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From: fred_s@earwax.pei.com (Fred Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Subject: Re: EIA: Britain trade (was RE:EIA: House Rules)
Date: 4 Nov 92 23:33:09 GMT
Organization: Protocol Engines Incorporated

In article <EexeHEi00WB68zCnoo@andrew.cmu.edu> mustafa+@CMU.EDU (Mustafa Unlu) writes:
>fred_s@earwax.pei.com (Fred Scott) writes:
>> >>As with any other country, GB has to trade with all ports or none.
>> >
>> >This is an interesting comment.  What rule says this? 
>
>GB trades with all ports or none. Question: Where did I come up with
>this? 
>Answer: This has always been the way we play. If this answer is not
>satisfactory, look at this:
>
>
>8.2.1.2 ...The trade money due a major power is determined by adding
>together *all* of the domestic values of its ports.
>
>There are no references to Britain determining which port to trade
>with. There are rules for determining eligibility of a port but
>nowhere does it say that GB gets to choose which port(s) to trade
>with.

I disagree.  In the next sentence, immediately following the rule you cite,
it goes on to say that "Great Britain may trade with *any* eligable ports,
but only if the major power controlling the port also wishes to trade."  It
sure seems hard to construe that as meaning anything else besides Great
Britain being able to turn trade on or off on a "port-by-port" basis.

>If this still doesn't sound convincing, there is an errata that I
>remember reading which answered questions about trade.
...
(he goes on to say the errata he can't find supports his position rather
explicitly)

Well, of course, obviously I haven't seen such errata myself so I can't
comment on it.  As I said before, my memory of General articles (which I
can't currently cite, either) was that they explicitly stated that Britain
was allowed to pick which ports they wished to trade with, not just which
powers.  If you or anyone else can find AH's postion on this as published
anywhere in a General, could such a person please post the location and
substance of the answer?  I think this is likely to be the only way to
resolve this question.

Fred
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
From: dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga)
Subject: Re: BTECH-Gamer/Player which are you?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:07:33 GMT

re@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Roderick Easton) writes:

>   Whilst combined arms may sound dandy and even work well on 
>the game board only a small percentage of units use it (Fed-Com
>RCT's, Gray Death Legion, pre-Misery Dragoons).  There must be
>some reason.  There is: inter-service rivalry.  Unless they are
>properly trained two units of different military arms will become
>bogged down with command and control problems ( actually I'd like
>to see the Command and Control for 60 v fast, one man vtols!),
>rivalry (Mechwarriors look down on Tankers and groundpounders,
>who don't trust Aerospace pilots, who hate Mechwarriors and 
>nobody likes somebody elses officers...) and plain old lack
>of experience of this kind of warfare.  It would not work in
>"real life".

That's assuming you have different 'services'. This may be a problem
for house units where you actually have different branches of service.
In mercenary units of battalion size, these sort of problems are 
minimized by the fact that the group is too small for very great
rivalries to develop. *smile* Besides, dealing with this sort of thing
is what that Leadership score is for.

Axly

  
********************************************************************************
*  Axly               *  "I didn't want to shoot him."                         *
* Red Sword Targa     *  "Well..maybe I did want to shoot him, but I didn't    *
*                     *   mean to kill him."                                   **                     *  "OK. Maybe I did mean to kill him ... but he deserved *
*                     *   it. "                                                *
*                     *        -Axly                                           *
********************************************************************************
 
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From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
Subject: Classic Games: the ballot!
Reply-To: urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:41:21 GMT

Since everyone seems to have a different list of `classics', 
let the balloting begin.  Please fill in your top three choices in 
as many of the following categories as you care to use.  I will
give five points for each first-place vote, three for second place,
and one point for each third-place vote.  Games should be
`proprietary' games, not public-domain  things like Chess and Bridge.

Please send your votes to urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov, and I will post
the results after two weeks or so (i.e., when votes no longer seem to be
trickling in).

