Top 100 List Songs 1950-1990 database, game 8246543

DE DO DO DO; DE DA DA

I believe that should be

DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA; THE POLICE

And one more. Game #8103190, Musician's database.

We had:
MORRSEY

It's supposed to be spelled:
MORRISSEY

I believe that is either three distinct words or at least hyphenated as in "well-to-do".

This was in a simple "Hangman" game.

added. thank you!

In this game #7978519 one of the answers was spelled BAYRUT, LEBANON. It took me a long time to figure out what the answer was. I had never heard of that spelling and I went to see where BAYRUT came from. It is apparently the English rendition of the Arabic pronunciation of BEIRUT, the capital of LEBANON. However - if that was the intent of the list's creators, Lebanon should have been spelled LIBNAN or LUBNAN.

So this multi-word term should be BEIRUT, LEBANON or BAYRUT, LIBNAN or BAYRUT, LUBNAN for consistency. I would vote for the first one.

The English language is not phonetic, a single letter (or digraph/trigraph etc.) can have many different sounds depending on the word it is in, and a single sound may be represented in many different ways.
Offhand I can't think of a second sound that the digraph AY could represent, but UT could at least represent the sounds in cut and put (in those parts of Britain where they are not pronounced the same).
Regional variations in English (even within a single country) can be very large.

P.S. I would vote for the first one too. If English were suddenly to be spelt phonetically, even if there was a single convention on what the "standard" pronunciation was, the ramifications would be horrifying...

GHOTI is pronounced FISH
(George Bernard Shaw)
GH as in rouGH (f sound)
I as in wOmen (Pronounced wImmen)
TI as in staTIon (sh sound)

but the point is that it should be Beirut not Bayrut

I would pronounce "women" as "wimmin". ;)

Correct, but the 'O' in GHOTI is the "i" sound as in wimmen
I reckon Beyrut or Bayrut is fine for Beirut, what about Rome/Roma, Bombay/Mumbai, Peking/Beijing?

It's a thorny one with city names. In an ideal world I think we'd use the same name and spelling as they do in the country the city is in (minus diacritics and with some form of Romanisation for non-Roman alphabets and Roman characters that do not appear in the International Roman/Latin (I forget the correct name) Alphabet.
On the other hand, we have probably used "Rome" for a very long time, and it might be awkward to start changing the names we use for those few international cities that have probably been heard of by most (English-speaking) people.

we are playing hangman which has english words, it does not have french, italian, greek , chinese or other languages


so the name that should be used is the one used in English

Bombay, Peking are old names no longer used
Roma is italian word

and Beirut is the correct spelling

The English language is full of foreign words, eventually some of them become English words.
Roma was a Latin word before it was an Italian one.

These things change....for example is it Cambodia or Kampuchea? i reckon there is overlap we use a lot of foreign words in english e.g.: YUAN, ANNA, PESO, RINGGIT, RUPIAH

I've heard that Iago is a form of the name that became "James" in English.

Yes things change

Cambodia is correct, Kumpuchea is the old name. We do not put Olde English in hangman either

we do not use foreign words in English, we use words of foreign origin. Rendezvous is an example of such an English word

You don't talk about Zhong Guo instead of talking about China.

Only because those foreign words become English words. When they are first introduced they are not English words. Almost all English words are words of foreign origin or are constructed from parts of foreign words.

and until they are adopted as english words, they do not belong in Hangman!

I will concede that point and only that point (and provisionally at that)!
If the game is only supposed to have English words in it, then a few illegal immigrants have managed to sneak in at some point. I don't want to go through all my games to look for examples, but I have seen some Spanish words here before - and not just ones like PINATA (that looks totally wrong without an enye - despite what I have previously said about diacritics and additional Roman characters) that have moved into English.

I hereby put in an official request to spell the name of my city Puh-ree, to respect the English as she is spoken

Lol, It was Cambodia...then Kampuchea...now it is Cambodia again, I could probably give you dozens of examples...we are talking about the written form of English which has problems with its spelling system, it cannot represent exactly what is being said orally

The various Romanisation schemes that have been used to represent Chinese aren't very helpful either.

A little research says that they are interchangeable.

In terms of meeting the common conventions it probably should be Beirut.

As such, with the next repair/revision I will change it.

It is now on the list.

m

what a great discussion!

how come it said i timed out on 1 game,on other it said i won but on the complted thing it shows there name

That goes to Bug reports, not here...

sorry

Cartoon Character (Traits?) The puzzle had TRAITNO???

