Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #188
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acka-games-digest       Sunday, August 16 1998       Volume 03 : Number 188

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:29:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Viruses Duel (JT & J.M. Bear)

Here is the starting grid for the Viruses Duel:

   G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T
22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
20 . . @ . . . . . . . . . . . 20
19 . . . . . . . @ @ . @ @ . . 19
18 . . . . . . @ . . T . . . . 18
17 . . . . . @ . . @ . . . . . 17
16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
15 . . . @ . @ . . . . . . . . 15
14 . . . @ @ . @ . . . . . . . 14
13 . . @ @ . . . . . . . @ . . 13
12 . . . @ . . . . . . . . . . 12
11 . . . @ . . . . . . . M . . 11
10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T

I believe that each players gets three moves on the first round,
so send them care of this address.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--The Jam:Smithers-Jones
Current Book--Sheri S. Tepper:Shadow's End
The illegal smuggling of mimes... nobody talks about it.

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 01:42:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL

Mr Tambourine Man has also fallen asleep and is dealt a card.  It is
now 867-5309's turn.

Loose Ends: 2 - snowgod, Elvis
Cards Burned: 51
Cards in Deck: 5
Total in pot: A$220.

Play Order:
867-5309           [5 cards]
Slakko             [6 cards]
rufus              [8 cards]
Attila the Pun     [8 cards]
Karma              [11 cards]
Alfvaen            [2 cards] [6 Ale]
two-star           [9 cards]
Mr Tambourine Man  [4 cards] [2 Ale]

/dev/joe
Barkeep

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:04:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Fictionary Ends

The definitions for fitchew were:

1. A small sweet made of candied figs.
2. Old english for fidget or fidgety.
3. To sneezasd;lkfjl.
4. The fur or pelt of the polecat.
5. A sneeze.
6. A coin purse.

MTM submitted #5.  JT submitted #2.  Slakko submitted #6.
867-5309 submitted #3.  Vynd submitted #1.  The actual definition was #4.

JT sheeped.  867-5309 voted for #1.  MTM voted for #3.
Slakko and Vynd sheeped by default.

Slakko and Vynd each lose a point for making a default action, but
Vynd gets a point back because 867-5309 voted for his definition.
867-5309 also gets a point because MTM voted for his definition, and
I get 2 points because nobody voted for the correct definition.

         old + new = now
Slakko:    5 +  -1 =   4
JT:       31 +   0 =  31
MTM:      -4 +   0 =  -4
867-5309:  9 +   1 =  10
Vynd:      8 +   0 =   8
/dev/joe: 17 +   2 =  19

Though I made a good run for it towards the end, JT wins the game,
and has one more point toward his Limburger, or whatever cheese it
is that we give out for winning subgames.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:22:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel Round 3

My second salvo:

1) thorn
2) error
3) scrap
4) enemy
5) glaze

Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:25:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "else...if" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Double Crash Duel

1) thorn   1
2) error   0
3) scrap   0
4) enemy   0
5) glaze   1
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Mr Tambourine Man has also fallen asleep and is dealt a card.  It is
> now 867-5309's turn.

Oh, wow.  I assume that Alfvaen's play of 'surfing' was the most recent?

- - 867-5309, off to check eir cards

Calculus: The agony and dx/dc. 

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - Mr. Tambourine Man's play

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, JT wrote:
>Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
>-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
> 5 H (starter)         |
> 8 H (MTM [#])         | 9 H (else...if)
>10 D (867-5309)        | K D (MTM (JT))
> 4 S (else...if)       |
> 3 D (867-5309 [#])    | 4 S (MTM (JT))
> 5 D (else...if)       | 9 S (867-5309) 3 C (MTM [*])
> 8 D (else...if)       |
> 2 S (867-5309)        |
> 2 D (MTM)             | A S (else...if(JT))
> 7 D (867-5309[!])     |
> 7 D (MTM [-])         |
> J D (else...if)       | 2 C/3 H/5 D/7 H (867-5309)  9 C (MTM [*])
>                       | 3 S (else...if) 2 S (867-5309)
> J H (MTM)             | A C (else...if) Q D (867-5309)

Mr. Tambourine Man did not play within three days.
Therefore, I choose the card '8 D' as the play.

