From: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu (Ackanomic Games Digest) To: acka-games-digest Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #40 Reply-To: acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Sender: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Errors-To: owner-acka-games@wilma.che.utexas.edu Precedence: bulk Ackanomic Games Digest Tuesday, April 15 1997 Volume 02 : Number 040 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:17:13 -0400 From: Malenkai Subject: Re: Acka: Duel Bascule wrote: > > 'onsequenti' > > I am desperately protesting this ghost word, on the grounds that it > cannot be found within any word in the official dictionary. inconsequential Malenkai ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:30:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Duel Malenkai wrote: > Bascule wrote: > > > 'onsequenti' > > I am desperately protesting this ghost word, on the grounds that it > > cannot be found within any word in the official dictionary. > > inconsequential This word is in the official dictionary (in OSPD, not in other dict) so Malenkai wins the game and the Duel. /dev/joe Referee ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 00:19:09 -0900 From: Phil Ackley Subject: Acka: Fictionary Bluffers, Your submission period has ended. Here are the definitions for the Ing word, crambo: 1) A type of ration eaten by U.S. soldiers during World War II. 2) A dish made from deep-fried insects, esp. beetles. 3) A game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a word or a line of verse given by another. 4) A kind of seafood stew popular in Jamaica. 5) A soup or stew containing a variety of meats. (Note dictionary one (where I found Crambo) is now down. Hence, I had to take the real definition from the Random House unabridged dictionary. This is probably against the rules, but at press time, I had no other choice.) snowgod ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:27:44 -0500 From: "Bollinger, John C." Subject: RE: Acka: Duel /dev/joe wrote: > > inconsequential > > This word is in the official dictionary (in OSPD, not in other dict) > so Malenkai wins the game and the Duel. > [Musical fanfare] Hail the concquering hero! Another victory for freedom of speech! (Which, btw, we don't have in Acka....) ThinMan Malenkai's second ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:29:20 -0500 From: "Bollinger, John C." Subject: RE: Acka: Fictionary I vote for : > 5) A soup or stew containing a variety of meats. > ThinMan Bluffer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:19:41 +0100 (BDT) From: Matt Subject: Re: Acka: Duel > > inconsequential > > This word is in the official dictionary (in OSPD, not in other dict) > so Malenkai wins the game and the Duel. > > /dev/joe > Referee Hats off to Malenkai, undisputed master of BWG. I'd forgotten about inconsequential; I was thinking of consequential and consequentially which sound (to me) too stupid to be words, and I managed to persuade myself that they don't exist, which they do, cos I looked them up. Honour is preserved and all that Bascule ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:10:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary > Your submission period has ended. Here are the definitions for the Ing > word, crambo: I'm going to go with the oddball, #3, under the probably mistaken belief that all four bluffers submitted food-related definitions when the word was not actually food-related: > 3) A game in which one person or side must find a rhyme to a > word or a line of verse given by another. > (Note dictionary one (where I found Crambo) is now down. Hence, I had to > take the real definition from the Random House unabridged dictionary. This > is probably against the rules, but at press time, I had no other choice.) Fictionary Rules, "step 1" of a round: 1) The Brainiac shall choose a word (known as the "Ing Word" for that round) [...] The Brainiac shall also privately note the definition of the Ing Word. This definition shall be a verbatim transcription of any of the definitions provided by any of the Dictionaries. We've already run into so many other problems in this game, though, that what you did is just a minor annoyance. /dev/joe ------------------------------ End of Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #40 ************************************