Puzzle number?

Sorry ...here you go game #8213504

I looked TRAITNO up and found NOTHING. ZIP. NADA. Anyone else?

Maybe it's supposed to be "no trait".

Possibly a typo and could be:
Triton of the Sea (海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton) is a manga series created by Osamu Tezuka, and an anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino based on the manga.
Or just Triton

I think it is a matching middle

cartoon character

character trait

and then the no is extra

Sounds more likely, didn't realise it was a matching middle, well worked out

Indeed, Well worked out!

It is now on the list to be both corrected and moved. It looks as tho' in translation, the NO was somehow added. At the next revision, it will be taken out of the multi list and correctly placed in the Matching Middles.

Thanks all!

m

So it was indeed Character 'Trait'?

yup

Cartoon Character Trait

I actually think the no was originally number so could have been
character trait number

But what would that mean?
I think it more likely I messed up some formatting somewhere, and there's a NO-less phrase crying for it's better half... and all 'cause I can't Type worth beans.

boyoboy do I feel guilty now...

Thanks for the

I'll try to stop in a bit more frequently. Studying Web Design is very complicated and is twisting my brain in ways that it hasn't been in many years. I'm getting a lot out of it, but it takes a lot of time! I can barely keep up with the too-many games I have!

but regardless of whether or not I check in, I do check my messages on a very regular basis if something comes up.

m

In game # 8227514, Thematic Executioner v Pegasiswolf (great player) the phrase " SPACING A STAR ON TOP OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE" was given as the solution.
Should this have been "PLACING A STAR ON TOP OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE"?
Cheers, Ian

One more...Thematic Hangman, Multi-word Phrases, game #7996826 - the answer was "Silvester and Tweety", but the correct spelling is "Sylvester and Tweety".

now on the new list, thanks!

In case you have a game with me using this category and you wondered why I have stopped making moves I will explain. I have discovered a way to cheat in this category and suspect several others have too. I have not and will not name specific opponents. I have notified GoldToken Support  suggesting that the category be deleted. If this is not done before my games expire I will offer a draw to everyone whether or not I suspect you of cheating as I now know how to.
Jim

I can think of an obvious way to "derive the answer more quickly than I would be able to using just my own mind" in that category, I wouldn't do so. Losing isn't that big of a deal to me.

P.S. I prefer to win of course! ;)

I don't think it's only that category FD. I think it's generally the whole of Hangman that some people cheat in.
I love the game and think I will have to just play it with family and friends. Only way to avoid it if you ask me.

I've just thought of another way to "leverage" one's ability. I'm more interested in improving my ability to see words quicker myself. If an opponent sees a word significantly before I would have I won't get the chance to improve quite as quickly, but I would have the same problem with an opponent who just had a much better ability to work out words quickly in their head.

One reason I have quit signing up for Hangman is because I feel there are some cheaters. That is just my personal opinion though.

I think there probably is a way to cheat on all the hangman games.
It's a shame that some people feel the need to do that.

I am thinking also of NOT doing any hangman games with some players...so sad for me since this is my favorite kind of game...I love words and guessing them...I have puzzle books for anagrams and been doing them for years...so sorry that it's getting ruined...

It is indeed sad. I am playing a challenge as we speak that I can't make a move at this time for fear of going off on this person! Sad, sad, SAD!

As far as me on ANY form of Hangman games, I truely am the type that the majority of the pharses I don't know until it "Hits Me In The Head" of what it is. I don't cheat in any way shape or form. If any player who plays against me knows the pharse faster than me fell free to guess the phase and win the game.

I can't fathom how it would be possible to cheat unless you can actually see the full database somehow. I must be missing something here...

There are many ways of getting an edge in the Hangman & variations, particularly by compiling your own list of previous answers and sorting them in a spreadsheet application or text editor. All players previous answers are viewable and copyable.
Player's preferences for letter choices and the order they are favoured are also available and can be analysed.
Not sure if this is cheating or not
Using word finders available on line is another method where you can type in some of the letters and using wildcard characters the app will find possibilities
This I reckon is a no- no
I personally just use pen and paper (cryptographic techniques)
Cheers, Ian

I don't think that any of them are actually against the rules.
The rules merely state that the player has to guess the word, and does not proscribe any method of doing so.
Some methods - although not mentioned - would clearly not be fair play ie. using computer skills to break into the game and find out what the word was.
Different people have different ideas of what is fair.
If a person is winning, by whatever method, their rating should rise.
If a person has a higher rating than me there is a good chance that they will beat me.

