My dad was a mechanic, so I thought of the cam. It fooled the computer.

The basic zeitgeist behind all puzzles is contempt. "See, I've hidden information from you. I'm smarter than you. Prove that I'm not, you schmuck."

In my times in role playing games, the Judge would often run puzzles that were required to get beyond obstacles, or challenges to avoid combat with monsters. Every time - without fail - the puzzles were so opaque or vague or twisted that nobody could get them. Yes, I also mean people smarter than me.

This has codified my attitude towards the contemptuous people who offer puzzles. The second they offer, I reach for the largest and heaviest object I can lift, smash it on their heads and see if they still remain smarter than me. If not...lather, rinse, repeat.

On the first game I played, I guessed the computer's word "PARROT" on my second try. My first guess was "MARINE." I picked "INVENT", but the computer didn't have a chance. My score 99.3333/100.

Needs some polish and and a way to correct mis-entered numbers.

I played this game three times in a row. The first time I got an error message after 7 tries: "The computer can not guess your secret word because you provided inaccurate information or your secret word is not in the dictionary." My word that time was "clam." The second time, it correctly guessed "clam." The third time, I got the same error message after 8 tries; my word was "enjoy." That's definitely NOT the word I'd use to describe my experience with this junky software!!

My first guess was "alert". That happened to be the right answer.

So, um, yay, but it doesn't make for a very interesting game when out of all the words in the English language you guess the right one! I shall try it again.

Won after 13 rounds - my word was horses, computer's word slued (which seems a trifle obscure, but it's an anagram of 'duels').

Anonymous below: did you tell it to use 5 letter words? If your word has the wrong number of letters for the game setting, you will get an error. It defaults to 4 letters.

Same goes for the "cam" person - was the computer trying to guess 3 letter words?

Not "horses" which would be 6 letters.

Only played WordBreaker once so far and won with the word PEND. I enjoyed the game; reminded me of the game Mastermind, in which you and an opponent try to guess the colors and order of a series of pegs on a board.

it is fun

I lost first time with "plover", then won second try on about 8th round guessing "case", computer was not even close to getting "wavy".

Which doesn't seem THAT obscure to me. I think it was just mad that it wasn't winning! I beat it with "TED" (not the name, the action of spreading manure or hay or whatever).