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Message 1736815 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 0:00:41 UTC
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Okay, by (un)popular demand, here it is, the next round of: SETI's very own, totally separate from the other one on the server at Einstein@home, jumbled word game.

Simple rules:
Previous winner posts a jumbled word or phrase.
Other people try to unjumble it.
The first person to do so, after it is confirmed by whoever posted it, posts the next word. If the poster doesn't confirm it within a reasonable time and the solver is absolutely sure, he/she may post the next one without confirmation.
Multiple posts, and multiple guesses within a post ARE allowed.
Silly definitions of obviously incorrect solutions are not mandatory and will always be appreciated.
[ I may award marks for what I personally judge to be funny/witty/silly/etc efforts. No penalty otherwise ... :-) ]
If no one gets it after a day or two, the poster may give hints.
Discussion of anything posted in the thread is allowed at any time, although it should stay at least somewhat related to the jumbled word(s).
It is highly suggested that the poster either write down the correct word or send her/himself a PM with it.
Responses must be 'kid friendly' etc, etc, or they *will* be moderated.
Use of an internet word scrambling/descrambling site is considered cheating.

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Message 1736816 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 0:02:56 UTC

The first Jumbled word for the "The Second" incarnation of Jumbled Word is..

AABCLORUVY

So start your guessing.

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Message 1736864 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 7:23:11 UTC

Could it be something to do with lots of words?
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Message 1736868 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 8:01:59 UTC

Yes.

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Message 1737029 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 22:19:50 UTC - in response to Message 1736868.  

I'm guessing Mr. Smith knows the answer. To be able to get the answer so quickly, Mr. Smith must have a large, um, er, store of words in his brain.
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Message 1737037 - Posted: 25 Oct 2015, 22:45:11 UTC

The problem is knot all the wurdz come out with the write speeling all the thyme
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Message 1737373 - Posted: 27 Oct 2015, 1:57:05 UTC

I'll bite. Vocabulary.
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Message 1737374 - Posted: 27 Oct 2015, 1:58:08 UTC
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Now I'm the winner both here and Einstein.

(Unless someone has gotten Einstein since I looked in this morning.)

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Odd. Nobody has posted anything in Cafe Einstein since I did 12 hours ago. It's like when Annie's sick, the whole gang there is sick.
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Message 1737389 - Posted: 27 Oct 2015, 2:56:05 UTC

No we just sympozise.
Pluto will always be a planet to me.

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Message 1737408 - Posted: 27 Oct 2015, 4:41:00 UTC

U got it David. & take it away.

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Message 1737495 - Posted: 27 Oct 2015, 13:17:24 UTC

Thanks, Admiral. Here's a good one for this week.

ACEHLNOPRTY
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Message 1737718 - Posted: 28 Oct 2015, 11:27:17 UTC
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Oh. You won, David. Well done.

*open bin*

*HURL hardwork* into it*

Thanks, Admiral. Here's a good one for this week.

ACEHLNOPRTY

I presume that is the new word...?

*turn up nose*

Thank you. I can't wait to fiddle with it...

*open bin*

:)

*hardwork:
RubaryVocal – similar to a nasal twang but emanating from the larynx instead

OubCavalry - armed, mounted military wing of the Overseas Union Bank (now defunct - due to clashing with the equivalent wing of the United Overseas Bank, and losing)

BacyValour – attempting to hand roll a cigarette whilst outdoors and in a hurricane

BlovcyAura - phenomenon of triple vision brought on by over-enthusiastic imbibing of Russian vodka

CubaryOval – mutant geometrical shape

OcularVaby oh...... vocabulary!!!
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Message 1737753 - Posted: 28 Oct 2015, 15:58:40 UTC - in response to Message 1737718.  

Thanks, Admiral. Here's a good one for this week.

ACEHLNOPRTY

I presume that is the new word...?

*turn up nose*

Thank you. I can't wait to fiddle with it...

Yes, that is the new word, and I already gave you a hint on it. I have just realized that the hint applies doubly.

I will tell you further that the jumble has NO letters correct.
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Message 1737801 - Posted: 28 Oct 2015, 18:44:34 UTC

Is this what might be loosely termed a person with a seasonal or periodic malady?
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Message 1737872 - Posted: 29 Oct 2015, 0:21:15 UTC - in response to Message 1737801.  

Is this what might be loosely termed a person with a seasonal or periodic malady?

Yes.
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Message 1737879 - Posted: 29 Oct 2015, 1:15:59 UTC

Professor Lupin at Hogworts Academy might have a answer.

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Message 1737892 - Posted: 29 Oct 2015, 3:03:34 UTC - in response to Message 1737879.  

Professor Lupin at Hogworts Academy might have a answer.

He might...
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Message 1738120 - Posted: 29 Oct 2015, 23:28:36 UTC - in response to Message 1737892.  
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Professor Lupin at Hogworts Academy might have a answer.

He might...


Oh. I thought when you said it was pertinent this week, that you meant earthquakes and tremors and stuff related to them...

which is why I got very excited by this:

Hypocentral - something to do with/about the depth at which the epicentre of an earthquake originates, I think. Does professor Lupin dabble in earth-shifting at all...?

Lonctherapy - honeysuckle therapy - traditional Hungarian remedy, free to all those with the name Lupin

Holcneytrap - backstreet spa in Hackney, London, that promises all the benefits of lonctherapy - but gets you arrested instead.

EctypalHorn - a type of blowing into it thing blown into in order to make a racket. Made from a mold that was made from a prototype - that was erm... made by Professor Lupin...
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Message 1738144 - Posted: 30 Oct 2015, 1:52:17 UTC - in response to Message 1738120.  
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Professor Lupin at Hogworts Academy might have a answer.

He might...


Oh. I thought when you said it was pertinent this week, that you meant earthquakes and tremors and stuff related to them...

Nope. A totally different aspect of this week. Or rather, two sorta kinda not really very related to each other aspects of it.


which is why I got very excited by this:

Hypocentral - something to do with/about the depth at which the epicentre of an earthquake originates, I think. Does professor Lupin dabble in earth-shifting at all...?

Are you the only person in England who doesn't know about Lupin?


EctypalHorn - a type of blowing into it thing blown into in order to make a racket.

That's something that may or may not also be related to this week.

Correct letters per guess:
1-1
2-3
3-2
4-1

Correct usage by position: once each in 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10.

Definition hint: contrary to the word at Einstein, I think -- and certainly hope -- you are no more of one than I or anyone else I know.
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Message 1738165 - Posted: 30 Oct 2015, 3:14:51 UTC - in response to Message 1738144.  
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Are you the only person in England who doesn't know about Lupin?

As I haven't asked everyone in England, David, I can't see how you can possibly expect me to say... and anyway, I much prefer Snape :)

As for how you expect me to make WEREWOLF out of this... *slide disparaging gaze down nose* ...this junk *point at junk* -> ACEHLNOPRTY

I don't know either. Even trying to make canis lupis only gives me canr lopehty

Will that do you?

:)
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