Contact

77 Artificial cave

who's contacted 1?

I don't think anyone has, actually.

3. Book by Seymour Papert

1:19 AM

pass 76

Clue #76 (Vase dynasty) was contacted by: Gareth McCaughan. Make your guess!

76 is MING

76 ✔️

(he said, mercilessly)

You guessed correctly. North must give up a letter!

1:19 AM

Ahahaha that's really good.

@north defending MINO

77 dies, mine

75 dies, minty

i assume 1 dies

1 dies. It was MINIMAL. I can now reveal that 1' was surely MICROWAVE.

ahhh

3 dies. It was MINDSTORMS.

1:20 AM

I should have had that

@GarethMcCaughan Uhh minimal? Is there like a wordplay there?

Yes.

14 ,perhaps

Epileptic seizures may be grand mal or petit mal. I was inventing a smaller-still category.

oh i see

1:21 AM

contact 14

@Rubio, it's been more than 1.5 minutes since North provided a new letter, and you still haven't indicated whether clue #1' is alive or dead.

5: Asia, kind of

@JohnDvorak, it's been more than 1.5 minutes since North provided a new letter, and you still haven't indicated whether clue #74 is alive or dead.

contact 5

ffs

1' is dead

1:21 AM

There was no guess made for #1'. What exactly are you confirming?

1' died

You can't make guesses right now; that's the defender's job. Wait till a clue has been passed.

6. Cretan, perhaps

1' dies

6 minotaur (again?)

1:22 AM

nope

contact 6, perhaps

ahh pass 5, but I know the answer :P

5 is MINOR

bah

You can't make guesses right now; that's the defender's job. Wait till a clue has been passed.

1:22 AM

5 ✔️

There was no guess made for #5. What exactly are you confirming?

MINOR was my word

@GarethMcCaughan, North guessed MINOTAUR (AGAIN for clue #6. Please confirm or deny the guess.

bloody hell Lens

It's year 3019. Last human with two eyes has died. I still get pinged about clue 74.

1:23 AM

Game over! John Dvorak wins with the clue Vase dynasty, guessed by Gareth McCaughan. The solution (and presumably North's word) was MINOR.

how is it possible to be so wrong?

Remaining clues (for reference):

6 : Cretan, perhaps (by Gareth McCaughan) (waiting for confirmation of guess MINOTAUR (AGAIN by North) (contacted by Rubio)
5 : Asia, kind of (by Rubio) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan)
14 : ,perhaps (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan)
74 : Famous powerhouse (by John Dvorak) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan) (status uncertain)
1' : A very small greeting? (by Rubio) (contacted by Gareth McCaughan) (status uncertain)

omg

14 was clearly also MINOR

The game is over. No more guesses are being accepted.

1:23 AM

this is so funny

6 was MINOAN

yah i had that

why was 14 minor?

14 was minor indeed

because a 14yo is a minor

1:24 AM

hah nice

are you calling me fourteen?!?

that means the round actually goes to you

did Lens get anything right in that game?

but I'm willing to let Rubio defend

I'll have you know I'm 14 years old in tree age

1:24 AM

rubio is not really here now

(btw I'm not actually 14)

yeah, I'm also outta here

I have to figure out how to put random numbers into a 200-sum magic square.

I have to go too. John, you can play a solo contact game

Luckily, I guess.

1:25 AM

there's a generalized procedure for this for sequential numbers, but not for random, right?

well, that resolves that question...

Oh, I see, you get to choose which ones go where

in general there's no guarantee it's possible at all

well. there's 25 values, preassigned

I don't know of any cunning algorithm

which doesn't mean there isn't one

whee. brute force it is.

1:26 AM

oh, 10x10. I thought 3x3, just with larger numbers

if you put a word longer than 15 letters, is it considered scrabble legal?

No right?

10x10 would be 100 numbers, not 25

There is no clue #10. What exactly are you saying no to?

I am saying no to you, Lens

You're just sampling a 198-dimensional polytope living in 200-dimensional space

1:27 AM

I think Contact words are allowed to be >15 letters.

But how would it be scrabble legal?

I mean, the board doesn't fit it

If the official Scrabble wordchecker is able to answer the question "would this word be legal on a larger Scrabble board", that is

yah contact words are allowed to be any length, they just have to be scrabble legal in the sense that they fit the criteria for a valid word

tile limitations and length constraints don't apply

i see

!shutup

I'm sorry, I've been told not to listen to you. Try asking a mod to add you to the whitelist.

1:28 AM

!help

Hello! I'm Lens, a bot to help with the game of Contact.
I will try to keep track of the game state and keep the game moving. If you're on my whitelist, you can use the following commands to communicate with me (some are mod-only):

You could generate all but the last row and column, compute those, and restart if any is out of bounds.

hmm, looks like Hasbro's word-checker doesn't allow long words

!clues - list all active clues
!contacts [<clueNum>] - list contacts for a specific clue or all clues
!unpass - undo a "pass" if you made a mistake
!kill - remove a clue from the list of active clues. This will kill anyone's clue, not just your own.
!gameover - ends a game, resetting my data
!uncontact <clueNum> - remove all contacts for clue <clueNum>
!shutup [<minutes>] - silence me completely for the specified amount of time (defaults to 10 min)

okay I have to go bai

1:28 AM

@JohnDvorak yeah - there are more optimal algorithms for "random" filling than that, but I am lazy