Subject: acka-games-digest V3 #190
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acka-games-digest       Monday, August 17 1998       Volume 03 : Number 190

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: GAD: Magenta Round (23)

Vynd and else...if grabed Fortunato and were unsuccesful.
Fortunato grabed Vynd and was successful.

Eliminations:
previous rounds: 26
this round: 1
0 Vynd

GAL for the Magenta Round:
else...if::
3 else…if
3 Fortunato

and the rest:
*1 rufus

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:50:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: *ping*

[ Belated again, but this time I wanted to wait for muppetlabs to be back
up...]

Today is Saturday, the 15th day of August, and the Machine That Goes
*ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since I have been Scholar, the Machine
has gone *ping* 12 times.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Prince:Lady Cab Driver
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
Not knowing where I'm going is galaxies better than not having a place to go.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> [ Belated again, but this time I wanted to wait for muppetlabs to be back
> up...]
> 
> Today is Saturday, the 15th day of August, and the Machine That Goes
> *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since I have been Scholar, the Machine
> has gone *ping* 12 times.

Adriana, I think I'll buy a vowel.

I choose 'a' as the Magic Letter.

- -- 
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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Clerk of the Court

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:54:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> O Scholar of *ping*, it is I, the wayward breadbox: first Student to
> ever submit a wrong guess and thus the first to be publicly ridiculed
> (and I must say, no Scholar has ever topped that ridiculing I received
> from Bascule); if not the student with the most wrong guesses, then
> certainly up there in the top few: I have once again come forward in
> the quest to redress my balance sheet -- though some will think me
> unrepentent and ignorant of the lesson I surely should have by this
> time learned -- that is to say, I would like to submit to your
> judgement the fruits of my labor, namely the studying with exacting
> care every minute detail known to us about the Machine that you
> shelter within your abode and its secret ...

> ... to cut the obsequiesness short: Is the Truth

> IF AND ONLY IF today the date matches a letter's alphabetic placement
> in 'chartreuse' or 'kazoo', THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go
> *ping*.

O, wayward breadbox, your message above fills me with woe that you should
be the Spelling Exchequer, though perhaps the obvious haste in which you
have sent your patently mistaken guess out into the ether in an attempt to
forestall those with more wisdom and insight than yourself may excuse this
maltreatment of what I assume is your native tongue.  Needless to say, the
text posted above, while it may serve you in finding the Treasure of
Jukkasjarvi, is otherwise of no use whatsoever and is only worth preserving
in the archives of Ackanomic information as a counterexample to those that
come after.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Prince:Lady Cab Driver
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
People all wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:09:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Adriana, I think I'll buy a vowel.

> I choose 'a' as the Magic Letter.

And here's the result:

IF AND ONLY IF today *h* *a** *a**h** a ******'* a**ha***** ********* **
'*ha*******' ** '*a***' the Machine that goes *ping* shall go ping*.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--They Might Be Giants:Letterbox
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:15:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Viruses Round 14 results

It appears this message was eaten by the muppetlabs monster the first time
I tried to send it, and as it has not yet reappeared, I am re-sending it.

Moves for round 14:
@ Player    moves
* two-star  no move
A Alfvaen   P 31 71
G MTM       S 17 77 to 16 76
N Niccolo   no move
R Rex Mundi P 29 67
S Slakko    P 36 82

New grid:

    1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 
    4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   65
 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   66
 67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R R . . . . . . . .   67
 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . R @ . R R . . . . . . .   68
 69 . . . . . . . . . . . . R . . . R R R . . . . .   69
 70 . . . . . . . A . . . . R R R . @ . . . . . . .   70
 71 . . . . . . A A A . . . . . . . @ . . . . . . .   71
 72 . . . . . A . . A A . . . . . . @ . . R . . . .   72
 73 . . . . A A A . . A . . . . . . @ . R @ . . . .   73
 74 . . . . @ @ . . . . A . . . . . N . R R . . . .   74
 75 . . . . . . G . . . A A . . . N N . . . . . . .   75
 76 . . G . . . @ A A A A . . . . . N N . . . . . .   76
 77 . . G . . . . A A A . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   77
 78 . . . G G . . A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   78
 79 . . . . . . . . @ A . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   79
 80 . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . * . . . .   80
 81 . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . G @ . @ . @ . .   81
 82 . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . G . . . . S S . .   82
 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G . . . S S . .   83
 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G . . S S . . .   84
 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   85
 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   86

    1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 
    4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 

Alfvaen got a viruspoint this round.

