Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #72
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acka-games-digest      Wednesday, April 15 1998      Volume 03 : Number 072

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:39:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Raquel Peres da Silva" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Hey!

> Well, then...if anyone _else_ wants to play Eleusis, then let me know
> and you can play in _my_ game!  :-p  I bet it'll be much more fun than
> their old game.

When I checked my mail there were only 3 players in "Alfvaen's Eleusis".
Can I
be number 4?

Ayla
Priestess of The Order of the Razor Boomerangs

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:44:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Fictionary defs

Here are the definitions for round two of fictionary.  One player guessed the
correct definition so there are only eight to choose from.  

1. All gone, non-existent, or dead.

2. Utter nothingness; a lack of being.

3. A sweet Kenyan drink made from a local grass.

4. A dialect of English, spoken by the inhabitants of a nonexistent island chain.

5. Gully, ravine

6.  A paste primarily made of sesame seed and avocado, used in cooking as a
seasoning or glaze.

7.  An uninteresting person; a bore

8.  An indian pastry known for its thick crust

rufus

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:53:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

Note to other bluffers: the votes for definitions are supposed to be sent
publicly.  rufus sent this to the priv list, so replies will default to
going to him only.  Keep your eyes open and send your reply to acka-games.

I vote for this one, #6:
> 6.  A paste primarily made of sesame seed and avocado, used in cooking as a
> seasoning or glaze.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:59:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Note to other bluffers: the votes for definitions are supposed to be sent
> publicly.  rufus sent this to the priv list, so replies will default to
> going to him only.  Keep your eyes open and send your reply to acka-games.

Sorry.  I wasnt' thinking.  

rufus

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 02:46:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R4 T5

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> For my next trick, I lead the Jack of Clubs.

Queen of Clubs.
> 

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:18:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joshua Herreshoff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R4 T5

> > For my next trick, I lead the Jack of Clubs.
>
> Queen of Clubs.

9 of clubs.

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:25:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R4 T5

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote:

> > > For my next trick, I lead the Jack of Clubs.
> >
> > Queen of Clubs.
> 
> 9 of clubs.

4 of clubs.  Take it away, Slakko the Orchestra Leader!

- -Hubert

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 05:27:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, David Scheidt wrote:

> 5. Gully, ravine

I'll take this one, please.  (It seems the most unlikely.)

- -Hubert

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:40:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: YORL play

Sam skipped along the sidewalk, happy to be finished with school and get
back to his Grandpa's story.  But as he neared his Grandpa's house, he saw
a large ambulance with flashing red and blue lights standing in the
driveway.  He liked ambulances; he had a few toy ones at home.  But his
parents had told him that real-life ambulances were a Bad Thing.  They
meant that someone had been hurt real bad.

Sam ran up and tugged at the pants of one of the doctor men who were
loading something into the ambulance.

"Mister, what's happening?" he asked.  "Is my Grandpa OK?"

The tall doctor man paused, looked down at Sam, and then looked away,
swallowing hard.  Before Sam could say anything more, he was swept off the
ground and hugged tight by his weeping mother.

* * *

Kneeling in the mud, Sam placed the colorful flowers in front of the large
smooth stone.  He paused a second to run his fingers over the carvings in
the stone, then stood and took his parents' hands again.

As they turned to walk off, Sam looked up through the driving rain at his
mommy and asked, "When's Grandpa coming back, Mom?"

His mother smiled sadly and kneeled in front of him, tousling his hair
gently.  Through the rain and her tears, she said quietly, "Grandpa's gone
to a better place, Sam.  We won't see him again for a long long time," and
hugged him tight again, crying even harder.

But this wasn't right, thought Sam.  His Grandpa was the only one who knew
the Sam story!

Hubert plays: ambulance

- -Hubert

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:18:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Spades R4 T6

I lead the 4 of Spades to this trick.

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:31:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

> 7.  An uninteresting person; a bore

I'm going for this one.

TGW.

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:19:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Micah Smukler)
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

>Here are the definitions for round two of fictionary.  One player guessed the
>correct definition so there are only eight to choose from.
>
>
>1. All gone, non-existent, or dead.
>
>2. Utter nothingness; a lack of being.
>
>3. A sweet Kenyan drink made from a local grass.
>
>4. A dialect of English, spoken by the inhabitants of a nonexistent island
>chain.
>
>5. Gully, ravine
>
>6.  A paste primarily made of sesame seed and avocado, used in cooking as a
>seasoning or glaze.
>
>7.  An uninteresting person; a bore
>
>8.  An indian pastry known for its thick crust
>
>rufus

I vote for (6).

"You don't understand! *First* I shot the arrows, and *then* I painted the
targets!"

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 13:24:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joshua Herreshoff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R4 T6

> I lead the 4 of Spades to this trick.

5 of spades.

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:41:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joes play

Players and Scores:
    Hubert    : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
  * /dev/joe  : 0  (14 cards)
    TGW       : 0  (14 cards)
    else...if : 0  (14 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 K S (starter)

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:49:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, David Scheidt wrote:

> 
Here are the definitions for round two of fictionary.  One player guessed the
> correct definition so there are only eight to choose from.  
> 
> 8.  An indian pastry known for its thick crust

I shall vote for 8.
- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:51:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joes play

> Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>  K S (starter)

I play the queen of spades

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:53:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play s.

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:55:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Fictionary defs

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, David Scheidt wrote:

> Here are the definitions for round two of fictionary.  One player guessed the
> correct definition so there are only eight to choose from.  
> 
> 
> 2. Utter nothingness; a lack of being.

I am voting for definition 2, above.

                                     - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:01:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: AC: Round 11 ends, Round 12 starts.

