Okay, the correct letter in 3 (among others) is the O 9th, so A is not first. Take that out of the chart.
Now there are only two places left where A hasn't been eliminated. One of those is 16th, confirming that suspicion (and that it's not -PHRENIC). The other is 6th.
___E_AO_OPHRENIA
Taking another look, 2 eliminates S as 1st.
Now we have another problem. C and R can't immediately precede D, S, or T, especially when the 3rd letter is C, D, R, or S. (I'm allowing for the moment that the A and O go together because I know the British spell some words that way.)
*Look at what David has done* You have a lot of problems... :)
Not sure if you noticed this bit:
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...four of the words start with the correct letter :)
Keep digging... you're making a nice hole :) ...and it was going so well too... :) *tiptoe out of thread*
edit: Just came across this :))))))) not sure the above is what you were hoping for :)
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Just tell me I have the ophrenia right (or even ophrenic) and I can relax and pick it up later.
Yes... ophrenia is right!! :) I thought I'd posted that earlier but I was wrong :/ apologies :)
To make up for it...
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Taking another look, 2 eliminates S as 1st.
I don't know what you saw when you had another look but I'd try to forget it if I were you... :)
I probably saw pretty much the same thing as when I said the O not being 9th in 17 was relevant.
I will take your advice as meaning the 1st letter is S. That still leaves me with a problem. In English phonetics, the next two letters (given the choices remaining) would have to be TR. The 4th is E. But my only choices for 5th are R and S, and I already used those.
Something else must be wrong somewhere.
It's not schizophrenia, although that is clearly what you are trying to spread from yourself to the rest of us.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Whoops .... sorry .... the seventeenth attempt ... my bad. Good thing I am in no way confused. Not a bit. Honest.
Now "ophrenia" is firm. Great.
*Reaches for DSM-XXV* on the shelf*
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@Mike - erm... lovely... are you... okay? :)))))))))))))))
@Anniet : Yes thanks. I nearly had another of My Cleesey Moments. That's all. As you can see I am having quite a big week with the red stars .... :-)
@David : my guess is that the solution word will probably mean 'a mental condition characterised by the tendency to do word puzzles' :-)
Cheers, Mike.
* The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. I really don't know what the latest version number is, it was up to seven when I was a [strike]mad[/strike] med student. Anyhow it is a listing of the association's members sorted by each one's mental illness. Properly tabulated with combined stats of course. You can see especially what your local psych help suffers from, date of their last admission, pending or current court orders, range of personally preferred drugs, which days it's really best not to book an appointment etc. :-):-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RoastDecophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to burn furniture conversation pieces
DeCastorophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to remove the wheels off shopping trolleys
TaserCodophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to go fishing with unusual methods*
DoseCartophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to lunge for the nurse's medication trolley.
ReadsTOCophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to actually go through a book's chapter listing
StarCodeophrenia : A very specific mental illness - only one known case in the world - characterised by the persistent tendency to use an online forum presentation language in the production of footnotes**
Cheers, Mike.
* Increment legitimate taser mention count.
** For the first eight letters of the solution we have only 8! ~ 40000 combinations to work through David :-):-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
OdeCastrophrenia -- a mental illness characterized by a fondness for writing poems to communist dictators (any number of Republican politicians will tell you this evening that Barack Obama is a sufferer)
SodaCetrophrenia -- a mental illness characterized by belief that one is a Pharaoh with a fondness for carbonated soft drinks (and possibly misspelling one's name)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Mike, you may be amused to hear that anniet just had an oops in her administration of this game at Seti. Someone posted a word that was almost right, but missing a letter, and she declared him the winner.
Unfortunately, it wasn't me.
redactosophrenia -- a mental illness involving attempts to delete references to bears from documents written in Spanish
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: Okay, the correct
)
*Look at what David has done* You have a lot of problems... :)
Not sure if you noticed this bit:
Keep digging... you're making a nice hole :) ...and it was going so well too... :) *tiptoe out of thread*
edit: Just came across this :))))))) not sure the above is what you were hoping for :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
Just tell me I have the
)
Just tell me I have the ophrenia right (or even ophrenic) and I can relax and pick it up later.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: Just tell me I have the
)
Yes... ophrenia is right!! :) I thought I'd posted that earlier but I was wrong :/ apologies :)
To make up for it...
I don't know what you saw when you had another look but I'd try to forget it if I were you... :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
RE: RE: Just tell me I
)
I probably saw pretty much the same thing as when I said the O not being 9th in 17 was relevant.
I will take your advice as meaning the 1st letter is S. That still leaves me with a problem. In English phonetics, the next two letters (given the choices remaining) would have to be TR. The 4th is E. But my only choices for 5th are R and S, and I already used those.
Something else must be wrong somewhere.
It's not schizophrenia, although that is clearly what you are trying to spread from yourself to the rest of us.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
It is a word with sixteen
)
It is a word with sixteen letters isn't it ? :-)
Whoops .... sorry .... the seventeenth attempt ... my bad. Good thing I am in no way confused. Not a bit. Honest.
Now "ophrenia" is firm. Great.
*Reaches for DSM-XXV* on the shelf*
@Anniet : Yes thanks. I nearly had another of My Cleesey Moments. That's all. As you can see I am having quite a big week with the red stars .... :-)
@David : my guess is that the solution word will probably mean 'a mental condition characterised by the tendency to do word puzzles' :-)
Cheers, Mike.
* The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. I really don't know what the latest version number is, it was up to seven when I was a [strike]mad[/strike] med student. Anyhow it is a listing of the association's members sorted by each one's mental illness. Properly tabulated with combined stats of course. You can see especially what your local psych help suffers from, date of their last admission, pending or current court orders, range of personally preferred drugs, which days it's really best not to book an appointment etc. :-):-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I'm running every permutation
)
I'm running every permutation I can think of of S-----O-OPHRENIA past dictionary.com and not getting any hits.
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And now I'm going home.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
straedocophrenia stredaocophr
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straedocophrenia
stredaocophrenia
stracodeophrenia
scratodeophrenia
drastoecophrenia
cratsodeophrenia
crostaedophrenia
crestaodophrenia
pullingwhatsleftofmyhairoutophrenia
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RoastDecophrenia : A mental
)
RoastDecophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to burn furniture conversation pieces
DeCastorophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to remove the wheels off shopping trolleys
TaserCodophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to go fishing with unusual methods*
DoseCartophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to lunge for the nurse's medication trolley.
ReadsTOCophrenia : A mental illness characterised by the tendency to actually go through a book's chapter listing
StarCodeophrenia : A very specific mental illness - only one known case in the world - characterised by the persistent tendency to use an online forum presentation language in the production of footnotes**
Cheers, Mike.
* Increment legitimate taser mention count.
** For the first eight letters of the solution we have only 8! ~ 40000 combinations to work through David :-):-)
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
OdeCastrophrenia -- a mental
)
OdeCastrophrenia -- a mental illness characterized by a fondness for writing poems to communist dictators (any number of Republican politicians will tell you this evening that Barack Obama is a sufferer)
SodaCetrophrenia -- a mental illness characterized by belief that one is a Pharaoh with a fondness for carbonated soft drinks (and possibly misspelling one's name)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Mike, you may be amused to
)
Mike, you may be amused to hear that anniet just had an oops in her administration of this game at Seti. Someone posted a word that was almost right, but missing a letter, and she declared him the winner.
Unfortunately, it wasn't me.
redactosophrenia -- a mental illness involving attempts to delete references to bears from documents written in Spanish
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.