Personally, I think using computer word finding programs is cheating.
Where is the fun in having the computer find the word for you?
The puzzle should be solved using your own brain power, and there are a few people here who are as smart as a word finder program.
It's a game and should be played for fun. Sure winning is nice...but winning fairly is even nicer.

I'm with you, Genie.

I might also add that in Thematic Hangman there have been times I've had the same phrase more than once. When that happens....it can be a LOT easier to solve and get on with the game. Is that considered "cheating"?

That's just part of the game. Any player who doesn't pay attention to the possibility of a "repeat" can hardly claim to be seriously trying to win.
I suppose they can claim it... but there claims would be without merit.

I hasten to add that I'm not a "serious" player myself, it's just a game I enjoy.

Personally, I don't see the point of using word finding programs (to help one find words one needs for the game).
I don't see where the fun is in it either: there wouldn't be the pleasure of having a word suddenly "appear", or the drama of "seeing" a word just after you've guessed and wondering whether the opponent will guess it before you get another chance.

In chess, using a computer (i.e., an engine) to help you find a move is considered cheating. But you are allowed to research based on the vast information out there (e.g., in openings, what GMs play, how to play different types of positions, etc.).

In Hangman, the only thing I know for sure shouldn't be allowed is using the computer to figure out words. That's similar to using a chess engine w/ chess.

But researching how common letters are in words, looking through dictionaries, remembering or logging past puzzles, analyzing an opponent's previous games, etc. seems to me to be similar to the research that's allowed in chess. I realize Hangman is not chess, and this is all debatable. For example, "logging past puzzles" in chess doesn't apply, since chess doesn't have a "solution" and any two games are almost always very different.

Anyway, the fact of life is that some people cheat in every game they can. In chess, online turn-based chess has pretty much turned into "Advanced Chess" (where using computer assistance is allowed) at the highest levels. I would hope that Hangman has less of that problem, since to me it seems more of a fun past-time game with less ego-pride at "being the best". But then again where you have ladders, ratings, and tournaments...

It sounds a bit like what Miyamoto Musashi (author of "The Book Of Five Rings") referred to as "the flower being prized above the nut".

Ha! I like that.

Hi, all!

Sorry it's been so long. School has been extremely intense.

I'm not going to get into whole riff about this. Suffice it to say that we are discussing this behind the scenes. In this case, in my naiveté, I made a mistake in naming that category and made it very easy to figure out.

I will say this. Anybody w/any kind of 'net savvy can do what I did to assemble these lists and use it to cheat. It takes a lot of time which might be better served by coming up with a new topic and sending me that list to be included in new additions to the game.

If someone is so desperate to win make-believe tokens that they would go do major research to cheat, they really need to get a life. It's a game for entertainment, fer cryin' out loud! Use your time to better effect...

The only suggestion I have to offer in the case of researching an answer that's driving you crazy, is that at the start of a game you and your opponent try to agree on ground rules. I know that I've had some that drove me crazy and I had to know. But after I found out and satisfied my curiosity, I then gently steered my opponent towards it. I didn't need to win, but I did need to know.

marc

Thanks for your input marco! Oh and....

well I think there are several categories people cheat in. I am playing a tournament now in multiword phrases, and I have the same person that has guessed quite long/difficult phrases on their 3rd turn and 4th turn after only picking 2 and 3 letters, which I wouldn't think most people would guess. So they are doing something to win. Obviously there is some kind of cheat place to go to to find out these answers in numerous categories, I just don't know where. I am tempted to resign from the games, but I hate to give them an automatic win when I think they are already cheating to get the answer. I don't know what else to do though

Same exact thing happened to me ...guess a huge puzzle with 2 letters. Over and over. I did resign and will not play them again!

well that's what I want to do, because it is no fun playing someone like that. You know something is going on, they are not going to guess a long puzzle on 2 letters. But I figured if I resigned since it is a tourney, 2 games is really giving them an advantage. But they will probably win anyways regardless, since they are guessing the puzzle in 3 guesses, and I am sure they are doing it in all games, not just mine.

I've solved puzzles occasionally after revealing only one or two letters. Sometimes the answers just come to me like that. It doesn't happen every time, though. Far from it.

yea, see the difference is, this is every time in more than one game. I, myself on just the hangman with one word, have guessed the puzzle almost everytime on 3-6 letters. I always pick the same letters, they seem to hit and fill out a lot of the puzzle and I guess the word. But this is just one word, not a long phrase.

