Found Treasure Archive

Treasure Hunts and Riddles are governed by rule 1217

Note that "Clues and Guesses" here in the Found Treasure Archive not only include the clues from the treasure hunt, but the explanation of the solution.

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Treasure 101 (Malenkai, Oct 27, 1996):

Found by /dev/joe (January 07, 1998)

The Announcement:

I am creating a Treasure that consists of the Crystal Grapefruit Crystal Grapefuit (It is Green ;), and burying it. I am revealing the following clues and/or portion of the Treasure Map:

The Crystal Grapefruit shall be found by the first player to win 3 different sub-games. For the purposes of this map, a sub game is defined as any of the following: Party Chess, Grab-a-Donkey, any game on the Games & Contest page (except that for an instance of a Games & Contest Page game to count, that instance must have had 3 or more players).

Found when:

/dev/joe won 3 games.

The map was:

Identical to the one above

Treasure 102 (Malenkai, Oct 27, 1996):

Found by Habeous Corpus (Nov 25, 1996)

Announcement

I am creating a Treasure that consists of the Onyx Lion, and burying it.I am revealing the following clues and/or portion of the Treasure Map:

The Onyx Lion shall be found by the first player to have a proposal accepted (and that Malenkai voted YES for) that defines another way to win a Game or Cycle of Acka.

Found When:

Proposal 1430 was accepted.

The map was:

The Onyx Lion shall be found by the first player to have a proposal accepted (and that Malenkai voted YES for) that defines another way to win a Game or Cycle of Acka.


Treasure 103 (Malenkai, Oct 27, 1996):

Found by /dev/joe (Jan 30, 1997)

Announcement

I am creating a Treasure that consists of the Jade Key of Yara, and burying it. I am revealing the following clues and/or portion of theTTreasure Map:

[this space intentionally left blank]

This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

Found When:

/dev/joe posted the following to the public forum:

"I wish to bribe Tammany to vote silent on the proposal that contains the words yeenewkleorrrrmeeesseilllllee and mongoose. (Proposal 1705)".

The map was:

Publically announce that you wish to bribe Tammany to vote silent on proposal X, where X is a proposal under consideration, and X contains the words yeenewkleorrrrmeeesseilllllee and mongoose. You need not actually bribe tammany, but you must make the public announcement.


Treasure 105 (Niccolo Flychuck, Nov 09, 1996):

Found by Guy Fawkes (Feb 02, 1997)

Announcement

The Treasure consists of the following item

  1. The Chalice from the Palace.
  2. A Prosthetic Forehead given to me by snowgod during the last presidential campaign. This commemorative election forehead has become a collector's item.

The map for his treasure is as follows:....

[I've got this wonderful idea for a map, unfortunately there is not enough room in the margins of this message to write the details of the map]

This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

Found When:

Niccolo Flychuck announced that he met the conditions of the map.

The map was:

  1. Win two Duels provided that each Duel is against a different player, and that for each Duel a different sub-game is employed.
  2. The author of at least one G and C proposal which has been accepted, and is suitable to be used in a Duel.
  3. The author of a rule which defines an Otzma Card type which not realted to either voting or PartyChess


Treasure 106 (Malenkai, Nov 09, 1996):

Found by Alfvaen (Oct 11, 1997)

Announcement

This Treasure consists of the Map of Jara.

I hereby bury it. I am revealing the following clues and/or portion of the Treasure Map:

[this space intentionally left blank]

This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

Found When:

When Alfvaen had a poem composed lauding his greatness.

The map was:

  1. Must be wearing 2 Prosthetic foreheads, Silly Vacation Hats, etc, or any combination of any acka headwear. The caveat is that all such headwear must have been designed by someone other than the wearer. [obviously, 2 or more heads are required, or the rules must change].
  2. Must have, in the past, buried a Treasure with aggregate value in excess of A$49. A$ and Trinkets valued at face value. All other objects valued at their last trade price, auction price, or what they can be bought for from the Treasury, whichever is higher. If there is no such value otherwise defined, the value is 0.
  3. Must compose, or have composed on their behalf, a poem lauding their greatness, and said poem must be publically announced.

Treasure 107 (Malenkai, Nov 09, 1996):

Found by /dev/joe (Nov 01, 1997)

Announcement

This Treasure consists of the following stuff:

  • The Fine Wooden Chest [containing:]
  • 57 Malenkai's Gold Coins
  • The Onyx Vase
  • Shades of Chorg
  • 2 PFsnowgod
  • Bond Option: OPFMalenkai-10-A$17-961221-Malenkai

    I am burying this Treasure as well, somewhere very safe.

    Found When:

    /dev/joe obtained both the Jade key of Yara and Map of Jara.

    The map was:

    Any player who possesses the Jade Key of Yara and The Map of Jara, and is either Enlightened or has (or has had) published in any Acka newspaper the words "The earth is round" (capitalization not important) shall find the Treasure of Jara (T 107).

    This was based on treasures 105 and 106, and a Phoebe Post


    Treasure 108 (snowgod, Nov 09, 1996):

    Found by Habeous Corpus (Dec 04, 1996)

    Announcement

    I am burying my Whamiol Whamiol and creating the following treasure map:

    For to see his Whamiol again,
    and hold it near his score,
    Habeous Corpus must transfer some cash,
    A$500 to be exact,
    to snowgod, the would be extortionist.

    Do this and the Whamiols is buried no more.

    Found When

    Habeous Corpus gave A$500 to snowgod.

    The map was:

    Habeous Corpus's trqansfer of A$500 to my account fulfilled the conditions of the map, and the map that I reported was the actual map. He has found his whamiol


    Treasure 109 (Mohammed, Nov 15, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jan 12, 1997)

    Announcement

    I make a Treasure including the
    Bracelet of Conjuring and bury it a short distance from my home. I write a map reading: the Treasure of the Bracelet of Conjuring shall be found by the first player who sends me something I find interesting, of his or her own composition, written in Python.

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted 4 python programs, at least one of which Mohammed found interesting.

    The map was:

    The actual Map was identical to the one originally published.


    Treasure 110 (Mohammed, Nov 15, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Apr 3, 1997)

    Announcement

    I make a Treasure including the
    Staff of the Silicon Python-- and bury it very deep in-- you know what I just realized? It seems to me that the earth must have some depth to it, or one could not bury things. Anyway, I write a map reading: the Treasure of the Staff of the Silicon Python shall be found by the first person to send me something I find truly fascinating or delightful, of his or her own composition, written in Python.

    Found When:

    Mohammed Posted:

    /dev/joe sent me a program that demolished me in a game of Scrabble. This was fascinating, in its own horrific way, and would almost certainly be delightful for anyone with an ego less easily bruised than mine. :o) /dev/joe sent me the program more than a month ago, and since then I've been incrementally approaching an actual game.

    The map was:

    Identical to the one above

    Treasure 111 (snowgod, Dec 10, 1996):

    Found by Guy Fawkes (Dec 12, 1996)

    Announcement

    I am creating a treasure thaqt consists of the Secret Decoder Ring, and burying it.

    The map to the treasure reads in full:

    496E206F72646572746F2066696E642074686520536563726574204465636F6465722052696E 672C796F75206D75737420706F73742061206D65737361676520636F6E7461696E696E672074 68652073696E676C6520776F72642022487562657274222077697468206E6F206578706C696E 6174696F6E20617320746F20796F757220616374696F6E73206F6E6365206576657279206461 7920666F7220746872656520636F6E736563757469766520646179732E202041667465722074 686520746869726420636F6E736563757469766520706F7374696E672C207468652053656372 6574204465636F6465722052696E672077696C6C20626520666F756E642E

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Guy Fawkes posted 'hubert' to the public forum.

    The map was:

    In orderto find the Secret Decoder Ring,you must post a message containing the single word "Hubert" with no explination as to your actions once every day for three consecutive days. After the third consecutive posting, the Secret Decoder Ring will be found.


    Treasure 112 (Mohammed, Dec 13, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jan 11, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am making a treasure out of [No Tea] (inasmuch as this is possible), and digging hundreds of miles down, almost to the center of the earth, to bury it.

    At the same time, writing with a quill pen held between my teeth, I am scrawling the following map on the back of a passing maniac:

    [Click here for map.txt]

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    it was reported that Mohammed voted yes on Proposal 1616.

    The map was:

    Hello, world! Submit a proposal containing the name Mohammed and the two secret words. The secret words are antonyms obtained by taking an antonym of seldom and a three pronged word, and then adding the same letter to the beginning of both those words. The treasure will be found by the author of such a proposal when i vote for it. Till then, shhhhh.


    Treasure 113 (breadbox, Dec 13, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Dec 14, 1996)

    Announcement

    But, y'know, I'd really rather not have a dead guy around, no matter how exquisite he may be. (If I had a high-rise apartment, I would hang him from a skyhook. But I don't, so I can't.) And yet, I can't get rid of him directly without raising the ire of the Arts Community. So I'm going to bury him instead. (I mean, what else do you with a corpse?) But if anyone else would like to have such an object, I made a map of how to obtain him, and all are invited to give it a shot.

    I won't post the map to the list, because it's kind of big (over 8K, in fact), what with all this recent discussion about large files breaking people's mailboxes. Instead, the map can be found at

    http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/acka/tnt/edg-map.txt

    I hope everyone who pursued snowgod's Decoder Ring will give this one a shot. If you get stuck, I might be persuaded to let a few hints drop, but I'm guessing that won't actually be necessary.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe visited breadbox's house.

    The map was:

    Ooops. Ahem. The Exquisite Dead Guy has been found by /dev/joe. The "text" of the treasure map, before obfuscation, fragmentation, and presdigitation, is:

    my treasure shall be found by the first player to visit breadbox's house


    Treasure 114 (Guy Fawkes, Dec 14, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jan 05, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Golden Frinking Straw as Treasure. I am not releasing any part of the treasure map at this time, although the following interesting sequence of characters may be somehow related to it.

    4F 3D 22 42 25 06 74 14 7A 63 51 35 55 49 31 16 36 7D 6C 58 3C 21 0F 2F 75 67 50 3E 29 12 00 67 07 5A 4E 40 21 18 38 27 15 01 7A 1A 7C 75 15 05 7A 5C 48 31 14 75 61 4D 46 66 56 45 38 2C 15 03 6A 0A 6B 0B 77 60 4D 32 24 0D 70 5B 7B 5E 4D 3B 2F 10 79 67 50 3E 25 45 39 21 06 26 1D 0C 7E 60 53 73 15 05 6A 58 3F 34 1D 0B 37 59 79 1B 09 78 67 4B 37 1C 48 6A 0A 6B 59 3D 5D 7F 59 3A 28 22 0B 6D 4E 40 6E

    Malenkai became a Map Custodian for this Treasure on December 19th, 1996

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted this limerick

    The map was:

    One can find the Golden Frinking Straw only by publically posting a limerick cotaining the words, "penguin," "noodle," and "Zanzibar."


    Treasure 115 (Mohammed, Dec 15, 1996):

    Found by breadbox (Dec 19, 1996)

    Announcement

    I am making a treasure out of the Interpol Mug and burying it.

    I am writing a map that reads: "All the stuff anyone on a UNIX box will need to make interpol-- the C++ source, documentation, and a makefile-- are available by request from Mohammed. The first player who sends me a self-printing interpol program will find the Mug."

    I may have to go find it myself. The reason I'm posting this right now without first doing any of a dozen things to make the contest more appealing (such as porting interpol to C) is that I hadn't thought of the problem until just this instant and I wouldn't want anyone to sneer too badly when I dig the Mug up. Remember, I don't have too much of a head start here.

    Be forewarned: interpol is an utterly disgusting little language. I can't think of any redeeming features it has, off the top of my head. But if you can stomach it... be my guest...

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    breadbox posted a qualifiying program to Mohammed.

    The map was:

    identical to the one above

    Treasure 116 (Mohammed, Dec 19, 1996):

    Found by /dev/joe (Dec 20, 1996)

    Announcement

    I make a Treasure of the Interpol Crime-Pounding Nightstick, and bury it. I write the following map.

    This treasure map leads to the Interpol Crime-Pounding Nightstick. The Nightstick will be found by the first player to send to Mohammed a self-printing interpol program that meets these restrictions. First, it can't use interpol's script-printing mechanism. In addition, the program must not depend on any user input, and the stack must be empty when it finishes. Have a nice day!

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted a qualifiying program to Mohammed.

    The map was:

    identical to the one above.

