From: owner-acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com (acka-games-digest) To: acka-games-digest@muppetlabs.com Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #148 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, July 3 1998 Volume 03 : Number 148 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 08:15:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - else...if's play >Correct Plays | Incorrect plays >-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ >5 H (starter) | >8 H (MTM [#]) | 9H - -- - -Henry Towsner Success is the child of audacity. -Benjamin Disraeli ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:31:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - else...if's play elseif wrote: > >Correct Plays | Incorrect plays > >-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ > >5 H (starter) | > >8 H (MTM [#]) | > > 9H This play is incorrect. /dev/joe Deus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:35:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: *ping* Today is Friday, the 3rd day of July, and the Machine that goes *ping* has gone *ping*. Since I have been scholar, the machine has gone *ping* 22 times. /dev/joe Scholar of *ping* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 10:39:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" Subject: Acka: Fictionary: Need Definitions! So far a number of players have not submitted their definitions for the current Ing word, gyrene. Please submit these ASAP; they are due tonight. /dev/joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:03:09 -0400 (EDT) From: K2 Subject: Acka: GAD: Carnelian (14) At last a round that finishes early :) else...if grabbed rufus while e grabbed JT while e grabbed J.M. Bear while e attempted to grab Fortunato who covered eir donkey. Vynd also attempted to grab Fortunato. Eliminations: previous rounds: 24 this round: 0 0 J. M. Bear GAL for the Carnelian Round: Untouchable 4 else…if 3 Fortunato 3 Vynd The rufus 'n the rest: 2 JT 1 rufus K 2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:12:54 -0400 (EDT) From: JT Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - 867-5309's play Players and Scores: * 867-5309 : 7 gamepoints (14 cards) /dev/joe : 7 gamepoints ( 0 cards) (Deus) MTM : 3 gamepoints (18 cards) else...if : 0 gamepoints (15 cards) (* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus and prophet respond to the play) (@ denotes a player eliminated from the round) [MTM is Mr. Tambourine Man] Card ranks: Correct Plays | Incorrect plays - -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ 5 H (starter) | 8 H (MTM [#]) | 9 H (else...if) [*] every 10th card after the starter is marked while there is no prophet [#] Invalid 'No Play' card selected by Deus (or Prophet) [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 15:21:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Acka: Bacon After a bit of prodding (thank you K 2) here are the results to the latest round of bacon game 2: K 2 provided this Bacon Chain: Dune: Everett McGill, Sean Young Blade Runner: Sean Young, Edward James Oloms Zoot Suit: Edward James Oloms, Kelly Ward Alfvaen as far as I can see failed to provide a Bacon Chain at all. Alfvaen may challenge K 2's chain if e wishes. The next round starts now, please name your actrons. MTM. (BTW, Alfvaen, what do you think of the idea of declaring game 1 moribund?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 17:15:29 -0400 (EDT) From: K2 Subject: Acka: Bacon I name Sting. K 2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon >I name Sting. Ooh, one I know! :-) Well, just to keep in the musical subgenre, I name Meat Loaf. - -- - --Alfvaen (Web page:http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/) Current Album--Sade:Stronger Than Pride Current Book--Fred Saberhagen:The Dracula Tape The mirrors would do well to reflect further. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:11:51 -0400 (EDT) From: alfvaen@telusplanet.net (Aaron V. Humphrey) Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon >After a bit of prodding (thank you K 2) here are the results to the latest >round of bacon game 2: >K 2 provided this Bacon Chain: >Dune: Everett McGill, Sean Young >Blade Runner: Sean Young, Edward James Oloms >Zoot Suit: Edward James Oloms, Kelly Ward >Alfvaen as far as I can see failed to provide a Bacon Chain at all. Alfvaen >may challenge K 2's chain if e wishes. The next round starts now, please name >your actrons. I'm going to challenge. (Although I really do have to see Dune again one of these days...) >(BTW, Alfvaen, what do you think of the idea of declaring game 1 moribund?) Sounds good to me. I mean, it pretty much is, isn't it? - -- - --Alfvaen(Web page:http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/) Current Album--Sade:Stronger Than Pride Current Book--Fred Saberhagen:The Dracula Tape A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: K2 Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > I'm going to challenge. (Although I really do have to see Dune again one of > these days...) One of my favourite books :) K 2 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:50:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Randy Hall Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon > > I'm going to challenge. (Although I really do have to see Dune again one of > > these days...) > > One of my favourite books :) One of my least favorite, (and overrated IMO), directors. :) saaremaa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 19:56:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tom Walmsley" Subject: Acka: Bacon I declare game 1 of bacon (Alfvaen and Ayla) to be moribund. I think that that means that the game ends unless the competitors object within the next three days but I can't be bothered checking (it is 12:49 a.m. here). K 2's Bacon chain is valid so e therefore moves up to two game points (and leads now two to nil). The next round challenges you to link from Sting to Meat Loaf. For the first time this game I can actually name a film with one of these actors in. I'm sure you two will be able to do better than that though. Also, a reminder that I'm off on vacation tomorrow so if you could get your chains in quickly then we may be able to get in another round before I go. MTM, ref. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 21:01:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Randy Hall wrote: > > > I'm going to challenge. (Although I really do have to see Dune again one of > > > these days...) > > > > One of my favourite books :) > > One of my least favorite, (and overrated IMO), directors. :) > > saaremaa > Aw, whats not to like about Dune? The movie I mean, not the book (which is not to imply there is anything wrong with the book). My friends and I watched the 4 hour long directors cut (not to be confused with the 5 or 6 hour long uncut version) one day after school. First time any of us had ever seen it, and I don't think any of us had read the book. It was, to be honest, nearly incomprehensible. But you have to love a movie with a flying fat man, and lines like (in a tone of amazement) "My name is a killing word" and "Dune... Arrakis... the desert planet..." Our universal favorite, however, was an exchange between the evil Baron Harkonen and his Mentat advisor, it went something like this: Mentat: "Thus by following my plan..." Baron (who incidentaly is very fat, very ugly, and as previously mentioned, is always flying around in some sort of inflatable hover thingie, this isnever exaplined): "*MY* plan!" Mentat (disgustedly): "*The* plan... we have captured etc." My friends and I still throw that one at each other sometimes. :) - Vynd, loves talking about Dune ------------------------------ End of acka-games-digest V3 #148 ********************************