am

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There is at least one good word, but I can't say it because I used a dictionary. :P
Post Icon Posted: 6 December 2007 - 12:50am

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Same for me, when I get pissed of with these near impossible words I just go and look it up because otherwise I'm thinking about it all day.
Post Icon Posted: 6 December 2007 - 12:52am

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Interesting clue, stePCHild

try YNG

edit: hey, no posting clues which whilst I'm typing a response
Post Icon Posted: 9 December 2007 - 11:28pm

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An answer was LarYNGitis. Anyone can choose the next one
Post Icon Posted: 21 January 2008 - 6:56pm

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NHO
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noNHOlomorphic

EWB
Post Icon Posted: 26 January 2008 - 8:02pm

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That was so easy, what a nEWBie you are.
Now I fancy some TCAs !
Post Icon Posted: 27 January 2008 - 5:31pm

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whats all this about
Post Icon Posted: 27 January 2008 - 8:31pm

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It's a forum game. Basically, you need to post a word containing the 3 letter string the person above has posted (and then post a 3 letter string yourself).
Post Icon Posted: 27 January 2008 - 10:49pm

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could think of 2 for TCA - booTCAmp and (better one:) baTCAve :D

Next up is RIQ

Jamie

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