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The Cap'n Crunch Whistle is a small whistle with the number "2600"
inscribed on it. When blown, it produces a sound. The text
enclosed in double dollar signs in this Blueprint is notes and
comments only, and does not describe the behaviour of the Cap'n Crunch
Whistle in any way.
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[this is done this way to avoid submitting a 60K proposal. Please don't
scam me on this.]
Create a new rule entitled "Game of Pure Skill", numbered 1250.7, with
the following text:
"
[The gist of the Game of Pure Skill is that each of 3 players are given
a suit in a deck of cards, and the referee is given the remaining suit.
Cards are flipped at random from the referee's suit, and players bid
on them from the cards in their pack. The object is to win the highest
point total (not quantity) of cards, through strategic bidding. This
game has also been called "How much would you bid for the Three of
Spades?"]
1) General Equipment:
The game uses one Standard Deck (deck) without the optional cards.
2) Number of Players:
The game has exactly 3 players and 1 referee.
3) Starting an instance of the game:
As described in rule 1250.1, section VI.
4) Rules of the game:
4a) The deck is divided into its 4 suits. The spades are given to
the referee, and each player receives one of the other suits. Each
of these is called a "pack".
4b) Each card has a value, independent of suit. The value of an Ace
is 1, a King is 13, a Queen is 12, a Jack is 11, and all other cards'
values are their numeric values.
4c) A game consists of 13 rounds. A round lasts for 3 days or until
all players have submitted their moves to the referee, whichever comes
first.
4d) A round starts by the referee choosing a random card from his pack
of spades, and announcing the card chosen to each player. This card
is called the "prize" for that round.
4e) Each player then submits a "bid" of one card from their pack, by
announcing their choice privately to the referee. If a player fails
to submit a bid by the end of the round, the referee chooses a card
randomly from their pack as their bid. Players are discouraged from
failing to bid. The value of a bid is the value of the card used to
make the bid.
4f) The referee resolves the round as follows. If a single bid submitted
is higher than the other bids, the player who submitted the bid receives
the round's prize for his "take" pile. If no single bid is highest, the
prize card is discarded and removed from play. Regardless of the outcome
of the bidding, all cards used for bidding are discarded and removed
from play.
4g) The referee announces the results of the round to all players, and
announces all cards used as bids. This ends the current round. The
next round can then start in accordance with 4d), unless the 13th
round has ended, in which case the game ends.
4h) Upon the game ending, the value of the cards in each player's take
pile is totaled. The single player with the highest total is the winner
of the game. If there is no single player with a highest total, then
the game has no winner. If a player has no cards in their take pile,
their total value is zero.
5) Upon a winning condition being met and a winner being declared, the
winner receives 8 points, and the referee receives A$8. The winner
receives a standard Trophy.
6) The referee should, but is not required to, keep a web page of the
state of the game, and the history of each move.
7) Players may not discuss or collude on strategy or bids.
8) If a player leaves this game, or the game of ackanomic, while this
game is in progress, they will be replaced by a bot who plays randomly,
as managed by the referee. Any bots are not considered players for
the purposes of clause 4h)
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Create a new rule entitled "Limerick Contest", numbered 1250.8, with
the following text:
"
1) General Equipment:
Ackanomic Magic Dice
2) Number of Players:
Exactly 2, with Count Tabula as a referee. It is Permissible for
Count Tabula to be both a player and referee at the same time.
3) Starting an instance of the contest
As described in rule 1250.1, section VI.
4) Rules of the contest:
Each of the players in the contest writes a limerick about the other
player. The limerick may be silly, funny, and even ridicule the other
participant in a good-humored manner, as long as it is not offensive.
The limericks must be posted within 3 days of the start of the
contest. If one of the participants fails to post a limerick, then
the other wins by default. If neither post, the referee chooses a
winner at random using the AMD.
Once both limericks have been posted, there is a 3 day voting period.
During the voting period all Ackanomic players may send their vote to
the referee, indicating which limerick is the better one,
with an extra caveat, quoth here.
The Poet Laureate (if there is one)
Shall, with his learned art gained quite so dear,
Attempt to share and increase the fun
When the Poet's vote is count'd at the end,
His one vote shall instead be counted twice.
The Poet may, if e does wish, then send
A public message, hopefully quite nice
To praise the Duelist which had won his vote
Explaining why the Poet liked what e wrote.
The participant whose limerick got the most votes wins the contest.
In case of a tie, the participant whose limerick was posted first wins
the contest. In the case that that does not determine a winner, the
referee determines a winner at random, using the AMD.
