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****** MOO - The MayDay POTM ******
(deadline is 11:59 PM EST Saturday May 1, 1999)
Short Problem Description
MOO is a word-guessing game. The original form of the game
was found in /usr/games on old UNIX systems - the player
would guess a word and the program would tell them how many
letters were in the correct position (a "BULL") and how many
were in the word, but incorrectly positioned (a "COW").
Hence the name: MOO. In September of 1989, the game was
turned into a POTM contest by T. Scott Kennedy (in those
days it was the winner's responsibility to run the next
contest, and Scott won the first-ever POTM and created this
one as the second-ever POTM). The current POTM doesn't use
"cows" and "bulls" as defined above, but your program WILL
need to guess an English word in a similar fashion.
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