@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
A Alfvaen      23         7
G MTM           9         1
R Rex Mundi    16         0
* two-star      4         0
N Niccolo F     5         0
S Slakko        6         1

Round 15 begins now.  Send in your moves.

/dev/joe
Referee

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

Oh scholar of *ping* is The Truth:

IF AND ONLY IF today the date matches a letter's alphabetic numbering in
'chartreuse' or 'kazoo' the Machine that goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

K 2

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Viruses Round 14 results

>Alfvaen got a viruspoint this round.
>
>@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
>A Alfvaen      23         7
>G MTM           9         1
>R Rex Mundi    16         0
>* two-star      4         0
>N Niccolo F     5         0
>S Slakko        6         1
>
>Round 15 begins now.  Send in your moves.

Anyone want to join me in the "Stop Alfvaen" crusade :-).

MTM.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:56:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Viruses Round 14 results

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> >Alfvaen got a viruspoint this round.
> >
> >@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
> >A Alfvaen      23         7
> >G MTM           9         1
> >R Rex Mundi    16         0
> >* two-star      4         0
> >N Niccolo F     5         0
> >S Slakko        6         1
> >
> >Round 15 begins now.  Send in your moves.
> 
> Anyone want to join me in the "Stop Alfvaen" crusade :-).

I'm in.
- -- 
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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:18:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play (fwd)

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> > Subject: Acka: YORL play
> > 
> > 
> > Quickly ripping off his huge cloak, Erphil threw Elspeth roughly to the
> > ground behind him.  Just in time to meed Elves' charge, he whipped out the
> > staff and held it thrust out before him as he braced himself against an
> > ice drift.  Catching Elves' rapier thrust on his massive forearm, he
> > planted his impromptu polearm solidly in the middle of the speeding
> > conglomerate, scattering elves in every direction.  Elwes watched in
> > horror as the tiny beings froze solid and shattered upon contact with the
> > enchanted ice.
> > 
> > Erphil threw his head back and roared with laughter.  "Come!  Who will be
> > the next to challenge the power of Eissnein?"
> > 
> > Elvis, having untangled himself from the rigging, began to step 
> > determinedly out of the boat.  "Are you mad?!" Elwes gritted, grabbing him
> > by the arm.  "You saw what that ice did to Elves!"
> > 
> > "'S okay," drawled the King, pointing to his soft bluish-gray leather
> > shoes.  "It's _mah_ turn now."

These shattered elves are clearly dead.  That makes Erphil a killer.

Slakko interrupts with: killer.

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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:46:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play (fwd)

Slakko wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> > > Subject: Acka: YORL play

> > > Quickly ripping off his huge cloak, Erphil threw Elspeth roughly to the
> > > ground behind him.  Just in time to meed Elves' charge, he whipped out
> > > the staff and held it thrust out before him as he braced himself against
> > > an ice drift.  Catching Elves' rapier thrust on his massive forearm, he
> > > planted his impromptu polearm solidly in the middle of the speeding
> > > conglomerate, scattering elves in every direction.  Elwes watched in
> > > horror as the tiny beings froze solid and shattered upon contact with the
> > > enchanted ice.

> These shattered elves are clearly dead.  That makes Erphil a killer.
> 
> Slakko interrupts with: killer.

This interrupt is accepted.
867-5309 is dealt a card.
It is now Slakko's turn.

Loose Ends: 2 - snowgod, Elvis
Cards Burned: 53
Cards in Deck: 5
Total in pot: A$220.

Play Order:
Slakko             [5 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]
867-5309           [5 cards]

/dev/joe
Barkeep

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL play (fwd)

"But Elvis..." Elwes attempted to interject.

"Don't chew worry.  The King here is gonna take care of that hound dog."

"But how..."

"The ice is perfect on the ground, but useless in the air."

With that, Elvis reached down to take off one of his shoes.  The ice under
his feet started melting through the socks he was wearing, but Elvis
seemed not to mind.  Maybe the sequins on the socks were doing a good
insulation job.

"What are you going to do?  Throw a shoe at him?"

"Don't step on the reputation of my blue suede shoes.  Besides, everyone
knows that's just a cover.  Watch."  And with that cryptic comment, Elvis
did, indeed, throw the shoe high into the air.

Where it suddenly unfolded, becoming a bright blue canary, which proceeded
to soar over the icescape, rapidly gaining altitude.  Elwes reached out to
the bird with his mind, to try to get it to return for instructions.  The
bird promptly complied, and perched itself with little fuss on Elwes'
shoulder.

