Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #516
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Ackanomic Digest      Thursday, February 13 1997      Volume 01 : Number 516

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Church of Seleya

> I am joining the Church of Seleya.
> 
> I am running to the Church, the Church of Seleya.

Frantically I scramble into the church, nearly knocking over Narf in my 
hurry to reach the altar...

I am holding the Altar by the Horns!

- --Mohammed
looking over his shoulder for his Champion's Cloak

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:04:09 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: Re: Acka:  Proposal 1724

 /dev/joe writes:

> 
> > Proposal 1724
> > Table of Contents
> > Jammer
> 
> > {Renumber this rule as 99}
> > 
> > Part 1:

> Jammer, there's already such a list in the "List of Rules by Categories"
> web page, which is updated when I update the rules, and it even has links
> to the rules.  I see no need to put a duplicate of this list in the
actual
> rules.
> 
> There's some possible use if the contents just lists the general
> categories the rules are grouped into, but the "rules by hundreds"
> page has a list of links like that too.
> 
>
I have a dial up connection to my ISP, and do a fair amount of stuff off
line.  
I therefore download the current ruleset periodically.  Having a copy of
the
titles and numbers would make it easier to find a rule, especially if it
were 
linked.

As you said that a ToC is generated when you update the Ruleset, so I
feel that having it would add utility at no cost in additional time to the
Web
harfer and only minimal cost in storage space, ca .5% at a guess.

Jammer
AKA
John-Martin Lotz
[email-masked]

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:21:24 -0800
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Subject: Undead Harfer

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:25:04 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : Undead Harfer

This makes Jammer the Undead Harfer

Niccolo Flychuck
President

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:33:22 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: Re: acka : Undead Harfer

> 
> 
> This makes Jammer the Undead Harfer
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck
> President
> 
I accept.

I"ve noted the message

In order to help the Undead-Harfer, I have placed all player records
I have as of the time the player left the game at:

http://www.itw.com/~malenkai/ackaud.htm

Note that these still have offices and things like chartreuse goose
eggs that would have been destroyed by now.  Also, I have excluded players
who never became active -- they should either have no undead, or it will
be ok to destroy their undead anyway.

I believe either /dev/joe or Niccolo Flychuck has older undead records.

I will not be maintaining this page, or provide a link off of my main
page, and it will come down when the Undead-Harfer rule self-deletes.  
Good luck to the new Undead-Harfer, whoever that may be.  It should not
be that difficult a job, once the initial setup is done.

Malenkai

I've saved the site and will post it probably the day after tomorrow.

/dev/joe, Niccolo Flychuck any other information you may have.

jammer
John-Martin Lotz
[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:30:41 -0600
From: john duncan <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Hall of Elders

Malenkai wrote:
> 
> Guy Fawkes Hall of Elder's nomination can now begin.  Construe this
> as both a nomination and support of that nomination.
> 
> Malenkai

I second this nomination.

Lestrade

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:57:46 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: acka : Undead Harfer

> /dev/joe, Niccolo Flychuck any other information you may have.

Below is the list of all the haunted houses on the map.  I believe this
represents all the undead that exist, because I remember Mohammed's
haunted house being here, and when he left before, he was the first
undead (if you look back in the proposal archives, you'll see why I
remember that -- there was a bug in the undead rules, and we specifically
fixed his undead in a {{bracketed}} clause).

It may be for the best if you ignore Eponimondas (and nietzsche and
Joan of Arkansas, who aren't listed).  Most undead for which no player
owns any bond promissories probably owned all 100 of their PFbonds.

