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acka-games-digest     Tuesday, September 15 1998     Volume 03 : Number 217

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 04:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: 6 letter crash

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, I am the Water Boatman wrote:

>OK, my fourth salvo:
>
>entity   2
>equity   2
>joking   1

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 04:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: 6 letter crash

Okay:

Fourth salvo here:
abated
ectype
zonked

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 04:41:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (I am the Water Boatman)
Subject: Re: Acka: 6 letter crash

>Fourth salvo here:
>abated 0
>ectype 3
>zonked 0

Ethelred

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:53:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

> >elope 2,0,0
> >sabot 3,0,0
> >pilum 4,0,0

> >My response to your fifth salvo is:
> >
> >noise 5,0,0

> hurrah!

> >boron 2,0,0

> should that be 2,1,0? (noise crashes once with boron)

You're right.  Let's call that a typo.  :-)

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Song In My Head--Robert Palmer:No, Not Much
Current Book--Pamela Dean:Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
The tiger can't change his spots.  No, wait, he did!  Good for him! --Handey

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:40:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

I would like you to check _your_ crashes similarly.  Because, basically, I
have the following right now:

[ Word 1 ]
pilum 4
sagum 2

[ Word 2 ]
sabot 3
sagum 2
salvo 2
sadly 2
satyr 2

[ Word 3 ]
close 3
elope 2
chasm 2
blase 2
crash 2

While Word 1 is pretty clear, and Word 2 has a fairly short list, Word 3
has left me with no list at all.  I am unable to reconcile those three
words.  (And I just worked it out with a list of all possible five-letter
sequences, not just words, I mean "clzze" and things)that crash 3 times
with "close".  (I also can't work it out with some of those words crashing
0 times either...chasm's 1-crash being eliminated by Word 1.)

I won't hold it against you if you have made a mistake, but I will hold my
salvo until then.

> My next salvo:
> 
> piles
> bared
> bland

I will say that none of these are 5-crashes...:-)

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Song In My Head--Robert Palmer:No, Not Much
Current Book--Pamela Dean:Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
She wrote a long letter...on a short piece of paper

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 10:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (I am the Water Boatman)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

>I would like you to check _your_ crashes similarly.  Because, basically, I
>have the following right now:

No problem

>[ Word 1 ]
>pilum 4
>sagum 2

that is correct

>[ Word 2 ]
>sabot 3
>sagum 2
>salvo 2
>sadly 2
>satyr 2

these are correct also

>[ Word 3 ]
>close 3
>elope 2
>chasm 2
>blase 2
>crash 2

There's a mistake here -- blase crashes 3 times with the target word. I can see
how it would cause problems. Sorry.

>I won't hold it against you if you have made a mistake, but I will hold my
>salvo until then.

Please accept my apologies and feel free to resend your fourth salvo if it
would have been any different based on this information.

Ethelred

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:09:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: 6 letter crash

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, I am the Water Boatman wrote:
>>Fourth salvo here:
>>abated 0
>>ectype 3
>>zonked 0

Hrmm.. Eth, could I ask you to recheck the crashes you've reported to me
as well.  I (when you corrected your mistake for Alfvaen), wrote a very
short program that I could feed all the current crash results through and
which would count (but not display) all words within ENABLE and the
Unabridged.txt dictionairies.  When I ran it on the following data, it
returned that there were 0 6 letter words that fit all of the crashes, so
I suspect that there is at least one in the below data.  Thanks.

astern  1
stenar  0
enates  1
nefast  0
rasant  0
tensor  0
aborts  0
erucin  1
injure  1
quadra  0
untrue  2
unveil  0
unmown  0
ungown  0
bittie  2
abated  0
ectype  3
zonked  0

If these crashes are correct, then all it says is that your word doesn't
appear in the two dictionaries I had available for running this simple
test against.

- --JT

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Viruses Duel (/dev/joe and Nicollo Flychuck)

Turn 5:
  Niccolo:   P 10, 44
  /dev/joe:  P 18, 41

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

 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52
 51 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
 50 . . . . . . D . D . . . . .  50
 49 . . . . . D D . D D . . . .  49
 48 . . . . D D D . . D D . . .  48
 47 . . . . . D . . D D D . . .  47
 46 . . . . . . @ @ . @ . . . .  46
 45 . . . . . . . . . . N . . .  45
 44 . . @ N @ . . N @ . N . . .  44
 43 . . . . . . . N N . . . . .  43
 42 . . D . D . . . N . . @ . .  42
 41 . . . D . . . . . . . D . .  41
 40 . . . . . . . . N . . @ . .  40
 39 . . . . . . . . . N . . . .  39
 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37

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

/dev/joe gains a virus point this round.

