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acka-games-digest      Wednesday, October 7 1998      Volume 03 : Number 233

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:11:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

1. A revealing blouse.

2. To be sad to an extreme.

3. To separate groups of sequentially ordered items into another order,
such as sorting them into groups of like items, or arranging them
randomly.

4. To separate a group of objects.

5. To deconstitute and separate into fractions, as with whale oil.

6. Of low quality, poor.

7. Chinese interior design.

8. To mix up, opposite of collate.

9. To remove the bark from a tree.

10. Behead.

11. To remove the neck, as of a bird before cooking.

12. Randomize.

There you have them. Gentlemen, place your bets.

Brainiac Vynd

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

I think at least some of 3,4,5,8,12 are substantially similar, and that 10
and 11 are substantially similar.

>1. A revealing blouse.
>
>2. To be sad to an extreme.
>
>3. To separate groups of sequentially ordered items into another order,
>such as sorting them into groups of like items, or arranging them
>randomly.
>
>4. To separate a group of objects.
>
>5. To deconstitute and separate into fractions, as with whale oil.
>
>6. Of low quality, poor.
>
>7. Chinese interior design.
>
>8. To mix up, opposite of collate.
>
>9. To remove the bark from a tree.
>
>10. Behead.
>
>11. To remove the neck, as of a bird before cooking.
>
>12. Randomize.
>
>
>There you have them. Gentlemen, place your bets.
>
>Brainiac Vynd
>
>[email-masked]
> 
- --A Mean Hat.
  Dungeon Master - Warrior Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 02:54:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

I'm guessing 10 to Behead

Robin Hood

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:41:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> I think at least some of 3,4,5,8,12 are substantially similar, and that 10
> and 11 are substantially similar.

Guess what, I disagree.  And I'm the Brainiac. In all seriousness, I think
you're taking the (admitedly vague) term substantially similar and
interpreting it pretty broadly. In fact, I'd say that you were
interpreting it as something like: "Have somthing in common." If I had to
expand on what substantially similar meant, I would say: "the same,
although not necessarily identical." I think that game custom would
support me in this.  Even if you are right and I am wrong, however, I
think you're going a little far in saying that, for example, definitions 5
and 12 are similar.

So, basically, I still think I was right. You can CFJ this if you really
think you have to, but, well, I think my side would win. :)  However, I am
glad you sent this message, because it reminded me that there was one
thing I forgot to do when I posted the definitions, which was to announce
that one player did, in fact, submit the correct definition. So my earlier
announcement of the definitions was probably not "really real." Just in
case, here they are again. I suggest that anyone who has already voted do
so again (I think thats only Robin Hood). Sorry about that folks.

Vynd

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> 
> >1. A revealing blouse.
> >
> >2. To be sad to an extreme.
> >
> >3. To separate groups of sequentially ordered items into another order,
> >such as sorting them into groups of like items, or arranging them
> >randomly.
> >
> >4. To separate a group of objects.
> >
> >5. To deconstitute and separate into fractions, as with whale oil.
> >
> >6. Of low quality, poor.
> >
> >7. Chinese interior design.
> >
> >8. To mix up, opposite of collate.
> >
> >9. To remove the bark from a tree.
> >
> >10. Behead.
> >
> >11. To remove the neck, as of a bird before cooking.
> >
> >12. Randomize.
> >
> >
> >There you have them. Gentlemen, place your bets.
> >
> >Brainiac Vynd
> >
> >[email-masked]
> > 
> --A Mean Hat.
>   Dungeon Master - Warrior Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird
>   
> 

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

I have chosen my word.

My first salvo:

xylem
oxide
vexes
proxy
telex
vicar

IB
thanks, /dev/joe :-)

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:47:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

Response to first salvo.

anent   1
enate   0
nates   0
tenia   0
etnas   0
paten   0

IB
look familiar?

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

11. To remove the neck, as of a bird before cooking.

I'll take that one
- --A Mean Hat.
  Dungeon Master - Warrior Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>I have chosen my word.
>
>My first salvo:
>
>xylem   0
>oxide   0
>vexes   0
>proxy   0
>telex   0
>vicar   0

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:01:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

My second salvo is
spilt
yield
query
abhor
cheki

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:13:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

Your response, distinguished opponent:

spilt   1
yield   0
query   0
abhor   0
cheki   1

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

And my second salvo:

jambo
coach
abbot
shall
doest

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 12:35:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

> Guess what, I disagree. 