It might just be that it is a very good player. The phrases are often easier than single words as well, it is sometimes possible to have a good idea what words might be even if no letters are showing. If I see two 3-letter words together I would seriously consider the possibility that they are AND THE, there are other possibilities of course.
If there is an apostrophe that gives more clues.
Proverbs and Phrases is probably the easiest list there is.
I guessed a phrase once with zero letters showing, purely by the number of letters in each word. Admittedly I had seen that phrase come up about half a dozen times since I'd been playing.
It's also possible to guess some phrases from one letter: if you pick an A or an E for your first guess and it crops up in a lot of places...

P.S. I'm not a great player myself.

P.P.S. If you always pick the same letters and in the same order, the strong players will pick up on this: eventually they will "know" what your first guesses are and it will help them to guess the word faster. After the game I believe they can see what your guesses were, which will enable them to see if you consistently pick a particular letter first. They will also be toggling you every turn.

Don't stop playing, just find players whose rating is similar to yours: a player can't keep beating people without their rating increasing.

I think the phrase I guessed with no letters was either "THE EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM" or "EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE".
With the first one I would assume that the first word was "the", if I picked a T I would notice that it came up in the 5th word too, so that could be "the" as well.
I would then assume that the structure of the sentence was "The/adjective/noun/verb/the/noun".
With the second one I might notice that the first two words after the comma are the same length as the first two words of the sentence: there is a good chance that they are the same; a lot of proverbs and sayings follow this pattern.

I do always pick the same letters in the same order when I play. It does me good in the single words. I do great in that one. They don't seem to hit on multi words though. I do the same thing with the and and, also on 1 letter it can only be an a or an I. Usually an a. 2 words can be easy to determine also.. It was just the phrases that have been guessed, there was nothing easy to decipher any of these things with that are normally gone on.

I didn't realise it was Songs. I generally get hammered when I play that one, what I said about sentence structure wouldn't help much there.

fat daddy was talking about songs, I think you were referring to the same thing I was talking about: multi word phrases... Yea, the songs are tough. I get alot of them, but after about 20 or more guesses, and sometimes we don't get it at all and both hang ourselves. that is a hard category I think.

I find the Hall of Fame categories hard too.
Bestselling Books isn't too bad though, after a while you can make a reasonable stab at some of the authors just by the length of their name (some of them crop up multiple times).

Back to the phrases. After a person has played Thematic Hangman many, many times it becomes easier to guess the phrase because it's surely come up several times during these past games. I also have guessed a phrase before asking for any letters because of the number of letters in the words of the phrase. That's only happened once, though.

well I just gone done investigating this person in their other games in the tourney and it just seems to much to me. I can't put the stats how I want to but here are some in a shortened version with alot of info missing.

In one game, they guessed 3 phrases, one seven words long, one 9 words long and one three words long in a total of 9 total turns. The first one they guessed, 2 letters then the word, the second one they guessed it with NO letters and the third was with 4 letters.

Another game, they guessed 2 phrases in 8 turns, the phrases were both three words. the first phrase they had 2 letters then guessed the phrase.

Another game, they guessed 2 phrases in 6 turns, the phrases were 4 and 3 words long. In each, they guessed 2 letters then the word.

Another game, they guessed a 5 word phrase on turn 4.

Another game, they guessed a 3 word phrase on turn 4.

I don't know, I just have a hard time seeing someone being that good at this.

I'm not saying that someone ISN'T cheating...I was just explaining how some games can be solved quickly if someone has played a lot of games previously.

oh, I totally understand what your saying.. I can see that. I don't play it enough I guess to be able to know the puzzles alot. lol

before accusing someone of cheating, please read my nuggets.

I have two more unwritten nuggets, I might write one of them month

If you are guessing same letters all the time, then you are very predictable, and your opponent will "see" your letters as well as their own.

I looked at one game which was mentioned in this thread.

-e-- -- e-e---n--

the last word was obviously elephants, and the rest is solved by logic.

I looked at all of the words guessed in the tournament in question. (and with hindsight based on the letters of the words ) and i think i would have got roughly 40-50% of them. I didn't know the bad guesses, so can't make an accurate call on how good this player is.

this is a game of skill, pattern recognition and logic, and a little bit of clairvoyance

There are players out there that are scary good, but the same is true in any game.

