From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #16 Reply-To: acka-games@muppetlabs.com Sender: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Errors-To: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Precedence: bulk acka-games-digest Monday, February 16 1998 Volume 03 : Number 016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:15:00 -0500 (EST) From: Rico Subject: Re: Acka: Duel: Spades R1 T3 On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Duncan Richer wrote: > Lead: Queen of Spades > ACK! The Bitch! Whoa, I've been playing too much Hearts too. - -rico ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:15:49 -0500 (EST) From: Rico Subject: Re: Acka: Duel: Spades R1 T3 On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote: > > Lead: Queen of Spades > > 8 of spades. 3 of spades. - -rico "" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 03:40:50 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: GAD Round 3 On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, AARON KEESLER wrote: > Anywho, here's what went down this round: What did Slagothor do? It doesn't appear to have been listed. - -- Duncan C. "" Richer aka Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College Cambridge, 1st Yr PhD(PMa) - .Nomic Elector, Frgn Minister, HP(Morpork) Acka - President "Gumball" RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:08:52 -0500 (EST) From: "The Gingham Wearer" Subject: Acka: Fictionary round 9 Lunicurrent is the ing word and these are the definitions, in random order. Bluffers, you have three days. 1. Of animals, to be most active during periods of full moon. 2. continuation of something (as repetition of a word) usually to an exceptional degree or beyond a desired point 3. Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. 4. Seasonal high tide. 5. Occurring with the same period as the phases of the moon. 6. Of or related to the lunicur. 7. An unusually low tide. TGW, brainiac. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:10:43 -0500 (EST) From: AARON KEESLER Subject: Acka: GAD slip. It was brought to my attention by several keen-eyed Grabbers that I left Slagothor off the list. Well, it wasn't a mistake, it was a test, and everybody passed! Give yourselves a pat on the back. Slagothor Covered his donkey. - ------------------ Aaron Keesler Lotus Notes Administrator Intranet Administrator Adtran, Inc. - ------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:21:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: YORL I sent a message to acka-games last night about this, but it seems to have fallen off the face of the net. Slakko was confused about why he was getting cards when he hadn't seen the result of the play yet. Slagothor's play of 2600 is accepted and becomes a loose end. (No shortage of characters in this story... maybe I made too many character cards?) Slakko's interrupt of mutant is rejected. Sorry, the descriptions of the characters in that segment, although weird, didn't feel very mutated to me. It is still Slagothor's turn. Loose Ends: 4 - cowboy, snowgod, thin man, 2600 Cards Burned: 13 Cards in Deck: 21 Play Order: Slagothor [6 cards] Slakko [8 cards] Balsamic Dragon [7 cards] Malenkai [6 cards] Karma [8 cards] Alfvaen [4 cards] two-star [7 cards] The Gingham Wearer [6 cards] [1 Ale] /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:51:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary round 9 > 5. Occurring with the same period as the phases of the moon. Though I'm afraid it's too obvious a definition, I am voting for Number 5. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:23:12 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Duel: Spades R1 T3 >On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote: >> > Lead: Queen of Spades >> 8 of spades. >3 of spades. 6 of spades. - -- - --Alfvaen (Web page:http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/) Current Album--Bruce Cockburn:Inner City Front Current Book--Michael P. Kube-McDowell:Alternities They didn't have mulch, but they were in love. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:32:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Duel: Spades R1 T3 > >> > Lead: Queen of Spades > >> 8 of spades. > >3 of spades. > 6 of spades. Two tricks for each side now; still Slakko's lead. So far all the plays have been on the up-and-up; everybody has followed suit and nobody has tried to play a card they didn't have or play the same card twice, despite Slagothor's attempts to change this into a game of Hearts. :-) Alfvaen (4)> AH* AS* 2C 6S Slakko (4) 3H 4S KC* QS* Goldenmean (3) 2H 5S 3C 8S Slagothor (2) 6H 2S 6C 3S /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:44:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary round 9 On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, The Gingham Wearer wrote: > Lunicurrent is the ing word and these are the definitions, in random > order. Bluffers, you have three days. > > 7. An unusually low tide. > I vote for definition 7, above. - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu > > TGW, brainiac. > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:21:04 -0500 (EST) From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary round 9 >1. Of animals, to be most active during periods of full moon. Despite many temptations, I'm going with this one. - -- - -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran Success is the child of audacity. -Benjamin Disraeli ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:27:56 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Acka: Duel: Spades R1 T4 I lead out with the Ace of Clubs. - -- Duncan C. "" Richer aka Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College Cambridge, 1st Yr PhD(PMa) - .Nomic Elector, Frgn Minister, HP(Morpork) Acka - President "Gumball" RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:02:05 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary round 9 > 4. Seasonal high tide. I'll vote for this one. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Mae Moore:Bohemia Current Book--Michael P. Kube-McDowell:Alternities Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: Rico Subject: Acka: YORL A tug on his arm broke the spell and made Sam look to his left. "Romeo," said Elspeth, "guard this with your life, for it will be your protection where you are about to go." She stared searchingly into his eyes as she pressed a small object into his hand, and then turned and left. Not walked off, disappeared into thin air. Sam's completely overloaded brain struggled to catch up. When, he wondered, had he lost control of this situation? As if to underscore the point, the Thin Man walked up to him and said, "Are you ready to go, Romeo?" Sam stared at him blankly. Without waiting for an answer, the Thin Man began to hum a tuneless song and wave his hands in the air as if weaving on a loom. Kirby 2600 stopped his impromptu tango with the vacuum cleaner, looked at the two, and shuffled over to stand beside them. The Thin Man glared at him but did not halt his song. Sam glanced distractedly at the object Elspeth had given him. It was a ring, a finely wrought silver ring with a glittering ice-blue crystal set in it. There seemed to be something moving in the depths of the crystal. Suddenly it was all too much. Sam hollered at the top of his lungs, "Wait! Stop! Will _some_one please tell me what the hell is going on here?!?" The words were hardly out of his mouth when the bar, the crowd, and the forest all disappeared and were replaced by a howling blizzard on an icy mountaintop. Slagothor plays: ring - -rico Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes. ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #16 *******************************