Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #88
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Ackanomic Games Digest     Thursday, June 12 1997     Volume 02 : Number 088

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 01:07:02 -0500
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: *ping* 

Today is Wednesday, the 11th day of June, in the Year of Our Lord 1997, 
and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 6 times. 

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:21:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Today is Wednesday, the 11th day of June, in the Year of Our Lord 1997, 
> and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 6 times. 
> 
> /dev/joe
> Scholar of *ping*

I would like to buy an "n", please.

#award Alfvaen: -A$15 : buying a common consonant

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--The Carpenters:Sing
Current Book--Sean Stewart:Cloud's End
Saturn's saying 'hello' to the DNA   [Dave Sim]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:23:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: *ping* + magic letter

Alfvaen picked n as the magic letter.

There are some n's in the truth:

IF AND ONLY IF today *** **** *n **n*** *** *n *** n***** ** *n**,
THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

/dev/joe
Has loaned out the pedestal of *ping*, to protect it from possible
Thermonuclear Explosion, which somehow does not affect the Machine.

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:30:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* + magic letter

/dev/joe, wise scholar of *ping*, I assert that the truth of the
Machine is:

IF AND ONLY IF today the date in binary has an odd number of ones,
THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:45:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* + magic letter

breadbox wrote:
> /dev/joe, wise scholar of *ping*, I assert that the truth of the
> Machine is:
> 
> IF AND ONLY IF today the date in binary has an odd number of ones,
> THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

Oh, my.  As I filled in the magic letter, I wondered if it would be enough
information for anyone to figure out the truth.  breadbox, perhaps my
biggest treasure-hunting competitor, has deciphered the truth within
minutes of the first Magic Letter being filled in.  Congratulations,
breadbox, and may your study of the machine run as smoothly and error-free
as the one just concluded has been.  Sorry about the machine arriving
without its pedestal.  ThinMan, please pass the pedestal along to breadbox,
as I won't be needing it back.

/dev/joe
ex-Scholar

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 07:55:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* + magic letter

> breadbox wrote:
> > /dev/joe, wise scholar of *ping*, I assert that the truth of the
> > Machine is:
> > 
> > IF AND ONLY IF today the date in binary has an odd number of ones,
> > THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.
> 
> Oh, my.  As I filled in the magic letter, I wondered if it would be
> enough information for anyone to figure out the truth.

The crux was the first four words: "*** **** *n **n***". Given the
assumption that the first two were "the date", the next word could
only reasonably be "on" or "in". "In" would indicate that the next
word was the name of some kind of notation. Given that the dates had
included all the powers of two, it didn't take long to come up with
"binary".

> breadbox, perhaps my biggest treasure-hunting competitor, has
> deciphered the truth within minutes of the first Magic Letter being
> filled in.  Congratulations, breadbox, and may your study of the
> machine run as smoothly and error-free as the one just concluded has
> been.

*deep bow* Thank you, /dev/joe, for your kind words. I will go dig out
my old cron/sendmail programs at once....

breadbox
a successful student for the first time

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:10:26 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping* + magic letter

> > breadbox wrote:
> > > /dev/joe, wise scholar of *ping*, I assert that the truth of the
> > > Machine is:
> > > 
> > > IF AND ONLY IF today the date in binary has an odd number of ones,
> > > THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.
> > 
> > Oh, my.  As I filled in the magic letter, I wondered if it would be
> > enough information for anyone to figure out the truth.
> 
> The crux was the first four words: "*** **** *n **n***". Given the
> assumption that the first two were "the date", the next word could
> only reasonably be "on" or "in". "In" would indicate that the next
> word was the name of some kind of notation. Given that the dates had
> included all the powers of two, it didn't take long to come up with
> "binary".

I had no clue what the words were going to be, but I did notice the first
four powers of two(counting 1)in there, and that might have clued me in
too.  But breadbox's mind was working more quickly than mine.  (Although
who's to know what would've happened had I gotten to work five minutes
earlier...:-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Our Lady Peace:Superman's Dead
Current Book--Sean Stewart:Cloud's End
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.  [Airplane]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 18:53:18 EDT 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: YORL

#award -A$20,  Voting Gnome,  Yorl entry fee

VG

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:20:15 -0400
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL 

At 06:53 PM 6/11/97 EDT, you wrote:
>
>#award -A$20,  Voting Gnome,  Yorl entry fee
>
>VG

So THAT'S how you do it! ;v)

#award -A$20 : You can call me Al : YORL Entry Fee

Thanks.
You can call me Ye Old Rusty Al

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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:23:13 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL

> So THAT'S how you do it! ;v)
> 
> #award -A$20 : You can call me Al : YORL Entry Fee

Actually, I wasn't sure if that was how you did it in the case
of the Brass Pot, and I do not think it takes on acka-games.

Malenkai
who would have started the game were it not for that unexpected
clicking noise from the 12 year old CD player :(

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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 00:55:23 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Lantern

The ante is A$20.  The players and play order are below.  There are
8 benches in the game.  When playing a card, you must work the concept
into the story, not just mention it.  Interrupts, however, tend to be
judged more liberally.  Be on the lookout for interrupts, or some 
BWG-harfer may tell the whole story :)  Please include "Lantern" in
the subject line, or the play must be denied.  Lines containing whitespace
only do not count towards story length.  Thats it for the lawyerware.

I will try to keep pretty close to the 3 day limit to keep the game moving
along.  I will probably allow at least 24 to 36 hours before approving
a play, though, to allow interrupt time (Technically you have 3 days to
interrupt).

Game state and story is at http://www.itw.com/~malenkai/ackayorl.htm
Cards will be delivered by private mail shortly.

I'm not sure how the bot-harfer wants to handle the ante.  2 players have
paid, I will leave that up to him.

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- --> Alfvaen            (7 cards)
    /dev/joe           (7 cards)
    Voting Gnome       (7 cards)
    Vynd               (7 cards)
    Mohammed           (7 cards)
    ThinMan            (7 cards)
    Red Barn           (7 cards)
    You can call me Al (7 cards)

    Remaining Cards: 30
    Loose Ends:

Malenkai
Barkeep

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