I remember marcmandy said that there were something like 17000 multiword phrases so learning them all is not practical, however some of them do have distinctive patterns (I learned a new one from looking through those games)

of course if you play song lists with only 1000 odd songs, it will become boring and predictable as you play it more often.

If someone was determined enough to win, it might be possible for them to guess many of the phrases in the Bestselling Books List without any letters at all.
For example: Imagine we have a phrase SOMETHING -- --- ------.
SOMETHING represents the title and may consist of more than one word.
The 3rd word from the end is BY.
I would assume that the author is TOM CLANCY.
This does not mean that TOM CLANCY is the only 3/6 author in the list; but if he is the only 3/6 then I've got the author as well.
I would also need to memorise the title of every book he has ever written.
Of course some titles might have the same number of letters in them, I would then seek to determine which letter would whittle down the possibles as quickly as possible.

If we consider the 5000 US Cities List; many of the States can be worked out by picking one letter. The exact letter depends on the number of letters in the State name.
The State isn't the difficult part, it's the cities that give me the problems.

wow, how many lists are there? How many different types of hangman? LOL

The only ones I have seen is the one fatdaddy was talking about, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the one word one on the normal hangman, multi word phrases and tv shows (which I am great at - I guess watching tv finally paid off for me).

I've just checked. I went to New Game and selected Thematic Hangman, then I went down to the lists... there are 22 lists! I thought it was about a dozen.
There's at least a couple I haven't seen before "All MLB Players" and "Places All Over The World".
I'd be more sanguine about playing PAOTW than AMLBP! ;)

There are indeed many lists, and I'm slowly working on more. I cannot speak to who may or may not be cheating, there is certainly that possibility/probability, but it is indeed about pattern detection and being a wordsmith helps a lot as well. The smaller the list, the more likely that memory comes into play, especially if it is a subject one is intimately familiar with. People who do very well on the 500 list could be very strongly familiar with music overall and it doesn't take anywhere near as much thinking to recognize a name as it would for someone who isn't much of a music fan. To offset the limited number of options, I created the top 100 per year list of songs. An amateur musicologist will recognize a lot of the 5,000 or so choices, but not nearly as many as on the 500.

Anyone who is a good Crossword and/or Scrabble player [or WoF follower] will have greater success at these games.

The best way to sample the various lists is to go out and do the inviting. That way you get to choose which playground [lists] to play in!

and yes, look for someone at about your level and you'll probably be on an equal footing. If you find that losing in a tourney is frustrating because of the speed of solutions then play individually with folks you know to be in the same skill-level as you, or challenge yourself by trying to play with people a couple of hundred points above you in rating, not far above your level.

m

I'm assuming that the situation with the Songs List is much as Marc has said, whilst there is no way how anyone derives the answers, it seems that people who like music and know a lot about it will have a strong if not unassailable advantage over someone who doesn't.

I am a fan of the author Jack Vance. I do not have encyclopaedic knowledge of his works but if a "Jack Vance List" was created, I would probably have a big advantage.

I am not good at Hangman or any form but if there was a list of Horse Breeds, then I would have alot better chance. Just because when I was younger I did alot of reading on that. But as far as Music or Phrases or any of the other lists. Thats one reason I dont play Hangman, just the ones that I have already signed up for. Not any new ones. Unless a chum asked me, then I would consider it.

Hangman is just a list of commonly used words, no topics or categories, just single words. I'd consider doing horse breeds, but I doubt there are enough to make it work.

yeah its not as popular as some.

Top 100 List Songs 1950-1990 database - we had: THREE SEVEN SIX TWO THREE; GLORIA ESTEFAN AND MIAMI SOUND MACHINE

I can't find anything to prove such a song ever existed by that title. Google's never heard of it. It isn't on YouTube. Discog.org and Wikipedia don't show anything even close to that title in the discography listings for Gloria Estefan.

*Oops. That's discogs.com, not .org.

Dis you try 37623?

Ah! No, I hadn't.

That one does return a few links on Google. Not nearly as many as I'd expect from a "top 100" song. Judging by the lyrics I read on one of the pages I followed a link to, I still think the song is misnamed here. The real title appears to be "1-2-3".

Hi Thomas
It looks like a different song
I've come across a few references to it
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - 37623 12" Single Vinyl Record
1987 Epic (USA), #EAS 1152
Hope this helps, there must be some Gloria Estefan fans on here
Cheers, Ian

Interesting. I wonder why my searches keep coming up empty...

