# GAME: Word game- Guess my Password **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 17, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772 "2014-09-17T22:34:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/22 "2014-09-21T14:16:15Z")
06/10/11 – TOTALLY FLIPPED WHEN I SAW PHOENIX 1. START WITH A FAMOUS TRIPPER 2. ADD EITHER KOMODO OR ECLIPSE 3. ADD A BEATLE BUTCHER, CIRCA 1998 4. REMOVE AN ASTRONAUT 5. MERGE THE DOUBLES Password: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* (11 letters) There’s a little bit more to do than in **Chessic Sense** ’s puzzles, but I think it can be figured out. (But it’s so hard to tell – what’s obvious to one person can be totally opaque to another.) ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/23 "2014-09-21T20:07:09Z")
**Kimble** , can I ask how many letters to start? A famous tripper is is either Day or Leary, maybe. Komodo and Eclispes are both IDEs. A Beatle butcher is spelled like the band, but I don’t know the reference. An astronaut could be anyone, but I’d guess either Buzz or Neil. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/24 "2014-09-21T20:25:01Z")
Sorry. First answer is 6 letters. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/25 "2014-09-21T23:57:42Z")
I can’t get the Beatles butcher. John Pizzarelli did Meats the Beatles in 1998, but that doesn’t work with the rest of it. You get Pizareli when you merge the doubles, and that’s useless to me. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/26 "2014-09-22T00:14:04Z")
Wow. That’s a pretty big coincidence. I was kinda trying to allude to the “Yesterday… and Today” butcher cover as a red herring, but other synonyms with “do a bad job of singing” would suffice. A small hint: think pop, punk, and/or Americana. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/27 "2014-09-22T02:23:21Z")
[The list of 1998 Beatles covers is pretty long](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_the_Beatles_songs). ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/28 "2014-09-22T02:39:20Z")
You’re right – that wasn’t a good clue on my part. Furthermore, the song I was thinking of isn’t even on there, because it’s not an exact cover – it’s more of a parody. (Lennon/McCartney didn’t get a writing credit.) However, the song did hit #2 in three countries (none of which were their native USA, although it reached the top 10 in US mainstream rock and modern rock charts). Tiny hint: all that charting actually happened in 1999, but the album came out in 1998. Another small hint: Reread that paragraph above and my previous post. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/29 "2014-09-22T12:12:58Z")
I’ll take a crack at “Sunshine” without reading the subsequent posts: 1. DNA shape (5 letters) - Helix. 2. Change genders - Shelix? 3. A Chicago train jumped the tracks - I see from a quick Google that it was an “L” train that derailed in March this year, not sure if you mean to remove the “L” or move it to another point in the word. 4. Double the sibilant one - add an “s” for Ssheix (assuming the L is removed). 5. Cross out naught’s partner - presumably as in “noughts and crosses”, so delete the “x” for Sshei 6. Let’s get you and me inside - add a u and “me” somewhere in the middle, but I can’t get it to work - “Sushi” or “Sashimi” seems to be as close as I can get. And I don’t see how either of those fits with the first clue to give the answer. After seeing **Kimble’s** answer, I see I more or less had it, just couldn’t make the final connection! ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/30 "2014-09-22T22:45:39Z")
> [@Kimble](#): > > 06/10/11 – TOTALLY FLIPPED WHEN I SAW PHOENIX > > 1. START WITH A FAMOUS TRIPPER > 2. ADD EITHER KOMODO OR ECLIPSE > 3. ADD A BEATLE BUTCHER, CIRCA 1998 > 4. REMOVE AN ASTRONAUT > 5. MERGE THE DOUBLES > > Password: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* (11 letters) Got it almost: [spoiler] 1. START WITH A FAMOUS TRIPPER - Ritter, who played Jack Tripper. 2. ADD EITHER KOMODO OR ECLIPSE - Ritteride, for the development environments. 3. ADD A BEATLE BUTCHER, CIRCA 1998 - RitterideOffspring, for “Why Don’t You Get a Job?” 4. REMOVE AN ASTRONAUT - Delete Sally Ride = RitteOffspring 5. MERGE THE DOUBLES - RiteOfSpring.[/spoiler] Not sure how that relates to June 10th, November 6th, or a flipping phoenix. Both Stravinsky and Pulcinella only have 10 letters. Am I close? ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772/31 "2014-09-22T23:25:00Z")
You’re very very close. The cryptic clue is correct and you can proclaim victory if you choose. However, I thought this might be too easy if you got cryptic clue 3, so I made the “plain” clue less plain. (Sorry.) A hint that might be enough to push you over the edge (in more ways than one!): the 6th, 10th, and 11th characters in the password are all the same. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-word-game-guess-my-password/698772.md?page=1)