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I made up a word game in high school that became popular with my friends - tell me what you think. Basically, you solve for one word. The clues are words that h
by klbarry 15y ago
I made up a word game in high school that became popular with my friends - tell me what you think. Basically, you solve for one word. The clues are words that have at least one letter from the word, in order, that have something to do with the word.
As an example, this:
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storm
weather
drip
falling
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would be "rain".
This one is considerably harder:
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fur
hibernate
claws
latin
brown
omnivores
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- alanfalcon 15y agoInteresting game. I admit, I wouldn't have gotten it without help from the internet, which I suppose is against the rules. But I know no latin, so it was my only hope. The answer is ursine, which I've attempted to bury somewhat in my response so that it doesn't pop out so obviously to those who read this later and want to solve the clues for themselves. Here's a stab at one that's so vague that there's probably a better answer hidden in there than the intended "right" one: Carbohydrates Chickpea Canned Confectionary
- throw_away 15y ago<spoilers> I cheated with grep: grep "^[fur][hibernate][claws][latin][brown][omnivores]$" /usr/share/dict/words for yours, bean, chef, diet, dine
- klbarry 15y agoThese are just words so my answer also doesn't pop-out. I believe the answer is bean. Although I don't know the meaning of confectionery.
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- scott_s 15y agoDamn, I knew it had to start with urs, but I couldn't figure out the rest. Regardless, I like the game.
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- powertower 15y agobear?
- flomincucci 15y agoand you didn't read the rules
- lostmypw 15y agofeline
- ryanklee 15y agoExcept cats don't hibernate. Hint: it's an adjective, like feline, except descriptive of a different species of animal.
- lostmypw 15y agoAh, I was bitten by not being a native-speaker. I've interpreted "hibernate" as the same thing my laptop does, when it hibernates. And cats do that all the time, right? ;-)
- chrischen 15y agoCats sleep, buts I don't think they hibernate, do they? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation
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- wf 15y agoturn this into an app!
- klbarry 15y agoI'm not tech savvy enough to make an app, but I will devote part of my website to it, at some point.
- alanfalcon 15y agoTeam up with someone who wants to make it an app, then! It's natural for a touch interface: each word made up of scrabble-like tiles with a letter on each, tap the letter(s) from each word that spell out the answer and submit for a score. Or, if you wanted to get crazy, you could play heads-up, but you'd need a whole lot of clues/answers lined up if you wanted to go that route (so if you wanted to go really crazy, string together some databases and programs to auto-generate each puzzle).
- sukuriant 15y agoSeriously! I think you could do plenty fine with an app of this sort!
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