Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #43
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acka-games-digest        Monday, March 16 1998        Volume 03 : Number 043

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:45:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Joshua Herreshoff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T1

I lead out the king of diamonds

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:05:15 -0500 (EST)
From: AARON KEESLER <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: GAD Round 10

Here it is, the first double-digit round... probably the first of many
:)  One elimination this time, a couple of failed grabs, and a lot of
covering...

On to the Round:

Slakko decided that he wanted to reign unopposed in the Donkey Covering
contest, and swiped breadbox's donkey, unfortunately while breadbox was
standing around gazing at it.  breadbox's donkey, still hammering out
the details of the Blanket religion, was somewhat confused.

Goldenmean attempted to swipe The Gingham Wearer's donkey, but The
Gingham Wearer was having none of it, and blocked the lariat.

rufus attempted to grab Guy Fawkes' donkey, but Guy Fawkes' donkey was
spending a round in the all-encompassing embrace of the Blanket Mother,
and rufus' attack was repulsed.

Rex Mundi and K 2 covered their donkeys.

Current Scores:
The Gingham Wearer - 4
Guy Fawkes - 1
Rex Mundi - 1
Goldenmean - 1
Slakko - 1
Everyone else - 0

The yet-again-shorter-by-one GAL:
The Gingham Wearer
Goldenmean
Guy Fawkes
K 2
Rex Mundi
Hibert
Slakko

Reply with your next move.  And remember, GAD is like chess, except that
you don't have as many pieces, and the strategy is significantly
simpler.  So play accordingly :)

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Aaron Keesler
Lotus Notes Administrator
Intranet Administrator
Adtran, Inc.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:11:26 -0500 (EST)
From: AARON KEESLER <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Small correction

The GAL included some player named Hibert, who obviously does not exist.
 What I meant was rufus.  Thank you for your cooperation :)

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Aaron Keesler
Lotus Notes Administrator
Intranet Administrator
Adtran, Inc.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:01:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Word un-association round 9

> I thought it was sufficiently removed, but my judgment on the matter isn't
> quite the same as the Ref's, as the last few rounds have showed.  The last
> uh? word was a joke.  The new uh? word is "braid."
> 
> Technically, it's possible to start any action.  Braiding, for instance.
> But since "starting trouble" is a cliche (sort of) and starting a braid
> shouldn't be, I hope this one satisfies the peanut gallery. :-)

I'm not really sure what to do in this instance since I'm not sure whether I
would have accepted trouble. After a bit of thought I have decided to harf
things with braid as the uh? word.

TGW.

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:55:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Abstract Crescent Round 1 Results, Round 2 Start

Results of Abstract Crescent:

Hubert 6
else...if 7
The Gingham Wearer 8
Alfvaen 15
/dev/joe 17
rufus - no number submitted

So Hubert wins Round 1 and scores 11 points, the maximum possible.
Game is currently 30.

Numbers for Round 2 are:

0: /dev/joe
1: Hubert
2: else...if
3: The Gingham Wearer
4: Alfvaen
5: rufus

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Yr PhD(PMa) - .Nomic Elector, Frgn Minister, HP(Morpork)
Acka - President "Gumball" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:16:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

Bluffers, bluffers, bluffers. Feast your eyes upon this banquet of
possible definitions for the Ing word, "gleet" --

1. An archaic instrument; a predecessor of the bagpipes.
2. A clicking sound, made by snapping the tip of tongue off the roof
   of the mouth, which occurs only in some African languages.
3. Highly active, usually with reference to animals.
4. To steal.
5. To flow slowly, as water.
6. To glisten wetly.
7. The thick layer of fat deposits found just below the skin of most
   bears.

- -- and then choose but one.

breadbox
Brainiac

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:26:50 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

Brian Raiter wrote:
> 
> Bluffers, bluffers, bluffers. Feast your eyes upon this banquet of
> possible definitions for the Ing word, "gleet" --
> 
> 1. An archaic instrument; a predecessor of the bagpipes.
> 2. A clicking sound, made by snapping the tip of tongue off the roof
>    of the mouth, which occurs only in some African languages.
> 3. Highly active, usually with reference to animals.
> 4. To steal.
> 5. To flow slowly, as water.
> 6. To glisten wetly.
> 7. The thick layer of fat deposits found just below the skin of most
>    bears.
> 8. To spit with your tounge that is pressureyezing against the roof of your mouth.
> -- and then choose but (one).
> 
> breadbox
> Brainiac
I join, I choose eight.

- -hoover 2300
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Good, Bad; I'm the Guy with the gun.

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:33:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

> 1. An archaic instrument; a predecessor of the bagpipes.

This one gets my vote this time. Although with three verbs, three nouns and
one adjective, I can see there's going to be plenty of ridiculing going on.

TGW.

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:45:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 [email-masked] wrote:
> I join, I choose eight.

Is it me, or is this the sanest thing Hoover's said since e's been here?
Despite not working.
- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Yr PhD(PMa) - .Nomic Elector, Frgn Minister, HP(Morpork)
Acka - President "Gumball" Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:19:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T1

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote:

> I lead out the king of diamonds

Oh, what the heck.  If it's a trap, it's a good one.

I follow with the Ace of diamonds.

- -Hubert

Windows 95: another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation... 

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:43:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

>5. To flow slowly, as water.
	I'll take this one.

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- -Henry Towsner, AKA else...if, The Fearless Alibi Posesser, Laefu, and Yilran

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:53:04 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:

> Bluffers, bluffers, bluffers. Feast your eyes upon this banquet of
> possible definitions for the Ing word, "gleet" --
> 
> 2. A clicking sound, made by snapping the tip of tongue off the roof
>    of the mouth, which occurs only in some African languages.

I am voting for definition 2, quoted above.

                                 - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades: R3 T1

> > I lead out the king of diamonds

> Oh, what the heck.  If it's a trap, it's a good one.

> I follow with the Ace of diamonds.

Ha!  He walked right into that one.

7 of Diamonds.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Massive Attack:Blue Lines
Current Book--Ann Marston:The Western King
Well done is half begun.

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:30:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary, Round 13, continued

> Bluffers, bluffers, bluffers. Feast your eyes upon this banquet of
> possible definitions for the Ing word, "gleet" --

> 7. The thick layer of fat deposits found just below the skin of most
>    bears.

I like this one.  And so I shall vote for it.  In fact, I _am_ voting
for it.  Just to be unambiguous.  There.  I have voted for it.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Massive Attack:Blue Lines
Current Book--Ann Marston:The Western King
"We can't let the fragments win!"  --ajflesch

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