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Challenge 6
Topic Started: Jan 26 2017, 11:28:14 PM (398 Views)
Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
Okay, it goes up at 4PM tomorrow, and we have 24 hours.

It's Friday night so I will probably have time anytime tomorrow evening.

Anyway my fever has gotten worse so I am probably gonna take the night and get some much need R&R.
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Cameron
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Yep thats basically it. If we post words we find and their coordinates then we can know which words we can go and help with too.
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Cameron
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Harvey Crubbs
Jan 27 2017, 06:53:43 PM
You can't find for others; posting coordinates of a word constitutes you finding that word. (Unless you mean finding something from someone else's 6 after you've done your 6, assuming you haven't exceeded 8)
Yes this is what i mean. We do our own 6 and those who finish those first can then try to find two other words from people still working on it. The only thing we wanna avoid is people looking for the same word but thats hard since we cant communicate
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Mags
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Quirky!
Hey, so just in case people misread it, I want to clarify one detail of the challenge:
We're not just searching for words in a word scramble, we're searching for SCRAMBLED words in a word scramble.
So using the previous example of 'gypsy', it may show up as 'ysgyp' or 'pyysg', as well as being vertical, horizontal, or diagonal in any direction.
I figure most people likely know this, but its the sort of thing that if you are reading quickly, you might miss and it may cost us time.
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Mags
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Quirky!
Also, I'm officially here and ready whenever.
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Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
Yup, got it.

I'm around now thru whenever people are online!
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Cameron
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I am around! I'm gonna make a quick fake one up just so we can peruse it or something.
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Cameron
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Posted Image
Words are:
Lighter
Welcome
Energy
Vinegar
Connect
President
College
Coffee
Cellular
Freshen
Scramble
Cigar
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Cameron
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Since things will be scrambled, what I'm finding works decently is choosing a letter in the word and searching for that letter throughout the word search and looking at the letters direct around each instance of the letter we're looking for. I then see if there are other letters from that word around it and go from there.
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Mags
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Quirky!
Cameron
Jan 27 2017, 08:43:38 PM
Since things will be scrambled, what I'm finding works decently is choosing a letter in the word and searching for that letter throughout the word search and looking at the letters direct around each instance of the letter we're looking for. I then see if there are other letters from that word around it and go from there.
Yeah this is working for me. Gotta say, this is much harder than a regular word search.
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Gabriella
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child endangerer, criminal mastermind
that's how i do searches normally anyway, i'm not great at them. but that seems like the best way because the words are not conspicuous at all.
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Mags
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Quirky!
I mean usually you can specifically look for the neighboring letters, which gives you a far faster search, but yeah. Iunno. Normally, the words can just pop out for me, but obviously that's not gonna happen here.
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Cameron
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Yeah I'm trying to do my own and it's difficult. Im finding the only real was i can do it is by noting the letters in the word, choosing one that i think is uncommon and just looking around that letter for other letters in the word.
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Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
oh my god this is impossible.
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Cameron
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This is the solution to the puzzle i posted

Spoiler: click to toggle
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Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
found cigar finally
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Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
Yep, best option is what Cam said. Pick out the least common letter in the word, find it, then see if any adjacent letters match.
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Cameron
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Notes:
-Try to do your words in order. This is so anyone who finishes early can then take whatever your last word is. If you have take someone else's word, post that solution here as quick as you can.

-Try to find the least common letter in the word, and make note of all of the other letters in the word. Then search the wordsearch for that uncommon letter and investigate the letters surrounding it. (This can seem a little laborious, but I think it works).

-We will each take 6 words to start. When we get the puzzle, the words could be ordered differently and it might not be clear which 6 are yours. If they are listed in one big column, then it's simple, first 6 are the top 6. IF there are multiple columns of words, assume that we start counting from the first word of the far left column and we go down. Once you reach the end of that column, go to the next column on the right and then go down. Keep doing this until the end. Here is a visual of this:
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Gabriella takes the First 6
Cam takes the Second set of 6
Mags takes the Third set of 6.
Hermione takes the Final set of 6.
Edited by Cameron, Jan 27 2017, 09:20:12 PM.
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Hermione
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Nice one, Aria ;)
I'm here. We can go whenever
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Cameron
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I am ready.
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Gabriella
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child endangerer, criminal mastermind
ready to roll.
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