A5: Bash's Bash (haunted by undead Bash)
B7: Sherwood Castle (haunted by undead Robin Hood) (dangling)
B9: Wayne's house (haunted by undead Wayne)
C9: this is not a name's house (haunted by undead this is not a name)
D8: Aubergine Hall (haunted by undead Brinjal)
D9: The Great Old One's house (haunted by undead The Great Old One)
E1: Geezer's house (haunted by undead Geezer)
E8: Stately Pleasure Dome (haunted by undead pTang1001001sos)
E9: Simon Marty Harriman's house (haunted by undead Simon Marty Harriman)
F1: Habeous Corpus's house (haunted by undead Habeous Corpus)
F8: Mellon's house (haunted by undead Mellon) (dangling)
G1: chess piece face's house (haunted by undead chess piece face)
G2: De'ghew's house (haunted by undead De'ghew) (dangling)
G3: Xanadu [+ 145m tower "Monument to Futility"] (haunted by undead Guy Fawkes)
G4: fon's house (haunted by undead fon)
G5: The Lair of the Pink Bimbo (haunted by undead Kelly Martin)
G9: Bibliophilia (haunted by undead Pascal)
H1: Looney's house (haunted by undead Looney)
H2: AirHead's house (haunted by undead AirHead)
H9: G. Peefalt's house (haunted by undead G. Peefalt)
J7: FunkyTown (haunted by undead IdiotBoy)
J8: skinny's house (haunted by undead skinny)
J9: Uncle Sam's house (haunted by undead Uncle Sam)
K9: Eponimondas's house (haunted by undead Eponimondas)

A financial report from October 17 reported these undead possessions:
Bash(u)
A$415           100 BPBash
chess piece face (u)
A$278           100 BPchess
De'ghew (u)
A$412           100 BPDe'ghew
Geezer(u)
A$417           100 BPGeezer
Kelly Martin(u)
A$316           100 Bond promissories
Mellon(u)
A$635           100 BPMellon
pTang1001001sos(u)
A$601           100 BPpTang100, Blue Cross
Robin Hood(u)
A$389           100 PFRobin
Simon Marty Harriman (u)
A$308           100 BPSimon
skinny(u)
A$470           100 PFskinny
The Great Old One(u)
A$328           100 BPThe
this is not a name(u)
A$545           100 BPthis
Uncle Sam(u)
A$643           15 BPUncle, like-new PFH, PFH
Wayne(u)
A$0

At that time, the current version of the end-of-cycle-A$-tax in rule 666
was in effect, so it has never happened and the above numbers should
still be correct.

The following players are missing from the list above because they had not
quit yet (by October 17):
Brinjal, Habeous Corpus, Guy Fawkes, fon, Pascal, Looney, AirHead,
G. Peefalt, IdiotBoy

All except Looney are listed on Malenkai's page (and Wayne is there too;
a proposal gave him A$1).

At the time Looney left, undead were still created for players who
left without ever becoming active. (Indeed, Looney, who joined on
October 18 and quit the next day, was one of the reasons for that
change.)  This was after the change to give new players the lesser of
A$900 or the average of all other players A$ balances.  I don't have
any record of his starting A$, but at the time of the Oct. 17 report
cited above, 20 players held A$11824.

Malenkai's log soon after shows a A$23 payment from snowgod to the treasury
(for the first round of frinks) as the only transaction before snowgod
got paid for being Looney's mentor.

So 20 players held $11801 when Looney joined, an average of A$590.

Of course, you might just want to ignore Looney, in the spirit of the
rule changes that followed.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 05:22:28 -0800
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: GM random determination

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:03:37 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1725

Proposal 1725
Potato Adjustment
mr cwm

This is modest proposal.

In R901/9, "The Magic Potato" change the "two" to "three" in the last line
of the first paragraph, and change the "two" to "one" in the last line of
the last paragraph.

{{[The point equality of the Magic Potato and the Greater Tuba has always
bugged me.  It seemed to me that the goal of the Magic Potato was to
encourage players always to have some proposals in the queue.  The Greater
Tuba, on the other hand, is much easier to take advantage of, since
possesion of it is predictable.]}}

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:09:40 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Color Scheme rules

Here is this puzzle I told everyone about yesterday.  It appears that there
are two possible solutions based on the interpretation of one sentence.

