From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #38 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 Tuesday, March 10 1998 Volume 03 : Number 038 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 02:26:08 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Herreshoff Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T7 Well, I think my trump won me that round. I'm going to lead out 3 of hearts. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 02:42:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T8 (was T7) Goldenmean wrote: > Well, I think my trump won me that round. I'm going to lead out > 3 of hearts. Sorry, you don't have a 3 of hearts because you already played it 2 tricks ago. I'll figure out what effect on the score (if any) this has later, but in any case it is still Goldenmean's lead until he plays a card he actually has in his hand. Here is the summary so far this round, so you can double-check your hands. Alfvaen (3) 4C 4H 6D AD* JD AH* 6C Slakko (2) 2C 5H 3D 5D 8D JH JC Goldenmean (4)> AC* KH* KD* 2D 4D 3H 9S* Q*bert (4) 3C 2H 7D QD 5S*10H 5C AG tricks: 6 Sla tricks: 1 /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:06:54 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Herreshoff Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T8 (was T7) > Goldenmean wrote: > > Well, I think my trump won me that round. I'm going to lead out > > 3 of hearts. > > Sorry, you don't have a 3 of hearts because you already played it I seem not to have recorded that round for some reason, sorry about that. I'll lead my 6 of hearts. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:26:34 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T8 (was T7) On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote: > I'll lead my 6 of hearts. Always the rebel, I play the six of Spades. - -Hubert Jesus died for my sins and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T8 (was T7) > > I'll lead my 6 of hearts. > Always the rebel, I play the six of Spades. 8 of hearts. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Song In My Head--The Smiths:Stop Me If You've Heard This One Current Book--Robert Charles Wilson:The Harvest A depth-first search may provide unusual rewards. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:17:08 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T8 (was T7) On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > > > > I'll lead my 6 of hearts. > > > Always the rebel, I play the six of Spades. > > 8 of hearts. Nine of diamonds. Hubert's lead. - -- 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" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: Fictionary Voting Here are the definitions for "phlogopite": 1. A brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum. 2. A plant which is abnormally large for its species. 3. A substance which is a ready conductor of heat. 4. Pitchblende. 5. A part of certain plants of the rose family found near the base of the stem. 6. Any mineral once thought to contain fire; brimstone. 7. " " Vote publicly. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:18:54 -0500 (EST) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Voting On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote: > Here are the definitions for "phlogopite": > > 1. A brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and > magnesium and aluminum. I vote for definition 1, above. > > /dev/joe > - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:39:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Voting > 3. A substance which is a ready conductor of heat. I'm going for definition 3. TGW. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:25:07 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T9 For trick 9, I lead the Seven of Clubs. - -Hubert Where do you want to go, toady? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:35:27 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Word Un-association On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote: > > Round 5 starts now and it is /dev/joe's turn as linker. E must link from > > round. I remind you that this game is first to 15 (after all players have > > been linker the same number of times). > > The uh? word is duck. I link "duck" and "round" with "sitting." A "sitting duck" is an easy target. One can be "sitting 'round" with no particular purpose. This, like Slakko's, is also rather tenuous; we'll see this round how lenient our Referee is. - -Hubert CAUTION: Sharp knife. Keep out of small children. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:00:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Acka: Word un-association Hmm, quite a difficult decision this time. Duck shoot and sitting duck are both perfectly fine. The links to round are, however, a bit more tenuous. In the end I think I'm going to accept Slakko's play (shoot) because shoot and round are related to a single topic (similar to school and pupil given in the rule, it may be in [square brackets] but it probably has some force as game custom) but not Hubert's play (sitting) on the grounds that sitting round is not really a phrase; sitting around is and is normally pronounced sitting 'round but I don't think that qualifies it. So the result of this round is that Slakko gains two points making the points totals up to: Slakko 5 /dev/joe 3 Hubert 7 It is Hubert's turn as linker for round six and e must link from duck. The Gingham Wearer. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:03:00 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > Hmm, quite a difficult decision this time. Duck shoot and sitting duck are > both perfectly fine. The links to round are, however, a bit more tenuous. In > the end I think I'm going to accept Slakko's play (shoot) because shoot and > round are related to a single topic (similar to school and pupil given in the > rule, it may be in [square brackets] but it probably has some force as game > custom) but not Hubert's play (sitting) on the grounds that sitting round is > not really a phrase; sitting around is and is normally pronounced sitting > 'round but I don't think that qualifies it. So the result of this round is > that Slakko gains two points making the points totals up to: Of course having thought about it I know that /dev/joe probably had the chosen link word of down: round down duck down. - -- 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" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:29:13 -0500 (EST) From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Voting >6. Any mineral once thought to contain fire; brimstone. I like this one. - -- - -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran Success is the child of audacity. -Benjamin Disraeli ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:36:56 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: Argh! "Down," of course! I was trying to do something similar with "out," but thought "duck out" would be less viable than "sitting 'round." > It is Hubert's turn as linker for round six and e must link from duck. The new uh? word is "step." - -Hubert, whose .sig generator is back on track, given the topic of ducks. If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:41:48 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Hubert wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > > Argh! "Down," of course! I was trying to do something similar with > "out," but thought "duck out" would be less viable than "sitting 'round." > > > It is Hubert's turn as linker for round six and e must link from duck. > > The new uh? word is "step." I am linking duck to step with down. duck down: parts of a duck used in blankets step down: to voluntarily leave a position, e.g. an office. - -- 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" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:43:14 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > Slakko 5 > /dev/joe 3 > Hubert 7 Actually I think my score is only 4, not 5. I scored no points in Round 1, 2 points in round 2, no points in round 3, no points in round 4, 2 points in round 5. Yours, Slakko - -- 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" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:47:02 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Duncan Richer wrote: > duck down: parts of a duck used in blankets Say hi to Mr Not-Thinking-Straight. Of course I meant quilts not blankets (ObUKoGBaNIan: duvets) - -- 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" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:48:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association > > Slakko 5 > > /dev/joe 3 > > Hubert 7 > > Actually I think my score is only 4, not 5. > > I scored no points in Round 1, 2 points in round 2, no points in round 3, > no points in round 4, 2 points in round 5. You've been recording it on the website so you are probably right. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. TGW. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:54:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association > Of course I meant quilts not blankets (ObUKoGBaNIan: duvets) Erm...what's ObUKoGBaNIan? TGW. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:59:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association > > It is Hub*rt's turn as linker for round six and e must link from duck. > > The new uh? word is "step." I am linking duck to step with goose. Duck and goose are both birds, and goose step is a funny way to walk. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:05:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association Slakko wrote: > Of course having thought about it I know that /dev/joe probably had the > chosen link word of down: > > round down > duck down. Actually, I was thinking of "game" -- a round is part of a game (for instance, the round we were just playing), and a duck is the kind of "game" hunters go after. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:02:18 -0500 (EST) From: David Scheidt Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Duncan Richer wrote: > duck down: parts of a duck used in blankets And Slakko misses his opportunity to say Hubert Feathers. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:51:06 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R2 T9 > For trick 9, I lead the Seven of Clubs. Eight of Clubs. Ha! This trick is mine! Nobody could possible beat my card! I am the all-powerful one! - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Song--Brahms:Hungarian Dance No. 5 Current Book--Robert Charles Wilson:The Harvest Q is for Quinton who sank in a mire, R is for Rhoda, consumed by a fire. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 21:47:43 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Voting > Here are the definitions for "phlogopite": > 5. A part of certain plants of the rose family found near the base of the > stem. I'll vote for this one. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Song In My Head--Celine Dion:Water From The Moon Current Book--Robert Charles Wilson:The Harvest Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much. ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #38 *******************************