Not sure Lonnie , but a lot of the references are karaoke and music shops ...looks like it was on a 2003 album, Anything for you, track 10
http://www.cantarolar.com/album/3332/
Cheer, Ian

We couldn't use numbers as guesses, so I converted the numbers to words [did this in other instances as well], but the song does indeed exist. I double checked it just to be sure.
m

On my 25th move of Hanging Diceman I guessed an "o". BEFORE I made this guess my points for this round were 2. AFTER making this guess my points were -2. I have two questions:
1.) Why did I lose any points at all since the rules state "The letters A, E, I, O, and U do not give any points, nor do they reduce points if they appear in an incorrect guess"
and
2.) Why did I lose FOUR points?
I saw a question asked previously about losing points for a guess of a vowel even though the rules state that shouldn't happen but I never saw the answer. Since I've noticed this happening in other games would someone help me understand this? Thanks.

I believe that the rules were changed a while back so that while one still gains no points from correctly guessing a vowel, one does lose points for incorrectly guessing vowel...
As to your losing 4 points, I haven't looked at the game yet, I assume that the die/dice was on 4.
If I have any better ideas after looking at your game I'll post again.

Actually, I think the dice was showing a 7.

Strange. Perhaps I'll look again when the game is over.

I too was unaware that that rule had changed.

It's worth knowing.

This sentence is included in the "rules" of the game:

The letters A, E, I, O, and U do not give any points, nor do they reduce points if they appear in an incorrect guess.

That was correct at the time when the rules were written, some time after the rules were tweaked, but the explanation of the rules was not revised.

Hi Guys, in current Thematic Hangman, 5000 US Cities game #8163700 versus Tezcatlipoca my incorrect answer was given as being correct.
LEM _ T, LLINOIS was the state of the game
I guessed LEMINT, ILLINOIS and was given correct, whereas the correct answer was LEMONT, ILLINOIS
Is this a bug?
Cheers, Ian

Looks like neither. You already had guessed an I and an O.
So if it was Lemint or Lemont, the I or O would have already been filled in.
So I'm even more confused about it

Sorry Genie the game state was :
LEM _ _ T, _ LL _ _ _ _ S
the used letters were A,C,E,L,M,R,S,T,U
my answer was
LEMINT, ILLINOIS
cheers, Ian

YOu guessed IN I INOI as the blanks which is a guess of I N O

the correct answer was ON I INOI which is a guess of I N O

so in fact your guess was correct.

Seems wrong to me, the position of the respective letters should be taken into account, otherwise incorrect spellings of words will be allowed also

yes.. its like in hangman you can guess pats but the answer is past and because of the same letters you are correct.
In fact, one of my hangman strategy is to guess multiple words at the same time

Are you guys guessing one letter at a time, or trying to guess the entire puzzle at once?

whole puzzle

I'll have to misspell an answer just to see what happens.

I don't think it matters what order the letters are in, just as long as the Correct letters are typed in.

I too have noticed that when guessing the whole word(s) that correct spelling is not always necessary as long as you don't include a letter that is not in the word(s) and if no letter is omitted.

For example:

If the answer is "Lexington Kentucky" and you input "Lexingtin Kuntocey" you will get credit for a correct answer as all the correct letters have been entered and no incorrect ones have.

Similarly if your input is "Lexington Kentuckie" you'll have it wrong as you omitted the "y".

Strangely enough "LEXINTGOKYUCEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOO" would also be considered a correct answer.

Yeah, seems like a design flaw in the answer checking....eg: BR _ _ N TRUST wouldn't be BRIAN TRUST rather BRAIN TRUST but if I typed in BRIAN TRUST it would be correct...something is not right

if you had not used the box, and just picked the letters i and a manually, then it wouldn't seem so bad .

You're right. I spelled SAM as SMA and got it correct.

I perhaps regard it in a similar light. I regard tying the "answer" in as not so much "typing the answer in" as a more convenient way of typing in the remaining letters I need.
I find it is often quicker to just type in the "answer" than to consciously think which letters are missing and then just enter those.

That box was placed there to avoid the many clicks it might take to "guess the word". All it does is cull from the letters you type the ones that haven't already been guessed. Notice how after you enter the word only the letters that weren't guessed appear. So indeed "LEXINTGOKYUCEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOO"
would not be considered a correct answer as much as it would be considered supplying the correct missing letters. This way people who accidentally held a key down too long and didn't notice would not be penalized for that.

m

I'm playing my first Thematic Hangman - TV Shows. I'm pretty sure I know one of the words, and if I'm right, I have never heard of the TV show.