If the categories seem vague...well, use your own judgement.  I did
not want to give examples, since such examples might be considered as
suggestions for `seminal' games.

(this is for fun!  no flames or whines about how I'm not doing it right...)


			Ground-breaking,	All-time favorite,	
Category		seminal game		best game


Historical Wargame




General Wargame




Fantasy Roleplaying




Other Roleplaying




Business/trade game




Detection/deduction




Family-type cardgame




Family-type boardgame




Abstract twoplayer game




Name-your-category!









	Mike Urban

	urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: rec.games.board
From: rbr@well.sf.ca.us (Bob Rossney)
Subject: Re: Monopoly Rules
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:24:11 GMT


Many of the variants cited here (put $500 in Free Parking, double the amount
of money you collect when you pass Go, etc.) increase the amount of money in
the game, thus ensuring that the game will take even longer to end (as it
ends when all players but one run out of money).  Something to point out to
anyone who thinks Monopoly takes too long to play, as I'll bet they're using
a variant like this.

A variant that definitely makes the game longer, but better, is Auction
Monopoly.  (I don't know whether R. Wayne Schmittberger created this or if
he just reported it.)  It's quite simple:  auction every property landed on.
This reduces the luck element of the game *considerably*.

Bob Rossney
rbr@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: joe@oilean.islandsw.com (Joe McGuckin)
Subject: Re: code wanted!
Organization: Island Software
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:03:24 GMT

All the programs mentioned are copies of derivitives of the Berleley backgammon program.
It plays a pretty lame game!

-joe

-- 

Joe McGuckin             joe@islandsw.com
Island Software    	 oilean!joe@sgi.com
(415) 969-5453
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: ohj@iesd.auc.dk (Ole Hoegh Jensen)
Subject: Re: dice
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University
Distribution: rec
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:36:44

Paul Epstein says:

Paul> Does anyone happen to know how random most backgammon dice
Paul> are (assuming no deliberate cheating.)?

On many dice (I don't know if it's most) the eyes are marked with
small holes as well as color. Therefore the six'es side must be
_slightly_ lighter than the ace's side etc., so six'es must have
(very slightly) more than 1/6 probability.

Actually Jeff Ward advocates in one of his books (I don't remember
which one) that in positions where you really need to roll double
six'es you should toss the dice high into the air. This is supposed to
give the heavier ace side a better chance to land downwards. As he
says (quoted from very distant memory): It won't make a big
difference, but you might as well use every little chance of improving
your odds.

             _________
Ole         / *    * /|________
           / *    * // *    * /|
          /_*____*_// *    * / |
          |        /_*____*_/ *|
          |      * |        |  |
          |        | *    * |  |
          | *      |        |* /
          |________| *    * | /
                   |________|/
From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
Subject: Different code wanted!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:29:30 GMT

*grin*

Okay, anyone know where I could find some Ibm MS-DOS backgammon code?

All the code I've seen is for unix - does any of that compile and run
in msdos?



			- Frank Wang
			ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: epstein@rene.ma.utexas.edu (Paul Epstein)
Subject: dice
Organization: University of Texas at Austin Mathematics
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:16:01 GMT

You may be interested to know that a U.S penny will land heads approximately
50.3 % of the time.  Does anyone happen to know how random most backgammon dice
are (assuming no deliberate cheating.)?
Newsgroups: rec.games.backgammon
From: spatter@netcom.com (Steve Peterson)
Subject: What happened/is happening to FIBS?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:49:25 GMT

Hey Internet Backgammoners from the German server:
Does anybody know what's going on with the server?  I.E., will it be
coming up soon, is it gone forever, or what.  Any information or even
wild rumors welcomed.

Steve Peterson 
spatter@netcom.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:54:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.191824.6272@newscan.canada.sun.com> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
>
>Why were Red & White chosen as the colours for the Canadian Flag back
>in '65?