    Treasure 117 (Jammer, January 2nd, 1997):

    Found by Slakko (May 05, 1998)

    
    Prize  Model of what might have been Jmmer's Butler
    
    
    
    
    
    Treasure Map
    
    IO
    
    

    Found When:

    During an expedition when rule 1217 said it was.

    The map was:

    Unknown.


    Treasure 118 (/dev/joe, Jan 07, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (May 02, 1997)

    Announcement

    Since the treasures have been piling up in my house, I've decided to take one of the larger ones out and bury it in a safe place. I've chosen the one that was made to be buried, the Exquisite Dead Guy.

    Here is the map to the Exquisite Dead Guy treasure #2:

    4A 6F 22 72 77 6C 72 87 42 AB
    C8 B0 4F E2 D0 3F 5D 8C BD D2
    E2 74 69 91 86 9A B5 DC 29 8D
    FD 49 47 48 2D D0 C0 9E 1B F7
    8D AB 0A 4B E6 7F 10 A4 86 D7
    B1 4D D4 AD CD 56 C2 04 9E 43
    7C 3A 49 20 A7 BB 64 BB B6 F0
    3A CE 9A FF 29 73 7E D6 9D 59
    CA AC C9 63 0E EB 8C 10 30 EC
    65 29 6B 2D 26 A0 B5 29 67 E3
    33 E9 BA 3A 42 66 7F 30 9D A1
    C7 BB 70 FD 06 A2 27 5D 14 05
    71 5A B0 A9 E4 14 93 2A 46 C7
    F2 9E C3 5D 0A F0 4D 1D 53 00
    F1 83 0A 2E C8 41 F1 09 45 3C
    55 1E 15 77 66 B1 B9 C7 EC

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted a message to /dev/joe.

    The map was:

    In order to find the Exquisite Dead Guy, send /dev/joe a message containing in the subject line the name of the sequence involved in the encoding of this map.


    Treasure 119 (/dev/joe, Jan 13, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (Feb 01, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Golden Frinking Straw (value A$100) as a treasure, with the following map:

    The player who sends /dev/joe the highest-scoring valid Pythoncross score record for the game defined by the Pythoncross data file between the "---" lines below by February 1 at noon, CST shall find this treasure. If no valid score records are received by that date, the first player to send /dev/joe a valid Pythoncross score record shall find the treasure. Valid score records must follow all the rules of the game, include all the information requested (see below), and use only words from the second Official Ackanomic Dictionary (the Marldoom link on the main Ackanomic web page).

    
    
    ---
    
    
    /dev/joe's Treasure Map Special #1
    
    
    hrmoetrtisentoplditeimelaezsipeoumkaqehyowbarenamotmestagrsp
    
    
    2 2 4 3 7 4 6 9
    
    
    ---
    
    
    
    This treasure has some more information and details of the winning solution from /dev/joe.

    Found When:

    breadbox's obtained a high score of 551.

    The map was:

    Identical to the one above

    Treasure 120 (Malenkai, Jan 21, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jan 21, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a treasure that consists of 10 processing chips, and burying it (don't laugh, I have another treasure in mind that will make them useful).

    The Treasure will be found by the first player to send me a gif of a ruby slipper for the players page that meets all of the following conditions:

    1. It looks like a ruby slipper and I use it on the page
    2. It is 54x54 with a transparent background
    3. It is non-copyrighted material (or at least its sender assures me that it is)

    Found When:

    /dev/joe sent a qualifying gif to Malenkai. Ruby Slipper

    The Map was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 123 (snowgod, Jan 31, 1997):

    Found by fnord (Feb 21, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a treasure out of the The statue of snowgod made entirely of Blue Jello and burying it under the floor of my house with the following map:

    Rosebud

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    fnord posted a message to the public forum.

    The map was:

    rosebud

    {{or so it would appear at first glance, but rosebud is nothing but a throwback to the Steal Flea Gazette year end predicition issue. The treasure will be found by the player who

    1. Finds (or places) a statue of Elvis in the Monument to Futility
    2. Does a Song and Dance (elvis will tell you how)
    3. Amuses me in the process of
    4. digging in my floor}}

    Treasure 124 (ThinMan, Jan 31, 1997):

    Found by Malenkai (Apr 06, 1997)

    Announcement

    I now create a treasure out of TARZAN's Treehouse [a capital swingers office]. I bury the treasure and very carefully make a map of how to find it.

    Fellow Ackanomians, something horrible has ocurred! The map that I so carefully wrote has been altered!

    Let me tell you the whole story:

    I was walking home after burying the treasure. Burying treasure is hard work, so I decided to take a roundabout path and enjoy the cool, breezy day. I threw my champion's cloak over my shoulder and strolled all over Ackanomia -- past the Senate, past the Courthouse, through the residential district, and past Cow Town's lake and the Ackanomic Afterlife -- before winding up back home. I got a close up look at Lestrade's Lighthouse, passed a truly raunchy-looking pink place, and spent quite some time examining Swann's singularity from as close as I could bring myself to come. You know, if I didn't know better, I would say that the Tower of Bandwidth is starting to lean over towards the Singularity next door.

    Anyway, when I got home I took the map out of my pocket so I could store it away someplace safe. I almost didn't notice, but something caught my eye; when I actually looked at the text, this is what it said:

    
    
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    Now I was very careful when I wrote that map, and I'm certain that it didn't start out that way. I'm not sure that I remember the original details, however. If anyone sees the treasure then be sure to let me know.

    This treasure has some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Malenkai posted a story to the public forum.

    The map was:

    The treasure shall be found by the first player who is not already a Swinger who goes to the location of an Amber Banana Tree and then posts a public message containing the words "Jane," "Cheetah," "throw," and "vine."


    Treasure 125 (/dev/joe, Feb 04, 1997):

    Found by fnord (Feb 05, 1997)

    Announcement

    In the spirit of keeping these trinkets in circulation, I am burying another treasure. This treasure consists of the No Tea.

    I am revealing the following portion of the map:

    [This space intentionally left blank]

    Pending an agreement with Malenkai, enough information to find the No Tea will soon be published in 'Round the Earth.

    The following was published in 'Round the Earth:

    To find the No Tea, solve the puzzle below, and publicly announce the name of the location marked with a star. The lack of instructions for the puzzle is intentional, and part of the puzzle.

    
    
                                                         1       1
    
    
                                           4             1 1   1 1
    
    
                           1           1   1             1 1 1 1 1
    
    
                           1 3 1   1 1 2 1 1 1           1 1 1 1 1 1
    
    
                           3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 1 1   1 1 3 1 3 1 1
    
    
                            10 3 3 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 1   1 1 1 6 1 1 1   1 1
    
    
                        20 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  20 1 1 1 1 1 1  15 1 1
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                   1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                      25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                   1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               1 1 2 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                   4 4 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
             1 1 2 2 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
         1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
             1 1 4 3 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
     1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
           1 1 2 2 1 3 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
           1 1 2 2 1 5 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               4 3 1 3 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
           4 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               2 1 1 3 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                   1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                      25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
    

    This treasure has some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    fnord posted a message to the public forum.

    The map was:

    To find the No Tea, solve the puzzle below, and publicly announce the name of the location marked with a star. (The location marked with a star is Boardwalk, and the solved puzzle contains the "GO" and "Boardwalk" spaces from a Monopoly board, and parts of the other adjacent spaces.)

    
    
                                                          1       1
    
    
                                            4             1 1   1 1
    
    
                            1           1   1             1 1 1 1 1
    
    
                            1 3 1   1 1 2 1 1 1           1 1 1 1 1 1
    
    
                            3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 6 1 1   1 1 3 1 3 1 1
    
    
                             10 3 3 2 2 2 4 2 2 4 2 1   1 1 1 6 1 1 1   1 1
    
    
                         20 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  20 1 1 1 1 1 1  15 1 1
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 ## .## . . . . . .## .## . .## . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 ## .## . . . . . .## .## . .## . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
               1 1 1 1 1 ## .## . . . . . .## .## . .## . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                 1 1 1 1 ## . . . . . . . .## .## . .## . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                   1 1 1 ## . . . . . . . . . .## . .## . . . . . . . . . .
    
    
                      25 ##################################################
    
    
                   1 1 1 ## . . . . . . . . . . . . .## . . . . . . .## . .
    
    
               1 1 2 1 1 ## .## . . .#### . . . . . .## . . . . . . .## . .
    
    
                   4 4 9 ######## .######## . . . . .################## . .
    
    
             1 1 2 2 1 1 ## .## .#### . .#### . . . .## . . . . . . .## . .
    
    
         1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 ## .## .## . .## . .## . . .## .########## .## . .
    
    
             1 1 4 3 1 1 ## .## .######## .###### . .## . . . . . . .## . .
    
    
     1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 ## .## . .#### .#### .#### .## .## .## .## .## . .
    
    
           1 1 2 2 1 3 1 ## .## . . . .#### . .#### .## . .###### . .## . .
    
    
           1 1 2 2 1 5 1 ## .## . . . .#### .#### . .## .########## .## . .
    
    
               4 3 1 3 1 ######## . . . .###### . . .## . .###### . .## . .
    
    
           4 1 1 1 1 1 1 ######## . . . . .## . . . .## .## .## .## .## . .
    
    
               2 1 1 3 1 #### .## . . . . . . . . . .## . .###### . .## . .
    
    
                   1 1 1 ## . . . . . . . . . . . . .## . . . . . . .## . .
    
    
                      25 ##################################################
    
    
    

    Treasure 126 (/dev/joe, Feb 12, 1997):

    Found by Mohammed (Feb 18, 1997)

    Announcement

    The map for Orion's Crystal is:

    When a player publicly posts the location of a GAMES Magazine Hidden Contest which has never been publicly posted before, and does so at least one week before the end (in New York City) of the day entries are due for that contest, e shall find this treasure. Players are asked to put SPOILER warnings in the subject of such messages so that others who haven't yet given up may keep searching.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Mohammed posted some qualifiying information.

    Treasure 127 (fnord, Feb 14, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (Feb 16, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am hereby creating a treasure of my No Tea , my The Sacred Chao , and 5 PFfnord (which still have value as long as those who don't write proposals can still get points, cause I tend to go with the wrong side pretty regularly, even though not intentionally).

    I am burying the treasure never to be found again. Unless, of course, someone finds it. I certainly wouldn't let anyone see the secret treasure map I wrote, showing me where it was, because that would give it away. After all, if I show everyone the treasure map

    
    
    843873A787E94552EF6
    
    
    86DB984334778752937
    
    
    867EQ83788684748694
    
    
    68732635684E7746843
    
    
    7A6E78B54276789445E
    
    
    4653464A87465389484
    
    
    8439673B2A464876263
    
    
    
    they'll all be able to figre it out.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted some qualifiying information.

    The Map Was:

    THE TREASURE WILL BE FOUND BY THE FIRST PLAYER TO REQUEST TO VISIT MY HOUSE AND 5 OTHERS IN THE SAME PUBLIC POST WHILE HOLDING A TRINKET WITH THE WORD BAA IN ITS NAME


    Treasure 128 (fnord, February 19th, 1997):

    Found by JT (May 5, 1998)

    Announcement

    I leave my house, trinkets in hand, ready to join others in the reattachment of houses to our fair Ackanomia, but it appears I am too late. I have spent too much time making trinkets and staring at the writing on the walls. So, I decide to swoop around a bit. Being a former physicist, I decide to fly around the Singularity gazing upon this awe-inspiring sight for a while, but tire of fighting the pull of it, so I rest upon the Tower of Bandwidth.

    To keep myself from looking to see if the second year of the Tower of Bandwidth has started appearing yet, I play with my trinkets, Elves, Elvis and Elwes. They start off okay, but it seems that Elwes and Elves just don't go well with Elvis. To prevent any possibility of my trinkets animating when I'm not looking and destroy each other, I decide to separate them. I lift off from the Tower of Bandwidth, and take to the sky again. I swoop past the Monument to Futility, spiralling around it, unable to enter it.

    I decide that this would be a good location to Place Elvis. I fly around the outside of the Monument, not having permission to enter it. I fly as close to the door to the vault at the base of the tower, and toss my trinket called Elvis inside, figuring that Placing it there is a good idea.

    Flying in such tight circles has gotten me a bit dizzy. I know I put Elves somewhere, I know I buried them as a Treasure, but for the life of me, I can not remember where I put it. I'm sure a Treasure Map for the Elves will show up, or down, eventually. As consolation, I carry Elwes back to my Home.

    Found When:

    During an expedition when rule 1217 said it was.

