Welcome to the second poll of the latest HangTrek - a Star Trek themed word game for the Fediverse. Read on for rules.
I kind of cheated this time and wrote this up in advance, presuming that R will win based on the current poll stats. (If you're reading this, it was the right bet.) At some point I'll do a video showing how I'm organizing this stuff, using basic shell tools and vi to get a letter frequency distribution from my chosen quote and to come up with a chart of letters missing and present in the quote text. It's kind of fun. Figuring out the hints is harder - I look for letters that would be good to include, and see if the group lends itself to a theme. Last game, one of the themes was worlds that had seen disaster. This time we've got homeworlds. And not just homeworlds, but homeworlds that start with vowels!
"_ _ /_ _ R _ /_ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ _ _ R /_ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ _ _ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ."
"_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ /_ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ _ _ /_ _ _ /_ _ _ _ /_ _ R /_ _ _ _ /_ _ _ _ _ _ R _ _ ?"
"_ _ _ _ _ ."
Word lengths, line 1: 2 4 4 5 3 5 2 3 7 8
Word lengths, line 2: 8 2 3 2 3 4 3 4 3 4 9
Word lengths, line 3: 5
The Rules:
The host puts up something like this, with blanks to be filled in, and includes a poll with four letters. The winning letter gets filled in, but only if it actually appears in the puzzle. At least one of the poll options must show up in the puzzle, and this process repeats until someone guesses the answer.
If you make a guess, please do it with a Content Warning (CW) so as to not spoil it for other folks still working on the puzzle, as an incorrect guess might still be an extra clue. The first person to guess correctly gets the option to run the next one, if they like.
#startrek #hangtrek #games #puzzles Star Trek (npub177x…u9jc)
Mason Loring Bliss
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