434 minutes after 13:47 (when he made the claim) is 21:01, and I'd already specified that claims for periods of time after 9pm were invalid.tubeguru wrote:Why is that an invalid claim? And what did he do that was "clever"?GuyBarry wrote:Oh, I see what you've done. Very clever - it's an invalid claim. No points gained or lost.
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I don't understand this game.
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The rules are pretty clear. You get the points if there are no posts within the time that you specify. You lose the points if someone else posts within that time.
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I don't think "13 weed" is a legitimate claim for points in this game, so I'm ignoring tractakid's last post.
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1 point
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The game ended at 9pm so I'm afraid I'll have to ignore the last two posts. The final scores are:
tractakid -39
greatkingrat -23
The Orange One 0
tubeguru 0
nozzacook 16
GuyBarry 20
So, rather embarrassingly, I win this time. New game to follow hopefully.
tractakid -39
greatkingrat -23
The Orange One 0
tubeguru 0
nozzacook 16
GuyBarry 20
So, rather embarrassingly, I win this time. New game to follow hopefully.
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I must have missed the thing where you arbitrarily decided that the game ends at 9pm.
Well, I am officially better at this game than GKR and tractakid. They're rubbish ...
Well, I am officially better at this game than GKR and tractakid. They're rubbish ...
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I'd already mentioned it twice before play started, as well as in my explanation of The Orange One's invalid claim. The main problem with this game is that if you don't put some sort of time limit on it, it will almost certainly be won by the last person to go to bed. Who is usually tractakid as far as I can tell.tubeguru wrote:I must have missed the thing where you arbitrarily decided that the game ends at 9pm.
I confess that I thought of the title first and then had to dream up a game to go with it
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Well, it's good to see you came up with a completely original idea in the end.
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Well, it was intended as a parody of Tumbleweed of course (although the game is probably beyond parody), but it does sort of work as a game in its own right. Maybe if you imposed a limit on the size of claims between (say) midnight and 8am? Or banned them completely?
You'd have to have some mechanism for preventing people from editing their posts as well (as in Tumbleweed).
You'd have to have some mechanism for preventing people from editing their posts as well (as in Tumbleweed).
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Lets start a new game. Ends at 23:23
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