I also think 8 and 12 and possibly also 3 were substantially similar,
(that whole set was certainly not substantially similar, but it contained
some pairs of substantially similar definitions, which I think is what
Anathema meant) but since you insist they aren't, I am voting for #12.

> > >3. To separate groups of sequentially ordered items into another order,
> > >such as sorting them into groups of like items, or arranging them
> > >randomly.

> > >8. To mix up, opposite of collate.

> > >12. Randomize.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:13:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

>And my second salvo:
>
>jambo  1
>coach  0
>abbot  0
>shall  0
>doest  0

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:14:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

My third salvo is
cling
ghost
rhino
coopt

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:47:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

I can feel the hands closing...

> cling 1
> ghost 1
> rhino 0 
> coopt 3

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:54:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

My third salvo:

mazic
junta
maqui
nanga

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

>My third salvo:
>
>mazic  1
>junta  1
>maqui  1
>nanga  2

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

And my fourth salvo

crypt
clout
crust

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:08:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

My fourth salvo, this had better be good:

kanzu
yanja
hakka

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:10:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

Owie, here's the response:

> And my fourth salvo
> 
> crypt  5
> clout  2
> crust  3
> 

My word is, in fact, "crypt"...

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:13:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

>My fourth salvo, this had better be good:
>
>kanzu  1
>yanja  2
>hakka  2

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:14:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>Owie, here's the response:
>
>> And my fourth salvo
>> 
>> crypt  5
>> clout  2
>> crust  3
>> 
>
>My word is, in fact, "crypt"...

my word was fauna.

Now begins the three days of waiting.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:18:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> my word was fauna.
> 

No fair picking a common word!  You psyched me out!

IB
sore

> Now begins the three days of waiting.
> 
> --JT
> 
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:26:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

> > >8. To mix up, opposite of collate.

I like this one (actually, I don't overly like any of them but this seems the
least unfeasible).

Rambo R Minuteman.

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http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739
Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo.

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 16:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

> Your response, distinguished opponent:
> 
> spilt   1
> yield   0
> query   0
> abhor   0
> cheki   1
> 

I think your game might have ended right here, actually. Idiotboy
posted this response to JT's salvo before he posted his own second salvo,
which I don't think is allowed. No particular reason it shuld be
forbidden, of course, but Double Crash has a pretty strict ruleset. Also,
later on I think Idiotboy reveals his targete word before the response to
his last salvo is posted, which is (once again for no really good reason)
not allowed.

Vynd

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 16:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> I think your game might have ended right here, actually. Idiotboy
> posted this response to JT's salvo before he posted his own second salvo,
> which I don't think is allowed. No particular reason it shuld be
> forbidden, of course, but Double Crash has a pretty strict ruleset. Also,
> later on I think Idiotboy reveals his targete word before the response to
> his last salvo is posted, which is (once again for no really good reason)
> not allowed.
> 

I lost on a technicality.. or something.

IB

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 18:23:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

I vote for 10, to behead

Robin Hood 

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 19:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Double Crash Duel (IB vs JT) (for real this time)

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:
>
>> I think your game might have ended right here, actually. Idiotboy
>> posted this response to JT's salvo before he posted his own second salvo,
>> which I don't think is allowed. No particular reason it shuld be
>> forbidden, of course, but Double Crash has a pretty strict ruleset. Also,
>> later on I think Idiotboy reveals his targete word before the response to
>> his last salvo is posted, which is (once again for no really good reason)
>> not allowed.
>> 
>
>I lost on a technicality.. or something.

Actually, I'm not sure what you did counted as an error for purposes of
the game.

According to the rules of DC:
The game consists of several rounds, each of which lasts three days or
until all actions required of players in that round, whichever comes
first. If ever a player fails to complete all required actions before the
end of a round, his opponent wins. 

That doesn't actually prevent parts of rounds from overlapping each other.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:29:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

Vynd, Brainiac, wrote:
>9. To remove the bark from a tree.
>
>There you have them. Gentlemen, place your bets.

I'll take 9, as the most distinct it is either right, or a wrong one that
someone deserves credit for.

Studge

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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary Round 1 Definitions

>> >5. To deconstitute and separate into fractions, as with whale oil.

I will vote for this one.

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