If the winner is chosen at random, both players shall be eligible,
even if one or both are non-active.
No Trophy is awarded to the winner of this contest.
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Create a new rule entitled "Ghost", numbered 1250.9, with
the following text:
"
1.General Equipment: Official Dictionary
2. Players: minimum -- 2; maximum -- the number of active players when an
instance of Ghost is initiated less 1; Referees -- one
When the rules specify that a player is removed from the game, it means
that he is no longer a player in that instance of Ghost. It is not
necessarily a resignation, although a resignation does cause a player's
removal from the game.
3. Beginning of game
As described in rule 1250.1, section VI.
4. Rules
The referee shall randomly assign each player a different integer ranging
from 1 to N, where N is the number of players in the game. Player 1 shall
play first, and after that, play shall proceed in order of increasing
number. Player 1 plays again just after the turn of the player with the
highest number. Each player's turn begins when the previous player's ends,
unless that player's play was a protest, in which case it begins when the
protest is resolved. Each player's turn shall last the lesser of three
days or until that player plays.
At any time prior to the first turn of the player assigned the highest
number, players may be added to the game. One wishing to be added to the
game should inform the referee of their desire to do so; the referee shall
then inform all current players of the addition. The new player will be
assigned the number one greater than the highest number already assigned
to a player in the game. Before the beginning of the new player's first
turn, or three days after their addition, whichever comes first, the new
player may be removed from the game if any player already in the game
protests their addition. Players may not be added to instances of Ghost
being played as a Duel.
Players in a game of Ghost are forbidden from using dictionaries or other
reference books to aid their play. They may use these references for other
purposes.
In his turn, each player shall do one of the following: (1) begin a new
ghost word; (2) continue an existing ghost word; (3) protest the ghost
word; (4) resign. Plays shall be made by sending a message describing the
play to all players and the referee.
(1) A player may only begin a new ghost word when there is no existing
ghost word. He shall do so by naming any letter of the alphabet.
(2) A player may continue an existing ghost word only when there is an
existing ghost word. He shall do so by posting a string of letters
identical to the existing ghost word except for the addition of one letter
at either the beginning or the end of the ghost word. This string then
becomes the new ghost word.
(3) A player who protests the ghost word shall do so by either by stating
that the ghost word is a word of four or more letters in the official
dictionary, or by stating that the ghost word cannot be found within any
word in the official dictionary. ("uperso" can be found within
"supersonic"; "spronc" cannot.) A protest is said to be made against the
player whose turn caused the ghost word to be changed to its present form.
When a player protests the ghost word, play is suspended until the protest
is resolved. If the protest was on the grounds that the ghost word is a
word of four or more letters in the official dictionary, the referee shall
attempt to locate it therein and report his findings. If the ghost word is
a word of four or more letters in the official dictionary, the protest is
valid; otherwise it is invalid. Either way, when the referee reports the
validity or lack thereof of the protest, it is considered resolved; if the
protest was valid, the ghost word is destroyed.
If the protest was on the grounds that the ghost word cannot be found
within any word in the official dicitonary, the player against whom the
protest was made has three days to post a word containing the ghost word.
If he does not, the protest is resolved as valid. If he does, the referee
shall attempt to locate that word in the official dictionary, and shall
report his findings. If the named word is a word in the official
dictionary, the protest is invalid; otherwise, it is valid. Upon the
referee reporting on the validity or lack thereof of the protest, it is
considered resolved; at the resolution of any protest of this sort, the
ghost word is destroyed.
A player who makes an invalid protest is removed from the game; a player
who has a valid protest made against him is removed from the game.
(4) A player who resigns is removed from the game. A player who does not
make a move within his turn is assumed to have resigned. When a player
resigns, the ghost word is destroyed.
A player may remove themselves from an instance of the game at any time by
posting a message to that effect. If it was their turn, they are assumed
to have resigned. If they leave Ackanomic, they are assumed to have posted
such a message.
5. Winning
If exactly one player remains in the game, that player wins. There are no
other winning conditions. The winner receives a standard Trophy.
When a winner is found, the referee shall receive 8 A$. If this game took
place as a Duel, the winner shall receive no additional compensation. If
it was not a Duel and fewer than four players began the game, the winner
receives four points. If from four to eight players began the game, the
winner receives points equal to the number of players that began the game.
If more than eight players began the game, the winner receives 8 points.
6. The Referee
Upon request, the referee must provide the following information: the
players in the game and their order of play, whose turn it is, the current
ghost word, and a history of the game in progress. He may, but is not
required to, keep a web page with this information.