D:  /dev/joe         : 19 viruses:  5 gamepoints
N:  Niccolo Flychuck :  9 viruses:  0 gamepoints

Both players have 3 days to send in their next move.

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:51:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, I am the Water Boatman wrote:

> >I would like you to check _your_ crashes similarly.  Because, basically, I
> >have the following right now:
> 

> 
> There's a mistake here -- blase crashes 3 times with the target word. I can see
> how it would cause problems. Sorry.
> 
> >I won't hold it against you if you have made a mistake, but I will hold my
> >salvo until then.
> 
> Please accept my apologies and feel free to resend your fourth salvo if it
> would have been any different based on this information.
> 
> Ethelred

As an interested observer, let me just say that so many errors is a bit
disturbing.  Do you two think that this version of Double Crash is perhaps
too complicated to play properly?

Vynd

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:23:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Viruses Round 21 ends

Moves for round 21:
@ Player    moves
* two-star  no move
A Alfvaen   P 25 68
G MTM       P 29 68
N Niccolo   no move
R Rex Mundi no move
S Slakko    P 38 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 3 3 4 
    4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 

 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   64
 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   65
 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . R R . . R . . . . . . . . .   66
 67 . . . . . . . . . . . @ R . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   67
 68 . . . . . . . . . . . A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   68
 69 . . . . . . . . A A A @ . R . . . R . . . . . . . . .   69
 70 . . . . . . . A . A . . R R R . . . R . . . . . . . .   70
 71 . . . . . . . . . A . . . . @ . . . R R . . . . . . .   71
 72 . . . . . . A . A . . . . . . A . . . . R . . . . . .   72
 73 . . . . . . @ . . . . . . . @ . . . . . . R . . . . .   73
 74 . . . . . G . . . . @ . . . N . . . . . . . . . . . .   74
 75 . . . . . G . . . . @ . . N . . . @ . . . . . . . . .   75
 76 . . . . . . . G A . A . . N . . . . . . . @ . . . . .   76
 77 . . G G . . . @ . . A A . . N N . . . . . N . . . . .   77
 78 . . G G . . . . A . . A . . . N . . N . . . . . . . .   78
 79 . . . . . . . A . . . . @ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   79
 80 . . . . . . . * . . . * * . . G . . . . . * . . . . .   80
 81 . . . . . . . . . . . * * . . G . . . . . @ . . . . .   81
 82 . . . . . . . . * * * . . . G G . G . . S . S S . . .   82
 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G . . . . . S . S . .   83
 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G . . . . . . . . . .   84
 85 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S S . . .   85
 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   86
 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   87

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

Alfvaen got a viruspoint this round.

@ Player    viruses  viruspoints
A Alfvaen      17         8
R Rex Mundi    14         6
G MTM          14         1
* two-star      9         0
N Niccolo F     8         0
S Slakko        7         1

Round 22 begins now.  Send in your moves.

/dev/joe
Referee

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

> There's a mistake here -- blase crashes 3 times with the target word. I can
> see how it would cause problems. Sorry.

> >I won't hold it against you if you have made a mistake, but I will hold my
> >salvo until then.

> Please accept my apologies and feel free to resend your fourth salvo if it
> would have been any different based on this information.

I think I'll be okay without that.  Let me send my fifth salvo instead:

hilum
sabra
clame

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Song In My Head--Pat Benatar:Run Between The Raindrops
Current Book--Pamela Dean:Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
Garnish with beak.

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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:32:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

My response to your fifth salvo:

> piles 2,0,0
> bared 2,2,0
> bland 3,0,0

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Song In My Head--Suzanne Vega:In Liverpool
Current Book--Pamela Dean:Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: triple doubel crash salvo 5

> As an interested observer, let me just say that so many errors is a bit
> disturbing.  Do you two think that this version of Double Crash is perhaps
> too complicated to play properly?

I was thinking that myself.  Perhaps we should have a referee if this is made
into a G&C game.

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Song In My Head--Pat Benatar:Run Between The Raindrops
Current Book--Pamela Dean:Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
Philip K. Dick was full of Ubik witticisms.

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