OK, that's about thirty posts with the new algorithm. Any comments so far about differences from the old one? Aside from the obvious relief from the need to come up with a clever new set of six. (This is the third algorithm, btw, not the second; when we started the letters were much more random, and lately they've been mostly "words.")
I think I see that the frequency of end-of-word letters is different, narrower, with a preponderance of the more common letters and a paucity of rare birds. Anyone else see anything?
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
HNESGS
High neutron energies send gravity southward...
HNSDYD
July 21, 2004, 13:10
jerry thomas
HNSDYD
Heroes now sing, "Do your duty!"
SWGORY
July 21, 2004, 15:02
haberdasher
SWGORY
Since we go out rarely, yell!
EEOTYL
July 21, 2004, 16:48
Kalleh
EEOTYL
Everyone eats only the yellow lemons.
NCSBNS
OK, that's about thirty posts with the new algorithm. Any comments so far about differences from the old one? Aside from the obvious relief from the need to come up with a clever new set of six. (This is the third algorithm, btw, not the second; when we started the letters were much more random, and lately they've been mostly "words.")
I am sorry, but I haven't played regularly lately, so I am out of the loop. However, I do remember that when we first played this game, the letters were to be for a specific phrase. E.g., if I posted: "KRLPOW" I would have been looking for: Kalleh really likes posting on wordcraft. In fact, we used to call people "the winner!" when they got the phrase that was wanted. The trouble was that as the game progressed, people posted more and more complex phrases so that Einstein himself couldn't have figured them out. Then we progressed to using words.
July 21, 2004, 20:14
KHC
NCSBNS
Nancy clearly seeks Board News sagely.
Kalleh, we are posting as the "new" word, the last letters of our sentence.
I sort of, kind of... like this edition, except there are lots of "s" words, "e" words, and "y" words. I vote to keep it for awhile... but I don't mind thinking up the new word, and it's fun to run a thread of "related" words....
July 21, 2004, 21:27
jerry thomas
EDSNSK
Even dental surgeons need scrutiny, Kalleh.
NLSDYH
July 22, 2004, 03:12
arnie
NLSDYH
National law schools do you harm.
LWSOUM
I can't say that I'm all that enthusiastic about the new way. It removes the "problem" of finding a new word, certainly, but that has always been a good part of the fun. In particular, it can be amusing to try to follow other posters' thought processes, and why they chose a particular word to follow.
As KHC said, some letters seem to come up rather too often, in particular "y". I'd vote for a return to the old system, but wouldn't be unduly upset if we carried on with the new.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
July 22, 2004, 09:24
jerry thomas
I, too, vote for returning to the old system.
The new one has its good points, but ... it seems to stifle creativity.