    The Map Was:

    Unknown


    Treasure 129 (Jammer, February 23rd, 1997):

    Found by K 2 (May 5, 1998) [Not that e really wanted to]

    I am buying a Prosthetic Forehead to serve as the prize of my treasure hunt.

    It is call the Great Treasure Finder as it has those words inscribed into in in large lettersaround it. It is covered with miniatures of all treasure yet found as well as maps with notes and X's and arrows and 8X10 color clossies of Schiermann excavating Troy and well as a handy secret pocket to hide your treasure.

    This Treasure has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    During an expedition when rule 1217 said it was.

    The Map Was:

    Unknown


    Treasure 130 (Strider, Feb 23, 1997):

    Found by Malenkai (Feb 23, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying Strider's Presidential Vision as a treasure.

    It will be found by the first person to e-mail me privately with a suggestion as to what the *@#$ I should do as President that I agree with. (Yeah, yeah, it sucks as a map, but what the hell.)

    Found When:

    Malenkai posted the following:

    Be yourself and have fun.

    The Map Was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 131 (Narf, Feb 25, 1997):

    Found by Narf (Mar 30, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a treasure. The treasure consist of The Purple Key. I am burying it somewhere far far away. The map is a very easy one: The first player to author a proposal that passes and eliminates any mention of the crystal chalice and the chalice vault shall find The Purple Key.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Narf announced that he had satisfied the conditions of his own map.

    The Map Was:

    If someone deciphers this text and privately mails me a translation before the crystal chalice is removed from the rule set, e shall find the purple key.


    Treasure 132 (Malenkai, Feb 27, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (May 03, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying a Treasure consisting of Strider's Presidential Vision, and 6 Processing Chips.

    Fortunately, the Amulet of Saaramaa will allow me to get the information needed to find this thing. For once its a treasure from me that does not depend on another treasure, nor is a dependency for another treasure, nor has interlocking parts, etc. Of course, its also probably pretty hard, but like other of my treasures, a flash of insight will make it easy.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    breadbox buried a treasure containing an entity named " Hubert Feathers ".

    The Map Was:

    The first player to bury, as a treasure, or as part of a treasure, an entity called Hubert Feathers shall find this treasure.


    Treasure 133 (Ackers, March 4th, 1997):

    Found by Joe Java (May 04, 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Tube Top of Kyle Bannor, valued at A$50. May the worthiest soul find it. The following groups of characters and numbers may or may not be a clue to the map:

    
    0E41 6501 4013 3C61 751F 5084 0443 D609
    
    40A4 0060 C403 3054 0D40 1500 0030 A0B1
    
    F2F8 F9F
    
    
    
    7137 E753 7EB5 6ABA F4B0 6C66 147D 221A
    
    D7FE 44F2 2457 E6DB 9045 70F3 DC2
    
    

    This Treasure has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    During an expedition when rule 1217 said it was.

    The Map Was:

    Unknown


    Treasure 134 (snowgod, Mar 09, 1997):

    Found by Malenkai (Mar 22, 1997)

    Announcement

    In hopes of saving my Gadgets, I am creating a treasure consisting of the Silver Key. I am burying this treasure with a map that says "The silver key will be found by the first players wit two or more entities who wants to possess, and wants to love it, and hug it, and call it george."

    Found When:

    Malenkai when he posted the following:

    I possess 2 or more entities. I want to possess, love, hug, and call the Silver Key george. I really truly do.

    The Map Was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 136 (Bascule, Mar 21, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (Mar 21, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a trinket, called The Machine That Goes *blurp* , worth A$20.It looks like a metal box that farts occasionally. Inside it is a pile of wooden spoons, the number of which is equal to 1 less than the number of players of Ackanomic. I am burying this trinket as a treasure, and I reveal the following which is vaguely connected with the corresponding map:

    IF, AND ONLY IF this cycle *** * ****** **** ** *** *** ******* **** ***, THEN the Player That Is Malenkai shall win the cycle.

    Today is Friday, the 21st day of March, in the Year of Our Lord 1997, and the Machine That Goes *blurp* Went *blurp* sometime last week. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *blurp* 5 times.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    breadbox posted some qualifiying information.

    The Map Was:

    The first player to post a public message containing the words "IF, AND ONLY IF this cycle has a number that is odd and greater than one, THEN the Player That Is Malenkai shall win the cycle" shall find the Machine That Goes *blurp*. Unless it was their second try.


    Treasure 137 (Malenkai, March 22th, 1997):

    Found by H*bert (May 22, 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying george (the Silver Key), as a Treasure. The map, which is very simple, will be revealed later.

    I am revealing the following portion of the Silver Key treasure map (treasure 137). Who says all of my treasures are hard? [Note that there is an unrevealed portion, but this portion is true, and no tricks are planned]:

    A player who possesses an entity named 'Earth', at least one gadget, and publically says: "I have at least one gadget, and want to possess, love, hug, and call the silver key george." shall find the silver key treasure.

    Found When:

    In all threads where the trinket creation above succeeded and the treasure is buried, H*bert has found the silver key. The map follows. In all other threads, I choose to reveal the following portion of the map:

    Map Was:

    A player who possesses an entity named 'Earth', or 'Silver Key xyzzy Key', at least one gadget, and publically says: "I have at least one gadget, and want to possess, love, hug, and call the silver key george." shall find the silver key treasure.


    Treasure 138 (snowgod, Mar 23, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (Mar 24, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a treasure consisting of

    The map is 121k, so I will not send it to the list. If you wish to have a copy of it let me know and I will email it to you.

    snowgod later posted the URL of the map: The treasure map I mentioned yesterday can be found at http://www.alaska.net/~snowgod/acka/map.html

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe sent a a .jpg of David Letterman to snowgod.

    The Map Was:

    Whosoever can take this collection of numbers and convert it from the .pict file it was to the .jpg it wants to be and send me that picture shall find this treasure.


    Treasure 139 (IdiotBoy, Apr 5, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 02, 1997)

    Announcement

    I have deposited, in the Wilds of Ackanomia, about 4 miles from FunkyTown, in an excavation or vault, six feet below the surface of the ground, the following articles belonging to IdiotBoy.

    The first deposit consisted of one Lucky Ball and Chain , deposited when I visited snowgod's house. The second was made on my trip to ACME labs, and consisted of five PFTechno, also the fabulous Original Rules Manuscript obtained from the Museum in exchange to save transportation and valued at five hundred Ackadollars. The above is securely packed in iron pots with iron covers. Paper number one describes the exact locality of the vault so that no difficulty will be had in finding it.

    The map which describes how to find the treasure has been rent into three pieces. Each paper will lead you to the next. Paper number one, mentioned above, will lead you directly to the treasure.

    There is a smudge which obscures one part of the map, I have reproduced the smudge with a **. Treasure seekers may give me one PFBond of their choice and I will reveal what is under the smudge, privily. Fair warning, it's probably not worth it.

    
    
    1307
    
    
    Paper Three:
    
    
    6 4 8 2 23
    
    
    116 24
    
    
    92 102 94
    
    
    6 101 2
    
    
    34 8 94 148 5 10 101 24
    
    
    4 166 51 15
    
    
    36 101 165 111 92 6 **
    
    
    11 1
    
    
    12 103
    
    
    11 101 94 2 23 21 36 112 131 101 92
    
    
    

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When

    /dev/joe posted: "I will bet that IdiotBoy did not bury a treasure".

    The Map Was

    The first player to say "I will bet that IdiotBoy did not bury a treasure" shall find this treasure.


    Treasure 140 (/dev/joe, May 02, 1997):

    Found by Guy Fawkes (May 02, 1997)

    Announcement

    Even after the amnesty period in which I destroyed half a dozen trinkets, there was still too much stuff cluttering my house. I called over my faithful servant Gimli, and handed him some of the lesser of the remaining trinkets, and asked him to bury them somewhere safe, and to return here with a written map to the treasure. Gimli took the

    and went off deep into the rain forest to bury them.

    Night came and he had not returned. I knew it shouldn't have taken this long for him to do something so simple, and so natural for him. After quite some time waiting for him, I eventually fell asleep. In the morning I was awakened by a clatter on my roof. I went out to see what in was, and found a large eagle perched on the edge of the roof. The bird had a piece of paper in one of its talons; upon seeing me, it dropped that paper to the ground and flew off.

    One side of the paper had a rough skull and crossbones filling the entire sheet. This was a symbol we had agreed upon to mean dire trouble. On the other side was a set of scrawls I could not decifer. I assume it is the map to the treasure, but who could read this?

    I said a little prayer for the safety of my servant, and this reminded me that I needed also to pray to the weather gods:

    Euphemistically speaking,
    would an umbrella of Bounty
    just fall to pieces
    or have superabsorbency?

    Deep in the rain forest
    of hypervitality
    could someone decipher
    tel tlria rpb orkbp ifhb qebpb?

    Here is the back side of the slip of paper the eagle brought me (note, it is not written with ASCII characters so a picture of the paper is included below).

    Runes

    Found When:

    Guy Fawkes posted "Bilbo Baggins" to the public forum.

    The Map Was:

    The approximate decoded text of the map (sorry, the actual text is only on a slip of paper at home, so this is partly based on trying to "read" the runes):

    The treasure may be found by publicly posting the name of the hobbit who found the ring after Gollum lost it.

    It uses the system of runes that is attributed to the dwarves in the appendices of the last volume of _Lord of the Rings_. It is a phonetic encoding, so some of the substitutions are only approximate. The fact that Gimli (a dwarf in LOTR) wrote the note was a hint. (There was also the encoded line in the prayer, which tried to point at the Gimli reference indirectly.)


    Treasure 141 (breadbox, May 03, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (Jun 11, 1997)

    Announcement

    Now that I've gotten that red tape out of the way, I can reveal to you the truth....

    I myself did not really create, or bury, the Hubert Feathers. They were hidden by pirates somewhere in Ackanomia, in the long-ago days before we came to this place. In my research I learned of their existence, but have been unable to discover how to find them. By making them into a trinket, I hope to realize their existence in modern Ackanomia, and make them accessible as a Buried Treasure.

    Below is the only information I have. It is a portion of a newspaper article (found on the back of a coupon that somebody had clipped out and never used).

    "Cavegoers located old sandstone engravings buried under the naturally ossified calcium. In graphics, a remarkable narrative is depicted thereon: a fragmented narrative, more precisely, as the engravings were unearthed in a dozen potsherds. One whole image depicts groups of soldiers standing before their chief, who is selecting the third soldier in each group to form an army. A few of the fragments contain writing of a curious yet tantalizing nature. The following is what has been recovered from these pieces: 'Task the Tenth: at midnight in summer stand waiting by a hollowed-out pool, a sober person at the deasil, and imbibe a spoonful of a mixture of a powder of dried bat ichor in a dram of basic Sauvignon Cabernet, in a bejewelled -- one maculated cattle mooing an offering, with ashes of a tree. -- 131 East Interlake Street, a messy apartment in back of an otherwise neat hole-in-a-wall. The concierge is a degreed anesthesiologist. -- Cast an arm; crack a log; smite an uncle; saw a frog. Be as apropos as it is in Ys. Be as redditive as it is in Ys. Be as inspired as it is in Ys.' The archaeologists were unwilling to comment on the significance of the inscriptions at press time."

    Strangely enough, my research indicates that somehow this article explains how the Hubert Feathers may be uncovered. I've stared at it until I'm blind, and found nothing. I now throw it out to all of you. Whoever can figure this puzzle out may claim the Hubert Feathers, and whatever special properties they may or may not bestow, as their own.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Alfvaen did some digging around the Cow Town Hotel.

    The Map Was:

    
    
    BEGIN AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF COW TOWN HOTEL
    
    
    PROCEED NORTH A NUMBER OF PACES EQUAL TO THE
    
    
    YEAR OF THE CONCEPTION OF INTERCAL
    
    
    
    
    
    INSCRIBE ON THE GROUND THE LAST STATEMENT OF
    
    
    THE SAMPLE INTERCAL PROGRAM IN SECTION TWO
    
    
    WITH A STRONG SHOVEL DIG
    
    
    

    Treasure 142 (breadbox, May 05, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (Jun 11, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am hereby burying the following items: 5 Processing Chips, 10 PFbreadbox, A$20, the Gravitational Monople, and the Trinket known as Little Bag O' Chips I.

    The map to this treasure says:

    The treasure shall be found by whoever finds the Hubert Feathers.

    Found When:

    Alfvaen found Treasure 141.

    The Map Was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 143 (Antimatter, May 05, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 05, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor. I wrote the following on the ground near where I buried it, but I can't read it anymore, and I seem to have gotten amnesia. Here is what I can see:

    
    
    I  y    an rc d this,  c ' e becr pl virg Nctna | tcc nuch.
    