I have no idea why red & white were chosen as the colours, if there even is
a reason.  The flag was chosen from several submitted for competition, to
be judged and decided on by a parliamentary competition.  If you can find
their report...you'll have your answer, I imagine.

The current flag wasn't even the most popular choice.  At the time, the
public favoured a flag with red ends, white center and blue tri-leaf in
the center.  The red, white and blue signified the ties that Canada held
with Britain and France.  There are still several places in Nova Scotia
that fly this flag.

						- Chuck 
>

 _______________________________________ 
|                                       | '..err..of course I suck blood.' 
| "--whether you are quiet and ALIVE or | 'I don't believe you.' 
| quiet and DEAD makes no difference to | 'I've got a straw right here PAL! 
| Cerebus."                             |  You want a demonstration?!'
|       - Cerebus the Aardvark          |                   - The Tick 
|_______________________________________| Chuck Turner -> lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: jil@donuts0.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
Subject: GOLQ33 Correction
Reply-To: jil@donuts0.bellcore.com
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:30:11 GMT

In GOLQ33, I noted that Sonny Curtis (member of the forerunner of Buddy Holly's
Crickets) had written "I Shot The Sheriff" for the Bobby Fuller Four in 1966.
I meant to write "I Fought The Law" instead of "I Shot The Sheriff!"  Thanks
to Dave Ewing for bringing this to my attention.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: u1065904@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au (Michael Parkinson)
Subject: oscars
Reply-To: u1065904@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au
Organization: Faculty of Architecture, University of New South Wales
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:10:03 GMT


could somebody please tell me how a movie qualifies for the 
1992 academy awards with regards to its release time
how do overseas films qualify? Do they have to be released in the usa? 
	mike


Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes)
Subject: Academy Awards : Trivia Questions
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:14:20 GMT

Two unique achivements:

  1: Which film won Best Original Screenplay even though it had no dialogue? It
was not a silent film!  The director of the film was also the winning 
screenwriter.

 2: Which actress won Best Supporting Actress and then years later went on to 
win a Tony Award as Best Supporting Actress when this film was made into a 
musical?

  Clues to follow, if needed!


Mike G.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Christina Powell)
Subject: Re: rec.games.trivia question
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:37:34 GMT

jil@uts.uucp  writes:
> In article <1992Nov13.142920.19558@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Christina Powell) writes:
> 
> >Chris
> 
> What is the 1st name of the recording artist whose last name is Christian
> who recorded I Want You, I Need You, I Love You??

Good try, but unfortunately the only part of my post that made it
was my name.

What I had asked was, has anyone seen the answers to the Revenge
of the Lit Quiz, or the next quiz?

Chris (again)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Movie Trivia, Part 1
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:46:24 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Followup-To: sender


Part 1 of my movie trivia quiz. Mail me your answers if you want to participate.
Answers will be posted next week.


1) This film won Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress
Oscars, but not Best Actor or Best Actress. Name the film and the year it won.

2) Who are they? Give me the names that these people were better known by:
a) Marion Morrison
b) Cathleen Collins
c) William Claude Dunkenfield
d) William Henry Pratt

r.
Note, there are 2 correct answers for #1, I only need 1.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Movie Trivia, Part 2
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:51:17 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Followup-To: sender

Part 2 of my movie trivia quiz. Mail me your answers if you want to participate.
Answers will be posted next week.


Here are 12 movie titles. The problem with them is that they all start
with half of their own title and half of a title from another movie on
the list. For example, a two movie list:
Raiders Wars
Star of the Lost Ark

Would be, corrected, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Correct these 12 movie titles, and remember, this is for a dinner!

1) The Children's Baby
2) Gentleman's Night
3) Tarzan's Complaint
4) Ryan's Run	
5) A Hard Day's Hour
6) For Pete's Restaurant
7) Von Ryan's Agreement
8) King Soloman's Daughter
9) Portnoy's Secret Treasure	
10) Rosemary's Express	
11) Alice's Mines
12) Logan's Sake

r.
Xref: sparky rec.games.trivia:3425 rec.arts.tv:21454
From: hamel@uakari.primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.tv
Subject: NEW TV TRIVIA CONTEST
Date: 7 Nov 1992 22:50:30 -0600
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: uakari.primate.wisc.edu


 Say kids, what time is it?  Time for a tv trivia contest!
 
