# RobinWords game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 18, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889 "2011-04-18T22:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anticounterrevolutionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Anticounterrevolutionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anticounterrevolutionary)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/1 "2011-04-18T22:30:36Z")
[RobinWords](http://robinwords.com/game/) is a game where you “change one letter in the four-letter word the computer gives you. The computer will then change one letter in the word you used and so on. You may not use proper nouns or reuse words that have already been used. The first person to use up all possible words wins!” The caveat is that the game cheats a bit by occasionally using a foreign word while barring you from doing the same, or using what seems like a word fragment. Still, it’s probably fair to give the computer a handicap and makes the game more challenging. You can get lucky with a good starting word and the game can be won fairly quickly. I just lost one in 91 turns. I gave the computer ‘lech’, it countered with ‘tech’ and game over. Anyone want to try it and share their successes or frustrations? ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/2 "2011-04-19T00:53:40Z")
Won one very quickly, within 25, with nothing memorable. Then got an epic one of 146 which I finally won with cyst. Interesting game, but weird dictionary that includes all sorts of fish names apparently. eta: computer won in 21 with “gaol”. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/3 "2011-04-19T18:53:44Z")
I beat it in 146 words. I thought I’d lost on “atop” but apparently “atom” connects only to “atop.” I used to play [Scrabble Slam!](http://www.hasbro.com/familygamenight/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=E8E0CBDA-6C57-1014-ADF5-8E2A583F4B56&product_id=2) which is a lot like. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/4 "2011-04-19T19:01:55Z")
dink isn’t a word??? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/5 "2011-04-19T19:31:17Z")
That’s what I said! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_of\_Lucan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Michael\_of\_Lucan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_of_Lucan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/6 "2011-04-19T20:03:38Z")
Apparently hoar is not accepted as a word. I got up to about two hundred, then got bored. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/7 "2011-04-19T20:20:27Z")
yeah, that game can bite me and I told it so as it wouldn’t accept sild which is a young herring other than a brisling that is canned as a sardine in Norway ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/8 "2011-04-19T20:47:15Z")
after about 200 turns, it got me on “Barb” ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/9 "2011-04-19T23:41:06Z")
276 turns , it gave me coax and I won with hoax. Too much thinnin going on . ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/10 "2011-04-20T01:29:23Z")
320 words! Thankfully I won with moot. ---
**Author:** ![Anticounterrevolutionary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Anticounterrevolutionary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anticounterrevolutionary)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/11 "2011-04-20T02:18:26Z")
Just had a fun one. It opened with ‘tuts’ and I countered with ‘tutu’. Done in one! ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/12 "2011-04-20T03:09:47Z")
Ah, beat it, it went from **Port** =\> to **Poet** =\> and i countered with **Poem**. 226 words ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/13 "2011-04-20T04:11:36Z")
I won after 42 words with Baby. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/14 "2011-04-20T05:20:09Z")
It started with onto. I responded into. It gave info game over. What the hell was that? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/15 "2011-04-20T06:47:37Z")
“celt” is totally a word ! ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/16 "2011-04-20T14:31:14Z")
that program can eat crap & die. it used phat which, I’m sorry, I don’t think is a real word. when I looked it up in m-w, it said slang. so later I went with glam, which is JUST as much a real word as phat and it refused to accept it. I doubt I will go with 3rd time’s the charm. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robinwords-game/578889/17 "2011-04-20T15:10:13Z")
SUCK IT, you magnificent bastard. 376, beat it with atom. Bite me, time-wasting game!