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hakab2060 · Kl00 Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 42

[Puzzle] 6. Purple Face - CrossWord

**Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:10 am

Quirk · Boot Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 49

http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/wow

I think this site might help us out some. It lets you enter in the letters you know and tells you ever possible word that fits.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:04 pm

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AnthraX101 · Entrenched Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797

**Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:17 pm

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VGhlcmUgaXMgbm8gc3Bvb24u
ll----ll--ll--ll----l---ll---llll---ll--l--ll---llll-ll-l-ll-llll--l-.

Leo

According to wordfinder, you can fit the following number of different words into those spaces:

-H--E = 55 words
--S--E-- = 211 words
----H------S = 169 words
--E------E--- = 39 words

**Posted:** Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:37 pm

fretty

There has got to be a clue as to what words are used instead of trying hundreds of words.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:01 pm

Leo

Well, I tried all 39 words for the last one on that list, I definitely had the spelling correct and pressed enter after each one, but none of them seemed to produce a result Exclamation

That leads me to think that either:

1) each of the words have to be entered in some sort of order (the 5 letter one being the first)
2) they're not all necessarily real words
3) wordfinder has missed something

or I have just done it wrong, Laughing

**Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:33 pm

AnthraX101 · Entrenched Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797

**Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:15 pm

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aznxasazn · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 62

**Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:23 pm

Quirk · Boot Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 49

when i used the link i posted above, not once did I get anything less than 100 possible words for each of the blanks.

**Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:14 pm

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fretty

maybe Leo used the scrabble list

Also the words may make a sentence.
First word There.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:32 am

Leo

http://www.puzzledepot.com/wordfinder2/

I used the crossword wordfinder at the above link.

I tried the other link posted first, and I agree it produces 171 possible 'words' (instead of 39) of which I selected several of the most obscure ones at random and checked them out at dictionary.com , and it didn't recognise them.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:15 pm

Quirk · Boot Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 49

yeah... most of the words at the link i posted are weird ass words. but, at the same time... isn't the virtucube kinda weird?

**Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:10 pm

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fretty

It's a shame they can't be copied and pasted into the crossword.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:47 am

leakingpen · Decorated Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 187

i dont know where it came from, but after doing two, entering there, going back, doing one, doing the first part of 3, and messing around in three, i go to 6 and the top horizontal has a w in the first slot. delete it, go to another and back, and its back!

**Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:15 am

neopuff34 · Decorated Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 163

**Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:33 pm