Knowing that erPhil would grow tired of this chicanery, Elwes hatched a
cunning plan.  Suddenly the canary was carrying a tiny stick of lit
dynamite between its feet.  It darted off like it was on fire, heading
straight for erPhil.

Or so it appeared initially.  The canary gradually gained some altitude,
then set up for a dive-bombing run.  erPhil tried to evade the merciless
bird, but it appeared that the single-minded quest the bird was on was too
powerful.

The dynamite was dropped, the fuse almost gone.

Slakko plays: blue canary

- -- 
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
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:13:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Oh scholar of *ping* is The Truth:

> IF AND ONLY IF today the date matches a letter's alphabetic numbering in
> 'chartreuse' or 'kazoo' the Machine that goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

Congratulations, O antipodean one.  You have succeeded where breadbox
had failed, following the path of my mind to the phrasing I would choose.
May you serve well as Scholar of *ping*.

(And yes, I did have the Jukkasjarvi treasure in mind when I came up with
the truth.)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Rush:Caress of Steel
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:14:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Viruses Round 14 results

> > >@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
> > >A Alfvaen      23         7

> > Anyone want to join me in the "Stop Alfvaen" crusade :-).

> I'm in.

Li'l ol' me?  I just want to win a game of Viruses for real, not the fake
way that happened through that Beldin's Pants scam many moons ago...
Although I don't know if I want to referee the next game, having just
done one...

(And doing one right now...I should check up on that one.)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Rush:Caress of Steel
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
I hope that I get old before I die.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:18:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Viruses Duel (JT & J.M. Bear)

It appears that this message got swallowed up when I tried to post it
originally, so here it is again:

The moves for the first round of the Viruses duel:

JT: Place M16, Place L13, Infect J13
J.M. Bear: Place P19, Infect L15, Place L12

New Grid:

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

J.M. Bear got a Viruspoint this round.

Player Name      Symbol    Cells     Points
J.M. Bear          M         7          1
JT                 T         4          0

Round 2 begins now, etc.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Rush:Caress of Steel
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
While waxing parquet decks, Suez sailors vomit jauntily abaft.

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Eleusis G2R1 (Robin Hood)

Another missing message, apparently:

Fortunato played the Four of Spades; this was a correct play.  It is now
Robin Hood(substituting for Ayla)'s turn.

Players and Scores:
    Alfvaen         : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
    Attila the Pun  : 0  (18 cards)
    K 2             : 0  ( 0 cards) [ left the game ]
    Fortunato       : 0  (17 cards)
  * Robin Hood      : 0  (18 cards) [ substituting for Ayla ]
    Robert Sevin    : 0  (13 cards)
    JT              : 0  (11 cards)
(* denotes whose 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-K with Ace low(values 1-13).
There are no Wild cards.

Correct Plays            | Incorrect plays
- -------------------------+------------------------------------------------------
  8 D (starter)          |
  8 H (Attila the Pun)   | 9 S (K 2)
  6 H (Fortunato[+])     | 6 S (Ayla)
  6 H (Robert Sevin)     | 
  7 H (JT)               | 5 H (Attila the Pun), 9 D (K 2)
* 6 C (Fortunato)        |
  2 C (Ayla)             | 6 C (Robert Sevin), 2 S (JT)
  2 H (Attila the Pun[+])| 2 D (K 2)
  J C (Fortunato)        |
  A H (Ayla)             | 9 S (Robert Sevin)
  K H (JT)               |*2 H (Attila the Pun)
  4 C (K 2)              | Q D (Fortunato)
! Q S (Ayla)             |
  3 C (Robert Sevin)     |
  3 H (JT)               |
  K C (Attila the Pun)   | K S (K 2), A C (Fortunato)
  7 D (Robert Sevin)     |*8 D (JT), 4 H (Attila the Pun)
  Q S (K 2[+])           |!6 D (Fortunato), 4 H (Robert Sevin)
  3 C (JT)               |
?10 D (Attila the Pun[+])|10 S (K 2[#])
  J D (Fortunato)        | 2 H (Ayla[#])
**3 C (Robert Sevin[#])  |
 10 D (JT)               |
  J D (Attila the Pun)   |
  4 S (Fortunato)        |

[+] - Invalid "No Play", card selected by Deus or Prophet
[#] - no play posted, card picked randomly
 *  - marks every tenth card
**  - beginning of "sudden death"
 !  - prophet (and every tenth card thereafter)
 ?  - removal of prophet

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Rush:Caress of Steel
Current Book--Tanith Lee:The Book of The Beast
Irrecoverably dark total eclipse without all hope of day!

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