    
    Donatc  t  o  hc  m  c m.
    
    
    

    Found When:

    /dev/joe when he donated a trinket called Nethack to the Museum.

    The map was:

    The first player to donate Nethack to the museum will find a cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Yendor.


    Treasure 144 (Alfvaen, May 02, 1997):

    Found by two-star (May 05, 1997)

    Announcement

    Well, this lovely and decorative trinket [The Inky Bloater] Can Be Yours if you can answer the following skill-testing question(also known as a Treasure Map):

    What book is the name Tamson House from? The first player to correctly identify the book's title and author in a public message(or private message to me)will receive the Inky Bloater.

    Found When:

    two-star posted the message below to the public forum.

    Anyway I found a more helpful De Lint bibliography that lists _Moonheart_ as first in the Tamson House series, and _Spiritwalk_ as second in the Tamson House series.

    The Map Was:

    [assumed] Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 145 (two-star, May 05, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 13, 1997)

    Announcement

    Good morning, Acka! Curious things have been happening on my computer lately. I discovered that at some times it would crash at the slightest provocation, and at other times it worked quite smoothly. I finally dedused the one factor common to every instance of my computer crashing, and with a few clicks, I fixed the problem. Now in any circumstance where my computer would have crashed before, it is stable, and in any circumstance where it would have been stable, it crashes. Seeing as discovering the nature of my problem was a challenging puzzle to me, I thought it might be interesting for the rest of you, so the first person to publicly and correctly state what I did to "fix" the problem will find the treasure that I am about to create and bury. All of the information you need is here.

    I am creating a trinket called Falafel Fallen Off , worth 11 A$. It is made mostly of garbanzo beans and spices and stuff, and it is lying in front of my foot, where I accidently dropped it. It is half covered with a cucumber yogurt sauce.

    I am burying it.

    The text of the map to this treasure is this post.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted this message.

    The Map Was:

    [assumed] to be included in the above.


    Treasure 146 (Alfvaen, May 05, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (May 06, 1997)

    Announcement

    I will then immediately bury this treasure [the Manx Cat] , with the following map:

    Some of you may have noticed that in my email signature, I include something different every time on the bottom line(which I call a "tagline", from the time spent on Fidonet). These come from a variety of sources--some from my own twisted little brain, some from other people's collections, some from song lyrics, some from books, some from the Net, some from comics. Now they don't all have identifiable sources, but some do.

    All you need to do, to discover the Manx Cat, is to identify...well, let's say three of these, for now. I'm looking for the source, specified as explicitly as possible--if it's a song, the title and at least one artist who's recored it. I'll let you know if you've specified it well enough. If I've already attributed it--it's got something like "--billbill" on the end--it doesn't count either. (Most of those are from the good folks on talk.bizarre, with some exceptions.) For your own benefit, send it in a private message to me, because if you spill it publicly, anyone else can send it in, too. You don't need to identify them all at once; I'll keep track of who's sent in how many. (Oh, yeah, they're only eligible if I've posted them in a _public_ message to one of the Acka mailing lists.)

    I'll be putting up a list of the taglines at http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/acka/tags.html sometime tonight, and try to keep it up to date, for those people who don't archive all their email like I do. :-) And I will be continuing to post more of them on new messages. I'm genuinely curious to see which ones people will be able to identify, and who will be able to. There may be some clues on my Web page, since for instance I've got my entire album collection up there. I don't care how you get your information, if you've got the right answer.

    And if you have an attribution that I don't know about, then you'll have to give me enough information to check on it myself, but if you're right, you get two points for that one.

    Good luck to you all!

    Found When:

    breadbox posted the private messages below.

    The Map Was

    Anyway, Breadbox has already fulfilled the requirements of Treasure 146, by identifying two taglines I didn't have any attributions for, and providing me online references for same. The quotes he identified are:

    I have nothing to say, and I am saying it (John Cage)
    Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts. (Tom Potter)


    Treasure 148 (Alfvaen, May 07, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jun 10, 1997)

    Announcement

    Now I am burying The White Tent The Raft (don't worry, it won't be any the worse for its inhuming), and will reveal its location to the winner of the Alfvaen Tagline Attribution Quiz, Mark II, whose rules follow(with some repetition, but a few changes):

    Some of you may have noticed that in my email signature, I include something different every time on the bottom line(which I call a "tagline", from the time spent on Fidonet). These come from a variety of sources--some from my own twisted little brain, some from other people's collections, some from song lyrics, some from books, some from the Net, some from comics. Now they don't all have identifiable sources, but some do.

    I'm looking for the source, specified as explicitly as possible--if it's a song, the title and at least one artist who's recorded it. I'll let you know if you've specified it well enough. If I've already attributed it--it's got something like "--billbill" on the end--it doesn't count either. (Most of those are from the good folks on talk.bizarre, with some exceptions.) And it doesn't count if it was identified in the previous instance of this Quiz, either. :-) For your own benefit, send it in a private message to me, because if you spill it publicly, anyone else can send it in, too. You don't need to identify them all at once; I'll keep track of who's sent in how many. (Oh, yeah, they're only eligible if I've posted them in a _public_ message to one of the Acka mailing lists.)

    There is a list of the taglines at http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/acka/tags.html, and I will try to keep it up to date, for those people who don't archive all their email like I do. :-) And I will be continuing to post more of them on new messages. I'm genuinely curious to see which ones people will be able to identify, and who will be able to. There may be some clues on my Web page, since for instance I've got my entire album collection up there. I don't care how you get your information, if you've got the right answer.

    The winner of the Quiz will be the one who first gets 10 points, or the entrant with the highest score at the end of two months from today(May 5, 1997). If there are multiple entrants with the highest score, the contest will be extended until the tie is broken.

    Scoring is as follows:

    If I myself did not know the original attribution of the quote, then I will award two points to the player who can provide me with a reference(or two, preferably), upon my checking and finding it valid. (If you can find online references, my chances of being able to check it promptly are vastly increased.)

    If it is a They Might Be Giants quote, I will award half a point for a correct identification. (I mean, c'mon, I know who I'm dealing with here, and I don't want to make things too easy...) Any other correct identification that is not disqualified by above rules will be worth one point.

    As an extra bonus, anyone who can identify the sources of the three trinkets I've created so far( theInky Bloater, the Manx Cat and The White Tent The Raft )will get a point for each of those as well, and for any other trinkets that I create before the end of the contest that I don't specifically disallow.

    Good luck!

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted the scores below.

    /dev/joe finished with a whopping 13 points, many of which he admits to having acquired through doing web searches for lyrics. :-)

    Final Scores:

    1. /dev/joe: 13 points
    2. Red Barn: 8 points
    3. fnord: 3.5 points
    4. Niccolo Flychuck: 1 point
    5. ThinMan: 1 point
    6. two-star: 1 point
    7. Mohammed: 0.5 points

    The Map was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 149 (snowgod, May 27, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (Jun 18, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying repayment

    THe map reads:

    Repayment will be found by the player other than ThinMan who donated money to snowgod for an earth defense laser when he publically states that he has done so.

    Found When:

    /dev/joe gave a trinket called money to snowgod.

    I am donating "money" to snowgod for an earth defense laser.

    I have donated money to snowgod for an earth defense laser.

    The Map Was:

    Proving once again that it takes money to make money, /dev/joe has found the repayment treasure, though his attempt was outside the intent of the contract.


    Treasure 150 (Antimatter, May 28, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (Jun 10, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying snowgod , and revealing no portion of the map to anyone.

    Found When:

    Alfvaen gave some money to Antimatter.

    The Map Was:

    snowgod will be found by the first player other than Antimatter, or the player formerly known as such, to pay A$100 to Antimatter (not any player formerly known as Antimatter), with his permission, for the express purpose of retrieving snowgod.


    Treasure 151 (/dev/joe, Jun 01, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (Jun 01, 1997)

    Announcement

    Once again, trinkets are piling up in my house.

    I take some of them to a very safe place and bury them as a treasure. The ones I buried (worth a total of A$65) are:

    Unfortunately I forgot where I buried them. I have a scrap of paper on which I performed some calculations relating to the burial site, but I must have been very confused when I wrote these, because they make no sense to me now.

    Anyway, I present this paper here. Maybe somebody else can figure it out.

    
    
             NEU        SGSM           MFM             GHG
    
    
          ______      ______       _______        ________
    
    
     DBP / LENAS  AS / LTNCS  EEH / MFLWHA  UEHH / TTTTTTT
    
    
           BPS         EA           WENM            ATMU
    
    
           ---         --           ----           -----
    
    
            UNA        MGN           FWEH           GSMHT
    
    
            DBP        MSD           YEOF           GAMRS
    
    
            ---        ---           ----           -----
    
    
            NAIS         LC           MNWA           TERGT
    
    
            NNPS         EA           WENM            ATMU
    
    
            ----         --           ----           -----
    
    
             NAS          DS           NYH            GTPH
    
    
                          AS
    
    
                          --
    
    
                          SC
    
    
    

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted "So surely, then, Grump had 63 feet." to the public forum.

    The Map Was:

    Solve the puzzle in my June 1st prayer and post publicly how many feet Grump has.


    Treasure 153 (Mohammed, June 06, 1997):
    Found by Alfvaen (Jun 30, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am writing a contract that reads:

    Whosoever giveth this contract back to me, and upon so doing, giveth me also a postal address somewhere on the Earth, shall be entitled to receive from me one (1) postcard at that address, sent by myself no more than ten days after receiving the address; and at the time the postcard is sent, this contract shall be destroyed.

    I am signing this contract with a large pirate flag flourish and promise to keep the spirit of it even if the wording is iffy. (It's laaate.)

    Then, I bury the contract I just wrote, and the Blarney Stone , as a single Treasure. I write a map to it, of course, and will reveal the following:

    To find the treasure, send me the best babble file that I receive in the next 14 days. (A babble file is a text file that can be used with my babble program to generate random output of a certain type. More about my babble program appears below.)

    The value judgement implied here will be made by me at the end of that time and that judgement will be final. Entries will be judged on creativity, effectiveness, originality, harf,... just about everything except spacing, which might be tricky for the non-programming-inclined and will thus be ignored. Your file need not simply blather randomly, like my signature file! I'm looking for more creative uses of the program. Check out numbers.txt for one illustrative but very boring example.

    Remember, entries must be sent privately. Good luck!

    Confused? Please feel free to ask. I want as many people to go after this as possible.

    WHERE TO GET THE STUFF:

    The "babble" stuff is available through the mail bot for those of you who have a C compiler. Send the bot these commands:

    #read file babble.c
    #read file babvocab.txt
    #read file numbers.txt

    Or, if you use a browser for _everything, visit http://www.cbu.edu/~jorendor/acka/babble/ where you will find all the above, plus a Windows-only babbler that you can download, unzip, and run without further ado.

    HOW TO USE IT ONCE YOU'VE GOT IT:

    Found When:

    Mohammed said that Alfvaen did.

    The Map Was:

    This treasure will be found by a player when Mohammed announces that that player has found it.

    Only two players played; /dev/joe sent in a file that produces Star Trek plots. He claims it has the worst from 400+ episodes across four series.

    During a mission to make first contact with Tuche IV, the last speckled Talaxian from the Delta Quadrant steals Vulcan! Next time on Star Trek: The Next Generation!
    During a mission to prevent a natural disaster on Lebi III, dozens of giant Cardassians from Teedias VI kill Troi and impregnate her with an alien child! Next time on Star Trek: The Next Generation!

    Alfvaen's winning entry is based on the Zippy the Pinhead quotes "in the 'fortune' database"; I know them from GNU emacs "yow" command.

    All I can think of is an army of NYLON OIL WELLS being trampled by a blur of my INK-LING and a bowling average ...
    Yow! We THROW OVER a live INK-LING THERE. In 1971 TWO DOZEN CORDOVANS MAIL selling some LIVE ammo in YOUR box of VELVEETA!
    What GOOD is a CARDBOARD INK-LING ANYWAY?
    ASPARAGUS makes me FESTIVE!!

    Both babble files, and the babbler itself, can be found at http://www.cbu.edu/~jorendor/acka/babble/


    Treasure 154 (Lunatic Fringe, June 09, 1997):

    Map destroyed as a result of P2110

    Announcement

    I am burying my vending machine as treasure, though I am not revealing any of the map publically.

    Destroyed When:

    The Vending Machine was transferred from this Treasure by the OMCL on Jun 13th, 1997, as a result of 393.

