7 by many club

[jancsika]

POPPA and ROARER

[rogue_mother]

I missed error and porno, both words I should have found.

[ridethetalk]

Well, today was Maudland's day to shine as our solitary rosetteer on 29 common words - well done Madeleine... 

There were four rosettenears with doxydaisy, dragonman, Jancsika and Roddles all failing by the narrowest of margins  :'(

ozzyjune was the sole diminutive being two short of the mark on twenty seven with blackrockrose and rogue_mother a further word back. yelnats was next on twenty five followed by me on twenty three - of the six words I missed LACUNA was one I was never going to get!!!

Amongst the rest of us, vizal scored twenty one and auntiemo managed a creditable nineteen.

Every effort is a good effort in this challenging puzzle!!!

[jancsika]

I'm not telling you which word I missed. You're going to have to guess .. 

[blackrockrose]

I missed three sitters: actual, catcall and titanic.

Jancsika, statistically you are most likely to have missed lacuna, like RTT, so that's my guess

[jancsika]

Jancsika, statistically you are most likely to have missed lacuna, like RTT, so that's my guess

Wrong. (I left a clue, by the way...)

[doxydaisy]

I also missed lacuna and like you John would never have got it no matter how long I played.

I'll have a guess Jancsika .. is it tactician?

[Alan W]

Jancsika, I surmise the type style of your post provides the clue.

[doxydaisy]

Italic

[rogue_mother]

I missed three sitters: actual, catcall and titanic.

BRR, I don't understand your use of the word sitter in this context. Is that Aussie slang?

I missed catcall, one of my blind spots, a word that I certainly know but almost never find. I also missed italic and uncut.

[jancsika]

Indeed it was, italic

[jancsika]

I missed three sitters: actual, catcall and titanic.

BRR, I don't understand your use of the word sitter in this context. Is that Aussie slang?

Not just Aussie, but British too. To "miss a sitter' means to miss an easy chance to score a goal in football, for example.

[ridethetalk]

...or an easy catch in cricket!

[Maudland]

I’m not sporty, but even I’ve heard of ‘missing a sitter’ - so it’s definitely British too!

I was glad I stuck at it yesterday - I’d have been miffed to miss my Last Word. Why do we overlook the super-common words sometimes? What kind of brain sees LACUNA way ahead of ACTUAL ?? (No need to answer that …)

[ridethetalk]

Well today the rosetteer club contained just two of our members - ozzyjune and Maudland - well done both of you on finding all 38 common words!!!

Rosettenears must have been frustrated by that last word - what were they doxydaisy and Roddles???

Today there were no diminutives but rogue_mother was three short on 35. I followed on 34 missing the ANTENNA/ANTENNAE pair as well as ENTENTE and TENANT - I must be a slow learner as I'm sure I've complained about entente before!

33 was a popular score with blackrockrose, yelnats, Jancsika and ozzyjack all falling 5 short of the requisite number while auntiemo was one further back on 32. vizal completed the puzzle with a score of 30 just 8 off the pace.

I wonder what today's puzzle will bring and what words others missed out on???