From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #63 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, April 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 063 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:18:43 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Acka: Viruses Here are the moves for Round 30 of Viruses: /dev/joe: Place K21 breadbox: Place >13 Slakko: Place M15 The Gingham Wearer: Destroy S10 else...if: Step R13-Q13 two-star: None New Grid: < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . 25 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X @ @ . . . . * * . . . . . . . . 24 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X . ? ? . @ . . * * . . . . . . . 23 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 21 . . . . . . . . . . . ? . . . / . X @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X X . . . ? ? . . . / . . . . . 20 19 . . . . . . . . . . ? . . . . X . @ . . ? ? . ? . . @ / / . . . . 19 18 . . . . @ / . . . . ? ? . @ . 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S S S S S S S . . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 . . . . . . . . S S S S . . . @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 - -1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 < = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ No Viruspoint is awarded this round. Player Name Symbol Cells Points /dev/joe / 23 6 breadbox X 23 2 two-star * 22 1 else...if ? 19 3 Slakko S 15 2 The Gingham Wearer G 13 8 Round 31 starts now; you may reply to this message to send me your moves. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Stan Ridgway:Black Diamond Current Book--Sean Stewart:The Night Watch "Jean-Luc, I am Beldar. I am also from France." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:54:40 -0400 (EDT) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Acka: Another game of Fictionary With this message, I am announcing the start of a game of fictionary. In accordance with the rules, I hearby list the players in this game, each of whom has been randomly assigned a number. They are: 1. Slakko 2. rufus 3. JT 4. The Gingham Wearer 5. Hubert 6. Vynd 7. else...if 8. Atilla the Pun 9. /dev/joe Quite a crew, I must say. Should make for a rousing game I would think. Without further ado, I turn things over to out first Brainiac: Slakko. - Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 02:48:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R3 T9/10 On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > > > > I'll lead out the jack of diamonds > > > I follow with the Six of Diamonds. Not rhinestones, baby. Diamonds. > > Five of Hearts. Two of Spades. My trick! Trick 10 lead: 10 of Hearts. - -- Duncan C. "" Richer aka Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc Acka - President "Gumball" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 03:04:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: Another game of Fictionary On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote: > Quite a crew, I must say. Should make for a rousing game I would think. > Without further ado, I turn things over to out first Brainiac: Slakko. Wow! Chosen first in both Fictionary Games I've played! What an honour! Now, let's try and find that word. The word for round 1 is: gangrel. Oh, yeah, a note: does anyone want to change the rules to allow words in the definitional dictionaries, but not in the official word-list dictionaries to be used? I had about 5 or 6 tries at words rejected before I got to this one. Send your responses, Bluffers. Yours, Slakko Brainiac - -- Duncan C. "" Richer aka Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc Acka - President "Gumball" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 04:23:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Herreshoff Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R3 T9/10 > Trick 10 lead: > 10 of Hearts. 7 of spades. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play Rufus wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > > until in a cataclysmic explosion of fire and water the bit of the > > asteroid on which he was standing detached itself from the rest of > > the ground and blew off into space. > > I interrupt with "explosion". TGW's play of "explosion" is accepted (and burned, no pun intended). Kirby is down but not out, so his card remains a loose end. Rufus's interrupt with explosion is accepted. TGW is dealt a card. It is rufus's turn. YORL Status: Loose Ends: 4 - cowboy, snowgod, thin man, 2600 Cards Burned: 30 Cards in Deck: 8 Total in pot: A$220. Play Order: rufus [6 cards] Atilla the Pun [7 cards] Karma [9 cards] Alfvaen [3 cards] [1 Ale] two-star [7 cards] The Gingham Wearer [3 cards] [2 Ale] TAFKA Slagothor [7 cards] Slakko [7 cards] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:33:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play > TGW's play of "explosion" is accepted (and burned, no pun intended). TGW's play was actually "asteroid", but it is still burned and the rest of that message was correct. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:20:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Hubert Subject: Acka: Word U-A round 1 results On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > > In that case, let the Game begin! The Official Dictionary came up, > > interestingly enough, with the word "queen." Take it away, TGW! > > How ironic that your dice decided I should be the first linker. Still, this > round's uh? word is "gilding". Results of round 1 of Word Un-Association: JT's link of "album" was rejected; the link to "Queen" is tenuous but passable, but I think since the link to "gilding" depends on an album going "gold," it's a bit too disassociated. Attila the Pun, rufus, and Koxvolio all linked with "crown;" this is accepted. I thought long and hard on Slakko's link of "lily." "Gilding the lily" is a relatively common expression, but "Queen Lily" is tougher. I finally decided to accept it; if you're not sure why (and I'm not sure Slakko's sure why), check out http://homepages.enterprise.net/sylv/INDEX.HTM which is where I found the esoterica that ultimately decided me. else...if did not submit a link word that I noticed. Scores: Slakko: 2 Attila the Pun: 1 Koxvolio: 1 rufus: 1 else...if: 0 JT: 0 TGW: 0 JT is the Linker for round 2 and must link from "gilding." Give us a word, Boomerang Man. - -Hubert Windows 95: another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:34:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Hubert Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R3 T10 On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote: > > 10 of Hearts. > > 7 of spades. 10 of Spades. - -Hubert Mary had a little lamb....and Mulder was determined to find out why. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:52:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Re: Acka: Word U-A round 1 results > > How ironic that your dice decided I should be the first linker. Still, this > > round's uh? word is "gilding". For anyone interested, the word I was thinking of was mercury. TGW. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:54:14 -0400 (EDT) From: JT Traub Subject: Re: Acka: Word U-A round 1 results The Uh-word for this round is: page - --JT ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #63 *******************************