    Treasures 156 thru 162 (Malenkai, June 12, 1997):

    Found by Guy Fawkes (156) (June 13, 1997)
    Mr. Lunatic Fringe (157) (June 15, 1997)
    /dev/joe (158) (Jul 09, 1997)
    Mohammed (159) (Jun 15, 1997)
    Guy Fawkes (160) (Jun 19, 1997)
    Guy Fawkes (161) (Jun 26, 1997)
    Guy Fawkes (162) (Jun 27, 1997)

    Announcement

    I buy four Bonus Votes from Guy Fawkes' Vending Machine. I am burying them. I reveal the following potential information about the map to this treasure:

    Ref T156

    [this space intentionally left blank]

    'Twas a Scam :(

    These treasures were part of a scam, and as such the solutions were trivial and uninteresting.


    Treasure 163 (Guy Fawkes, June 12, 1997):

    Found by Bascule (Jun 17, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying my Vending Machine. The map to the treasure reads as follows:

    This treasure shall be found by the first player whom Guy Fawkes publically praises as a hoopy frood.

    Found When:

    Bascule was praised by Guy Fawkes.

    The Map Was:

    The actual Map was presumed to be as above.

    Treasure 165 (Lunatic Fringe, June 13rd, 1997):

    Found by K 2 (10th April, 1998)

    Announcement

    I m burying the add-on as treasure, with a map that is unrevealed, but substantially similar to the map to my vending machie.

    Found When:

    Mr. Lunatic Fringe announced:

    Greetings Little People,

    By this message I return to the game of Ackanomic, if only briefly. It seems that in my undead state I rolled over once too often and acidentally poked myself in the back with a treasure that I hid in the hall of elders. The map, you see, read "the bonus vote add-on will be found when the creator of this map says it has been". The very clunkiness of this text is what alerted me to the teasure. You try resting eternally wth something like that in the small of your back.

    Anyway, my time here is limited. It don't really need a bonus vote add-on. I don't even really need a bonus vote. I hereby transfer this item to the possesion of K2, who must have done something right. Then I roll over and die, but not before wishing my old Ackanomic Friends a happy festivus.

    By this message I deregister from the game of Ackanomic.

    The Map Was:

    the bonus vote add-on will be found when the creator of this map says it has been


    Treasure 166 (Malenkai, June 14th, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (May 4th, 1998)

    Announcement

    For those of you who have held off on finding the Treasures of Jara, it has paid off. I am upping the ante by burying my Automatic Sculpture as a Treasure.

    The gist of the map is (the actual map is a little more legalese like):

    The first person to frink Right-Handed Grapefruit Juice from Malenkai's Vase shall find this Treasure.

    The Map Was:

    Any player who has the Onyx Vase, and some Right-Handed Grapefruit Juice, and announces publically that they are 'frinking the RHG Juice from Malenkai's Vase', or a reasonable paraphrase, shall find this treasure.


    Treasure 167 (Alfvaen, June 17, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (July 12, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Exquisite Dead Guy as a treasure. (How comforting it must be for the ground to close over him once again...) The map is as follows: The Exquisite Dead Guy shall be found by the first player who sends to me an Ackanomic-inspired pangram.

    An Ackanomic-inspired pangram shall be a true sentence of the following form:

    "This Ackanomic-inspired pangram contains one a, twelve b's, six c's, nineteen d's, five e's, zero f's, two g's, seven i's, one j, twenty-seven k's, thirteen l's, ninety-nine m's, three n's, four o's, six p's, twelve q's, four r's, eighteen s's, nine t's, one u, one v, eleven w's, one x, three y's, and twenty-four z's."

    The above sentence is not true, since it does not contain the number of letters it specifies. However, if there is at least one true sentence of that form(changing only the specified quantities of each of the letters, and possibly adding or removing "'s"), then that sentence is an Ackanomic-inspired pangram. If you can prove that no such sentence exists, then that'll work too. :-)

    Good luck!

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses (and the proof)

    Found When:

    /dev/joe proved that no such sentence existed.

    Treasure 168 (Antimatter, June 18, 1997):

    Found by two-star (Jun 18, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a contract called the Silver Shovel Contract, which reads as follows:

    The holder of the Silver Shovel is bound by these restrictions:

    I am signing the Silver Shovel contract.

    I am burying 5 PFAntimatter and the Silver Shovel. The following may or may not have anything to do with the map:

    seek nodded me at ill atropal not hi smear tot he a row pint the alters annis altar this or neo a fit sheen spills veer rest hi of vie alert urn messy

    I hope that's not too hard - but if you don't want to find the Silver Shovel, or even if you do, you may want to skip this puzzle.

    Found When:

    two-star signed the Silver Shovel Contract.

    The Map Was:

    The first player who has signed the Silver Shovel Contract to send Antimatter a correct translation of the runes on the Silver Shovel will find this treasure.


    Treasure 171 (Alfvaen, June 30, 1997):

    Never actually buried

    Announcement

    And now, I am burying [Beldin's Parka] with the map:

    This treasure shall be found by the first person who amends Beldin's Pants to contain the phrase "gains 1 trinket".

    Never Buried

    Can't imagine why, any one who can may pick a letter in T196


    Treasure 172 (/dev/joe, July 03, 1997):

    Found by two-star (July 8, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the repayment, 1 PF/dev/joe, and 5 PFVoting Gnome as a treasure.

    I am revealing the following information about the map: The first player to send /dev/joe a set of plays for a valid Tromino Go round leading to a situation where a player can legally pass by Tromino Go's rule 5, or a valid proof that such a pass can never happen in a legal game, shall find this treasure.

    Found When:

    two-star posted a solution.

    The Map was:

    Identical to the one above.

    Treasure 173 (Malenkai, July 07, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (July 12, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Snail Shell, and revealing the following text, which is substantially similar to the map:

    Whoever scores the most points in the Gaolhouse Rock Numbers Contest (GRNC) shall find the Snail Shell. In the event of a tie for most, the player who submitted the first of the tied entries shall win.

    The rules of the GNRC are:

    1. Entries are via private e-mail to me. Non-private e-mail is not an entry. Entries shall be unambiguously marked as such. [This post was sent to acka-priv].
    2. A player may only submit one entry. Entries after their *first* are disqualified.
    3. Contest ends Sat, July 12th, 23:59.
    4. For each of the numbers in my recent Gaol cell descriptions (requoted below), players may submit one song and the artist who recorded that song. To score, the song must contain, in its lyrics, the number in question. One point is scored if I recognize the song, and can verify the lyric. If this point is scored, another point is scored for this song if the artist mentioned did in fact record the song, and I can verify that. The artist point cannot be scored if the song point is not scored (for a particular number).
    5. It is recognized that I may not recognize a legitimate entry. There are many gaps in my musical knowledge. That's the way the bee bumbles, unfortunately. Your best bet is sticking with commercial rock/alternative music, or adding extra material, such as a URL (which I am free to ignore), to bolster your claim.
    6. Titles and artists must be reasonably exact (excluding articles, prepositions, punctuation, and the like), as judged by me. For example, "8675309" is wrong. "Artist" means band or performer/solo artist.
    7. The decisions of the Judges are final, even if wrong. This clause has precedence over all others in the map. Sorry, I'll try my best. :-)
    Antimatter is is cell 1000000000000, its walls are green.
    fnord is in cell 8675309, its walls are green.
    Guy Fawkes is in cell 4545, its walls are green.
    Rex Mundi is in cell 96, its walls are green.
    Robert Sevin is in cell 82, its walls are harf.
    two star is in cell 66, its walls are wall-coloured.

    Found When:

    Alfvaen scored 7 points in the contest.

    The Map Was:

    the same as the above, except for the extra clause 7):

    7) An extra point is awarded for providing *both* "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" "Echo and the Bunnymen" for "That's the way the bee bumbles".

    Alfvaen's responses/solution were:


    Treasure 174 (/dev/joe, July 08, 1997):

    Found by Mohammed (July 8, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying /dev/joe's Legacy as a treasure. I am revealing the following information related to the map.

    1. 26-20-107-100-127-8-84-47-38-145-16-120-5-78-123-154
    2. 151-32-136-73
    3. 105-148-42
    4. 40-152-122
    5. 93-138-94-1-27
    6. 6-124-134-17-82-74-156-54-24
    7. 135-23-36-52-118
    8. 79-41-126-81-116
    9. 44-7-65-96-149-63
    10. 95-131-50-104-133-108-15
    11. 9-13-155-64-61-2-125-86
    12. 75-3-51-90-21
    13. 14-45-137-56-153-143-25-34-110-66
    14. 49-142-58-115-89-12-4
    15. 139-10-57-29-85-76
    16. 37-70-114-11-147-146-150-31-106-111
    17. 112-18-98-68-77-129-103
    18. 48-28-33-91-72-109-46-101-39
    19. 97-60-19-88-53-132-102-121-35-80
    20. 43-92-99-119-69-87
    21. 55-59-130-117-22-83-141-71
    22. 140-30-62
    23. 67-128-113-157-144
      1e-2k-3l-4n 5a-6f 7i-8a-9k 10o-11p-12n 13k-14m-15j-16a-17f-18q
      19s-20a-21l-22u-23g-24f-25m 26a-27e-28r 29o-30v-31p-32b-33r-34m-35s-36g
      37p-38a-39r 40d-41h 42c-43t-44i-45m-46r 47a-48r 49n-50j-51l-52g-53s-54f-55u
      56m-57o-58n-59u-60s-61k-62v-63i 64k-65i-66m 67w-68q-69t-70p-71u-72r
      73b-74f-75l-76o-77q-78a 79h-80s 81h-82f-83u 84a-85o-86k-87t-88s
      89n-90l-91r-92t-93e-94e-95j 96i-97s 98q-99t-100a 101r-102s-103q-104j-105c-106p
      107a-108j-109r-110m-111p 112q-113w-114p 115n-116h 117u-118g-119t
      120a-121s-122d 123a-124f-125k 126h-127a-128w-129q-130u-131j-132s 133j-134f
      135g-136b-137m-138e-139o-140v-141u-142n 143m-144w-145a-146p 147p-148c-149i
      150p-151b-152d-153m 154a-155k-156f-157w

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Mohammed posted "The best bus trips may fog up".

    The Map Was:

    Post "the best bus trips may fog up" publicly.

    Treasure 176 (Malenkai, July 16, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen( Novemver 17th, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Parka as a treasure. This could be useful depending on how Beldin's Pants is amended.

    It is my deepest, truest, heartfelt hopes that enough information has been provided in the last 9 hours to find the Parka. [Posted July 17th, 02:54]

    my parka is lost
    in the oddest place i know
    it is to be found

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Alfvaen authored a proposal containing the word 'zazpi' (Proposal 2375).

    The Map Was:

    The first player to author a qualified public message that changes the game state, as judged by me (eg, proposal, IP, CFJ, YORL play, etc),shall find the Parka. A qualified message isone that contains the word "seven" in any of the these languages: Euskara, Albanian, Welsh, or Lituanian.


    Treasure 177 (Mr. Lunatic Fringe, July 17, 1997):

    Found by Voting Gnome (August 13, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am creating a contract (which I will call the you can't bury land contract) with the following text:

    The creator of this contract agrees to give 2 kaa of unocupied land to the person who finds the buried treasure containing this contract. This contract will expire after its conditions have been fulfilled once.

    I am signing this contract.

    Now I'm burying the You can't bury land contract as treasure, ands revealing the following portion of the map:

    "Someone's going to die! Whodonit?"

    The following players have togas, and are thus eligible to search for this treasure

    I will email private instructions to each player.

    Found When:

    Mr. Lunatic Fringe said so.

    The Map Was:

    Voting Gnome, when posted that the map was: "This treasure will be found by whoever Mr. Lunatic Fringe says found it". Not suprisingly, no action was ever taken to run the treasure hunt.


    Treasure 179 (Guy Fawkes, August 18th, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (February 27th, 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying this Trinket. Square Peg And Round Hole

    This Treasure shall be found by the first player to submit a non-recursively defined formula for the nth term in the series whose 1st 13 terms are as follows:

    1
    2
    12
    0
    -720
    0
    30240
    0
    -1209600
    0
    47900160
    0
    -1307674368000 / 691 (yes, 691 is prime)

    Failing that, this treasure can be found by submitting a non-recursively defined formula for the nth term of the series consisting of the odd-numbered members of the above (720, 30240, 1209600, etc.) although if you can find that, converting it to the first should not be too difficult.