/dev/joe
============================================================
Color Scheme -- A GAMES Magazine contest -- April 1997 issue

The following appears outside "the box":

Grand Prize: $1,000
Ten Runner-up Prizes: A GAMES T-shirt

Color Scheme
Just follow the directions -- and their directions.
by R. Wayne Schmittberger

Usually contest rules are right there to be read in black and white
in an orderly fashion, like the stripes on a zebrafish.  Not this time.

Instructions to this contest are scattered in random order throughout
the box at right.  All instructions are valid unless invalidated by
another instruction.  Some instructions contradict one another; such
conflicts are to be resolved by referring to other instructions and
interpretting them in a way that makes all the instructions consistent
with one another.  In order to resolve certain conflicts, it may be
necessary to resolve certain other conflicts first.

To enter this contest, send a list of numbers as instructed by the
contents of the box at right, together with your name and address, to:
Color Scheme, GAMES Magazine, P. O. Box 184, Fort Washington, PA 19034.
Entries must be received by May 1, 1997.  Winners will be chosen by
random draw from among the entries with the correct list of numbers.
If there are no correct entries (or not enough to award all prizes),
winners will be chosen from entries whose list adds up to the sum of
the numbers on a correct entry, or comes closest to the correct sum
(whether higher or lower).

The following sentences appear in the box.  I have numbered them only
for convenience; the numbering scheme is roughly left to right, top
to bottom among sentences in similar left-to-right position.  With
one exception noted below, the physical position of the sentences does
not seem to matter.  The color(s) and orientation of each sentence
are included in [square brackets] after each sentence, except that
sentences which do not specify an orientation are right-side up.

1. On your entry, write the number of times the word "zebrafish" appears
in this box. [blue]

2. Sentences that are not instructions are sentences nevertheless, and
words in them are to be counted when so instructed, even if they mention
zebrafish. [blue, upside-down]

3. If different sentences lead to the same number being written more than
once on your entry, only write that number on your entry once. [red]

4. On your entry, write the number of purple words in blue sentences. [blue]

5. If a sentence is all one color, then that's its color. [first 7 words
purple, last 4 words red]

6. If a sentence is all one color (like this one), then it's considered
blue no matter what its actual text color. [blue]

7. Doesn't this sentence make you think about zebrafish? [red, sideways]

8. All numbers listed on your entry must appear in ascending order, from
lowest to highest. [blue]

9. On your entry, write the first two numbers that would be on your list
if all the words in this contest were blue and this sentence did not exist.
[blue, sideways]

10. If the word "zebrafish" contains more than 9 different letters of the
alphabet, then do not obey any sideways red sentences that contain exactly
one blue word. [blue, except "more than" in purple, sideways]

11. On your entry, wrote the number of purple sentences that contain the
word "red." [first 9 words red, last 5 words purple, upside-down]

12. All numbers listed on your entry must be written in descending order,
from highest to lowest. [blue, except last word red, upside-down]

13. When following any red sentence's instructions, disregard any purple
word within that sentence. [blue, sideways]

14. On your entry, write twice the number of times the word "red" appears
in purple or blue sentences. [red, except "twice" in purple and "purple"
in blue, sideways]

15. A sentence may be any of four colors -- red, purple, blue, or green --
and its color is determined by the color(s) of its type as interpreted by
the sentences on this page. [blue, except "purple" in purple.  Sentences
13 through 27 appear on the same page as this sentence, and sentences
1 and 8 lie across both pages.]

