The Feud: Challenging Words by Le Ministre de l'au-delà [Game Over]

The Game Room
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Yes, and the check’s in the mail.

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  1. weird
  2. rhythm
  3. biopsy
  4. enouai
  5. rhythm
  6. radar
  7. color
  8. minute
  9. reward
  10. ewer
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Reported to the mods, and I’ve started scoring.

Since I didn’t make no misspellings a rule, I will combine any I find. The first one I ran across is neighbor/neighbour - which isn’t even a misspelling.

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Will you also combine plurals and singulars? Like strength and strengths?

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Yes.

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Phew! There’s some more points for me.

I may claw my way up to the lower middle of the field on rhythm(s) alone.

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  1. A word, any length, which is an exception to the rule ‘i before e except after c…’.
    1. Weird 13

  2. neighbor 7

  3. science 3

  4. leisure 2

  5. seize 2

  6. anchor 1

  7. ancient 1

  8. Caffeine 1

  9. Either 1

  10. forfeit 1

  11. height 1

  12. neither 1

  13. Perceive 1

  14. Their 1

  15. A word of six or more letters which only has one vowel.
    2. Strength/Strengths 17

  16. rhythm 3

  17. bright 2

  18. scratch 2

  19. strong 2

  20. Blocks 1

  21. branch 1

  22. Flight 1

  23. scrunch 1

  24. Scythe 1

  25. spring 1

  26. stamps 1

  27. stitch 1

  28. Trench 1

  29. wrench 1

  30. A word of six or more letters where all the letters appear in alphabetical order.
    3. almost 8

  31. Accent 7

  32. begins 4

  33. biopsy 4

  34. abhors 3

  35. billowy 3

  36. abscess 2

  37. Accept 2

  38. access 1

  39. Aegilops 1

  40. chintz 1

  41. A word of six or more letters which only has one consonant.
    4. Eunoia 6

  42. ooecia 5

  43. oiseau 4

  44. Zoaeae 3

  45. Aeolia 2

  46. Aoueil 2

  47. Euouae/euouaes 2

  48. Aeriey 1

  49. enouai 1

  50. mieaou 1

  51. muumuu 1

  52. oousia 1

  53. pass1 1

  54. pass2 1

  55. pass3 1

  56. pass4 1

  57. Queuey 1

  58. stress 1

  59. Zaouia 1

  60. A word of six or more letters which has neither the letter a, e, i, o nor u.
    5. Rhythm/rhythms 31

  61. Crypts 3

  62. syzygy 1

  63. trysts 1

  64. A word, any length, which is a palindrome.
    **6. Radar 7[/B
    ]6. madam 4

  65. racecar 4

  66. boob 2

  67. kayak 2

  68. level 2

  69. noon 2

  70. wow 2

  71. bob 1

  72. dad 1

  73. deed 1

  74. did 1

  75. Eye 1

  76. kinnikinnik 1

  77. Moon 1

  78. poop 1

  79. Pop 1

  80. redivider 1

  81. rotator 1

  82. A word, any length, which differs in its US and UK spelling.
    7. Color/colour 27

  83. theater/theatre 5

  84. favor/favour 1

  85. labor/labour 1

  86. Neighbor/Neighbour 1

  87. tire/tyre 1

  88. A word where the same combination of letters in the same order has two different pronunciations and two different meanings.
    8. lead 7

  89. Wind 4

  90. bow 3

  91. minute 3

  92. bass 2

  93. read 2

  94. Refuse 2

  95. resume 2

  96. Sow 2

  97. Desert 1

  98. Drawer 1

  99. invalid 1

  100. live 1

  101. moderate 1

  102. perfect 1

  103. polish 1

  104. unionized 1

  105. wound 1

  106. A word of six or more letters that is not a palindrome but is also a word when spelled backwards.
    9. stressed/desserts 20

  107. reward/drawer 6

  108. animal/lamina 2

  109. denier/reined 2

  110. diaper/repaid 2

  111. reviled/deliver 2

  112. spoons/snoops 1

  113. stared/derats 1

  114. A word of more than three letters that is frequently found in crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. (crosswordese)
    **10. Esne 4[/B
    ]10. Agar 3

  115. oleo 3

  116. olio 3

  117. Apse 2

  118. Ecru 2

  119. epee 2

  120. etna 2

  121. abet 1

  122. adit 1

  123. akee 1

  124. alai 1

  125. aloe 1

  126. Augur 1

  127. emu 1

  128. ere 1

  129. etui 1

  130. ewer 1

  131. Ghee 1

  132. Oloe 1

  133. sera 1

  134. sere 1

  135. uvula 1

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And the winner is… the resident Meisterfeuder Feudermeister! Way to go, Swampbear! Swampy got 8/10 top answers. Well done! Perfect score was 398.88.

And I got a respectable 2nd place! :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks, everyone! Thanks Le Ministre!
1. swampbear 383.33
2. Dolores Reborn 347.22
3. RickJay 338.89
4. Little Nemo 333.33
4. 42fish 333.33
6. RachelChristine 327.78
7. Infovore 311.11
8. Thudlow Boink 297.22
9. Scuba_Ben 294.44
10. Tom Scud 291.67
11. The Other Jeffrey Lebowski 288.89
12. Le Ministre de l’au-delà 283.33
12. maggenpye 283.33
14. kaylasdad99 277.78
15. astorian 266.67
15. needscoffee 266.67
17. Sternvogel 263.89
18. critter42 261.11
18. GuiriEnEspaña 261.11
20. Snickers 247.22
20. Mahaloth 247.22
22. AppallingGael 244.44
23. Maus Magill 236.11
24. Labtrash 227.78
25. cmkeller 219.44
26. bibliophage 208.33
27. notfrommensa 205.56
28. Avarie537 202.78
29. Barkis is Willin’ 197.22
30. NDP 186.11
31. Simmerdown 166.67
32. Staggering Genius 163.89
32. Aankh 163.89
34. gonzomax 161.11
35. Really Not All That Bright 125.00
36. Ulf the Unwashed 122.22

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Shouldn’t that be 6 for oleo/olio?

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Oleo.

Olio.

Two different things.

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Which one were they chanting in The Wizard of Oz?

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Ooh, #7! I thought I’d do much worse on this one! :slight_smile:

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Oh - wee - oh!

:stuck_out_tongue:

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Wow – 9th place! I think that’s my best ever!

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I was a little surprised with this group to be the only one who thought of ‘caffeine’. :smiley:

Just for the record, I had been thinking of the entire rule ‘i before e except after c or when sounding like ‘a’ as in neighbour and weigh’, but I didn’t want to give the whole thing because ‘neighbour’ is an example of a word which differs in UK and US spelling. I was up a gum tree - in trying to avoid a conch on the US/UK question, I ended up with ‘neighbour’ as an answer to the first question.

That was fun, though.

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Hm, if I had bothered to Google up answers for the ones I couldn’t think of off the top of my head, I’d have done pretty well. Most of the big-points answers were ones I’d thought of.

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I can’t believe I got 6th place! I don’t think I’ve ever come in top 10 before. And I think I even passed on the one-consonant question. Cool!