    P.S. I have not found a solution myself, although I am confident one exists. I believed at first it was some sort of combination of factorials, and it probably does contain a few, though the last term there utterly bewilders me (I've checked it three times). The binomial series does have _some_ relation to this, though the transformation may be so horribly complex that the binomial series is a bad starting point. If anyone thinks more terms would be useful, I can calculate a few more (I generate them as part of a much larger problem) though I am beginning to run out of digits on my calculator's mantissa :)

    Found When:

    Guy Fawkes said so:

    The Map Was:

    Identical to the one previously published.

    /dev/joe's Solution

    /dev/joe's Corollary


    Treasure 180 (/dev/joe, August 18, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (August 21, 1997)

    Announcement

    In any case, if my creation of a Lushrike failed, so did my treasure burial. Like Elric, I tried to get rid of the black sword and failed. :-o So I again bury a treasure, this time consisting only of Stormbringer. The same map (with clues yet to be revealed) applies to this treasure.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    breadbox posted the right message to the public forum.

    The Map Was:

    "Publicly say Mournblade".


    Treasure 182 (Alfvaen, August 30, 1997):

    Found by breadbox (August 30, 1997)

    I am burying The Public Ally; the portion of the Map I am revealing consists of the third paragraph preceding this one. (Don't worry; if no such word exists that I find acceptable, I have another clause that will keep the Ally from being lost forever.)

    Found When:

    breadbox posted lots of words ending in "ally" to the public forum.

    The Map Was:

    Anyone who can present a valid word to Alfvaen such that a) it ends in "ally", b) the rest of the word is a valid adjective, and c) there is no valid word remaining when the "ly" ending is removed, shall find the Public Ally. Alfvaen shall be the sole judge of what is a valid word[although I won't be too picky about this]. If this treasure should remain unfound for too long a time, due to a lack of such words, then the Public Ally shall be found by the person to first find a Treasure buried by Alfvaen after he decides the first part of this map is hopeless.


    Treasure 183 (Alfvaen, September 05, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (December 30, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Snail Shell as a Treasure. Since I got no response to my questions about a web-based Treasure, I'll just go ahead and do the thing.

    There's this game called Fantasy Billboard which I've been playing for months now. Essentially, what you do is pick ten records(with certain restrictions)from the Billboard Hot 200 album chart(as well as the Heatseeker list, of records outside the Hot 200 that show promise). Then, over the following four weeks, you get points depending on the chart positions of each record, which bonuses for things like a Heatseeker charting, fastest mover, new #1, or entering the top 20/50/100.

    So I am revealing the following portion of the Map to the Snail Shell: The first player to get eir "record company" among the top 50 such companies shall win it. In the event that two players get there in the same week, the higher-scoring one will win.

    To let me know you're playing, email me the name of the record company, so I can watch for it. This won't be limited to the current week's contest, so you can start later, and play more than one concurrently(starting a new one each week, that is; no more than one record label per player will be "official").

    Since the album-choosing page involves frames(and is one of the few that actually makes good use of them, IMHO), anyone whose web browser can't handle them, or who's not on the Web at all: I'll gladly email you a copy of the Rules, and a list of the current 200 albums, on request, and register you myself.

    (I've got two record companies on there, Azpiazu Records and Temple of Azpiazu Records, with my old and new email addresses...they won't count in this game, of course, since I don't want the Goose...)

    The URL for Fantasy Billboard(which is in my Hotlist on my home page) is http://www.mpn.com/bb-tools/dispatch-meta/fantasy?SRC=index.htm

    On October 31st, Alfvaen posed a new URL for the Fantasy Billboard: http://fantasy.billboard.com/

    Found When:

    /dev/joe's Godel Escher Bach records finished 25th in the Fantasy Bilboard competition.

    The Map Was:

    The Treasure shall be found by the player whose Fantasy Billboard record label, as registered with the Map Writer or Custodians, has the highest final four-week ranking in the first week where any player's label is in the top 50 in such rankings. The Map Writer/Custodian(s) is/are excluded from any possibility of winning this contest. Should the Fantasy Billboard contest on the web cease prior to this treasure being found, then another contest designated as 'Fantasy Billboard' by the Map Writer/Custodian shall be used instead.


    Treasure 184 (/dev/joe, September 18, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (September 24, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Exquisite Dead Guy as a treasure again.

    This treasure will be found by the first player to privately mail me the solution (quotation and word list) to the puzzle below. Be warned that most of the entries have more than one word, and the two clues followed by question marks indicate the crummy phrases I had to use to use of the rest of the letters; most of the others follow a nice theme, though.

    1a-2e-3b-4e-5n 6d-7h-8e-9o 10a-11n 12i 13n-14g-15a-16k-17h 18i

    19a-20e-21l-22f 23f-24e-25h-26f-27l 28n-29k-30g-31m-32e 33a-34g-35g-36g

    37j-38e-39a-40e-41d-42m-43h 44k-45h-46g 47h-48h-49m-50f-51d-52j 53m-54g

    55g-56i-57i-58m-59j 60h-61g-62a-63a-64b-65i-66l 67k-68g-69l 70k-71o-72l-73g

    74d-75k-76b-77m 78k-79d 80h-81o-82g-83l 84a-85l-86h-87g-88h 89c-90d

    91a-92i-93n-94o-95a-96m 97h-98m 99m-100o-101n 102i-103m-104m-105m

    106m-107k-108i-109o 110l-111m-112h 113f-114f-115c-116j 117m-118a-119l-120h

    121d-122a-123j-124n 125g-126j-127e-128d-129f-130i

    131j-132c-133b-134i-135i-136a-137k-138a-139g

    140m-141g-142o-143f-144g-145d-146l-147a 148k-149f-150c-151g-152a

    153i-154e-155g-156d 157b-158h-159d

    1. Full name of the source of the quote 63-136-1-147-84-15-152-118-95-19-122-91-10-39-138-33-62
    2. Pink Floyd song 133-64-76-3-157
    3. One-named singer 89-150-115-132
    4. Cause of muddy carpet? 41-128-159-74-145-121-79-156-6-90-51
    5. Rolling Stones song 8-38-154-40-20-32-4-24-2-127
    6. Flutelike instruments 50-26-23-114-143-22-129-149-113
    7. Movie and TV series set in Miss. 144-151-36-87-141-34-82-35-125-30-54-155-14-46-68-61-139-55-73
    8. Cars song 80-158-7-97-86-60-88-43-45-17-47-48-25-112-120
    9. Beatles song 92-12-57-135-102-134-153-18-108-65-56-130
    10. Yes song 37-126-123-59-116-52-131
    11. Queen song 78-148-67-107-70-137-44-75-16-29
    12. Loud newspaper? 21-110-85-27-83-69-72-119-146-66
    13. Moody Blues song 117-49-42-96-77-104-99-58-98-140-103-105-111-53-106-31
    14. Bon Jovi song, or another song from the 60's 124-101-11-93-13-28-5
    15. A candy bar 100-71-81-9-94-142-109

    Found When:

    /dev/joe announced it.

    The Map Was:

    The full treasure map was to send me the full text and word list from the acrostic puzzle I posted, which follows the spoiler space below.

    Every once in awhile a band comes along that
    changes the course of human history, and
    that band is They Might Be Giants. If you
    hear only one song this year, there's something
    terribly wrong with you!

    1. They Might Be Giants
    2. Money
    3. Bono
    4. Grubby Shoes
    5. China Grove
    6. Recorders
    7. In The Heat of The Night
    8. Tonight She Comes
    9. I Am The Walrus
    10. Changes
    11. I Want It All
    12. Noisy Daily
    13. Tuesday Afternoon
    14. Runaway
    15. Oh Henry

    Treasure 185 (Red Barn, October 13, 1997):

    Found by JT (10 July, 1998)

    Announcement

    The treasure contains a Majik called Big-Nosed Kilroy

    The treasure was not in a public message, so the details may or may not be in the ftp archive. Details may also be in CFJ 471.

    Alfvaen was made Map Custodian when Red Barn Left

    Found When

    JT used a Skeleton Key Otzma to travel to Ganymede (a Moon of Acka) on 03 Jun 1998 11:48:23

    At 10 Jul 1998 21:50:39 Alfvaen Posted:

    I believe that JT's trip to Ganymede via Skeleton Key Otzma Card was the first moon landing, but ICOCBW.

    The Map Was

    The Big-Nosed Kilroy will be found by the first player to land on a moon of Acka, thereby spoiling the occasion. There was also a condition that players would be given prerefence, in the event of simultaneous occurence, who had signed the eligibility contract (which does not seem to be in the archives).


    Treasures 185 and 186 (/dev/joe, October 13, 1997):

    Found by two-star (October 23, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the golden glider as a treasure. The map is: Solve puzzle 1, below, and send /dev/joe the answer.

    I am burying /dev/joe's Pinwheel of Many Colors. The map is: Solve puzzle 2, below, and send /dev/joe the answer.

    Puzzle 1:
    Conway called a speed of 1 cell per generation, in either an orthogonal or diagonal direction, "the speed of light", because this is the fastest that any arrangement of cells can grow in any direction under the life rules. He also proved that no arrangement of cells can move (regenerating itself at a new location) faster than 1/4 the speed of light diagonally or 1/2 the speed of light orthogonally (i.e., the glider and spaceships are the fastest "moving" shapes possible). In viruses, player moves make this no longer true. It is easy to find a shape which can move at the speed of light orthogonally with the assistance of one player move before each generation. Find one, and either find a shape which can move faster than the speed of light with the aid of one player move before each generation, or prove the impossibility of such motion.

    Puzzle 2:
    Many shapes in Life are cyclic -- that is, they repeat the same patterns after some number of generations. The same shapes are of course cyclic in Viruses also, provided no player moves interfere, once the structure has settled to a repeating pattern of viruses as well. Find a cyclic Viruses pattern containing at least two species of virus in which, with no interference from player moves, two or more species switch places after some number of generations, and all species either retain their starting locations or switch places with another species (i.e., if you had virus species A, B, and C, it could reach a pattern where the C viruses are in their starting location and all the A's and B's are swapped, or you could have all the A's go to B's, B's go to C's, and C's go to A's), *or* prove that such a cycle can never exist.

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When

    /dev/joe announced it.

    The Map Was

    Solve the cyclic viruses patterns puzzle I posted, according to /dev/joe's interpretations of the terms it contains, and send /dev/joe the solution.

    Solve the faster-than-light viruses puzzle I posted, according to /dev/joe's interpretations of the terms it contains, and send /dev/joe the solution.


    Treasure 188 (Fortunato, November 10, 1997):

    Found by Alfvaen (November 21, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Trinket of Awesome, Near-Infinite Possibilities, and the Puzzle Box. I will give out no hints whatsoever, except these hints that are to follow:

    1. 2-8-3-28-23-8 1 23-8-23-2-8-53 28-11 58-13-8 1-3-21-1-25-28-23-15-3 55-81-2-12-8-25-15-81-55
    2. 13-1-82-8 1 51-53-28-55-58-13-8-58-15-3 "5-28-2-2-55" 13-8-1-5
    3. 13-1-82-8 1 55-23-28-21-15-25-12 "11-53-28-51" 51-15-51-8
    4. Post a public message with these two attributes:
      1. The body must be an appropriate response to the question, "Are cats on the upgrade?"
      2. The subject must be a proper name that fits the question posed in part i).

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted the following message with 'Jethro Tull' in the subject line.

    It says here that cats are on the upgrade.

    The map to the Puzzle Box and the Trinket of Awesome, Near-Infinite Possibilities:

    1. Become a member of the Ackanomic Subgenius.
    2. Have a prosthetic "Dobbs" head.
    3. Have a smoking "Frop" pipe.
    4. Post a public message with these two attributes:
      1. The body must be an appropriate response to the questions, "Are cats on the upgrade?"
      2. The subject must be a proper name that fits the question posed in part i).

    Treasure 189 (Malenkai, November 11, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (November 20, 1997)

    Announcement

    Since I am supposed to be burying these automatic scupltures as treasures, but have had scant time to design a cool treasure, I might as well bury them as a lame treasure:

    I am burying 2 Automatic Sculptures and an Otzma Card Map Shard as Treasure. This Treasure will be found by the player who has the most points in my 'Guess My Favorite Album Game' as described below (and as possibly described in non-revealed rules) when the game ends.

