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acka-games-digest       Sunday, October 18 1998       Volume 03 : Number 245

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:44:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

> Slakko.. yeah, I recognized that early on.. I need a way to deal with that
> (assuming I ever want to do this again)

I believe there would be two ways to do this:

Allow some fixed minimum period for the action after becoming Queen,
regardless of whether you are deposed in the meantime (say 24 hours)

Require a minimum gap between turns, or only deal with one turn between
your messages (ignoring all others) - although that could create a Hubert
situation of its own.

- -- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator  | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:45:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Paella.

I wonder what happens when we get close to the end.

Game State:

Worker: two-star
Drone:  Slakko 
Queen:  A Mean Hat

paella: "Eat_a_frankf**t***on*t*e*s**ps***_*he*T****H*ll."

IB

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:46:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

Tom Walmsley wrote:
> 
> JT wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Alexandre Muniz wrote:
> > >reveal character number 39
> > >two-star
> >
> > And I would like the 17th :)
> 

If an entity called frankfurter exists I eat it. Otherwise I eat a non
entity called frankfurter. I also eat Frankfurt

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Wild Card wrote:
> >  O.K. Challenge.
> 
> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
> is analyze.

Looks like Wild Card has been Britished out of this game.

Yours,
Slakko
remember two spellings
- -- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator  | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Paella.

Welcome back, JT!

Game State:

Worker: JT
Drone:  two-star 
Queen:  Slakko

paella: "Eat_a_frankf**t*r*on*t*e*s**ps***_*he*T****H*ll."

IB

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:49:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Paella.

I am readinst "latest" as "last"

Game State:

Worker: Rambo R. Minuteman
Drone:  JT 
Queen:  two-star
paella: "Eat_a_frankf**t*r*on*t*e*s**ps***_*he*T****Hall."

IB

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
> 
> > Unless IB happened to interpret it the other way, in which case he has.
> > This is a very silly treasure, but that's never stopped me from
> > attempting to find a treasure.
> > 
> 

I wonder about this now.. if my mail is being disordered (like my
brain).. did A mean hat's message appear to others after two-stars?

Sigh-
IB
I aksed if anyone noticed gam play issues. :-)

> I do.
> 
> He hasn't.
> 
> It is.
> 
> IB
> 
> 

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> Allow some fixed minimum period for the action after becoming Queen,
> regardless of whether you are deposed in the meantime (say 24 hours)
> 

I don't like this.

> Require a minimum gap between turns, or only deal with one turn between
> your messages (ignoring all others) - although that could create a Hubert
> situation of its own.
> 

Maybe that makes more sense.. it amuses us.

IB

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>
>> Wild Card wrote:
>> >  O.K. Challenge.
>> 
>> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
>> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
>> is analyze.

the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?

- --JT

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:04:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
>> 
>> > Unless IB happened to interpret it the other way, in which case he has.
>> > This is a very silly treasure, but that's never stopped me from
>> > attempting to find a treasure.
>> > 
>> 
>
>I wonder about this now.. if my mail is being disordered (like my
>brain).. did A mean hat's message appear to others after two-stars?

On my machine, **'s appeared after A Mean Hats, but ** said on IRC that
he'd sent it before AMH's.

- --JT

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:27:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> >I wonder about this now.. if my mail is being disordered (like my
> >brain).. did A mean hat's message appear to others after two-stars?
> 
> On my machine, **'s appeared after A Mean Hats, but ** said on IRC that
> he'd sent it before AMH's.
> 

Ahhh, see.. I have my mail sorted by timestamp of the message being sent.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 19:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Paella.

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Matt Miller wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
>
>> >I wonder about this now.. if my mail is being disordered (like my
>> >brain).. did A mean hat's message appear to others after two-stars?
>> 
>> On my machine, **'s appeared after A Mean Hats, but ** said on IRC that
>> he'd sent it before AMH's.
>> 
>
>Ahhh, see.. I have my mail sorted by timestamp of the message being sent.

Well the only *valid* timestamp (in acka terms) is when it was recieved by
the muppetlabs.com server (or by me for any messages sent to some other
list or to all players in some other way :)

- --JT

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:51:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> >
> >> Wild Card wrote:
> >> >  O.K. Challenge.
> >> 
> >> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
> >> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
> >> is analyze.
> 
> the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?
> 

 Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.

- -- 
Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ.             #####
http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing a Silly Agenda Hat.   \'#######
Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>> >On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>> >
>> >> Wild Card wrote:
>> >> >  O.K. Challenge.
>> >> 
>> >> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
>> >> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
>> >> is analyze.
>> 
>> the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?
>> 
>
> Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
>dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
>consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.

Hmm.. I honestly didn't know that.

- --JT

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:58:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

> Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
>dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
>consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.

Hmmm.  There's "Byzantine", but it's usu. cap., so it might not count...
I'll have to check for others which aren't words ending in "yze"...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page:http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/)
Current Album--Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
Current Book--Anne Rice:The Queen of The Damned
Change for the machines.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

> > Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
> >dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
> >consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.

> Hmmm.  There's "Byzantine", but it's usu. cap., so it might not count...
> I'll have to check for others which aren't words ending in "yze"...

How could I have forgotten?  "Syzygy" is likely the same in both dialects...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
Current Book--Anne Rice:The Queen of The Damned
I had my brain digitized.  The digit was 0.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:15:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> How could I have forgotten?  "Syzygy" is likely the same in both dialects...

 Well, my dictionary gives it.  So probabyl yes...

- -- 
Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ.             #####
http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing a Silly Agenda Hat.   \'#######
Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:16:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Eleusis G2R1 (Attila the Pun)

JT correctly pointed out that e did not post a valid move in time.  The
Eight of Spades was randomly chosen from eir hand, and fortunately this
is a correct move and e avoids sudden death.  It is now Attila the Pun's
turn.

Players and Scores:
    Alfvaen         : 0  ( 0 cards) (Deus)
 *  Attila the Pun  : 0  (17 cards)
    K 2             : 0  ( 0 cards) [ left the game ]
    Fortunato       : 0  (17 cards)
    Robin Hood      : 0  (16 cards) [ substituting for Ayla ]
    Robert Sevin    : 0  (10 cards)
    JT              : 0  ( 8 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)        |
 *K S (Robin Hood)       | 3 S (Tin Observer[#])
  3 D (JT)               | J H (Attila the Pun[#]) Q H (Fortunato)
 10 C (Robin Hood)       | Q D (Robert Sevin[#])
  J C (JT)               |
  2 D (Attila the Pun[#])|
  9 C (Fortunato)        |
**4 C (Robin Hood)       |
  Q C (Robert Sevin[#])  |
  8 S (JT[#])            |

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

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
Current Book--Anne Rice:The Queen of The Damned
Are your eyes wide awake yet?  --billbill

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:56:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

Alfvaen wrote:
>
>> > Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
>> >dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
>> >consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.
>
>> Hmmm.  There's "Byzantine", but it's usu. cap., so it might not count...
>> I'll have to check for others which aren't words ending in "yze"...
>
>How could I have forgotten?  "Syzygy" is likely the same in both dialects...

That's the world I thought /dev/joe would use, but I've always seen it as
Zyzygy in the US, a local band was named Morbid Zyzygy and prompted me to
look it up a few years ago... I don't know if this is dialectic or not, but
I think I looked it up in the Amer Heritage Dict.

Studge

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:44:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

JT wrote:

> ckv

eckv

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:

>JT wrote:
>
>> ckv
>
>eckv

eckve

- --JT

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

JT wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>
> >eckv
>
> eckve

neckve

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