I'm thinking of a word between abacinate and zyzzyva

The first time you said "guess to x" it was "Toast to N - Nacreous" which implied, to me at least, that the word was between toast and nacreous. But several guesses later, the word was actually earlier than nacreous, so not between the two at all. And soooo, I have no idea how you're using "guess to x"

Hmm, after some rereading...

I guess, say a T word, then you narrow it down for me by picking a letter closer to A (in our case initially you narrowed from T to N so that we were A-T, then narrowed to A-N)...or is it a letter, or word, closer to the target, you've used it both ways which is what is confusing.

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Originally Posted by chionos

The first time you said "guess to x" it was "Toast to N - Nacreous" which implied, to me at least, that the word was between toast and nacreous. But several guesses later, the word was actually earlier than nacreous, so not between the two at all. And soooo, I have no idea how you're using "guess to x"

Hmm, after some rereading...

I guess, say a T word, then you narrow it down for me by picking a letter closer to A (in our case initially you narrowed from T to N so that we were A-T, then narrowed to A-N)...or is it a letter, or word, closer to the target, you've used it both ways which is what is confusing.

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Yeah sorry to have confused you, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works. But to simplify matters, the word is between A and F. When I said "Saguineous to A" I meant between S and A, when I said Eviscerate to F I meant between A and F.

Hopefully it isn't confusing anymore?

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Yeah sorry to have confused you, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works. But to simplify matters, the word is between A and F. When I said "Saguineous to A" I meant between S and A, when I said Eviscerate to F I meant between A and F.

Hopefully it isn't confusing anymore?

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Nope, still got problems, lol.

To proceed from guess "Eviscerate" to hint A to F does not narrow down the search. Having A as one of the borders for hints will only help you narrow things down so far. When someone is "lower" or later in the alphabet, it helps get them closer, but once they've gotten "higher" or earlier in the alphabet, it is no longer helpful. If you don't want to do "higher" and "lower", may I suggest that after each guess or series of guesses you pick a letter or word on the other side of the root word? Or, alternatively, after each guess or series of guesses, simply pick a word that's closer to the root word than any of the guesses.

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Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God

Yeah sorry to have confused you, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works. But to simplify matters, the word is between A and F. When I said "Saguineous to A" I meant between S and A, when I said Eviscerate to F I meant between A and F.

Hopefully it isn't confusing anymore?

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Nope, still got problems, lol.

To proceed from guess "Eviscerate" to hint A to F does not narrow down the search. Having A as one of the borders for hints will only help you narrow things down so far. When someone is "lower" or later in the alphabet, it helps get them closer, but once they've gotten "higher" or earlier in the alphabet, it is no longer helpful. If you don't want to do "higher" and "lower", may I suggest that after each guess or series of guesses you pick a letter or word on the other side of the root word? Or, alternatively, after each guess or series of guesses, simply pick a word that's closer to the root word than any of the guesses.

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OK, here's a word that's pretty close to the actual word:

Eviscerate to ferriferous, containing iron.

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Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God

Yeah sorry to have confused you, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works. But to simplify matters, the word is between A and F. When I said "Saguineous to A" I meant between S and A, when I said Eviscerate to F I meant between A and F.

Hopefully it isn't confusing anymore?

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Nope, still got problems, lol.

To proceed from guess "Eviscerate" to hint A to F does not narrow down the search. Having A as one of the borders for hints will only help you narrow things down so far. When someone is "lower" or later in the alphabet, it helps get them closer, but once they've gotten "higher" or earlier in the alphabet, it is no longer helpful. If you don't want to do "higher" and "lower", may I suggest that after each guess or series of guesses you pick a letter or word on the other side of the root word? Or, alternatively, after each guess or series of guesses, simply pick a word that's closer to the root word than any of the guesses.

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OK, here's a word that's pretty close to the actual word:

Eviscerate to ferriferous, containing iron.

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Don't tell me it's pretty close, just tell me it's closer! Let me do the work lol.

foddershock
noun
A heap of animal feed (e.g. corn or hay) in a field organized in some fashion and usually used as a decoration during the autumn.

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Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God

Yeah sorry to have confused you, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works. But to simplify matters, the word is between A and F. When I said "Saguineous to A" I meant between S and A, when I said Eviscerate to F I meant between A and F.

Hopefully it isn't confusing anymore?

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Nope, still got problems, lol.

To proceed from guess "Eviscerate" to hint A to F does not narrow down the search. Having A as one of the borders for hints will only help you narrow things down so far. When someone is "lower" or later in the alphabet, it helps get them closer, but once they've gotten "higher" or earlier in the alphabet, it is no longer helpful. If you don't want to do "higher" and "lower", may I suggest that after each guess or series of guesses you pick a letter or word on the other side of the root word? Or, alternatively, after each guess or series of guesses, simply pick a word that's closer to the root word than any of the guesses.

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OK, here's a word that's pretty close to the actual word:

Eviscerate to ferriferous, containing iron.

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Don't tell me it's pretty close, just tell me it's closer! Let me do the work lol.

foddershock
noun
A heap of animal feed (e.g. corn or hay) in a field organized in some fashion and usually used as a decoration during the autumn.

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OK Captain McWordsmith.

Fodderschock to facundity - eloquence.

Farinaceous
adj.
Having a stalk like a reed.

Farinaceous to Fez - a felt hat either in the shape of a red truncated cone or in the shape of a short cylinder

>_<

Fetter
A restraint

Lower (i.e. between Fetter and Fez)

Fey
adj.
1 Supernatural or unreal.
2 Whimsical; strange.
3 Being in unusually high spirits and temperament.

Dude you totally got it! That's exactly what I was thinking of. I first encountered it in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R Donaldson, not used often but sometimes used as a synonym for cowardly.

If you want you can choose the next word, or if not I can choose another one.

I'd be happy to play this game again if

A) It's more than just me playing this time.

B) I can finally figure out how you're working the rules.

I still don't quite follow your hints. Look at BM_N's old thread to get an idea of the method he was using to tell someone how close they were. It seemed to work well.