Subject: acka-games-digest V2 #190
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acka-games-digest     Saturday, November 15 1997     Volume 02 : Number 190

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:25:07 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Third Salvo

Vynd's Third Salvo:

wahoo
bacon
galah
nabob

                      - Vynd

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:27:08 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo

Response to Alfvaen's third salvo:

> 
> pleon    2
> kloof    5
> cloot    3
> groom    2
> 

Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only
two rounds...  sad, really.

                                    - Vynd

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 00:48:52 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: GAD Round 2

Round Two ended, oh, about 5 hours ago, when three days had passed since
it began.  Sorry I didn't make good on my threat, but I've been busy.
Perhaps soon we will have a Mr. Lunatic Fringe memorial round...  In any
event, here are all the plays made, minus those who just stood and stared:

Two-star attempted to grab Red Barn's donkey, but was foiled by its
owner's deft use of a blanket.

/dev/joe grabbed Karma's flaming donkey.

Fortunato and Crackfoo both made a grab at Robert Sevin's distinguished
donkey, thus hopelessly entangling themselves.

mr cwm grabbed Calvin N Hobbes savy donkey.

Rex Mundi grabbed Crackfoo's mighty donkey.

Thinman hid his donkey under a blanket.

Slakko hid his donkey under a blanket.

As a result of the above, Karma, Calvin N Hobbes, and Crackfoo will be
eliminated at the begining of the next round, which coincidentaly enough
is now.

 The current GAL is:
 
Antimatter
Archie Leach
Darth Vader
/dev/joe
Fortunato
mr cwm
Red Barn
Rex Mundi
Robert Sevin
Slakko
SonofWu
Thinman
two-star
Voting Gnome

Scores:

Crackfoo        1 (eliminated)
mr cwm          1
Red Barn        1
Thinman         1
breadbox        1 (eliminated)
Rex Mundi       1
/dev/joe        1

Again, reply to this message with your moves, the clock is ticking....

                                 - Wrangler Vynd

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 07:07:01 -0600
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *ping*

Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, 
and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. 

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:09:58 +0000 ()
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, 
> and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. 
> 
> /dev/joe
> Scholar of *ping*
> 
Exsqueeze me?  The Machine only got to your place on the 12th.  Do you
count previous machines visits as well or something?  7 times?

Yours,
Slakko

student of *ping*
- --
Duncan C. Richer -- aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother -- Now Really Lost!
Queens' College  -- PhD, Pure Maths, Graph Theory --  Cambridge University
"Equipment malfunction." "Well, whack it." -- Obscure P&TB Quote
http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/Nomic/27/Index.html <-- Imperial Nomic Game 27

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:30:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, 
> and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. 

Doh! Look what I get for not resetting the file where my
*ping* script keeps track of how many times it's gone off.
Of course, since I have been scholar this time, the machine
has only *ping*ed once.  Fortunately we fixed that rule to
excuse trivial errors like this.. :-)

/dev/joe

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:38:30 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> > Today is Saturday, the 15th day of November, 
> > and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today. 
> > Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 7 times. 
> 
> Doh! Look what I get for not resetting the file where my
> *ping* script keeps track of how many times it's gone off.
> Of course, since I have been scholar this time, the machine
> has only *ping*ed once.  Fortunately we fixed that rule to
> excuse trivial errors like this.. :-)

And while I'm at it, I guess t as the Magick Character for Malenkai's
treasure.

/dev/joe
Running the *ping*s from a cron job has the side-effect of taking away
some of the advantage the scholar might otherwise have in choosing the
Magick Character... :-)

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:39:16 -0700 (MST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo

> Vynd's Third Salvo:

> wahoo - 1
> bacon - 1
> galah - 1
> nabob - 1

Figured out it had an 'a' as the second letter, did you?  :-)

So, I am now the tentative winner, and should post my word, which
was 'larva'.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--REM:New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite
Conform, go crazy, or become a writer.

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:42:32 -0700 (MST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo

> Response to Alfvaen's third salvo:

> > pleon    2
> > kloof    5
> > cloot    3
> > groom    2

> Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only
> two rounds...  sad, really.

Well, I suppose it depends on what you consider cheating.  I mean, I wrote
a Perl program to provide me a list of words matching the salvos to date,
but there's nothing illegal about that any more than my program to
calculate the results of various potential Viruses moves.  It's up to you
whether you consider it unsporting or not; if so, I might consider a match
against you without using it(though using any resources you have
available...)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--REM:New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Current Book--Dave Duncan:Future Indefinite
Too many cooks spoil the universe.  --Mark Buda

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 15:10:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Third Salvo

> Response to Alfvaen's third salvo:
> 
>> pleon    2
>> kloof    5
>> cloot    3
>> groom    2
> 
> Once again, my opponent in Double Crash is reduced to cheating after only
> two rounds...  sad, really.

Heh. Well, Vynd, in my case it was just dumb luck, but this time it
looks like Alfvaen just about had your number.

b

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 21:29:20 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Album guessing

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