Thursday, January 31, 2013

1/31/2013

Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:

mike's word: widdershins
joon's word: obstreperous

Discuss.

5 comments:

  1. It wasn't just that I had never heard of Mike's word. I was unfamiliar with 4 out of my last 5 guesses (widdle/wicks/widder/widders/widdie). It was like a twilight zone episode where I turned a corner and was in an alien landscape.

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  2. I've READ that word in obscure British novels, but I was never going to come up with it for this occasion. I capitulated after about 15 guesses. At times I am inspired to 'create' spellings, but mostly they turn out not to be real words. My hat is off to you!

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  3. ma
    ta
    pa
    oar
    omniscient
    odd
    occupy
    obligation
    ocarina
    obstinate
    obvious
    obviate
    obstruction
    obstruct
    obstreperous

    Something weird happened to me...those are my guesses above...after obstreperous failed i "gave up" and was told the word was boisterous...but the whole time I was playing yesterday's (today is Feb. 1st) word but the color clues were leading me to obstreperous...
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    1. sorry about that. this usually means you are playing right at 9 am when the word changes. so your first several guesses were made when the word was obstreperous, but then the target (silently) moved. it's a known issue.

      if that's not when you were playing, well, i can't imagine what might have caused that. caching, maybe, but the answer word is not cached on anyone's browser; it lives only on the server, so every guess has to query the server.

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  4. I was so mad about this one: I actually guessed "widdershin" and then five guesses later just gave up. Plurals are bogus!

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