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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.