    1. What follows at the end is a list of 27 of my favorite albums (and a couple of lame ones), in the form band: album name, with all alphabetic characters converted to lowercase, and then obscured by '*'s like the machine game.
    2. A Magick Character may be guessed providing the player guessing was not the last to guess, and providing a Magick Character has not been guessed since the last time the Machine went *ping*. I will post the list with the Magick Character filled in (like on wheel of fortune). Do not guess uppercase characters, colons, spaces, or ascii characters lower than space.
    3. A list of guesses as to the bands, and albums may be posted, 1 point for each correct band on the list, 3 points for getting both the band and the album. Spelling and punctuation must be exact as on the my list, even if there are typos on my list.
    4. The game ends when someone has scored 81 points (27*3) or when a solstice or equinox occurs, and someone had previously made a guess worth a positive number of points. In the latter case, if there is a tie for high score, the player who posted their guess worth this score first gains an extra 1/2 a point as the game ends.
    5. Multiple guesses are permitted (but no more than 3 points can be scored per album). All play should be on acka-games.
    6. Some bands may be rather obscure. I'm not sure really. All are in Western commercial music (rock, alt-rock, metal, whatever)
    7. These rules may be amended by me at any time, in any way.
    8. No player may make 3 consecutive guesses. A string of consecutive guesses is broken by a guess by another player, or a Magick Character selection.
    
    
    ******* ******: ******* ******
    
    
    ***** ****: ****** *** *******
    
    
    ****: ********
    
    
    **** ******: *** *** ***** **** **** ** **
    
    
    ****** ****: ********
    
    
    **** ******: **********
    
    
    *********: *** **** *** **** *** ****
    
    
    **** ******: ****** ******
    
    
    **** ****: ********
    
    
    *********: ********* *********
    
    
    ****: ******* *******
    
    
    ****** *: ******** **** ** ********
    
    
    *** *******: ********
    
    
    *** ****** *******: ******* ** ******* ** ******** ****
    
    
    **: **** *** ****** ******
    
    
    **** *****: *******
    
    
    *********: *****
    
    
    *******: *** *********
    
    
    *** **** *******: ***********
    
    
    ****** *** *********: *** **** ***
    
    
    ********* ******: ******
    
    
    *** *****: ***********
    
    
    ** *******: ************
    
    
    ** ***: **********
    
    
    ***: *** *** *****
    
    
    *****: ********* *******
    
    
    ****** *****: ***** ***** *****
    
    
    

    This Treasue has had some Clues and Guesses

    Found When:

    /dev/joe posted 81 point list to the public forum.

    The Map Was:

    This Treasure will be found by the player who has the most points in my 'Guess My Favorite Album Game' as described, amended, and interpreted by Malenkai, when the game ends.


    Treasure 190 (Alfvaen, November 22, 1997):

    Found by /dev/joe (December 27, 1997)

    Announcement

    I am burying the Blarney Stone and The Smoking 'Frop' Pipe as a Treasure, whose map will be revealed shortly.

    Okay, that treasure I buried, with the Blarney Stone and the Smoking 'Frop' Pipe, has a map which is substantially similar to Malenkai's map to his most recent treasure. Yes, it sounded like so much fine that I decided I had to try it as well.

    The rules are slightly different. Basically: all valid entries should be sent to me privately at alfvaen@telusplanet.net, rather than posted to acka-games; only alphanumeric characters will be *'d out; if you find a typo, send in the correct version and I'll change the master list; Magick Characters may only be guessed once a week; and case doesn't matter. Oh, and there's 100 of them.

    The deadline should still be the Winter Solstice, although, like Malenkai, I reserve the right to change the rules at any time. If anyone wants a clarification, let me know.

    Oh, and I've temporarily taken down my web pages that would have had tons of juicy information on them. Don't want it to be too easy, after all...

    Here they are were:

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted the following:

    To nobody's surprise, /dev/joe, as the only person who even tried, has found Treasure 190, consisting of the Blarney Stone and the Smoking 'Frop' Pipe.

    The Map Was:

    The map was basically the following:

    The treasure shall be found by the player who has privately emailed to Alfvaen a guess at his 100 favourite albums which scored the highest points, before the Winter Solstice, 1997. Each album guess shall be scored one point for correct artist, and two for correct title if artist is correct.

    The list of albums is as follows:

    /dev/joe's best guess got eighty bands and seventh-eight album titles correct, for 236 points.


    Treasure 197 (Alfvaen, January 29th, 1998 ):

    Found by breadbox (10th April, 1998)

    Announcement:

    I am hereby burying the following items as a treasure:

  • An Automatic Sculpture
  • The Trinket of Awesome, Near-Infinite Possibilities

    I shall reveal the following portion of the map:

    Some of you may have noticed that I like to title my Proposals strange things, and use weird things for the delimiters as well. Basically, email me privately with how you think I came up with them, and I'll decide who's best at it and award the treasure to em. I'm a bit rushed now, but essentially that's it... All rankings will have to be arbitrary, because that's how I like it, and treasure maps can work that way. :-)

    Found When:

    Alfvaen posted the following:

    breadbox has found the Treasure consisting of the Trinket of Awesome, Near-Infinite Possibilities, and an Automatic Sculpture, which instantly turns itself into Sculpture 11. (Calvin N Hobbes is its Mad Sculptor.)

    This was my title and delimiter quiz, where I wanted to know if people could figure out how I came up with some of the strange titles and delimiters in my Proposals. The key word here was "some"; several people thought there was some monolithic method I used all the time, but I was curious to see if people could make the individual links between Proposal topic, title, and delimiters.

    The Map Was:

    "Entries for the Title & Delimiter Quiz may be sent to Alfvaen, and shall be marked entirely subjectively based to how difficult each Title/Delimiter was to guess, and how closely the guesser followed Alfvaen's thought patterns. Furthermore, before the treasure can be found, at least three lengthy entries must be received."

    Fortunato had sent in some early guesses, and /dev/joe as well a couple of months back, but breadbox's more recent, and longer, entry was the winner. I'll let em share the details of eir guesses(and my response; since I don't archive outgoing mail I don't have it anymore and I don't want to type it all again)as e wishes.


    Treasure 195 (The Gingham Wearer, January 15th, 1998):

    Found by Alfvaen (24th May 1998)

    Announcement:

    I am burying a treasure comprising the following:

    The following is probably something to do with the treasure, but probably contains several mistakes :-)

    Found When:

    Treasure 195 which contained one automatic sculpture and (I would argue) A$5 has been found by Alfvaen the treasure map was as follows:

    Map Was:

    This treasure will be found by the first person other than The Gingham Wearer to state that "a new fashion of wearing gingham is sweeping across Acka" in a newspaper (or an a sufficiently good approximation there of as decided by The Gingham Wearer).

    Alfvaen's Corollary

    Treasure 196 (K 2, January 20th, 1998):

    Found by else...if (15th April 1998)

    Announcement:

    I am creating a Trinket called Vegetarian Lasagne. It is worth $A 100 and has the following description :

    It is a large slab of poorly sliced, half cooked vegtible-like blobs of mush irregularly interspersed with crunchy sheets sheets of what could be cardboard. It is best not to even think about what it may taste like.

    I am burying the Vegetarian Lasagne with a couple (2) of Share your income otzma cards and a Skeleton Key Otzma Card.

    I imagine someone who does the following will find the treasure

    
    *** **
    
    **** **
    
    ** **** ****** ******* **
    
    

    Found When:

    else...if posted the following message:
    I'm eating vegetarian lasagna. Just thought you should all know.

    The Map Was:

    Whoever eats, drinks (or in some manner consumes ) vegetarian lasagne shall find this treasure.


    Treasure 198 (Slakko, Feburary 4th, 1998):

    Found by K 2 (4th May 1998)

    Announcement:

    I am burying the Winning Betting Slip as a Treasure.

    That damn Archaeologist better get on with it sometime, otherwise if I leave the game in the far future no-one will ever find this slip.

    The Map Was:

    This treasure will be found when the results of the first Expedition are publicly knowable. It will be found by the player in the Expedition (excluding Slakko) who finds a Treasure containing the least value in terms of A$ and Trinkets.

    E found a Prosthetic Forehead - everyone else found trinkets valued at A$10 or more.

    Interesting that the Wouf Houng should remain so stubbornly hidden :-)


    Treasure 199 (The Gingham Wearer, February 10, 1998):

    Found by /dev/joe (February 14, 1998)

    Announcement

    I am then burying the following as a treasure:

    The treasure map is something along the lines of: This treasure will be found by the first player to either privately e-mail a decent map of Lancashire to The Gingham Wearer or tell em of an URL on the web where such a map can be found.

    Found When:

    The Gingham Wearer posted the following:

    My treasure has been found by /dev/joe who posted me the following URL (which should all be combined into one long URL): Lancashire Map

    The Map Was:

    This treasure shall be found by the player who The Gingham Wearer decides has done enough to deserve finding it. This should be based on providing The Gingham Wearer with a computerised map of Lancashire. Link to the map


    Treasure 201 (two-star, 12nd March, 1998):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 15th 1998)

    Announcement

    I am creating a trinket named "Lake Vostok", worth 95 A$, with the description, "Very little is known about Lake Vostok, but it may hold the key to determining whether life can exist on Kansas."

    I am burying it as a treasure.

    I am revealing the following, which, if it had nothing to do with the map to Lake Vostok, would be very sadistic of me indeed.

    In the game of lines of action, pieces move according to the following rules:

    A piece may move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally on an 8x8 board. The number of squares that it moves must equal the number of pieces on the line that it moves on.

    It may not jump over any piece of the opposite color. It may however jump over pieces of the same color.

    It may not move onto a square occupied by a piece of the same color. (If it moves onto a square occupied by a piece of the opposite color, that piece is captured.)

    (More information about lines of action is available at David Dyer's lines of action page: http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/loa/loa.html The problem described in this post is mentioned there.)

    Ignoring all of the other rules of lines of action for the moment, it is possible to place pieces on the board such that no piece can move. Obviously this is the case if the board is entirely filled. An interesting question is, how few pieces can one place on the board such that no piece can move?

    An only slightly less trivial solution is to use a che[ck|qu]ered pattern.This works if all of the pieces are of the same color or if the diagonals are of alternating colors, as below.

    
    x . o . x . o .
    
    . x . o . x . o
    
    o . x . o . x .
    
    . o . x . o . x
    
    x . o . x . o .
    
    . x . o . x . o
    
    o . x . o . x .
    
    . o . x . o . x
    
    

    I have done a bit of playing around on a go board, but I have not yet found a solution using fewer than thirty-two stones, and I am very curious as to whether such a solution is possible.

    Therefore, the map to Lake Vostok is (something like:)

    On May 15, 1998, Lake Vostok will be found by the player who has sent two-star a solution to the problem described above using fewer pieces than any other submitted solution. The submission should consist of a representation of an 8x8 board with pieces placed such that no piece could move according to the piece movement rules of lines of action. If there is a tie, two-star will consider the aesthetic merit of the solutions and the timing of their submission in breaking the tie. If any player provides, along with eir solution, a proof that no solution using fewer pieces exists, and two-star is satisfied with this proof, e shall find Lake Vostok immediately.

    Empty Boards are Right Out.

    **two-star

    The Map Was:

    This treasure will be found on May 15, 1998 by the player who has sent the writer or custodian of this map a representation of an 8 x 8 board with pieces placed on it such that:

    1. ) none can move according to the rules of Lines of Action
    2. ) the number of pieces is smaller than the number of pieces in any other submission.

    Ties may be broken by the decision of the writer or custodian of this map.

    If any player proves to the satisfaction of the writer or custodian of this map that it is impossible to find a solution containing fewer pieces than eir solution, then e wil find this treasure immediately.

    /dev/joe's Corollary


    Treasure 202 (Hubert, March 23th, 1998):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 15th 1998)

    Announcement

    In any case, I am creating a trinket called "Rhymes With Schubert," with avalue of A$101 and a description of "Abhorrent. Vile. Evil. Totally, completely, and absolutely unmentionable by any sane person. Or even Hoover 2300."

    I am burying "Rhymes with Schubert" along with my Otzma Card Grave Robber (more apropos than not, I guess) and submitting the following four portions of an ancient map discovered in the wreckage of my house which might, quite possibly, have something to do with finding the treasure. The first is as follows:

    ...shall be found on May 15, 1998 by the player who, in Hubert's estimation, has posted the cutest, most creative, or most imaginative nickname for em (for Hubert, not the posting player) since Hubert's name change. Fortunato and /dev/joe are both well on their respective ways...

    I am also submitting the following mathematical puzzle, part of the same map, which might also have something to do with the treasure:

    There were three geckos standing, nose to tail, in a perfectly straight line. The hindmost gecko suddenly spoke up, saying "Lo! I see a gecko in front of me." Echoed the middle gecko, "Zounds! I, too, see a gecko in front of me." And the frontmost gecko replied, "I, also, see a gecko in front of me."