If the referee resigns his position, goes on vacation, or leaves the game
of Ackanomic, he is no longer the referee. In this event, any player of
Ackanomic who is not a player of that instance of Ghost may become referee
by publically expressing his desire to do so. While there is no referee,
the game is suspended.
"
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The text enclosed in double dollar signs in this Blueprint is notes and comments only, and does not describe the behaviour of the Golden Frog's Tongue in any way.
$$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [this is done this way to avoid submitting a 60K proposal. Please don't scam me on this.] Create a new rule entitled "Fictionary", numbered 1250.10, with the following text: " [Gist: A player chooses an obscure word from a dictionary that hopefully no one knows the definition of. All other players anonymously submit bogus definitions of the word. All submissions are mixed in with the real definition, and players vote on which definition is correct. Scoring is based on voting for the correct definition among all the chaff, or inticing others vote for your bogus definition.] I. General Equipment: Gamepoints as needed Official Dictionary All English Definition Lookup dictionaries defined as General Equipment II. Number of Players: minimum: 5; maximum: the number of active players when an instance of Fictionary is initiated. Referees: none. III. Starting an instance of the Game: As described in rule 1250.1, section VI. Additionally, the player announcing the start of the Game shall randomly assign each player a different integer ranging from 1 to N, where N is the number of players in the game. All players shall be randomly assigned numbers in this way, including non-active ones. IV. Rules of the game: The game is composed of rounds; each round shall have one "Brainiac". All players who are not the Brainiac shall be known as "Bluffers". The game shall be scored in Gamepoints. Player 1 shall be the Brainiac of the first round, and after that, Brainiac duty shall be assigned in order of increasing player number at the completion of each round. Player 1 again assumes the duty just after the completion of the round where the player with the highest number was Brainiac. A round is composed of the following steps, in order. All steps shall be completed within 3 days of the competion of the previous step (or the start of the round in the case of the first step). If a player(s) fails to perform the designated action by the end of this time limit, the listed default action is deemed to have been performed, and they lose 1 Gamepoint. Steps (1 thru 5) of a Round: 1) The Brainiac shall choose a word (known as the "Ing Word" for that round) from the Official Dictionary, whose definition is available in one of the Definition Lookup Dictionaries (Dictionaries), and publically post the word. The Ing Word should be as obscure as possible. Words with Harfy definitions are encouraged. The Brainiac shall also privately note the definition of the Ing Word. This definition shall be a verbatim transcription of any of the definitions provided by any of the Dictionaries. (Part of speech and similar details should not be transcribed). This shall be known as the "Actual Definition". This step ends when the Ing Word has been publically posted. Default Ing Word: "ing"; Actual Definition: "A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river." 2) All Bluffers shall submit a definition for the Ing Word to the Brainiac via private e-mail. Default: "" is submitted. 3) The Brainiac shall compare the submitted defintions with the Actual Definition and any other definitions in the Dictionaries (On-line Definitions), and report how play proceeds based on the following cases: 3a) 2 or more Bluffers submitted a definition that is substantially similar to an On-line Definition. In this case, each such Bluffer receives 3 Gamepoints, the Brainiac is sneered at for picking an easy word, and the round ends. 3b) Exactly one Bluffer submitted a definition that is substantially similar to an On-line Definition. In this case, that Bluffer receives 4 Gamepoints, and their submitted defintion is removed from play. The Brainiac publically announces that this has occurred, and play proceeds without the submission as if case 3c) occurred, except that the correct Bluffer does not participate. 3c) No Bluffer submitted a definition that is substantially similar to an On-line Definition. In this case, the Brainiac randomly sorts the submitted definitions and the Actual Definition into a numbered list (without the names of the associated Bluffers), and publically posts the list for Bluffer voting. This posting ends this step. 3d) Default: The Brainiac loses 4 Gamepoints, no other scoring occurs this round, and play proceeds to the next round. 4) All Bluffers shall vote for one of the definitions on the list, and publically post their vote. Voting for the Bluffer's own definition is permissible (and is called "sheeping"). It is good form to quote the definition being voted for in this post. This step ends when all bluffers have voted. Default: A Bluffer who did not vote is deemed to have sheeped. 5a) The Brainiac shall score the voting and post this information, the cumulative scoring for the game, and the actual definition. Scoring is as follows (in addition to any from section 3): i) Each Bluffer receives 1 Gamepoint for every player other than himself who voted for his definition. ii) A Bluffer receives 2 Gamepoints if he voted for the Actual Definition. iii) If no one voted for the Actual Definition, the Brainiac receives 2 Gamepoints. 5b) The game shall end when all players have been Brainiac the same number of times, and one or more players has 25 or more Gamepoints. The single player with the most Gamepoints wins, and receives 1 A$ for each Gamepoint they have. If there is no such player, all players who are tied with the most Gamepoints recieve A$12. There is no winner declared, however. The winner also receives a standard Trophy. 