The Secret Rule (2)

hummerz5 · 2018-07-18 17:45:04

MWstudios wrote:

If hummerz said that we were close to it, then we must think like the people who guessed before

I should clarify. I was talking to Devlin about a technicality he stumbled across. Those previous guesses may be close... or not...

hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 14:58:37

I goofed. But I also figure that a lot of the guesses can be verified as incorrect by simply checking through the posts. We've had posts break the rules that have spaces, etc, etc.

a difficult rule, says I

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 17:09:16

mutantdevle wrote:

he isn't reading every post

You give me too much credit. I probably just figured it wasn't really a guess because I felt like it had been proven wrong before, so why would someone purposely choose that as a guess?

From my vantage point, this rule is less disposed to analysis and more just me trying to apply a lose definition to a plethora of weird situations prompted from all of you.

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 20:43:47

^ Oi, I've been giving hardly any... oh I suppose I said devlin was on to something. I should stop saying that.

also,

RailMat wrote:

It must be invalid and not incorrect.

I ignored the first guess because it didn't seem very guesslike

hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 21:17:03

my bad. thanks

hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 21:26:06

So like I said earlier... you are looking in what seems to me to be the wrong direction. To be fair, we can look whatever direction moves us, but I worry that some of your tests are actually just going to confuse you more than help, so...

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-19 23:01:18

ILikeTofuuJoe wrote:

Well, my only idea is that the rule might involve symbols.

not to be blunt, but I said "some of your tests are just going to confuse you" primarily for your benefit

hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 01:08:13

guys, looks like one word will break the rules, guys

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 01:51:31

ILikeTofuuJoe wrote:

EE
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minimania, see above

hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 02:18:47

oh. thank you for poking at the rule constructively

hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 04:11:51

^while that would be a lot of fun, no. In fact, someone should do that. Though, not for a while...

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 23:46:22

Interesting approach to decomposing the message to find the rule, but I think that's most effective against "containment" rules (which, all of the previous ones have essentially been a form of)

I admit, this one is interesting...

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-20 23:49:36

sir, what makes you think that colors have anything to do with the rule?

hummerz5 · 2018-07-22 13:13:38

There is some subjectivity, but hopefully not that much

hummerz5 · 2018-07-23 14:31:11

Hmm. I'll give it a few more days, then maybe give a bigger hint. Some folks are still trying to piece things together and I wouldn't like to belittle their considerations. Hmm.

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-23 19:30:00

You know that one word will break the rule. And as a bonus, I told taskmanager/maxi123 that they should be especially interested in it.

hummerz5 · 2018-07-23 23:21:46

it's been an arbitrary amount of time since the rule started, so now I'm arbitrarily giving everyone a second guess for this rule.

hints: one word will always break the rule; maxi would enjoy the rule; characters and ratios and such aren't the right tree to bark up.

hummerz5 · 2018-07-24 00:41:34

^ sorry, but I guess you get another guess anyway so, uh.. lol sorry

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-24 17:02:21

new rule! also, for the record, I cheated in defining a "word" like a programming identifier (like a variable name definition) and that won't be going on. In the future, a word must be a word by Merriam Webster's decree

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-24 18:39:57

TaskManager wrote:

abcd
hummerz5 wrote:
a word must be a word by Merriam Webster's decree
do you actually expect me to google that
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no, I'm just noting that they will be in charge of saying "a word is a word"

also, if you had an upper hand in the last rule (which you never used), this one gives you the "lower" hand, if you will.

hummerz5 · 2018-07-25 14:12:27

Up to date. Remember merriam webster.

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-25 19:59:15

so, onjit, ya see?

hummerz5 · 2018-07-25 22:46:42

minimania wrote:

and obviously can't contain words or phrases that aren't in Merriam Webster's dictionary

I think I know what you mean, which is distinct from what you said, but in case you mean explicitly what you said, not quite.

edit: well also, I brought up the dictionary repeatedly because it seems important to point out. But, I wasn't going to say it during the last round because that would make it obvious the rule depended on words.

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Minimania

hummerz5 · 2018-07-27 16:11:38

I must say you guys take weird approaches to guessing rules.

Well not all of you

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hummerz5 · 2018-07-28 02:14:55

TaskManager wrote:

eh im not even trying

if ya ain't playin' why ya here?

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