I knew mine wasn't the right answer, but excuse me? I cannot understand this question and answer at all.

This came from Word Wizard today between 5 PM & 6 PM CDT.

5. Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

Your answer: harquebus

harquebus means "an obsolete firearm with a long barrel"

The correct answer was grievous bodily harm

~~Tiny

Something misspelled here?

8. Camise
Your answer: a loose shirt or tunic


So I got it right, but should that be chamise or chemise?

From WW today between 5 PM & 6 PM level 61+ CDT

~~Tiny

I ENJOY this game and prefer it to the way it was before. In some ways, I even find it easier as well (I certainly never had a glimmer of hope in winning the monthly badge previously).

Other than obvious typos, I can't complain about the words themselves either. Spelling variants don't bother me in the least. Sure, on RARE occasions, some clues or answers appear to be incomplete. However, you can almost always eliminate the other possibilities and choose the one expected.

This game has been made even BETTER by the mini challenge (which has surely gotten folks to play who had given up on it once they had won all the "normal" badges).

So now there are two ways to play the game. If you're going for the regular badges, you have to play pretty quickly and get 14/15 correct every time. But if you're just playing the game for the mini challenge, you can actually play at quite a leisurely pace compared to other games and have plenty of time to read each and every question twice. You only need 1150 as a score in order to get a letter, so if folks just slow down a little (keeping in mind they can't be concerned about finishing in number 1 spot every hour) they'd probably find they can re-read q's/think about them longer and end up "winning" a letter almost every go.

The letter swap ability is a hoot - makes me laugh every time I make a change - so thanks very much for the creation of it AND the game : )

Tiny: "Camise" is a perfectly valid word. Originating from Arabic qamis and from Late Latin camisia. The word camisole (sleeveless tunic style undergarment) comes ultimately from the same roots, with a little Italian/French influence.

The word "chemise" has the same origins, but with heavy anglo/french influences. However, it generally refers more often to a woman's dress (or slip) style, rather than a shirt.

It can't be "chamise" because that's an evergreen shrub.

The party drug called Grievous Bodily Harm, or GBH for short, has the chemical name gamma hydroxybutyrate. Hence, Grievous Bodily Harm, or GBH would be called a street name for this drug. You'll find more of these strange street names in the database if you play enough hours!

Gamma hydroxybutyrate is GHB not GBH. (Grievously Harmed Body?)

Since that definition doesn't really tell us what drug they're talking about out on the street, I copied this bit of entry from the non-medical uses article at wiki for gHB (CNS is Central Nervous System):::

GHB is a CNS depressant used as an intoxicant. It has many street names, including "Georgia Home Boy", "Liquid Ecstasy", "Liquid X", and "Liquid G", as well as "Fantasy" and the reordered initialism GBH.

I've just had the identical definition twice in one game: 'Eat a lot and without restraint'. The first answer was 'gluttonise' and the second was 'fress'. I just hope that both answers don't appear together. I must admit that 'fress' is new to me - it's not listed in 'Chambers' and I haven't had time to search online for its derivation.

It's probably from the German verb 'fressen', which means 'to eat', but is used for animals, rather than people, where the verb is 'essen'.

4. Blue_pike

Your answer: variety inhabiting the great lakes

Another incomplete entry. Adding "Fish" would suffice.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

Dippo - your derivation for 'fress' is spot on - Urban Dictionary refers to German and Yiddish and quotes both 'fressen' and 'essen' with the distinction between animals and humans. I love learning new things - it's one of the many reasons I enjoy FT so much.

15. Capable of become practical and useful

Your answer: viability

"become" should be "becoming".

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

6. Panchayat
Your answer: a village council in india or southern pakistan

14. Punchayet
Your answer: a village council in india or southern pakistan

Nothing wrong here, but these came up in the same quiz.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

1. Breast_of_veal

Your answer: usually stuffed and roasted

Another incomplete definition. "Calf meat" would complete this.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

There is only one 'a' in 'flotation'.

2. Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
Your answer: palaver

palaver means "loud and confused and empty talk"

The correct answer was traffic

Another defintion of palaver is

verb: have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds

That would seem to fit and "palaver with" is certainly used.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

Brutalization
Your answer: the activity of treating someone savagely or vicisouly

Typo in the definition - viciously rather than vicisouly

Haha, looney_tunes! Don't you just hate it when you do a misspelling correction and then misspell something in the correction? "rather" gained an "r" in your note above. I've done this and it is embarrassing. Guess I couldn't resist yours.

~~Tiny

Of course, it might be more grammatically correct for me to say "spelling correction", too.

I overlooked that in my relief at getting both viciously and vicisouly right on the third attempt!

Today's Word Wizard had an incorrect spelling. "Broach" is not a decorative pin-that word is spelled "brooch." Some dictionaries to list broach as an alternate spelling, but since it is another word, I think this was incorrect. "Broach" means to bring up or mention for the first time, as in "he was reluctant to broach the difficult topic."

2. Capable of become practical and useful

Your answer: viability

"become" should be "becoming".

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

6. A thin stew of meat and vegetables

Your answer: mulligan

mulligan means "Irish version of burgoo"

The correct answer was slumgullion

"burgoo" is a thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available

True, one is thick and the other is thin, but they are both stews.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

typo in the definition:

13. Pigman

Your answer: a herder or swine

Hyphema
Your answer: bleeding into the interior chamber of the eye

'Interior' in the answer should be 'anterior'.

9. Made of lamb

Your answer: souvlakia

This seems incomplete. Other dictionaries have "a Greek version of shish kebab" as a definition. "Shish kebab made of lamb" might be a happy medium.

Happy Word Wizard Trivia!

Shish kebab is also usually made of lamb. The different name just reflects the different region of origin. If you want a complete definition, you need something like "skewered lamb pieces".

Forgive me if I'm asking in the wrong place, but when does Word Wizard start each month? It sounds like a foolish question but it's Nov. 3rd and scores are still being shown for last month. Are they counting, and just not showing them yet?

As far as I know they begin at the start of each month - there's another thread where several people have mentioned that the scores haven't reset this month.

There is a confusion with Word Wizard in that there are actually two separate games being played. The regular Word Wizard game for which there are monthly badges given out is running smoothly and restarted on November 1 as it was supposed to. You can see results of this by clicking "standings" on the main Word Wizard page.

The second game is the Word Wizard Mini-Game which has been around for less than two months. Since no monthly badges are being awarded in this game the actual restart of the game is really artificial. There never may be a monthly badge given out for it. There is currently two recognitions available - a badgelet for forming an 8 letter word and a badge for accumulating 30 points. Terry has said there will be another badge for some larger number of points won in this game, but that target has not been set.

I went to "standings", clicked it, but still the scores are like 469 points. Heck, I still show 99. That can't be right. Is it a glitch or something related to Standard Times? I see nothing reset to zero. The scores are still from October.