5c) If the game does not end at this step, play continues to the next round with a new Brainiac at step 1. 5d) Default: The Scorekeeper or Acting Scorekeeper becomes acting Brainiac to adjudicate step 5. If there is no such officer, the game ends with no winner and no payoff. 5e) Players are permitted to ridicule any definition that is not the same part of speech as the Ing Word. V. Errata 1) Players on vacation are replaced by bots who perform the default actions in their stead (but the players receive all scoring as a result of the bot's play). A player going on vacation may have a volunteer play in their place if they can find such a person, however. 2) Players may resign at any time, although this is considered bad form. Any player who resigns or leaves Acka is replaced by a bot until the end of the round in which they resigned (unless they resigned after the completion of step 5, and before the completion of step 1 in the next round). After that, their "spot" is removed from the game. 3) Players may not look up the Ing Word (or any of the definitions), in any dictionary until its definition is disclosed, or until adjudication of step 5 is required. " $$
A BWG Fluff Buster is a small cylinder with an end that rotates. When the end is rotated, it blows into the air, from its other end, a cloud of black smoke, a cloud of black smoke, a cloud of white smoke, then a cloud of black smoke. It then buzzes for the remainder of the day.The text enclosed in double dollar signs in this Blueprint is notes and comments only, and does not describe the behaviour of the BWG Fluff Buster in any way.
$$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [this is done this way to avoid submitting a 60K proposal. Please don't scam me on this.] Create a new rule entitled "Tromino Go", numbered 1250.11, with the following text: " [Credits: Original game by Sid Sackson; published in the June 1994 issue of Games magazine. Adapted for e-mail play by /dev/joe.] General Equipment: Gamepoints as needed Players: exactly two players and one referee are required, no more, no less. Definitions: A tromino, or "piece", is an L-shaped group of three like letters, such as any of these examples: AA b C A bb CC A unit of edge is a length equal to the height or width of one letter on any edge of a tromino. Each tromino has four 1-unit edges and two 2-unit edges. Adjacent (or "touching"), in this game, means bordering on one or more units of edge. Trominoes which touch only diagonally are not considered adjacent. A group of trominoes is any single tromino not adjacent to another tromino belonging to the same player, or any set of two or more trominoes which belong to the same player such that a path can be made from any one to any other tromino in the set by moving only between adjacent trominoes, but no tromino in the set is adjacent to a tromino belonging to that player but not in the set. A No Man's Land is any area of empty space completely surrounded by trominoes. Outside edge is any edge or portion of an edge of a tromino which does not have another tromino or a No Man's Land adjacent to it. A group of trominoes is surrounded if no tromino in the group has any outside edge. Beginning the game: As described in rule 1250.1, section VI. Additionally, the referee shall randomly select one of the players to go first in the first round; this begins the first round. Rules: 1. General play rules The player who loses each round starts the next round, if there is one; if a round ends in a tie then the player who played second plays first in the next round. The player who plays first in a round always plays using capital letters, and the other player uses lower case. The plays in each round always cycle through the letters A, B, and C, and the players always alternate making plays, so the first six plays in a round will always be A, b, C, a, B, and c, and then the sequence repeats. 2. The first four plays in a round The first player begins by placing an A tromino in an otherwise empty grid. (Note that there is no limit to the grid; plays may always expand in any direction, within the other restrictions of the rules.) The second player then plays a b tromino so that it touches at least two units of edge (which may be part of the same edge or different edges) of the first tromino. Some possible configurations after the second play are: AAb AA bbAA AA Abb Abb bA bA b bb The first player then plays a C tromino so that it touches the b tromino along at least two units of edge, but it does not touch the A tromino. Then the second player plays an a tromino so that it touches at least two units of edge of the C tromino, but does not touch the b tromino. 3. Plays Five to Thirty After the first four plays in a round, until 30 trominoes have been played, each player in turn plays a tromino of the next letter in the sequence in accorance with these three rules: i. It may not touch any other tromino of the same letter, regardless who played it (so an A tromino may not touch any other A or a trominoes, for instance). ii. It must touch at least one tromino played by the opponent along at least one unit of edge. iii. It must touch at least two units of edge of any trominoes already played (including the one unit required by rule ii). 4. Moving Trominoes If 30 trominoes have been played without ending the round, then instead of adding additional trominoes, each player moves one of his trominoes of the appropriate letter to a new location. Only trominoes with some outside edge may be moved; a tromino which will split the grid into two pieces if removed may not be moved. The tromino's new position must follow the rules in section 3 for playing new trominoes. When a round which has progressed to this phase ends, the player who wins scores double the Gamepoints he would normally score. 