Saturday, June 21, 2025

Proposal: Thrill of the Hunt

Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 1 vote to 5 by Kevan.

Adminned at 23 Jun 2025 11:22:54 UTC

If https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=EFF_Wordlist fails to pass, this proposal does nothing

Add a subrule to “Buzzwords” called “Queries” with the following text

The distance between two words on the EFF Wordlist is equal to the absolute value of the difference of the numbers next to those words on the word list.

As a weekly action, a Wordsmith may privately send the Puzzler a message consisting of “Query: ” followed by a single word from the EFF Wordlist

The puzzler should then calculate the distance from that word to each word in Buzzwords, take the minimum of those value and then do the following:

- If that value is 0, reply with “EXACT”
- If that value is between 1 and 10 inclusive, reply with “CLOSE”
- If that value is between 11 and 100 inclusive, reply with “NEAR”
- If that value is between 101 and 1000 inclusive, reply with “SOMEWHAT”
- Otherwise reply with “FAR”

 

Comments

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

22-06-2025 00:13:46 UTC

I think you messed up the beginning of that. “If the URL of the EFF Wordlist failed to pass” doesn’t mean anything.

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

22-06-2025 02:11:43 UTC

I think an enacting admin can ignore the first clause, since the passage of the EFF Wordlist wiki page has no meaning.

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

22-06-2025 02:12:41 UTC

imperial

DoomedIdeas: he/him

22-06-2025 02:28:46 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

22-06-2025 11:40:52 UTC

against A slow binary search doesn’t seem that compelling, and the EFF numbers won’t work as intended here as they aren’t consecutive (“subdued” and “subduing” are adjacent but numbered 56666 and 61111, making them FAR).

Darknight: he/him

22-06-2025 14:33:28 UTC

against per Kevan

DoomedIdeas: he/him

22-06-2025 15:06:43 UTC

against CoV per Kevan.

Raven1207: he/they

22-06-2025 15:16:02 UTC

On the against bandwagon for same reason

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

23-06-2025 04:18:13 UTC

against