16. Have you ever seen a green zebrafish? [green, sideways]

17. If two instructions of the same color contradict one another, obey the
one that's right-side up or disobey the one that's upside-down; if that still
doesn't resolve the conflict, obey the one with more words in it. [blue]

18. On your entry, write the total number of red sentences and blue sentences
that contain the word "purple." [blue]

19. If different sentences lead to the same number being written more than
once on your entry, then do not include that number on your entry at all.
[first 16 words purple, last 11 words red]

20. In some dictionaries, "zebrafish" is spelled "zebra fish." [purple]

21. If red and purple sentences contradict one another, obey the red one.
[blue]

22. If purple and blue sentences contradict one another, obey the purple one.
[red]

23. If blue and red sentences contradict one another, obey the blue one
unless the red one is upside-down, in which case you are to obey the red one.
[purple, sideways]

24. How would this contest be different if there were no such thing as
a zebrafish? [blue]

25. How would this contest be different if there were such a thing as a
zebrafish? [blue]

26. If a sentence contains words of more than one color, the sentence is
considered to be the color of its first word if the sentence is right-side up,
the color of its last word if the sentence is upside-down, and red if the
sentence is sideways. [blue, sideways]

27. On your entry, write the number of purple words in red sentences.
[purple, sideways]

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:09:12 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Trinkets and Treasures

I am creating a trinket worth A$20 called Orion's Crystal.

Orion's Crystal is a sphere about the size of a softball made of
very clear glass.  It consists of 8 oddly-shaped pieces that fit
together in a tricky way.  It is very hard to find.

I am making a treasure consisting of Orion's Crystal and burying it.
The map for Orion's Crystal is:

When a player publicly posts the location of a GAMES Magazine Hidden
Contest which has never been publicly posted before, and does so at
least one week before the end (in New York City) of the day entries
are due for that contest, e shall find this treasure.
Players are asked to put SPOILER warnings in the subject of such
messages so that others who haven't yet given up may keep searching.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:09:53 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : acting Swingers

Last time I checked Bascule was still on Vacation, and right before
Malenkai changed Parties, the latter was acting HARF Swinger.
This would mean that as of the time Malenkai anounced eir change of Party,
there was no HARF Swinger. Now, even  a worst case scenario will no cause
the Harf Swinger's Office to become Warm before the begining of eir turn,
but I wanted to point this out anyway.

BTW-  (None Yet) has still not appointed an acting Swinger, and there are
approx. 10 hours for their turn.

(I'm posting this on the main list because some of the players affected by
this may not be on acka-chess)

Niccolo Flychuck
Chess-Umpire

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:07:40 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 347 (Niccolo)

Niccolo Flychuck has been chosen.

Clerk of the Courts
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 347
  Subject: Finding Phoebe
Initiator: Malenkai
    Judge: Niccolo Flychuck (selected Feb 12, 1997, 18:08h EST)
Judgement:

Statement:

Phoebe's matchbox is not missing.

Malenkai's Reasoning:

Always interested in linguistic interpretation of the rules and fleshing
out game custom, and finding plenty of bandwidth to spare all of the
sudden, what to do with Phoebe comes to mind.

R 909 describes certain conditions under which Phoebe's matchbox
is "deemed to be missing".  Generally Phoebe's matchbox goes missing
when her wisdom is posted, or the time limit to post the wisdom has 
elapsed.

In this case, however, Guy Fawkes left the game while he had Phoebe,
and Phoebe is both unique and mimsy, and R 256 describes what happens:

> 1) All of his mimsy possessions are taken away and considered unowned.

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:29:19 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Steven A. Swiniarski)
Subject: Re: Acka: Hall of Elders

>
>
>
>On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Malenkai wrote:
>
>> Guy Fawkes Hall of Elder's nomination can now begin.  Construe this
>> as both a nomination and support of that nomination.
>> 
>> Malenkai
>> 
>As I've stated before
>I support this
>Niccolo Flychuck
>
>
Ditto that.

Swann

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:37:31 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1708 failed quorum (Chess Things)

Proposal 1708
Chess Things
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  9 / 19 = 47.368421%
Yes:  5    No:  0     Present:  4   ...Proposal failed quorum.