5. Handling a Stalemate In any of the phases of play (rules 2 through 4 above), if a player cannot make any other legal play, he may pass, leaving the grid unchanged but advancing to the next letter in sequence and to the other player's turn. [This isn't commented on in the original rules, and I don't even know if it's possible, but just in case, I've put this here.] 6. Winning a Round A round ends when one or more groups of trominoes are surrounded. At the end of a round, the player with the fewer surrounded trominoes wins the round, and scores Gamepoints equal to the number of his opponent's surrounded trominoes minus the number of his own surrounded trominoes. If the two players have the same number of surrounded trominoes then the round is a tie and nobody scores. A player may cause his own trominoes to be surrounded by forming a No Man's Land. (A player may wish to do this intentionally to prevent his opponent from surrounding a larger group of trominoes, or because it simultaneously surrounds a group of his opponent's trominoes.) 7. Concessions At any time either player may post a public message conceding the current round of Tromino Go, along with a number of Gamepoints they are conceding. This does not end the round, and is not a play; the round continues as usual until it ends normally, or a concession is accepted. A player may accept any concession made by their opponent during the current round of Tromino Go by stating so in a public message; if e does so, the current round ends and e scores the indicated number of Gamepoints. 8. Winning the Game When a player has scored 7 or more Gamepoints in a game of Tromino Go, e wins that game. A player may also win the game if his opponent fails to make a play within the 3 day time limit. These are the only ways to win the game. When a player wins an instance of Tromino Go which was not played for a Duel, an amount of A$ is transferred to that player from the treasury as follows: If e won by scoring 7 or more Gamepoints, then e gets 2 times the difference between his score in Gamepoints and his opponent's score in Gamepoints. Otherwise, e gets 14 minus twice eir opponent's score in Gamepoints. In addition, at the end of any instance of Tromino Go, the referee gets A$1 from the treasury for each round completed, to a maximum of A$10. No Trophies are awarded for winning this game. 9. How Plays are Made Players should play by reposting the previous grid, with their new play added/moved as appropriate, in a public message. Players need not wait for the referee to comment on a play before making the next play; the referee should watch for illegal plays, but need not make any comment unless an illegal play is discovered, or a play has been questioned, or a round has ended. Each player has 3 days from the time of the previous play (or from the beginning of the round, for the case of the first play) to make a play when it is his turn, or else e loses the game. 10. Handling Illegal Plays and the End of a Round If a player believes an illegal play has been made, he may post so publicly, and the referee should post publicly either that all plays are legal, or indicate the first illegal play which has been made. - If all plays are legal, then play continues where it left off; no time between the the public request to verify the plays and the referee's response counts toward the 3 days a player has to make a play. - If the referee determines that an illegal play has been made, then that play and all plays since that are ignored, and play continues with the player who made the illegal play making a new play. No time between the initial post of the illegal play and the referee's post indicating the illegal play shall count against the 3 days the player has to make a play. If the referee finds that an illegal play has been made, he may post so publicly without any request to do so, and the same corrections as in the preceding section shall be applied. If the referee posts that a round has ended, e should include with this message the winner of the round, the Gamepoints scored, and the total Gamepoints each player has. If this does not end the game, the next round begins at the time of this post. If it does end the game, the referee should post the final score, who won, and the A$ transfers resulting from it. 11. Substitutions A player may appoint another willing player not already involved with the game to play in his place for any time that e is on vacation. If a player leaves the game of Ackanomic, e loses the game of Tromino Go. The referee may appoint another willing player not already involved in the game to play in his place for any time that e is on vacation or is no longer a player in Ackanomic. If the referee goes on vacation or leaves Ackanomic without making such an appointment, the Speaker may appoint a referee. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a new rule entitled "Double Crash", numbered 1250.12, with the following text: " I. General Equipment: Official Dictionary II. Players minimum: 2; maximum 2 III. Starting an instance of Double Crash As described in rule 1250.1, section VI. IV. Rules of the Games Throughout these rules, an N-round Salvo is a public post taking the form of a numbered list of N five-letter words. The numbering convention and format should be: 1) [five-letter word] 2) [another one] ... and so on, up to ... N) [the last one] A Reply to a Salvo is a reposting of the Salvo being replied to, with the addition of a number from 1-5 to the right of each five-letter word. This number is the number of "crashes" as defined below, of that word with the Replying player's Target Word. The format should be 1) [five-letter word] 2 [actual number will vary] 2) [another one] 3 ... and so on, up to ... N) [the last