Thursday, December 31, 2015

12/31/2015

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: dearth
joon's word: waltz

Discuss.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

12/30/2015

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: minestrone
joon's word: bulbous

Discuss.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

12/29/2015

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: beluga
joon's word: tapir

Discuss.

Monday, December 28, 2015

12/28/2015

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: wahoo
joon's word: upright

Discuss.

Sunday, December 27, 2015

12/27/2015

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: nickname
joon's word: tease

Discuss.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

12/26/2015

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: bejeweled
joon's word: datum

Discuss.

Friday, December 25, 2015

12/25/2015

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: braggadocio
joon's word: glitch

Discuss.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

12/24/2015

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: tentative
joon's word: smattering

Discuss.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

12/23/2015

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: bloviate
joon's word: drivel

Discuss.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

12/22/2015

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: porcini
joon's word: auspicious

Discuss.

Monday, December 21, 2015

12/21/2015

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: bhangra
joon's word: stalemate

Discuss.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

The meta contest has a winner!

hey, remember the secret meta contest i ran here a year ago that nobody ever solved? well, it's been solved. i can't imagine anybody is still working on it (but then, i guess somebody was, since it was just solved), but i'll put the solution in spoiler-text below.

anyway, congratulations to steve o'neill, who successfully figured out the meta and sent me the answer on twitter. the solution was:

enigma variations, by edward elgar. how did he solve it? here are my answer words from september 9 to october 11 of last year:

  • mussel
  • earmark
  • tassel
  • arbiter
  • accrue
  • normative
  • sasquatch
  • whelp
  • elephantine
  • ribald
  • incandescent
  • shackle
  • eyelash
  • laurel
  • graphite
  • ameliorate
  • ricochet
  • shofar
  • unitary
  • nonplussed
  • spritz
  • outward
  • lavish
  • vituperate
  • estival
  • dividend
  • muffler
  • yearn
  • sacrament
  • thurible
  • elegy
  • ridiculous
  • yuan

reading off the first letters, we get the message: META ANSWER IS ELGAR'S UNSOLVED MYSTERY, a clue phrase that leads to the final answer. it was an unintentionally apt choice on my part, since after a few weeks had passed since i announced the meta and nobody seemed at all close to solving it, i was sure that, like the enigma variations, this puzzle would remain unsolved forever, despite what i thought was the most straightforward extraction mechanism possible. i don't know what's more surprising to me, the fact that it wasn't solved within hours of my announcing it or the fact that it was solved at all.

12/20/2015

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: inconceivable
joon's word: beleaguer

Discuss.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

12/19/2015

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: fingerling
joon's word: detritus

Discuss.

Friday, December 18, 2015

12/18/2015

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: abracadabra
joon's word: filmography

Discuss.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

12/17/2015

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: flypaper
joon's word: caveat

Discuss.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

12/16/2015

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: mica
joon's word: shanghai

Discuss.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

12/15/2015

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: sarcophagus
joon's word: chassis

Discuss.

Monday, December 14, 2015

12/14/2015

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: fedora
joon's word: deprecate

Discuss.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

12/13/2015

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: tottering
joon's word: fleece

Discuss.

Saturday, December 12, 2015

12/12/2015

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: harken
joon's word: besmirch

Discuss.

Friday, December 11, 2015

12/11/2015

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: acropolis
joon's word: wildlife

Discuss.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

12/10/2015

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: hightail
joon's word: starkers

Discuss.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

12/9/2015

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: noisome
joon's word: replenish

Discuss.

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

12/8/2015

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: ganache
joon's word: aphrodisiac

Discuss.

Monday, December 7, 2015

12/7/2015

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: motherboard
joon's word: embark

Discuss.

Sunday, December 6, 2015

12/6/2015

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: frybread
joon's word: figment

Discuss.

Saturday, December 5, 2015

12/5/2015

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: fulminate
joon's word: contraband

Discuss.

Friday, December 4, 2015

12/4/2015

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: buxom
joon's word: motif

Discuss.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

12/3/2015

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: freemason
joon's word: sugarcoat

Discuss.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

12/2/2015

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: minuet
joon's word: palisade

Discuss.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

12/1/2015

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: gruesome
joon's word: nocturne

Discuss.