YES votes:
	Guy Fawkes
	/dev/joe
	Mohammed
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Strider

NO votes:

PRESENT votes:
	Malenkai
	Lestrade
	breadbox
	Robert Sevin

Active players who did not vote:
	fnord
	Panther
	Calvin N Hobbes
	ThinMan
	Ludwig
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Swann
	Habeous Corpus

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:37:30 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1707 accepted (Join Assembly)

Proposal 1707
Join Assembly
Niccolo Flychuck

Votes cast by active players:  10 / 19 = 52.631579%
Yes:  6    No:  1     Present:  3   ...Proposal accepted.

Niccolo Flychuck +2 : EP P1707

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Strider
	Lestrade
	Guy Fawkes
	Mohammed

NO votes:
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	Robert Sevin
	Ludwig
	breadbox

Active players who did not vote:
	fnord
	Panther
	Calvin N Hobbes
	ThinMan
	Narf
	Techno
	mr cwm
	Swann
	Habeous Corpus

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1707
Join Assembly
Niccolo Flychuck

Append to R720 "Institutions" the following text as section 5:
"When two or more Institutions are called to vote on a matter in Joint
Assembly, then all the members of all the Institution in the specific
Joint Assembly vote on the matter as if they were all members of one
Institution, with the exception that each player votes once for each
Institution in the Joint Assembly that he is a member of an acting member
of.
If two or more Institutiont are called to vote on a matter and a Joint
Assembly is not explicitly specified, then each Institution votes
seperately.
"

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:48:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1708 - correction

Argh, I knew there was something I'd forgotten to do.  I forgot to 
tell the bot everyone was on vacation.  Since Calvin N Hobbes & 
Swann are on vacation, this meets quorum and is accepted.

Niccolo Flychuck +2 : EP P 1708

The text of the proposal was:

Proposal 1708
Chess Things
Niccolo Flychuck

 {{[Now, that's really more like it]}}
 
 This is a Modest proposal
 In 1230.2 "Swinger Like to Play Around II - Managing the game"
 section 2 J.(i) will be ammended to read in full:
 "A Round of play is defined as a time period in which each Swinger played
 at least once, and at least one Swinger played only once, where a Default
 Pass also counts a play, and a Special
 DD-Turn counts as a play for each Swinger taking part in that turn, in eir
 capacity as Swinger."

 In section 2 D the text :
 " as a result of the fact that eir Party no longer exists,"
 Will be deleted.
 
 {{[The second is a correction to the null proposal. The first should have
 really gone with the check fix, because playing order may change as a
 result of check, it is possible that the current condition of each Swinger
 playing exactly once, might never be met. In the spirit of that
 ammendemnt, Special DD-Turn also count.
  With the recently submitted definition a Round could be aslong as
  one wanted. With this definition, once everyone has played once, a
  Round is definitely over.]}}

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:19:39 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Spelling Bee

Miscellaneous stuff that got misspelled in the last few weeks:

In Rule 259, change "player" to "players" (in "two player agree"). [P1633]

In Rule 1315, change "alledged" to "alleged". [P1638]

In Rule 1230.18, change "materail" to "material". [P1654]

In Rule 1230.2, section 3 D (iii) (e), add a period after "Surrender";
  change "In" to "If"; change "chech" to "check".  [P1655]

In Rule 1230.2, section 3 D (iii), change "Assitant" to "Assistant";
  renumber the subsections (b) through (g) to become sections
  (a) through (f) respectively; near the beginning of 3 D (iii) change
  "(a)-(g)" to "(a)-(f)"; in what used to be section (f), change "(b)-(d)"
  to "(a)-(c)".  [P1678]

In Rule 1230.2, section 2 E (iv), change "Swinger" to "Swingers"
  (in "all of the checked Swinger").  [P1678]

In Rule 720, section 5:
  change "Institution" to "Institutions" (in "all the Institution");
  change "of" to "or" (in "a member of an acting member");
  change "Institutiont" to "Institutions". [P1707]

/dev/joe

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