Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #98
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Ackanomic Games Digest      Monday, June 23 1997      Volume 02 : Number 098

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:00:02 -0700
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Machine That Goes *ping* 

Today is Sunday, the 22nd 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* 7 times.

breadbox
scholar of *ping*

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 03:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Challenge to Malenkai

> Double Crash doesn't seem to require a Referee.  (Unlike, say,
> Tromino Go, or Viruses...)

Okay. We can do this without a referee.

Please tell Mr. Thou-shalt-have-no-muses-before-mine-own that I have
chosen my word, and he may fire his first salvo when ready. I will
hold off my first attack until I receive notice that he has done
likewise, so as not to bias his selection.

breadbox
notes that a magic letter purchase is available

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:44:52 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play

> play: accusation

Accusation is accepted.  It is burned as well.

Malenkai
Barkeep

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:47:11 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play

> > A young priest approached him, with a bandage clearly intended to replace
> > the one he now noticed was wrapped around his head.  The priest removed
> > the bloody bandage and cleaned the cut.  "Ah, good to see you awake.
> > You took a pretty nasty spill out there, but your only serious injury is
> > this gash on your forehead.  You fared much better than Father Favnale,
> > whose leg -- now broken -- prevented you from splitting your head
> > completely open on the edge of our door.  By the way, my name's Duncan."
> > Duncan wrapped the new bandage around Stutim's head, and left him to
> > rest.
> 
> I am attempting to interrupt with the card: BROKEN.

I'll buy that, I guess.  /dev/joe receives a card.  The game state is:

- --> Alfvaen            (5 cards)
    /dev/joe           (7 cards)
    Voting Gnome       (7 cards)
    Vynd               (7 cards)
    Mohammed           (7 cards)
    ThinMan            (7 cards)
    Red Barn           (7 cards)
    [Open Bench]

    Remaining Cards: 34
    Loose Ends:
        Prophecy

    Burned Cards: 4

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:20:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Magic Letter

I name h as the magic letter.

#award /dev/joe: -5 A$ : magic letter

/dev/joe

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 18:37:10 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Challenge to Malenkai

> Please tell [bwg edited :)] I have chosen my word, and he may fire
> his first salvo when ready. I will hold off my first attack until
> I receive notice that he has done
> likewise, so as not to bias his selection.

I have chosen a word.

Malenkai

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 17:09:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Challenge to Malenkai

> I have chosen a word.

Salvo #1:

abaca
edged
kayak
octyl
oxbow
peeve

breadbox

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:13:34 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Salvo 1

beast
salon
roses
tidal
query
elite

Malenkai
feeling outclassed playing a word game against breadbox

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 17:21:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Magic Letter

> I name h as the magic letter.

A felicitous choice, student /dev/joe! After some heavy consultation
with the Machine and my scrawled notes, I have found no less than four
h's in the Truth that we seek:

IF AND ONLY IF *h* ***h*** *h** **** ****** *** ****** ******-***h*
***** ***, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

breadbox
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Salvo 1

The results of your Salvo #1:

beast  0
salon  1
roses  1
tidal  0
query  0
elite  0

breadbox
just be thankful it isn't /dev/joe

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:37:05 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Round 2

abaca - 0
edged - 0
kayak - 0
octyl - 0
oxbow - 0
peeve - 1

Malenkai
come waste some bandwidth on IRC

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Salvo #2

My second Salvo:

props
lemur
flews
divvy
undue

breadbox
also on IRC

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 21:58:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Magic Letter

> > I name h as the magic letter.
> 
> A felicitous choice, student /dev/joe! After some heavy consultation
> with the Machine and my scrawled notes, I have found no less than four
> h's in the Truth that we seek:
> 
> IF AND ONLY IF *h* ***h*** *h** **** ****** *** ****** ******-***h*
> ***** ***, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

O great schole of *ping*, could the truth possibly be:
 
IF AND ONLY IF today the machine that goes *ping* was silent
twenty-eight weeks ago, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go
*ping*.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--Alannah Myles:A-Lan-Nah
Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:King's Blood Four
How am I supposed to know what a rhetorical question is?

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