The following congruences were played for Round 11 of Abstract Crescent:

2: IdiotBoy
4: Hubert
5: else...if
6: The Gingham Wearer
17: /dev/joe
49: Alfvaen
and rufus yet again forgot to make a play.

This is an unofficial warning to rufus: miss the next round as well,
making 5 in a row, and I will throw you out of the game unless that would
give someone an immediate win.

So IdiotBoy won the round, earning 12 points.

Scores:

27: /dev/joe
22: Hubert
21: Alfvaen
12: IdiotBoy
10: The Gingham Wearer
 7: else...if
 0: rufus

If anyone wants to join, and the next round does not produce a winner,
then an email to me before I announce the next results will see you added
to the list.

Congruences (mod 7) for Round 12:

0: TGW
1: Alfvaen
2: rufus
3: IdiotBoy
4: /dev/joe
5: Hubert
6: else...if

Yours,
Slakko

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - ex-President/still Web-Harfer RuneMaker ChessUmpire Map-Harfer

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play 'ps'

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:13:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 (small errata)

I forgot to mention one thing when I sent out the first round.  The cards
are ranked as follows in each Suit.  Ace high, down through 2.  Wilds are
considered ranked lowest.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play 'aps'

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:30:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play 'apsu'

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play 'capsu'

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: ThinMan vs JT

I play 'icapsu'

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joes play

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> > Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
> > -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
> >  K S (starter)
> 
> I play the queen of spades

This is a correct play.

- -Hubert

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't 
roll your friends into little balls and flick them across the room. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spades R4 T6

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Joshua Herreshoff wrote:

> > I lead the 4 of Spades to this trick.
> 
> 5 of spades.

Six of Spades.

- -Hubert

The ideal man is like a dolphin--has a two-foot tongue and can breathe 
out the top of his head. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:45:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

Players and Scores:
    Hubert    : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
    /dev/joe  : 0  (13 cards)
  * TGW       : 0  (14 cards)
    else...if : 0  (14 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)

Card ranks:
The cards in each suit are ranked A-2 with Ace high.
Wild cards are ranked below 2's.

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 K S (starter)         |
 Q S (/dev/joe)        |
                       |

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:03:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

> Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
>
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------

>  K S (starter)         |
>  Q S (/dev/joe)        |
>                        |

I shall tentatively attempt to play the 6 of Spades.

TGW, who really ought to go and read the rules to Eleusis.

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Micah Smukler)
Subject: Re: Acka: Hey!

>Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
>
>> No fair!  Huberted out of getting to play Eleusis because I couldn't
>> check my email this morning!
>>
>> Well, then...if anyone _else_ wants to play Eleusis, then let me know
>> and you can play in _my_ game!  :-p  I bet it'll be much more fun than
>> their old game.

If it is still possible, I would like to join this game.

"You don't understand! *First* I shot the arrows, and *then* I painted the
targets!"

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:40:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
> >
> -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
> 
> >  K S (starter)         |
> >  Q S (/dev/joe)        |
> >                        |
> 
> I shall tentatively attempt to play the 6 of Spades.

This is a correct play.

> TGW, who really ought to go and read the rules to Eleusis.

- -Hubert, who makes up eir own rules for Eleusis

Barney: what happens when you feed a Smurf after midnight. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:00:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

>> I shall tentatively attempt to play the 6 of Spades.
>
>This is a correct play.
	I'll try the 3 of Spades.

- --
- -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: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:03:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - else...if's turn

Players and Scores:
    Hubert    : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
    /dev/joe  : 0  (13 cards)
    TGW       : 0  (13 cards)
  * else...if : 0  (14 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)

Card ranks:
The cards in each suit are ranked A-2 with Ace high.
Wild cards are ranked below 2's.

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 K S (starter)         |
 Q S (/dev/joe)        |
 6 S (TGW)             |

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:05:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

>> TGW, who really ought to go and read the rules to Eleusis.
>
>-Hubert, who makes up eir own rules for Eleusis

Well, that's sort of the point (at least one rule, eh? :)

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:11:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Towsner wrote:

> >> I shall tentatively attempt to play the 6 of Spades.
> >
> >This is a correct play.
> 	I'll try the 3 of Spades.

This is a correct play.  You guys are good at this.

- -Hubert

Barney: what happens when you feed a Smurf after midnight. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:55:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joe's turn

Players and Scores:
    Hubert    : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
  * /dev/joe  : 0  (13 cards)
    TGW       : 0  (13 cards)
    else...if : 0  (13 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)

Card ranks:
The cards in each suit are ranked A-2 with Ace high.
Wild cards are ranked below 2's.

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 K S (starter)         |
 Q S (/dev/joe)        |
 6 S (TGW)             |
 3 S (else...if)       |

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:07:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joe's turn

> Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>  K S (starter)         |
>  Q S (/dev/joe)        |
>  6 S (TGW)             |
>  3 S (else...if)       |

I play the 4 of clubs.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:22:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis game 1 - Round 1 - /dev/joe's turn

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> I play the 4 of clubs.

This is correct.  This is also getting boring.

Someone play an incorrect card, please.

- -Hubert

Barney: what happens when you feed a Smurf after midnight. 

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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:26:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 1 - TGW's play

Players and Scores:
    Hubert    : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
    /dev/joe  : 0  (12 cards)
  * TGW       : 0  (13 cards)
    else...if : 0  (13 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)

Card ranks:
The cards in each suit are ranked A-2 with Ace high.
Wild cards are ranked below 2's.

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 K S (starter)         |
 Q S (/dev/joe)        |
 6 S (TGW)             |
 3 S (else...if)       |
 4 C (/dev/joe)        |

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