Babble: Archived Puzzle for Thursday, October 16, 2003

12:00 am

vorbis

fuck me

12:01 am

Spectra

Well, I wasn't even close. So much for relaxing there

12:04 am

mythrl

well your tied for 2nd...not too shabby

12:06 am

mythrl

and i cant believe i missed trainee

12:07 am

Spectra

I cant believe I missed domino

12:07 am

vorbis

FUCK GOD THIRTY TWO LETTERS IN SEVEN MINUTES

12:08 am

vorbis

words. no more drugs.

12:08 am

Spectra

This is an ugly puzzle upon first inspection

12:14 am

Dr_God

Let's restrain ourselves from cursing in the chat log, folks. Babble is an all ages attraction. ;)

12:16 am

vorbis

12:17 am

Spectra

Yup, when I cant find words, I act like a 5 year old. :P

12:19 am

mythrl

im up to 33

12:19 am

mythrl

words...not points : )

12:19 am

Spectra

I've got 66, and by 66, I mean 21

12:20 am

mythrl

like the math

12:21 am

Spectra

Yup, good thing its spelling, cause if this was math boggle, I'd be...um...whats the word... :D

12:24 am

Spectra

Time for some new music...need something to get my spell on. ;)

12:25 am

Spectra

mythrl, you on the West Coast?

12:29 am

mythrl

haha..nope
east

12:34 am

Spectra

hardcore :D

12:36 am

mythrl

yeah im thinking of starting a babblers anonymous support group

12:42 am

mythrl

hardcore brands in this... Miata, Lindt, Lindor

12:44 am

vorbis

and Fiat

1:37 am

eyelessloki

i found a word worth 54 points

1:37 am

SteveM

6 letters / 39 points is my best :(

8:16 am

zyconium

did anyone get "minipark" yesterday? it was worth 80 points.

8:30 am

drew

So basically, given the words in that one dude's 1500-some score, the point of this game is to sit here and enter all the possible five letter words that you can, regardless of whether or not you have ever heard of them or know what they mean? Sounds like this is a game for accountants and golfers to me...

8:33 am

PaperCrane

54 you say?

54 is divisable by 2
So it might be a 5 letter word with a point value of 27. Impossible.

54 is divisable by 3
So it might be a 6 letter word with a point value of 18.

54 is divisable by 6
So it might be a 9 letter word with a point value of 9. Highly unlikely.

So I'll assume it's 6 letters.

These are the possible letter combinations that I can find:
YMWYD(One 1 point letter)
ZY(four 1 point letters)
ZW(four 1 point letters)

The YMWYD one is highly unlikely, so I suggest you focus on the ZY and ZW combinations.

Yes, I do think too much.

8:35 am

PaperCrane

Yaa I got it.

9:02 am

Martha

You buggers, I can't find it. And I really should be doing some work.

9:25 am

barcalounger

the weird thing is, Mr. 1500 didn't even use any A words. Time to go tweak the word-generating script, dude.

9:31 am

zyconium

haha thats crazy ! he'd have way more points of he used some a words :)

9:36 am

zyconium

hehe papercrane has lots of ziti's!

9:39 am

zyconium

I found a 54point word too XD it starts with z!.. its zitiiskskjim ...

10:26 am

PaperCrane

zitiiskskjim is a 342 point word silly.

10:43 am

zyconium

woo no wonder I'm winning :P

11:03 am

vorbis

there can't be too many more than 49 words in this puzzle.

11:30 am

dirtysoap

izod..

11:35 am

zyconium

54 I have 54.. but I'm just making up bs words :)

1:35 pm

PaperCrane

You know what would be cool? A rotate button so you could get a different perspective.

2:38 pm

mythrl

yes yes yes!!! i already tilt my head to create that effect

3:01 pm

drew

my only question is, what's a "zoysia window"?

3:02 pm

drew

(and is it related to a "windy soddy malms toddy"?)

3:05 pm

mythrl

i would really like to be able to see how many guesses (ie invalid word entries)people have made after the puzzles close...maybe this could be added to their word lists

3:07 pm

drew

indeed... or maybe a points penalty?

to be honest, there's no point in having a word game where people can sit there for several hours and enter in random letter combinations and find words....