one] 1 Two words crash once for each letter that occupies the same position in each word. (ie, if they have the same first letter, they crash once; if they have the same third letter, they crash again. HEART crashes once with SPADE (for the A). STAFF crahses three times with CHAFF. SWORD does not crash with WORDY. A five-letter word crashes five times with itself.) The game consists of several rounds, each of which lasts three days or until all actions required of players in that round, whichever comes first. If ever a player fails to complete all required actions before the end of a round, his opponent wins. If both players so fail, and the game is being held as a Duel, the challenged player wins. If both players so fail, and the game is not being played as a Duel, neither player wins, and the game is over. Each round begins immediately upon the end of the previous one. Round 1) Each player selects a five-letter word from the Official Dictionary. This is his Target Word, and should be kept secret. Also, each player posts a 6-round Salvo. Round 2) Each player Replies to the other's 6-round Salvo. Round 3) Each player posts a 5-round Salvo. Round 4) Each player Replies to the other's 5-round Salvo. Round 5) Each player posts a 4-round Salvo. Round 6) Each player Replies to the other's 4-round Salvo. Round 7) Each player posts a 3-round Salvo. Round 8) Each player Replies to the other's 3-round Salvo. Hereafter, each odd-numbered round consists of each player posting a 3-round Salvo; each even-numbered round consists of each player Replying to the Salvo the other posted the previous round. If a player improperly reports the number of crashes any word in any Salvo has with his Target Word, or if a player selects as his Target Word a word other than a five-letter word from the Official Dictionary, his opponent wins as soon as the error is discovered. The rounds continue until upon the end of a round of Replies, one or both Replies indicates that some word in the previous Salvo crashed five times with the Replying players Target Word. If only one-player posted a Salvo which included a five-crash word, that player is the tentative winner. If both players posted such a Salvo, the player who posted a five-crash word higher in the Salvo's list is the tentative winner, if such a player can be uniquely defined. (ie, a five-crash word at the #1 slot in a Salvo beats one at #2.) If the two five-crash words occupy the same position in their respective Salvos, the player who posted their Salvo first is the tentative winner. Once a tentative winner is found, the two players shall reveal their respective Target Words. The players may then examine each others' plays for errors. If no actual errors are found within three days, the tentative winner wins the game. Upon a player winning the game, it ends. If the game was not being played as a Duel, the winner receives A$25 from the Treasury. No Trophy is awarded to the winner of the game. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a new rule entitled "Single Capture Go", numbered 1250.13, with the following text: " I. General Equipment: none II. Participants: minimum players: 2; maximum players: 12; one referee III. Starting an instance of the game: As described in rule 1250.1, section VI. Additionally, at the beginning of the game, the referee assigns each player a different capital Letter of the alphabet. IV. Rules of play The game is played on an N by N grid, where N is the smallest integer such that N^2 is equal to or greater than 12*(the number of players who begin the game. The grid is labeled according the following convention: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 ... b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 ... c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 ... d1 d2 d3 d4 d5 ... e1 e2 e3 e4 e5 ... ... Each square in the grid may be occupied by exactly one Letter or by the @ character. A round begins when the referee announces the beginning of a round. For all rounds but the first, he should include in this announcement a depiction of the grid, showing all Letters upon it, as well as a summary of the any moves made or attempted in the last round and the players remaining in the game. A round lasts three days after this announcement. During the course of a round, each player may privately mail the referee their play, which shall consist of naming exactly one square on the grid not occupied by a Letter at the beginning of the round. (ie, e7, assuming e7 was unoccupied at the beginning of the present round.) If a player sends the referee two valid moves, only the latter one shall count. At the end of a round, the referee shall determine its results as follows. 1) If exactly one player legally played a given grid square that round, the referee shall place the Letter assigned to that player on that grid square. 2) If more than one player legally played a given grid square that round, the referee shall place a @ character on that grid square. The players who played that square are still counted as having moved that round. 3) A Group is a set of identical Letters occupying squares on the grid, such that each member of the Group occupies a square orthogonally adjacent to one occupied by at least one other member of the Group. The exception to this definition is that a single Letter, not so adjacent to any identical Letters, is considered a Group of one member. A Group has Liberty as long as at least one of its members is orthogonally adjacent to an unoccupied grid square. At this point, if any Group does not have Liberty, the player corresponding to that Group's Letter is doomed. Any player who did not play in the most recent round is also doomed. 4) Any Letters on the grid corresponding to a doomed player are transformed into @ characters. 5) If exactly one non-doomed player remains in the game, that player wins. If no non-doomed players remain, the player who had the most correpsonding Letters on the grid prior to the most recent transformation into @ characters wins. There are no other winning conditions. The winner receives a standard Trophy. 6) All doomed players are removed from the game. If more than one player remains, the referee announces the start of a new round, as described above. Otherwise, the game ends. " $$
