From ragnarok@pobox.com Wed Oct 22 13:43:22 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 92458 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 20:43:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Oct 2003 20:43:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.intrex.net) (209.42.192.228) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Oct 2003 20:43:21 -0000 Received: from craig [209.42.212.114] by smtp.intrex.net (SMTPD32-7.14) id ABDF4E3008C; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:43:11 -0400 To: Subject: mumym strategy Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:43:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal X-Declude-Sender: ragnarok@pobox.com [209.42.212.114] From: "Craig" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20954 I've just found three gismu that between them use 13 of the 22 possible letters, no two of which share any letters. This means that if they are your first three guesses, you have immediately divided the alphabet into two subsets. For each subset, you know how many letters from it are in the word. The set which is slightly larger is further divided into three subsets, the letters of the words themselves. And they are: bredi cusku ponjo How such a strategy extends to competitive play is not obvious, at least to me. -- .kreig.daniyl. "Also, to deny god, you have to fill out a form 613-B/9 in triplicate." -clsn ragnarok@pobox.com teucer@bnomic.org