Subject: acka-games Digest V4 #43
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acka-games Digest	Tuesday, June 15 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 043

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Subject: Re: Acka: springy kudzu (challenge)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:43:40 -0400 (EDT)

> > > > > Dragon mage
> > > > > Alfvaen
> > > > > /dev/joe

> I play 'ozost', and wait patiently, smiling.

I challenge that this is not in a word.  (But why is this man smiling?)

--
--Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Maria McKee
Current Book--Thomas Pynchon:The Crying of Lot 49
Hearses don't come with luggage racks.

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: springy kudzu (challenge)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:45:02 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
> > > > > > Dragon mage
> > > > > > Alfvaen
> > > > > > /dev/joe
> 
> > I play 'ozost', and wait patiently, smiling.
> 
> I challenge that this is not in a word.  (But why is this man smiling?)

I name the word to be 'ozostomia', and pray that it's in one of the
dictionaries.

--Dragon Mage

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From: Tom Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:57:01 -0400 (EDT)

ozostomia is in fact in unabr.dict

Ghost is now reduced to:

/dev/joe
Dragon Mage

-Studge

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:04:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Tom Mueller wrote:

> ozostomia is in fact in unabr.dict

I breathe a very HUGE sigh of relief.

> Ghost is now reduced to:
> 
> /dev/joe
> Dragon Mage

Hey.. the two walking dictionaries.. this should be FUN! :)

--Dragon Mage, awaiting Joe's letter.

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:24:36 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:
> > Ghost is now reduced to:
> > 
> > /dev/joe
> > Dragon Mage

e

/dev/joe

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:26:13 -0400 (EDT)

> ozostomia is in fact in unabr.dict

> Ghost is now reduced to:

> /dev/joe
> Dragon Mage

I offer a handshake to the two remaining players, since I really should
have been eliminated with "unfickle" anyway.

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--Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Maria McKee
Current Book--Thomas Pynchon:The Crying of Lot 49
If the dictionary misspelled a word, how could we tell?

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:27:51 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> JT wrote:
> > > Ghost is now reduced to:
> > > 
> > > /dev/joe
> > > Dragon Mage
> 
> e

I play 'se'.

--Dragon Mage

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:29:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
> > ozostomia is in fact in unabr.dict
> 
> > Ghost is now reduced to:
> 
> > /dev/joe
> > Dragon Mage
> 
> I offer a handshake to the two remaining players, since I really should
> have been eliminated with "unfickle" anyway.

I gladly shake alfvaen's hand since he's a darned good player and
linguist.

--Dragon Mage

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:30:11 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > JT wrote:
> > > > Ghost is now reduced to:
> > > > 
> > > > /dev/joe
> > > > Dragon Mage
> > 
> > e
> 
> I play 'se'.

ase

/dev/joe

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:32:05 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > I play 'se'.
> 
> ase

I play 'aseg'.

--Dragon Mage

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:41:12 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > > I play 'se'.
> > 
> > ase
> 
> I play 'aseg'.

asegm

/dev/joe

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:42:13 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:

> JT wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > > > I play 'se'.
> > > 
> > > ase
> > 
> > I play 'aseg'.
> 
> asegm

I play 'rasegm'

--Dragon Mage

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:45:17 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:

> I play 'rasegm'

rasegme

/dev/joe

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:46:00 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:

> JT wrote:
> 
> > I play 'rasegm'
> 
> rasegme

prasegme

--JT

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Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:54:19 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> 
> > JT wrote:
> > 
> > > I play 'rasegm'
> > 
> > rasegme
> 
> prasegme

enough, I challenge that this is not in a word.

/dev/joe

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spreckly Grass
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:55:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> > prasegme
> 
> enough, I challenge that this is not in a word.

*crosses fingers and prays*.

I name suprasegmental.

--Dragon Mage

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From: Tom Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ghost (Dragon Mage wins)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 02:00:56 -0400 (EDT)

At 01:55 AM 6/15/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
>> > prasegme
>> 
>> enough, I challenge that this is not in a word.
>
>*crosses fingers and prays*.
>
>I name suprasegmental.
>
>--Dragon Mage
>

And indeed, suprasegmental is in the dictionary.  Congratulations to JT,
winner of ghost.  E receives a standard trophy and 6 points (the number of
original players).  As referee, I receive A$8.

