# Word Sandwich: Highly addictive online word game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062 "2008-01-18T19:12:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/21 "2008-01-19T00:43:43Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm]
gulls, gully, gummy,…
I was stuck between “wards” and “wares” for a while.
5,454 points. All five words took between 11 and 14 guesses.
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WARDS
wardt
wardu
wardv
wardw
wardx
wardy
wardz
warea
wareb
warec
wared \<------ never heard of it but spellcheck doesn’t highlight it
waref
wareg
wareh
warei
warej
warek
warel
warem
waren
wareo
warep
wareq
warer
WARES
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### Author:  [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/22 "2008-01-19T00:51:11Z")
[QUOTE=twickster]
Okay … put me out of my misery.
[/QUOTE]
Wared, I think.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/23 "2008-01-19T00:59:15Z")
11850! and if I hadn’t effed up one round (297), I coulda been a contender!
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### Author:  [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/24 "2008-01-19T03:33:07Z")
Not fun. Makes me feel stupid.
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/25 "2008-01-19T03:37:20Z")
How the hell do people guess it in five tries? I’m just narrowing down an area of the alphabet by then. I’m not good at this.
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/26 "2008-01-19T03:48:09Z")
I got drool! Only took me a gazillion tries.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/27 "2008-01-19T03:50:33Z")
“Larch” is not a word. 😕
The Larch 😃
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/28 "2008-01-19T03:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=JSexton]
Wared, I think.
[/QUOTE]
That is not a good word.
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/29 "2008-01-19T03:52:31Z")
Luck has a great deal to do with it. My first word was “smart”. My first guess was “smart”. Hmm. I thought I was a genius. For a minute.
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### Author:  [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/30 "2008-01-19T18:14:09Z")
[QUOTE=twickster]
Type in a five-letter word. If it goes “up” (i.e., to the box above the guess-box), the word you’re looking for is later than it in the alphabet. If it goes “down,” it’s earlier in the alphabet. You can use those “outsides” to narrow down the word you’re trying to guess.
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That was totally counter intuitive to me (design-wise). To me, if the word you put floats to the top, that word would be higher alphabetically. When you’re typing in the middle and you have the word above it, graphically it looks like that (to me, at least).
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/31 "2008-01-19T18:34:57Z")
I’m at 23 tries and stuck between TWERP and TWIGS.
Oh, TWICE
Bite me!
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/32 "2008-01-19T18:36:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lionne]
I’m at 23 tries and stuck between TWERP and TWIGS.
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TWICE?
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/33 "2008-01-19T18:38:06Z")
Thanks **Randy**. I’m off to the dunce corner.
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### Author:  [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/34 "2008-01-19T18:43:23Z")
[http://www.crossword-dictionary.com/](http://www.crossword-dictionary.com/) is worth its weight in gold. That being said, I _still_ don’t think I’ve gotten higher than 3000. I have to believe that there is a fair amount of luck in here, unless you believe in clairvoyance.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/35 "2008-01-19T18:52:35Z")
My high score so far is 10,000. Am still obsessively trying to best it. Thanks for nothing, **Interrobang?!**
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### Author:  [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/36 "2008-01-19T21:30:19Z")
Hey, I don’t think I’ve cracked 10,000, so apparently my punishment is my reward.
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/37 "2008-01-19T21:41:41Z")
Really fast typing even if it’s a bad guess. That x4 on the 17th try is worth quite a lot of points.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/38 "2008-01-19T23:02:42Z")
[QUOTE=Oy!]
… I _still_ don’t think I’ve gotten higher than 3000. I have to believe that there is a fair amount of luck in here, unless you believe in clairvoyance.
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Are you doing your guesses by halves? I start with MOUSE – then if the word is earlier than that, I go halfway between “A” and “M,” usually with “FIELD” – then divide that range in half (DOUBT or ICIER), etc.
If you work by chunks like that, you can narrow in on your range fairly quickly.
And, yes, there’s certainly an element of luck.
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### Author:  [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/39 "2008-01-19T23:21:50Z")
Ack! Got stuck between READY and REEDY
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-sandwich-highly-addictive-online-word-game/434062/40 "2008-01-20T00:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=wonderlust]
Ack! Got stuck between READY and REEDY
[/QUOTE]
REBEL?
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