From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #138 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 Wednesday, June 24 1998 Volume 03 : Number 138 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:51:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Duncan Richer Subject: Re: Acka: WUA round 13 preliminary results On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, JT wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: > >Back now (and with the skin cancer to prove it) I declare that rufus has, > >to no one's surprise, failed to link from 'loop' in Round 14. Therefore, > >scores are the same as before except that rufus' is -2 instead of 1. It > >would be MTM's turn except for obvious reasons. I don't know if the Rules > >allow me to automatically skip eir turn, but if they do, it is JT's turn > >to link from 'loop.' Otherwise, I suppose I'll pause the game until such > >time as e gets emself a new graphics card or whatever eir problem was. > > >From the reading of the rules, you cannot skip MTM's turn, but he won't > lose any points for failing to post an uh? word. However, he does seem to > still have 3 days to do so, which if he returns from vacation in that time > is good for him :) Vacationing players may not be selected to perform any task. Therefore it can't be his turn. - -- 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 - Web-Harfer,RuneMaker,ChessUmpire,Map-Harfer - www.ackanomic.org ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:03:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: Viruses Round 5 Ends For some reason, we are getting fewer and fewer moves each turn. :-o @ Player moves * two-star no move A Alfvaen I 21 73 G MTM no move J JT P 20 73 N Niccolo no move R Rex Mundi no move S Slakko P 35 82 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 71 . . . . . . . . . . . R R . . . . . . . 71 72 . . . @ @ A J J J . . R R . . . . . . . 72 73 . . . J A . @ J J . . . . . . . . . . . 73 74 . . . . @ . J . . J . . . . . . . . . . 74 75 . . . A A . A @ . J . . . R R . . . . . 75 76 . . . @ A A . . . . @ . . . . @ . . . . 76 77 . . . . . . . . . . S @ J . N @ . . . . 77 78 . . G . A A A . . . S @ . . . @ . . . . 78 79 . . . G . . . @ . . . . @ @ . * . . . . 79 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . 80 81 . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . @ S S . . 81 82 . . . . . . . . . . . . G @ . . S @ . . 82 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . G G . S . . . 83 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S . . . . 84 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Nobody got a viruspoint this round. @ Player viruses viruspoints A Alfvaen 10 1 J JT 10 1 S Slakko 7 0 R Rex Mundi 6 0 G MTM 5 1 * two-star 3 0 N Niccolo F 1 0 Round 6 begins now. Send in your moves. /dev/joe Referee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:33:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary JT wrote, 6 days ago: > On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Micah Smukler wrote: > >The new ing word is "zeugma". > > I believe this word and all the votes for definitions should have been > counted and distributed already? Am I miscounting days again or > something? I finally looked this up in the rules to see what is supposed to happen now, when the Brainiac fails to post the results: 5d) Default: The Scorekeeper or Acting Scorekeeper becomes acting Brainiac to adjudicate step 5. If there is no such officer, the game ends with no winner and no payoff. Anyway, here's what happened so far this round: AtP posted the following list of definitions with a note that one player submitted a correct definition, and "some people submitted duplicate definitions" which accompanies the multiple failures-to-submit-definitions that occurred in this round. 1. A linguistic paradox 2. " " 3. Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one. 4. A literary technique in which a series of words are joined together by hyphens. 5. A skin complaint involving a blotchy rash. Within the 3 day limit, JT, 867-5309, and Vynd and Slakko all voted for definition 3. It should come as no surprise that definition 3 is the correct definition. I submitted a correct definition. The scoring for the round should be that I score 4 gamepoints, the 4 bluffers who voted for definition 3 receive 2 points each, Attila the Pun loses one point for not posting the results on time, each player besides these 6 (myself, AtP, and the 4 bluffers who voted) loses 1 point for not voting, and each player besides AtP, myself, and those who submitted definitions 1, 4, and 5. It is apparently the scorekeeper's duty to determine who did what as far as these 1 point penalties goes. The scoring at the end of Vynd's turn as brainiac was: Slakko: 4 rufus: 1 JT: 18 TGW/MTM: 2 867-5309: 13 Vynd: 6 else...if: 4 AtP: -3 /dev/joe: 3 After this, else...if lost 4 points for not posting the list of definitions in time, then left the game, and rufus left the game. Thus only Mr Tambourine Man failed to vote. This will make the new scores: Slakko: 4+2 = 6 JT: 18+2 = 20 TGW/MTM: 2-1 = 1 867-5309: 13+2 = 15 Vynd: 6+2 = 8 AtP: -3-1 = -4 /dev/joe: 3+4 = 7 except that two players who failed to submit definitions also lose a point each (unless through some odd coincidence, only one player failed to submit a definition and two players submitted one of the other definitions in the list, in which case only one player loses an additional point). Once the scorekeeper finishes adjudicating this round by determining which players lost points for not submitting definitions, it will be my turn as Brainiac. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:27:21 -0400 (EDT) From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: WUA round 13 preliminary results On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Duncan Richer wrote: >Vacationing players may not be selected to perform any task. >Therefore it can't be his turn. Okay, in that case, it is my turn, and the uh? word is: sports - --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:02:02 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary > I finally looked this up in the rules to see what is supposed to happen now, > when the Brainiac fails to post the results: > 5d) Default: The Scorekeeper or Acting Scorekeeper becomes acting Brainiac > to adjudicate step 5. If there is no such officer, the game ends with no > winner and no payoff. Good thing somebody looked this up! I was totally unaware. So it seems what is necessary is for me to get information on who among the Bluffers sent in which definition, or lack thereof. It'd be easiest to get this from the erstwhile Brainiac, but any other information would be appreciated. All we really need to know is who failed to submit a definition, as far as points are concerned. - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--The Damned:The Light At The End of The Tunnel Current Book--Wild Cards: Card Sharks Give us this day our daily bread in individual slices ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:15:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Randy Hall Subject: Re: Acka: Doldrums > > I'd certainly play something. > > Same here, but nothing that will take forever (like Eleusis). Spades ?? :-) Anyone for starting a fresh YORL? The other one seems kinda moribund. saaremaa ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #138 ********************************