From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #47 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 Friday, March 20 1998 Volume 03 : Number 047 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 07:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Herreshoff Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T2 > > >I lead the Ace of Clubs. > > > > 2 of Clubs. > > Nine of Clubs. 4 of Clubs. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:38:10 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Acka: Abstract Crescent: Round 2 Results, Round 3 starts Moves made in Round 2 of Abstract Crescent: Hubert: 13 else...if: 14 The Gingham Wearer: no play Alfvaen: 4 rufus: no play /dev/joe: 6 So Alfvaen wins this round and scores 10 points (2*6 - 6 + 4) Scores: Hubert 11, Alfvaen 10, everyone else 0. Game is 30. Send your moves in for Round 3! - -- 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: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:49:38 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Acka: Abstract Round 3 I forgot to remind you of your numbers: rufus: 0 /dev/joe: 1 Hubert: 2 else...if: 3 The Gingham Wearer: 4 Alfvaen: 5 Please respond with your congruences mod 6 privately. If you want to join the game, email me privately and you can start as of the next round. 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: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:40:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Acka: Word Un-association update Neither Slakko nor /dev/joe have supplied an appropriate link word so Hubert must do so now. If he does so then e gains two points. The next linker is, I believe, Slakko, who must link from braid and may as well do so now unless there's some impediment in my rule that I can't recall. And just to remind you that if my CSR has passed by now (I can't recall the length of time before it gets accepted; I suppose I ought to check) then link words now go to me (i.e., the referee). TGW. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:47:12 -0500 (EST) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Word Un-association update On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > Neither Slakko nor /dev/joe have supplied an appropriate link word so Hubert > must do so now. If he does so then e gains two points. The next linker is, I > believe, Slakko, who must link from braid and may as well do so now unless > there's some impediment in my rule that I can't recall. And just to remind > you that if my CSR has passed by now (I can't recall the length of time > before it gets accepted; I suppose I ought to check) then link words now go > to me (i.e., the referee). The uh? word for this round, being two steps away from braid, is: raising. 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: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:15:56 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Word Un-association update On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > Neither Slakko nor /dev/joe have supplied an appropriate link word so Hubert > must do so now. If he does so then e gains two points. The next linker is, I > believe, Slakko, who must link from braid and may as well do so now unless > there's some impediment in my rule that I can't recall. And just to remind > you that if my CSR has passed by now (I can't recall the length of time > before it gets accepted; I suppose I ought to check) then link words now go > to me (i.e., the referee). I was intending to link "start" and "braid" with "up." I don't think there would be any contention that "up" would be associated with "start" either as "upstart" or as in the famous Microsoft/Rolling Stones anthem. Given the recent success of my efforts, though, I would like to explain my choice with regards to "upbraid," meaning "castigate." My previous play -- with "re" to link "start" and "pair" -- used "re," normally a musical term, as a completely unrelated prefix in each case. In the case of "upbraid," however, the origin of the word is, I believe, from the military. An officer convicted in a court-martial would be punished by having all eir decorations removed, beginning with the epaulets: the braids quite literally ripped up off eir shoulders. Because of this, I think "up" is more closely associated with "braid" than simply as a prefix. TGW is welcome, of course, to rule differently. (And probably will. :-)) - -Hubert "Plato, this is delicious. What did you you say was in it?" -Socrates ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 18:21:15 -0500 (EST) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T3 Greatly daring, I lead the King of Clubs for the third trick of this third round of this interminable game of Spades. - -Hubert Illiterate? Write today for free help. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:44:35 -0500 (EST) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T3 > Greatly daring, I lead the King of Clubs for the third trick of this third > round of this interminable game of Spades. Seven of Clubs. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--The Smiths:Louder Than Bombs Current Book--Jane Yolen:White Jenna Never pet a burning dog. ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #47 *******************************