It's also likely the other word is not a normal word (this would seem possible if you knew the first word).

Is it considered fair play to research TV shows with the word I know in it? Is there an official rule on this, or a general consensus among players?

It has been my personal experience with the TV Show version, that there's a LOT of shows I've never, ever heard of. Therefore, it's my personal opinion to go ahead and research it. I'll bet it's something YOU'VE never heard of either. LET ME KNOW!

Abby Normal

These TV shows are not limited to those from USA networks.

She let me research. It was Invader Zim. I've never heard of that one! Guessing two letters around the "i" in "Zim" would have sent my poor stick man to the great stick ball park in the sky.

Some players don't like it if there opponents do that.
I don't look things up myself, but it wouldn't bother me if an opponent did.

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I'll ask my opponent how she feels about it and honor her decision.

Honorable

I'm having (losing) a game with bw5550. Game (#8174789).
I've just come across something that would appear to let me avoid losing.
If the game drags on I will resign, but it may be something that needs to be looked at if it is not desired for draws to be possible.

While bw5550 is winning 24-21 I have two seeds on my side of the board, it seems that it is possible for me to perpetually keep them there, allowing my opponent to only have one seed on their side and prevent any further captures from occurring.

I don't know if the 24 point victory will kick in after a certain number of moves...

perhaps you could post this in mancala and not hangman

Oops! I thought I had...
I'd like to say the game was going better for me than the post, but...

maybe you could spell words with the stones?

In game #8047882 of Thermatic Hangman Trisha Yearwood's name was misspelled. It was spelled as Trisia Yearwood instead. The puzzle was Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.

#8205166 - SMOKY should be SMOKEY

Depends, if they are talking about the mountains or the national park, then it is Smoky WITHOUT an E

Game #8170870 has TWO sets of them. CREAM and U2.

What does it mean to "Doze off the Record"?

Looks like you're playing Matching Middles...

Doze Off
Off The Record

The identification as such would have been a great help.

Sorry, I put this message below the wrong question. It should have been here.

What category are you playing? For instance is it Multiword Phrases?

There are some Matching Middles that found their way into the Multiword Phrases list.

If that is the case, Marcmandy will appreciate you sending him a message about it so he can put the phrase where it belongs.

And, no, he couldn't possibly have proofread all the thousands of entries. He has done a remarkable job compiling the lists.

This is the one that was in "Multiword Phrases".

multiword phrases is sort of like "anything goes"

Yes, -except- that the matching middles (or before and after, if you prefer) do not belong in the multiword phrases list. (ie: used motorcycle gang (used motorcycle, motorcycle gang))
So Marcmandy likes to know about them so he can move them to the proper list.

The all-seeing, but know-nothing ME hath indeed seen this and added it to the new list for repair. Yes, Multi-word means anything goes, but I try to pull out those pesky "matching middle" phrases that keep popping out on the multi-list. I have to build a better fence around those "matching middles" cause the critters keep escaping, but time is at such a premium, and besides, building fences is hard work...

ps- if you message me, it gets on the list quicker because I check my messages daily. I only check-in on this DG periodically.

on game #7986545 you have spelled Pennsylvania wrong on both of my completed games for 5000 US Cities..1st answer was Blakely, Pennyslvania and 2nd answer was California Pennyslvania..please correct the spelling..thank you

Has no one proof-read these answers?

What category are you playing? For instance is it Multiword Phrases?
There are some Matching Middles that found their way into the Multiword Phrases list.
If that is the case, Marcmandy will appreciate you sending him a message about it so he can put the phrase where it belongs.
And, no, he couldn't possibly have proofread all the thousands of entries. He has done a remarkable job compiling the lists.

It was Multiword Phrases.
After I play my last Hangman and or variant game I would be happy to volunteer to proofread all the answers.
I will then of course not play them here again.

I'd rather not deprive you of the fun of playing! We'll keep doing it this way, but remember that I've produced all of these lists and have proofed them as best I could, but there are tens of thousands of entries...

You pholks are my proofreaders! Enjoy!

If you ever change your mind the offer stands.

do I receive the Eagle Eye Token?

in game #7826509 I won with the phrase "With This Ring".......less than 5 minutes after My Fiance went home, after making some wedding plans! She made them....I just nodded a lot (j/k)
47 years of Bachelorhood, but She was well worth the wait 8^) Almost feels like I had an unfair advantage, lol.

I'll just take it as a sign, since I started playing Gt when it still only had 5 games and had less than 1000 players.