     I'll be running a series of 10 quizzes on a variety of
televison programs.  Three of the quizzes will be worth 20
points, while the other 7 will be worth 10 points, for a possible
total of 130 points.
 
     Send your answers to hamel@primate.wisc.edu.  Please do NOT
post to the net.
 
     I'll post answers and scores, plus cumulative scores,
following each quiz.
 
     Good luck and good trivia.
===============================================================
 
TV QUIZ #1
 
     One property many television producers lack is a sense of
originality, often hoping to attract viewers by splitting a
successful tv show into two successful tv shows.  Identify the tv
series from which the following shows were spinoffs.  Each
correct answer is worth 1 point for a total of 10 possible
points.  Answers are due by November 23.
 
1.  THE TORTELLIS        
2.  TOP OF THE HEAP      
3.  GOOD TIMES           
4.  GOMER PYLE, USMC     
5.  MORK AND MINDY       
6.  BEVERLY HILLS BUNTZ  
7.  MELROSE PLACE        
8.  RHODA                
9.  DIRTY SALLY          
10.  THE FACTS OF LIFE   
 
 
Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.)
Subject: Movie Trivia, Part 3
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:55:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Followup-To: sender

This is part 3 of my movie trivia quiz. Please mail me your responses if you
wish to participate. Answers will be posted next week.

These are the tough ones. :)

Just answer the questions:

1) Why was November 21, 1945 important to both Robert Benchley and Goldie Hawn?

2) Here are some memorable, but misquoted movie lines. What are the acutal 
lines?
a) "Smile when you say that, Pardner" (Gary Cooper, The Virginian, 1938)
b) "Play it again, Sam" (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, 1942)
c) "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" (Mae West, She Done Him 
Wrong, 1933)

3) What specific event do all these John Wayne movies have in common?
a) Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
b) The Fighting Seabees (1944)
c) Wake of the Red Witch (1949)
d) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
e) The Alamo (1960)
f) The Cowboys (1972)
g) The Shootist (1976)

4) What do the following movies all have in common?
a) How Yukong Moved the Mountains- Joris Ivens, France, 1976
b) War and Peace- Russia, 1967
c) The Human Condition- Jumpei Gomikawa, Japan, 1959
d) Greed- Erich con Stroheim, USA 1924
e) ****- Andy Warhol, USA, 1967

5) Its well known that Margaret Hamilton (Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of
Oz, 1939) was a kindergarden teacher. Name either one of the states she taught
in.

6) Who was the first US President to appear on film?

7) What movie has had the most remakes?

8) About how long, in minutes is the US film 'Cafeteria, or How Are You Going
to Keep Her Down on the Farm After She's Seen Paris Twice'?

9) What job, besides acting, did Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo have in common?

10) There is one particular line that is way overused in the movies. A recent
(or semi-recent) study showed that it is used at least once in 84% of Hollywood
productions, and more than once in at least 17%. What is that line?

Good luck! You'll need it :)
r.
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: rackerma@engr.UVic.CA (Robert  Ackerman)
Subject: Riddles
Keywords: Help
Reply-To: rackerma@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 20:44:14 GMT



From rackerma@sirius.UVic.CA (Robert  Ackerman)
Subject: Riddles
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:11:35 GMT

I need some help solving some riddles.  Here they are:

1) On my roll, you move forward;
   My turn is your turn.
   What am I?

2) Ours is an uneasy friendship.
   Your fathers toiled long to tame me,
   But even now I will go my own way
   If you do not tend me well.
   I am a powerful destroyer,
   Yet my frailty is great.
   What am I?

Thanks.