    How could this be?

    The following string of nonsense may also have something to do with this treasure (I'm not sure if I translated this correctly):

    A-boop boop diddam daddam waddam: choo!

    The fourth and final clue that I could make out on the map is that at least two of the clues posted in this message have nothing to do with the treasure, and that might just include this clue.

    Guesses should be posted publically for the first clue (the Nickname Game) and the third (the Boop Boop Dupe) but privately to me for the second (Lizard Wizard.)

    If you want to make a guess at the fourth, you've had way too much to frink.

    -Hubert

    The Lottery: a tax for people who can't do the math.

    This Treasure has had some Clues and Guesses

    Map Was:

    Oh, yeah. /dev/joe has found the treasure containing Rhymes with Schubert and the Otzma Card Grave Robber. The map was relatively similar to the first clue (most interesting euphemism(s) for me), and although Fortunato made me laugh harder with HOTSPAARG (de-acronymization anyone?) /dev/joe's constant stream of new and original nicknames such as Q*Bert, , and "someone" won out in the end. /dev/joe was also the only serious contender for that clue who sent me a correct guess for the Lizard Wizard part. Which was invalid according to the fourth clue, but what the hey. (By the way, the correct answer, sent in by /dev/joe, else...if and Red Barn IIRC, was that the first gecko was lying.) The third clue (the Boop Boop Dupe) was also invalid, but was part of the chorus line to "Da Twee Widdle Fishies," by I have not a clue who or else I would play it on the ASS. No one sent me a valid guess (or any guess, for that matter) for the third clue. Not a sausage. Bugger all. The fourth clue was a red herring; it was actually false. There, go figure that one out. Red Barn tried to guess it and is apparently still reeling from the results.

    Interesting that this was a non-mathematical, non-verbal, non-logical, non-skill of any particular area or demesne treasure, and was *still* found by /dev/joe.

    Someone oughta Impeach em.


    Treasure 203 (The Gingham Wearer, March 22nd, 1998):

    Found by Rex Mundi (3rd April 1998)

    Announcement:

    I am burying my automatic sculpture as a treasure with a treasure map that looks something like this (although it is written in legalese):

    This treasure shall be found next time a player is inducted into the hall of elders by the player who submitted the middle endorsement.

    Found When

    This treasure shall be found next time someone is inducted into the hall of elders by the method currently defined in the rules this treasure shall be found by the middle player to support the nomination including the player who initially made the nomination. If there is no one middle player then it shall be the second of the two. If this would be The Gingham Wearer then the treasure shall be found by the player who supported the nomination immediately before The Gingham Wearer.


    Treasure 205 (Red Barn, March 31st, 1998):

    Found by Koxvolio (April 1st 1998)

    Announcement

    Burying all my trinkets, and all my cash (if any) with the following map, of which you are all now custodians:

    This treasure and all it contains will be found by the first player to join the game (Ackanomic) once it has been buried and Red Barn has departed Acka. Enjoy, sucker.

    (Actually, I think someone needs to volunteer. If the registrar would do so, it would be appreciated.)

    [Harfer's Note: The following items were buried]

    Alfvaen Accepted Custodianship On: 31st March 1998

    Found When:

    Alfvaen announced that Koxvolio was joining Ackanomic on 01 Apr 1998 10:07:52.

    The Map Was:

    Identical to the one published above.


    Treasure 206 (Alfvaen, April 5th, 1998):

    Found by /dev/joe (May 12th 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying the following items as a Treasure:

    I am revealing the following portion of the Map:

    If on any prime date after the 10th of the month there exists an Active Cortex besides The Entity Formerly Known as the Supreme Court, then a random owner of one such Cortex shall find this Treasure.

    Shameless, aren't I?

    The Map was:

    If on any prime date after the 10th of a qualified month there exists an Active Cortex besides the Entity Formerly Known as the Supreme Court, then a random owner of one such Cortex shall find this Treasure. (April 1998 is a qualified month only if there are two such Cortices; otherwise, any month from May 1998 onward is qualified.)

    And /dev/joe was chosen at random. (I _was_ hoping that there would be another Cortex, hence the phrasing of the Map, but I guess two Cortices aren't getting totally snowed under or anything.)


    Treasure 209 (The Gingham Wearer, April 15th, 1998):

    Found by Slakko (April 15th 1998)

    Announcement

    I create thirty-three (a potential one for each current player) trinkets called " Small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic Warden X" where X is replaced by an integer between one and thirty (I believe this should be sufficient, if not then I'll just have to go through them all one by one and waste a massive amount of band-width). Each one is valued at A$1 and has the following description "On closer inspection it appears to be a piece of fruit." My reason for this should become apparent later.

    I bury the Small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic Warden 2 with a treasure map that looks something like "thus treasure will be found by the first person to publicly post an attribution to the name of the trinket buried in this treasure".

    Found When:

    Slakko said:
    > > Would it be "White Hole" from Season 4?
    >
    > Nope, sorry. Right series, wrong episode.

    My mistake. "Camille".

    TGW said:

    Indeed. Slakko has found the treasure I buried earlier today if indeed such a thing exists. The map was "This treasure will be found by whoever TGW says will find it". If I did manage to bury that treasure then I destroy for A$ the trinket I created today whose name ends with the characters " 2" if such a thing exists. If I didn't bury the treasure then I gift that self same trinket to Slakko now.

    I think that should just about tie up any thread splits.

    The Map Was:

    This treasure will be found by whoever TGW says will find it


    Treasure 210 (Alfvaen, 18th April, 1998):

    Found by /dev/joe (June 25th 1998)

    Announcement

    I suggest that The Church of Azpiazu transfer " I Finally Finished _Infinite Jest_!" to me, and it occurs because I'm the Founder. :-)

    I now bury this Trinket with the following map:

    It's time once again for...Fantasy Billboard! Or the Billboard Challenge, as it is now known. It's up at http://challenge.billboard.com/ right now. For those who might not be familiar with it, in a nutshell, you pick ten albums, and get points depending on their performance on the Billboard charts over the next four weeks. And you can submit a new set every week. Complete rules are at the web site above, or I can email a copy to anyone who's interested.

    So if you want to participate in this, then you need to let me know what the name of your record label is(once you've joined the game online). This time, for my own convenience, I'd like them to have the string "Acka" in them, so I can search for them all at once. Those who still have labels left over from last round can use those again, but should still let me know. And you can only have one each; if you have more than one, then let me know which one is competing, and if you have more than one with that name then none are eligible.

    The Treasure shall be found by the first such label which finishes, after four weeks, in the Top 50, or the highest-ranked among them if there's more than one.

    In the event that this online contest should disappear, then the winner of the first game started by Alfvaen after this occurs that has a clear winner shall find the Treasure instead.

    [ My own labels are "Azpiazu Records" and "Temple of Azpiazu Records". ]

    Found When:

    Alfvaen Posted:

    Well, e's done it again: /dev/joe has won the second Billboard Challenge, or rather found the corresponding Treasure, as Godel Escher Bach finished in 21st place. Congratulations!

    I'd like to announce here that I'm going to make this an ongoing thing. I did already give one trinket to Vynd upon eir label finishing in the top 50 between official Treasures, and I pledge to do the same to anyone else who wishes to keep playing. If anyone new wants to start, let me know. I would appreciate it vastly if your record label names have "Acka" in them, but I won't compel it or anything.

    The Map Was:

    As Above


    Treasure 213 (Alfvaen, 14th May, 1998):

    Found by JT (June 22nd 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying Sculpture 17(which by the way, has the description "It is brown", Trinket-Harfer take note)as a Treasure. I am revealing the following portion of the Map:

    Sculpture 17 shall be found by the player who creates the best Scrabble-tile story(ies), as judged by me, over the next 31 days. By "Scrabble-tile story", I mean a story which uses as its letters exactly those letters which can be found in a standard (American English) Scrabble set. (Anyone who doesn't have one of those to hand, email me for letter counts.) Blank tiles may, of course, be used for any letter. The authors of all stories give up first publication rights to the Big White Gazette. (Multiple submissions may increase one's chances, but only up to a point.)

    Found When:

    The Map Was:

    As above.


    Treasure 214 (Alfvaen, 14th May, 1998):

    Found by Slakko (June 22nd 1998)

    Announcement

    I am burying the "Onyx Vase as a Treasure. I am revealing the following portion of the Map:

    The Onyx Vase shall be found by the player who, over the next 31 days, submits the best band name(s) to my Random Band Name Server. Said server can be found at http://www.albertanet.com/aaron/bands/, unless I am mistaken, or failing that from my home page(URL in .sig). Since there is no way otherwise for me to tell who is submitting which ones, include your name or other unambiguous identifier along with the band name--ambiguous submissions will not be counted(though will, probably, be added). Quantity does not necessarily count, since I will probably be going by average quality here. All judgement is final, and any band names submitted are considered to freely usable by anyone who wants them. (Penalties will be assessed for anyone who submits a real band's name, even inadvertently. Search the Band Register(www.bandreg.com)if you want to make sure.)

    Found When:

    The Map Was:

    As above.


    Treasure 215 (Alfvaen, 14th May, 1998):

    Found by JT (June 22nd 1998)

    Announcement

    Finally, I am burying a Rock To Wind A String Around(which may soon become pretty much worthless, unless you join the Save The Foreheads Campaign), the "6", Consolation Prize 2, Small off-duty Czechoslovakian traffic Warden 6, and The Folly of Fooling with Anyone Whose Name Begins with 'Sla' as a treasure, and revealing the following portion of the map:

    Yjod ytrsditr ,su nr gpimf nu s [;surt ejp royjrt drmfd S;gbsrm dp,r
    S,rtovsm dys,[d. pt r;dr drmfd r, s ;ody pg yjr ytsvld pm yjr s;ni,
    Shsomdy S;; Hpfd
    nu Ept;f pm Rfhr/ S tsmfp, dr;rvyopm eo;; nr ,sfr s,omh wis;ogorf
    rmytsmys/ )Drmf r,so; gpt sm sfftrdd yp drmf dys,[d yo/_

    Found When:

    The Map Was:

    This treasure may be found by a player who either sends Alfvaen some American stamps, or else sends em a list of the tracks on the album "Against All Gods" by World on Edge. A random selection will be made among qualified entrants. (Send email for an address to send stamps to.)


    Treasure 216 (IdiotBoy, 15th May 1998):

    Destroyed by /dev/joe (15th May 1998)

    Announcement

    I create a Trinket valued at A$50 called "I beat /dev/joe." with the description "And I liked it!" (Perhaps this will keep ole /dev from finding this one as quickly.)

    The map is as follows:

    -----Thus begins the map

    This is the map.

    Send a private message to IdiotBoy which tells which of the following lines don't belong. If you send such a message and guess wrong, you will be ineligible to find this treasure. Will this be treasure 262?

    A little hint: 2 of them don't.

    Lines follow.

    -----Thus begins the lines.

    
    iQCVAwUBNVzYxYpTijFJnAv5AQHMnQP/colUdi7wVreKdIrbpkZqvdXif705Lc0x
    
    oDp6OUzsStsZ7wj23/l6KglsuVqD++1NIKa0BfrcdTEM9apQRA5eBFLNId7Ljqn3
    
    c0uWHolkaxZ3YIzKZcZRDm6wF2TlbQUOB8bkksJTaO/y8vBYG2U+f1nE1QiOtkA0
    
    /K9gj6m77s4Bx1I4w23jZhbi1Chw2/gvjOkAwqR1JGpzImadsI2aVco7WKkIuefZ
    
    hZuHhihJnRoUmvszTBBjNE0Yc7ISkCFoB0/1S29MUWUChT+hHzwhclerYx2DRsy3
    
    e7XIKdltbsU=
    
    =P4aN
    
    

    -----Thus ends the map.

    IB

    giving /dev/joe about 35 minutes.

    Destroyed When:

    /dev/joe claimed that "I beat /dev/joe." was a forgery.

    [took em 1hr 37min 8sec]


    Treasure 224 (Attila the Pun, 18th July, 1998):

    Found by The Twits(July 25nd 1998)

    Announcement

    I bury all my tradeable entities as a treasure, with the following treasure map:

    This treasure shall be found when Attila the Pun says so and not before.

    Contained:

    Found When:

    Attila the Pun Announced:

    As befits a treasure which has cost me large sums of money and the office of Archaeologist, Treasure 224 has been found by the Twits.

    The Map Was:

    This treasure shall be found when Attila the Pun says so and not before.

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