3:16 pm

mythrl

the thing is if there is a points penalty who is to say the wont just go to a dictionary first then...and i dont want to penalized everytime i make a typo..and on top of that some educated guessing should be a part of it...and finallly sometimes the game accept spanish/french/etc and sometimes it doesnt which means you just have to try those words to see if they work...same goes for some proper nouns eg. it accpeted roman a few days back but not haitian

3:18 pm

mythrl

it might be simpler to include a second stat in the rankings
eg.
# of words found / # number of attempted entries X100%

3:24 pm

drew

mythrl, good idea

(sorry dr_god for postulating here, it just seems that people are ruining this game by being dumb)

4:03 pm

modofo

actually, people are ruining the game by being smart.

4:19 pm

drew

mayor modofo of the mayas, why don't you have some satay beef, or some soya... it'll malm you down, word.

4:28 pm

PaperCrane

Thanks.. 3 new words for me.

4:39 pm

mythrl

im up to 64 words...how about you guys?

4:40 pm

drew

i got 138 / 5.28 / 1624, you have a long way to go

4:41 pm

PaperCrane

49 and I think I'm done.. Any more and I'd just be making guesses.

4:42 pm

mythrl

what the hell...138 your joking or youve been guessing all day long

4:58 pm

cmdawson

where are u paper something?

4:59 pm

cmdawson

drew 138 really?

5:01 pm

tommyslax

i can't find any words! help me!

5:18 pm

Dr_God

Regarding the talk about guessing, etc. I've thought long and hard on how to solve the dilemma, but every solution simply introduces new problems.

And no one's touched on blatant cheating, which I know a couple of players are guilty of. Tsk tsk tsk...

5:22 pm

modofo

blatant cheating? like scripts or something?

5:25 pm

Dr_God

I won't say how I know, but I will just ask those that are cheating (and you know who you are) to stop.

Keep Babble pure!

5:25 pm

mythrl

Dr_God: would it be possible to display the number of invalid words people enter for each puzzle along with their word lists?

5:28 pm

Dr_God

Sure, but as someone said earlier, players would just start looking up words at dictionary.com first.

5:29 pm

mythrl

well im thinking that if it doesnt actually affect their rank it might not make that much difference then...i mean i do some guessing too but i wont stop if it doesnt actually affect my points adversely

5:50 pm

zyconium

are you people just pulling words out the wazoo ?

5:54 pm

zyconium

also in later news.. still at 54 :(

5:55 pm

zyconium

don't mind my spam, but how come you can't view puzzle archives from the rankings page? I just like going to that page to see all the times spectra has whooped me :)

5:58 pm

Dr_God

I may "fix" that soon.

6:21 pm

drew

dr_god, thanks :)

i like this game but the nonsense words make me sad

6:24 pm

drew

151 / 5.18 / 1892

6:25 pm

trhaynes

Dr_God : Would you consider me a cheater? I guess sometimes...or are there people that do it more that you're talking mainly about?

6:26 pm

Dr_God

drew-

Consider it a vocabulary building game then. ;)

6:40 pm

drew

good enough for me!

now if you can only fix my friends' refusal to play word games with me.

6:42 pm

drew

172 / 5.17 / 2017

6:46 pm

mythrl

drew your full of it...your numbers make no sense...youve went up 21 words and averaged 6 points a word but your word average stayed pretty much the same at 5.17...so the worst case scenario has you averaging a little over 10 pts a word which you miss by a long shot

6:52 pm

modofo

fight! fight!

6:58 pm

drew

225 / 5.24 / 2391

7:03 pm

mythrl

ok now your numbers are getting even worse...i cant wait to see your word list :)

7:04 pm

vorbis

69 words 4.36 747

7:08 pm

drew

don't be such a bunch of winy yids! you guys can yawl all you want, but in the end, everyone will have their yays.

7:10 pm

vorbis

what a great game! and drew, i'm so glad you're playing.

8:50 pm

pog

it's like a pile of some sort over here.

8:59 pm

pog

windsor should work. Yet it doesn't

9:59 pm

PaperCrane

Windsor is a proper noun, so it's not a valid word for Boggle.. *ahem* I mean Babble.

10:07 pm

drew

382 / 4.67 / 4214

10:09 pm

mythrl

5029 / 15.34 / 1850372

10:10 pm

drew

no way

10:13 pm

jeff

OMG YUO CHEET

10:14 pm

mythrl

read it and weep

10:34 pm

drew

must have been "zitiiskskjim" that pushed him over the top

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