Rob Ackerman



Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: semele@oscar.bellcore.com (Semele Halkedis)
Subject: Re: Riddles
Keywords: Help
Reply-To: semele@oscar.bellcore.com (Semele Halkedis)
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 13:30:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.204414.29914@sol.UVic.CA>, rackerma@engr.UVic.CA (Robert  Ackerman) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> From rackerma@sirius.UVic.CA (Robert  Ackerman)
|> Subject: Riddles
|> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 08:11:35 GMT
|> 
|> I need some help solving some riddles.  Here they are:
|> 
|> 1) On my roll, you move forward;
|>    My turn is your turn.
|>    What am I?

      dice

|> 2) Ours is an uneasy friendship.
|>    Your fathers toiled long to tame me,
|>    But even now I will go my own way
|>    If you do not tend me well.
|>    I am a powerful destroyer,
|>    Yet my frailty is great.
|>    What am I?

      some nature thing - the ocean?

|> Thanks.
|> 
|> Rob Ackerman

Semele

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From: jeffj@yang.earlham.edu (ChaOs)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Riddles
Date: 6 Nov 92 14:57:31 GMT
Organization: Honest John's Used Toaster Emporium

In article <1992Nov6.74740.18529@ms.uky.edu>, morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
> rackerma@engr.UVic.CA wrote:
>>I need some help solving some riddles.  Here they are:
>>
>>1) On my roll, you move forward;
>>   My turn is your turn.
>>   What am I?
> 
> A tire, perhaps?  <automobile tire, that is>

perhaps a die, like for a board game of some sort.

>>2) Ours is an uneasy friendship.
>>   Your fathers toiled long to tame me,
>>   But even now I will go my own way
>>   If you do not tend me well.
>>   I am a powerful destroyer,
>>   Yet my frailty is great.
>>   What am I?
> 
> My environmental frame of mind says "a river".

I'm more inclined to say "fire".

-- 
Jeff (ChaOs) Johnston                             JeffJ@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: rackerma@engr.UVic.CA (Robert  Ackerman)
Subject: Re: Riddles
Reply-To: rackerma@engr.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:43:13 GMT

And the correct answers are:

1. Wheel

2. Fire

Thank you for your input



Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
Subject: Re: THE CANADIAN FLAG
Originator: clamen@BYRON.SP.CS.CMU.EDU
Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
	<BxIsvB.4Bn@cs.dal.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:36:06 GMT

In article <BxIsvB.4Bn@cs.dal.ca> lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner) writes:

   In article <1992Nov10.191824.6272@newscan.canada.sun.com> ptaylor@airfarce.Canada.Sun.COM writes:
   >
   >Why were Red & White chosen as the colours for the Canadian Flag back
   >in '65?

   I have no idea why red & white were chosen as the colours, if there even is
   a reason.  The flag was chosen from several submitted for competition, to
   be judged and decided on by a parliamentary competition.  If you can find
   their report...you'll have your answer, I imagine.

   The current flag wasn't even the most popular choice.  At the time, the
   public favoured a flag with red ends, white center and blue tri-leaf in
   the center.  The red, white and blue signified the ties that Canada held
   with Britain and France.  There are still several places in Nova Scotia
   that fly this flag.

						   - Chuck 

The tri-maple-leaf is featured on the coat of arms of Quebec and
Ontario, and is an old symbol, but blue?  Ick.  At least leaves turn
red sometime.


--
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School of Computer Science		UUCP: 	     uunet!"clamen@cs.cmu.edu"
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: ckp2n@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Christina Powell)
Subject: Re: Riddles
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:51:25 GMT

morgan@engr.uky.edu  writes:
> rackerma@engr.UVic.CA wrote:
> >I need some help solving some riddles.  Here they are:
> >
> >1) On my roll, you move forward;
> >   My turn is your turn.
> >   What am I?
> 
> A tire, perhaps?  <automobile tire, that is>
>
I thought that it might be dice (for playing a game).

Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia