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Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 10:20
by tubeguru
162 bells
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 10:31
by GuyBarry
163 bells
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 10:45
by tubeguru
164 bells
Well, this is what happens when one doesn't think the rules through properly ...
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 10:59
by GuyBarry
165 bells
[You can say what you like about my games, but I do try to make the rules coherent!]
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 11:43
by nozzacook
This just like the original counting game but with the word Bell added
166bells yawn
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 12:11
by The Orange One
20 weed. The M20 runs from London to Folkestone, connecting with Le Shuttle.
Oops. Clock reset to 20. Start again. Sorry!
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 13:56
by GuyBarry
1,000,000,000,000 weed
[This claim is invalid, so under rule (5) it resets the clock to zero and the number of bells to zero.]
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 02 Feb 2014, 20:36
by The Orange One
1 bell. There are many bus number 1s, but my favourite is the one that transfers you from Amersham to Chesham.
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 03 Feb 2014, 07:15
by GuyBarry
You missed a trick there! Rule (5) only resets the number of bells to zero, not the number of weed, so you could have legitimately claimed 1,000,000,000,001 weed.
The question is now how to interpret rule (3). If it means "you may claim a number of bells or weed exactly one more than the last claim
of the same type", then I can now legitimately go ahead and claim 1,000,000,000,001 weed, since there haven't been any intervening claims for weed. However, since it doesn't explicitly say that, I'll play it safe and post under rules (1), (2) and (4):
10 bells. The
Ten Bells pub is perhaps the most famous pub in the history of Jack the Ripper.
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 03 Feb 2014, 08:20
by nozzacook
In that case I claim 2.7 trillion weed. And no bells
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 03 Feb 2014, 18:37
by GuyBarry
2.7 trillion and one weed
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 16:19
by A Challenge
2.7 trillion and 2 weed.
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 17:47
by GuyBarry
Oh, I'd forgotten about this!
2.7 trillion and 3 weed.
Am I winning?
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 22 Sep 2015, 16:47
by A Challenge
2.7 trillion and 4 weed
I don't think that you are winning!
Re: Counting meets Tumbleweed (so nobody can have a problem)
Posted: 22 Sep 2015, 19:21
by GuyBarry
I seem to remember there was a fatal flaw with this game