CONGRATULATIONS!

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them... welcome to the club of the caught

in game #7966959 the clue was "fantastic four" but the site spelled it as "fastastic four"

http://prntscr.com/yh4uo

no biggie, I won anyway, but thought Y'all should know 8^)

now on the list- thanks!

Hanging DiceMan game #8181146, Multiword Phrases, the answer was "MAGNIFYING MAKE UP MIRROR"...unless this is a new relationship tool, I think it should be "MAGNIFYING MAKEUP MIRROR"!

Don't I look swell? Let's get back together.

It's the latest techie thing. It's a mirror that apologizes endlessly for enlarging your flaws!

[added]

m

I think we should have the option of guessing the five vowels in one turn (if possible the first turn). Any vowels not in the word would count as wrong guesses. Otherwise vowels would be placed in their proper places. Perhaps a similar thing could apply to groups of five consonants(a guess of five right after the vowels have been placed).

Thoughts?

Why? Are you in a hurry to complete games?
That would completely change the game from what the original Hangman is. Personally, I think it would take the fun out of the game.
Maybe that could be an optional variation, but certainly not the norm.

We could think about accelerating even further and have all the consonants for the 2nd turn

lol...one turn and it's over and done with.

I wouldn't play that variation.

Me, neither.

No idea's are stupid.

I would be interested in what they were trying to achieve by allowing selecting all vowels at once?

I am not sure I agree with the idea, but it is interesting to think about

in executioner/diceman, it would give too much away to your opponent so no one would do it

in thematic it would make it harder for people to see into your pick but potentially make it an obvious pick to do first.

in hangman I am still thinking about the implication. I think most people would do it first. And there would be benefits/disagreement of solving the word quicker.

I am wondering whther it would take the skill out of the game

I think that most people would do it first: I think (but haven't tested and cannot prove) that if two people of reasonable skill played each other X number of times, a player who always played the five vowels would win significantly more often than player who didn't.
I think it would be a completely different game where luck plays a greater factor.

Perhaps if one could pick multiple letters, but if one of them is wrong they all get rejected (without the player knowing which one(s) was/were wrong...
That would be a different game as well, and would require a different mix of skills.

LOGAN,MOUNTAIN, CANADA
#8169472

added, thanks!

m

CONTEMPERARY ART COLLECTION should be CONTEMPORARY

game #8154994, should be THE TROGGS, not just 'TROGGS'

Cheers

added, thanks!

m

#8158548
COMMITTE CHAIRMAN should be COMMITTEE

these misspellings sure make getting the puzzle really hard...

yup, they do and I'm sorry... human-ness takes its toll...

Added, Karen, thanks

m

In Hanging DiceMan game #8156907, Multiword Phrases, the answer was "FREE LANCE ARTIST". I think it should be "FREELANCE ARTIST".

added, thank you

Depends. Is your name Armstrong, by any chance?

But that wouldn't be a Drug Free Lance

i guessed same city

Have you double-checked the letters that you entered for your guess? It's easy to make a typo!

It's "Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs" not "...Pharoahs"

Thanks, but I need to know which list it's from...

It's in "Multiword Phrases" for Thematic Hangman.

Thanks, it's now added.

In Thematic Hangman (Multiword Phrases) Game #8108438, we had "OSCAR WINNER NICHOLAS CAGE". The proper spelling is "NICOLAS".

Thanks!

Anyone here want to play either Thematic Hangman or Hanging Diceman? Feel free to send an invite. Any theme/subject matter except sports.

What is Hanging Diceman?

It's basically Thematic Hangman, but with a die. When you guess letters (not vowels) correctly, you get points for every correct letter. Like, say a 5 is rolled and you guess the letter T, and there's 5 of them in the puzzle, you get 25 points. BUT, if you guess a WRONG letter, according to the die, that's deducted from your total. Does that kinda make sense?

That's makes perfect sense thank you so much.

Glad I could help!

in 5000 US Cities Hangman, game #7986545, Pennsylvania is spelled wrong..please correct it..thank you..

The game's not over: but I assume the possibilities are either that you missed a letter out or that the answer may be spelt correctly.
I'm not saying you did misspell it, but I have done that myself more times than I care to remember.
If the phrase itself was spelt incorrectly... that's just part of the game. If I have a word or phrase I'm dubious about I report it to marcmandy and he will deal with it when he can.
I suppose it's also possible that a bug occurred, over a long enough period of time it shouldn't affect your average that much.