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - Mr. Tambourine Man's play

JT wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, JT wrote:
> >Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
> >-----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
> > 5 H (starter)         |
> > 8 H (MTM [#])         | 9 H (else...if)
> >10 D (867-5309)        | K D (MTM (JT))
> > 4 S (else...if)       |
> > 3 D (867-5309 [#])    | 4 S (MTM (JT))
> > 5 D (else...if)       | 9 S (867-5309) 3 C (MTM [*])
> > 8 D (else...if)       |
> > 2 S (867-5309)        |
> > 2 D (MTM)             | A S (else...if(JT))
> > 7 D (867-5309[!])     |
> > 7 D (MTM [-])         |
> > J D (else...if)       | 2 C/3 H/5 D/7 H (867-5309)  9 C (MTM [*])
> >                       | 3 S (else...if) 2 S (867-5309)
> > J H (MTM)             | A C (else...if) Q D (867-5309)
> 
> Mr. Tambourine Man did not play within three days.
> Therefore, I choose the card '8 D' as the play.

It's wrong.

/dev/joe
Deus

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL

> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> 
> > Mr Tambourine Man has also fallen asleep and is dealt a card.  It is
> > now 867-5309's turn.
> 
> Oh, wow.  I assume that Alfvaen's play of 'surfing' was the most recent?
> 
> - 867-5309, off to check eir cards

It appears so.  I hope you will correct that situation, and end the cycle
of sleep that has encompassed this game.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:45:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Double Crash Duel Round 4

Response to salvo below:

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Towsner wrote:
> 
> My next salvo:
> 1)beige           0
> 2)argon           0
> 3)adept           0
> 4)carat           2
> 5)black           0
> 

Vynd

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL

>> Oh, wow.  I assume that Alfvaen's play of 'surfing' was the most recent?
 
>It appears so.  I hope you will correct that situation, and end the cycle
>of sleep that has encompassed this game.

I'm amazed nobody's gone Under The Table yet...  That might expedite
things a bit.  (I just keep missing the three-day deadline--it interacts
badly with my irregular Linux/DOS cycle...)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page:http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/)
Current Album--Jon & Vangelis:Page of Life
Current Book--Chinua Achebe:Things Fall Apart
I have an inferiority complex, but it's not very good.

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:10:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel Round 4

And yet another salvo
1)rural
2)scram
3)scrap
4)viral

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:41:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Double Crash Round 5

My next salvo:

1) azure
2) title
3) blurb
4) table

Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:12:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Eleusis Game 1 - Round 2 - else...if's play

Players and Scores:
    867-5309  : 7 gamepoints (27 cards) (Ex-Prophet)
    /dev/joe  : 7 gamepoints ( 0 cards) (Deus)
    MTM       : 3 gamepoints (20 cards)
  * else...if : 0 gamepoints (14 cards)
(* denotes who's turn it is to play -- play will be entered only after Deus
   and prophet respond to the play)
(@ denotes a player eliminated from the round)
(! denotes a player is the Prophet)
[MTM denotes the player Mr. Tambourine Man]

Card ranks:
Standard deck, no wilds, cards are ranked A (1) through K (13).

Correct Plays          | Incorrect plays
- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------
 5 H (starter)         |
 8 H (MTM [#])         | 9 H (else...if)
10 D (867-5309)        | K D (MTM (JT))
 4 S (else...if)       |
 3 D (867-5309 [#])    | 4 S (MTM (JT))
 5 D (else...if)       | 9 S (867-5309) 3 C (MTM [*])
 8 D (else...if)       |
 2 S (867-5309)        |
 2 D (MTM)             | A S (else...if(JT))
 7 D (867-5309[!])     |
 7 D (MTM [-])         |
 J D (else...if)       | 2 C/3 H/5 D/7 H (867-5309)  9 C (MTM [*])
                       | 3 S (else...if) 2 S (867-5309)
 J H (MTM)             | A C (else...if) Q D (867-5309) 8 D (MTM [~])

[*] every 10th card after the starter is marked while there is no prophet
[#] Invalid 'No Play' card selected by Deus (or Prophet)
[~] Card picked at random for a missed play.
[!] This is the card (or every 10th there after) while there is a prophet
[-] This card caused the prophet to fall

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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