Studge

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost (Dragon Mage wins)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 02:05:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Tom Mueller wrote:
> >I name suprasegmental.
>
> And indeed, suprasegmental is in the dictionary.  Congratulations to JT,
> winner of ghost.  E receives a standard trophy and 6 points (the number of
> original players).  As referee, I receive A$8.

I heartily congratulate /dev/joe and all the other players on a game well
played.

--Dragon Mage

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From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Abstract Crescent
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 04:21:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> Results of Round 1:
> 
> Dragon Mage: 0

The rules clearly state that each player must choose a _positive_ integer.
So /dev/joe won this round with eir choice of 6, and received 9 points.

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

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Abstract Crescent
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 04:29:51 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > Results of Round 1:
> > 
> > Dragon Mage: 0
> 
> The rules clearly state that each player must choose a _positive_ integer.
> So /dev/joe won this round with eir choice of 6, and received 9 points.

Grrr.. and I *asked* the ref to make sure my choice was valid because I
wasn't sure that 0 was valid (I'd missed the positive requirement).

I guess I play at a deficit.

--Dragon Mage

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: YORL
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT)

Joseph DeVincentis wrote:

> /dev/joe plays: Treasure

Accepted. Loose End
/dev/joe's turn to play - everyone else's turn to interrupt.

http://www.ackanomic.org./~k2/yorl.html for the Full Story(tm)

YORL Status:

Brass Pot - A$175

Loose Ends - Deathstar, fur lined shovel, Treasure

Cards in deck - 33

Play Order:
O Olde Alpha       [8 cards]
Robin Hood         [9 cards]
/dev/joe           [5 cards]*
Wild Card          [8 cards]
JT                 [8 cards]
EMPTY BENCH
Laa Laa            [9 cards]

*Its /dev/joe's turn

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: GAD Round 7 results
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:41:44 -0400 (EDT)

Blest Lax Monk Pal caused a nexus this turn, grabbing Calvin N Hobbes as
Calvin grabbed em.  This caused one donkey of each to run away.

IdiotBoy went for one of Dragon Mage's donkeys, but was denied by a
well-placed cover.

Vynd covered, but by this time, the action was beyond him, and the cover
proved unnecessary.

Enticed by Pure Haste's masterful play last turn of Stand Around Admiring,
both King Felix and K 2 went for eir donkey.  The fact that there were two
of em and Euphrates' covering went a long way toward protecting eir one
lonely donkey.

For the second time in a row, the only player who increased eir herd was
the player who grabbed rice's donkey.  Robin Hood has gained another
donkey, but unfortunately, at great price.  With one swipe of eir
donkey-grabbing mitt, e has utterly eliminated the Standing-Around rice,
wiped em clean from the earth.

r-attila stood around again.  (Maybe this a function of him being on
vacation)  I would appreciate it if someone would do us all a favor and
grab his donkey so the rounds could take less than 3 days.

GAL:

Blest Lax Monk Pal: 4
Calvin N Hobbes: 3
Dragon Mage: 2
IdiotBoy: 1 
K 2: 4 euph
King Felix: 1
Pure Haste: 1
r-attila the farce: 1
Robin Hood: 4
Vynd: 1

Reply to this message with your next move.

-- Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Wrangler

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Subject: Acka: YORL
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:17:17 -0400 (EDT)

Forrest, Cain, and the doctor examined the small collection of items
they had managed to ferret out of their would-be assailant's clothing.
Two more of the combination bananas/mock weapons, a scanner slightly
more powerful than the doctor's medical scanner, and of all things,
what appeared to be a small curling iron.  And of course the map.
Forrest, after looking at the map for a while, announced to the others,
"I think we must be somewhere around here," pointing to a circled X
on the map.  "This map has several Xs, as if there are several
important locations around here.  One is circled and then crossed out,
and I'm betting that is where Pike found that curling iron, in a
hollowed-out tree stump marked at that location."

"So what's here?" Cain asked.

"Believe it or not, the map says the legendary Mannna Tree is here.
The tree of Mannna, the one fruit that is 1000 fruits."

They collected the items in a makeshift bag made from the the jacket
of Pike's outfit, and the never-tiring doctor dragged Pike along behind
him by his ankles, as the group tried to find the Mannna Tree.

/dev/joe plays: Mannna

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