I realize I'm putting myself at risk by sending this around,
but I wanted to give some compliments to a few entries that
didn't win ... perhaps because of the particular words I
happended to select for the finals!   I didn't run ALL the
entries, but I tried to run the top finishers (and the two
cheating entries!)
=Fred

Here follow the results of twelve additional words ... as it turns out
I didn't need to apply the tiebreakers so these results don't
officially count for anything.  Some interesting observations:

    * SplitMoo didn't finish in first place ... Pavel Ouvarov's
        dancing_letters beat SplitMoo handily.  But rules
        is rules ...

    * QuackTheDuck had 6 bests out of 12 words including an
        incredible score of 3 for "CALL" ... Wolfram
        Hinderer tells me that he gets better results on
        "his" machine, but the contest is run on "MY" machine!
        (NOTE:  after fixing an initialzation bug that caused
          different behavior on my machine, a revised Quacker
          scored an amazing 88 ... well afer the deadline!)

    * The two dictionary entries seemed to need about five
        guesses regardless of the word length!

                          CALL   TODAY   BEFORE  BARGAIN EXPIRING DISTRICTS
                            ALSO   URGED  POLICY  SHERIFF HONESTLY INSURANCE

  dancing_letters    94    7   7  *8   8   8  *7  *7   9   8  *8   8  *9
         SplitMoo    99    5   6  *8   8   8  *7   9  *8  10  10  10  10
  SchrodingersCow   100    9  *4  *8   8  10   8   8  *8   9  *8   9  11
          deepmoo   117   10   5   9  10   9  *7  12  12   9  10  11  13
 NoBullPeacePrize   117    8   8   7   7   8   9   8  10  23  10   9  10
            Skunk   118   11  10  10   7   9  *7  13   9  11  *8  12  11
        MooIndigo   120    8   7  *8   8   9  *7   8  10  17  13  12  13
       StupidComp   121   11   9  10  10  10  11  10   9   9  10  10  12
             Bozo   123   11   6  10  *5  11  *7  11  12  12  10  13  15
         MooFight   126   12   6  10   8  12  11  11  11  10  11  11  13
           MooBoo   129   10   6  10   8  11  10  11  11  13  11  13  15
     QuackTheDuck   130   *3  23  17   7  *7  16   8  19  *7  *8  *6  *9
QuackTheDuck(fixed)  88   *3   7  10   7  *7  *7   8   9  *7  *8  *6  *9
         scharade   138   10   9  10  11   9  11  12  12  14  11  14  15
           zigzag   140    7   8  10   9  12  10  15  15  14  10  12  18
        one_guess   166   10   7  20  13  18  16  12  13  17  11  12  17
            EISAR   169    7   7  14  12  13  12  20  14  20  17  13  20
       SimpleMind  1107   10   6   9   7   9   9  12  12 999  12  10  12

	============================================================

 Mad_Cow_Cheating    55    6   4   5   5   4   4   5   5   5   4   4   4
           bigmoo    59    5   5   5   7   3   5   4   5   6   5   5   4