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The Geranium Game
SmartGamer, Keeper of That Which Breaks Down Easily [(11*5)-(4*2+5)=42] (Scout) Started conversation Apr 25, 2002
I stumbled across a program on the 'Net- you enter a word, and it searches it's dictionary for anagrams and subanagrams (uses fewer than all the letters) of that word, but then you get to guess them. It's actually quite fun, but it crashes if there are more than 99 possibilities.
I entered this word one day:
GERANIUM
Response:
Searching
Searching
Searching
99 Words (minimum word length: 3)
Let's get to finding all the words from GERANIUM we can! It's fun!
1. ran
2. rain
3. man
4. rag
5. geranium (duh)
6. rum
7. rug
8. rung
--SmartGamer
The Geranium Game
Researcher 177704 Posted Apr 25, 2002
manger
range
miner
grain
gun
rum
gram
germ
nim
mine
rain
gum
mane
gnu
gain
rage
who is very bored
The Geranium Game
SmartGamer, Keeper of That Which Breaks Down Easily [(11*5)-(4*2+5)=42] (Scout) Posted Apr 25, 2002
anger
mega
The Geranium Game
Detective Armani Posted Apr 25, 2002
arm
man
rim
era
gear
ear
near
anger
also very bored!
The Antidisestablishmentarianism Game
Researcher 177704 Posted Apr 27, 2002
looks like we've exhuasted that word. Shall we move onto 'antidisestablishmentarianism' then?
The Antidisestablishmentarianism Game
Researcher 177704 Posted Apr 27, 2002
Oh yeah, and no making words with out re-arranging the letters. Eg. the words anti, establishment etc. aren't allowed.
table
disease
tidiness
stadia
stable
The Antidisestablishmentarianism Game
Aurora Posted Apr 27, 2002
mental
bliss
rant
sister
dinner
missing
start
end
~~A~~ 
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The Geranium Game
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- 7: Researcher 177704 (Apr 25, 2002)
- 8: SmartGamer, Keeper of That Which Breaks Down Easily [(11*5)-(4*2+5)=42] (Scout) (Apr 25, 2002)
- 9: Detective Armani (Apr 25, 2002)
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