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$$ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [this is done this way to avoid submitting a 60K proposal. Please don't scam me on this.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a new rule entitled "Diplomacy", numbered 1250.14, with the following text: " I. General Equipment: None. II. Number of Players: Minimum 2, maximum: Number of Ackanomic players less 1. Referees: 1 III. Starting an instance of the game: The game is started upon the completion of the following ordered list of steps: A. A player announces their intent to be a referee for a game of Diplomacy. For the purposes of this section, they will be referred to as the "Referee", athough they do not become so until the game actually starts. They may abort this procedure at any time before step F occurs, by publically announcing this action, in which case no instance of a game occurs. B. The Referee announces the following information: 1) The minimum and maximum number of players in the game. 2) Any variations to the Rules of Standard Diplomacy. Such variations may not scope beyond the game of Diplomacy. For the purposes of this game, "Rules of Standard Diplomacy" means the document entitled "Rules for Diplomacy", copyright 1976, as published by The Avalon Hill Game Co. The variant must at least be recognizable as form of the game of Diplomacy. 3) If the variant uses countries, the method in which countries shall be assigned. 4) If the variant uses orders or moves, and turns, the time limit by which orders or moves must be submitted from the announced start of a turn. If multiple types of turns exist [eg, "move" and "build"], different time limits may be specified for each type. For the purposes of these rules, "moves" should be construed as any possible game action that requires notifiying the referee. 5) The method of adjudication. The valid methods are "manual" and "automated". If manual adjudication is specified, the form of all valid moves in the game and the manner of communication with the referee must be specified. If automated adjudication is specified, the referee must specify instructions on how to use the "judge", or provide a pointer to a suitable set of instructions. In either case, it should be such that a player may play the game with e-mail only access to the Internet. 6) The default action for all late, ambiguous, or otherwise invalid orders or moves, and some sort of discussion of what constitutes a late, ambiguous, or invalid move. 7) The conditions, if any, under which the game will be terminated prematurely [e.g., after the Autumn 1930 move], and the method for determining a winner or winners in such a case. It is not required that a winner be determined in this case. 8) The actions of any bots playing in the game, as per section V. Bots can replace players who are on vacation or leave the game. [e.g, bots always submit unambigious hold orders for all their units, and never submit build orders.] C. The referee announces open enrollment in the game, and the deadline by which open enrollment shall end. D. Ackanomic players other than the referee who wish to play shall e-mail the referee stating this intention. This step shall end upon the occurrance of either of the following 2 events: The open enrollment deadline occurs, or, the maximum number of players for this instance of the game have signed up. E. Upon the former event occurring, the game cannot start unless at least the minimum number of players enrolled, and, in this case, this procedure is aborted with no game instance occurring. F. The referee announces the start of the game, the names and e-mail addresses of all the players, and any necessary initial data [e.g. country assignments]. IV. Rules of the Game: Standard Diplomacy shall be played, except as modified by the details announced per section III, and except that no physical board and pieces shall be used (athough it is permissible, but not required, for a web page to be maintained that simulates such), and except that a referee shall adjudicate all game moves and maintain the game state. The decisions of the referee are final. Winning the game: Unless specified otherwise in the details announced per section III, the first single player to achieve the winning conditions of Standard Diplomacy shall win the game. Also, unless countermanded as per section III, 2 or more players may claim a win by, as a group, controlling enough of the game space such that if said control were achieved by a single player, that player would win, provided all players involved acknowledge this claim seperately to the referee. [e.g, if 2 or more players control 18 sc's between themselves, they can announce a co-win]. Upon a winning condition being achieved, the game ends. All winners split 8 points evenly. If the number of winners does not divide evenly into 8, however, the number of points split is the greatest positive multiple of the number of winners that is less than 8. If no such number exists, no points are awarded. The Golden Knife is awarded as a Trophy. If the game ends without a winner or winners being declared, however, no points are awarded. Upon the end of a game, the referee receives A$10. V. Errata Upon a player or referee of Diplomacy becoming no longer an active Ackanomic player, the game is paused until a replacment is found, and such replacement is acknowledged by the referee, or the Speaker in the cases where there is no referee, or