A Conversation for Word Gymnastics!
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Started conversation Aug 1, 2003
This is a new game similar to Wheel of Fortune but each consonant counts one guess each vowel two.
The winner sets the next phrase or asks for someone else to do so.
Here we go then.
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Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. Posted Aug 1, 2003
A new game! 
Thank you! 
T?
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Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate Posted Aug 1, 2003
Looks like puzzlers gone t bed 
we'll have to wait,
sips on an 
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
Only gone to lunch!
_ S / _ _ _ _ / _ S / _ _ T _ _ _ _ T _ _
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
_ S / _ _ L L / _ S / _ _ T _ _ _ _ T _ _
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
Yes L Toy Box
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
_ S / _ _ L L / _ S / _ _ T _ _ W _ T _ _
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
Yes L Toy Box
Yes W Toy Box
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toybox Posted Aug 1, 2003
I expected the W in another place... Well, I won't complain, really 
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How many wrong guesses do we have?
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
_ S / _ _ L L / _ S / _ _ T _ _ W _ T _ R
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
Yes L Toy Box
Yes W Toy Box
Yes R Toy Box
One so far ... or do you mean when do I win? I wondered about a scoring system rather than so many wrong guesses.
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
_ S / _ _ L L / _ S / _ _ T _ _ W _ T E R
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
Yes L Toy Box
Yes W Toy Box
Yes R Toy Box
Yes E Toy Box
Any suggestions how to score? Bonus points for blanks left when the phrase is guessed correctly, points docked for incorrect guesses of the whole phrase?
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
_ S / D _ L L / _ S / D _ T _ _ W _ T E R
No N Helelou2 ACE Chancellor, Game Addict's Ministry, (2+2+2)*7+0-0)
Yes S Toy Box - Barzillai Beckalegg is an honest man
Yes T Sad, Mad or Bad? - veni vidi vici
Yes L Toy Box
Yes W Toy Box
Yes R Toy Box
Yes E Toy Box
Yes D Unconformity
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
Correct.
Now how to score.
7 blanks minus 1 wrong guess = 6
Shall we call that 60 points and see how the scores look in future games?
Unconformity to set the next phrase.
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puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) Posted Aug 1, 2003
N?
(please use underscores with spaces between..it saves eyestrain)
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- 1: puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) (Aug 1, 2003)
- 2: Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate (Aug 1, 2003)
- 3: toybox (Aug 1, 2003)
- 4: Sad, Mad or Bad? - I always wanted to be a dino, but alas, I'm just old. (Aug 1, 2003)
- 5: Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate (Aug 1, 2003)
- 6: puzzlella (playing word games, solving puzzles) (Aug 1, 2003)
- 7: toybox (Aug 1, 2003)
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