the player in question is replacing the referee. The game becomes unpaused upon all non-active players being replaced, or upon being in a paused state for 3 consecutive days, whichever occurs first. The replacement shall play in the former players stead until that player once again achieves active status in Ackanomic. A player may resign from Diplomacy, in which case they are treated as a non-active player as above, except they may never participate in that instance of Diplomacy again. No game play shall occur while the game is in a state of pause, and no time in a state of pause shall count towards any durations in the game, except for counting towards the pause duration, of course. If no replacement player is found by the time the game becomes unpaused, a bot shall play in their stead, as specified in section III. If the individual in question is the referee, however, the game ends without a winner upon it beoming un-paused, if no replacement referee has been found. An active Ackanomic player may always replace a bot with the approval of the referee, provided that player has not previously participated in that instance of Diplomacy. " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Create a new rule entitled "Spades", numbered 1250.15, with the following text: " General Equipment: 1 standard deck without the optional cards Gamepoints as needed Number of Players: exactly 4 players and 1 referee are needed. Beginning the game: As described in rule 1250.1, section VI. Additionally, the referee begins the game by randomly assigning the players into a playing order (ensuring that members of the same team do not occupy adjacent positions if teams are already chosen), and publicly posting this playing order and announcing that the spades game is beginning. Players 1 and 3 shall be team 1; players 2 and 4 shall be team 2. Throughout the game, play will rotate through this order, returning to player 1 after player 4. Add to the end of Rule 5, "Winning the Game", the following: When either side wins by any of these methods, the referee shall publicly post the results of the game, including the final scores. Rules: 1. Dealing At the beginning of each round, the referee collects and shuffles into a random order all of the cards in the deck (except the Jokers, which are not used), and deals 13 cards to each player (sending each player eir cards by private email). 2. Bidding In the first round, player 1 has the first bid; in each later round, the next player in the sequence has the first bid. After the deal, the first bidder (and each other bidder after him) makes a bid. The valid bids are 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. 3. Trick Play The main part of a round consists of 13 tricks. In each trick each player shall play one card from his hand; these cards are then removed from play for the rest of that round. The player who made the highest bid (the first player who made it, in case of a tie) leads to the first trick; for later tricks, the player who won the previous trick leads. The player who leads a trick begins it by playing any card from eir hand (called the card led). The other players follow in order; each player must play a card from eir hand of the same suit as the card led, if e has one; if not, e may play any card from eir hand. The player who played the highest Spade played to a trick wins the trick, if any Spade was played; otherwise the player who played the highest card of the suit led wins the trick. 4. Scoring Each team has a Spadescore in Gamepoints, to which Gamepoints are added to and subtracted as appropriate; all scoring is in Gamepoints. After the 13th trick in a round is completed, each team scores as follows: The bids the two players won are added together, as are the number of tricks taken by the two players. If they took fewer tricks than their bid, they score -10 times the bid (-20 times the bid if the bid was 10 or more); otherwise they score 10 times the bid (20 times the bid if it was 10 or more), and in addition, they score 1 and get one sandbag for each trick in excess of their bid. For each player on the team who bid 0, the team scores 100 if e took no tricks, or -100 if e took at least one trick. When a team receives their 10th, 20th, 30th, etc. sandbag, they score -100. 5. Winning the Game After the scoring for a round, if at least one team has a Spadescore of greater than or equal to 500, and the teams aren't tied, the team with the greater score wins; otherwise, the referee shall begin another round. If both players on a team post a concession publicly, the other team wins the game. If either team forfeits their opponents win. There are no other ways to win the game. No Trophies are awarded for winning. 6. Miscellaneous Bids and plays of cards may be made either by posting them in a public message or sending them in a message to the referee and all other players. Nobody is allowed to reveal to anybody what cards any player has except as explicitly stated in these rules. If a player misplays (plays a card not matching the suit of the card led when e has a card in eir hand matching the suit of the card led, or attempts to play a card not in eir hand), the referee should intervene as quickly as possible, voiding all plays since (and including) the misplay, and the misplaying player's team scores -100. If players on one team misplay twice in one hand or three times in a game, that team forfeits. Any misplays voided due to an earlier misplay do not count and are not penalized. 7. Time Limit Whenever action is expected of any player and they fail to act for 3 days, the referee shall intervene by choosing a valid action for that player, as follows: If it occurs during the bidding, a bid of 2 is made. If it occurs during the trick play, the referee chooses a card at random from among the cards the player could legally play, and it is played. " $$