Tumbleweed - The Rules and Discussion

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Well I claimed something like 348768734 bells the other weesk, but that was clearly invalid.

I saw 8 bells the other day. Have we had a valid claim for 9 bells yet?
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Ah, I assume you're asking because you claimed 11 bells earlier?
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Yes indeed! :-P
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I think 11 hours is the longest we've gone without a claim. Unless you count all the time from the 30th of January, 2005 to when the game started. 8)
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Is this still going?
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Seems to be not sure what the longest valid claim is now though?
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We're almost into the realms of 20 bells now.
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Due to some technical upgrading, the current round of tumbleweed will end some point tomorrow morning.

Scores will then be collated - a new tumbleweed section hopefully should be back by the end of the weekend.
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Gosh, you had fun in 2011 ... and I see history repeating itself in some respects.

For clarity, please would you confirm whether the current rules are :
- the message at the start of this thread at 18 Jun 2011, 21:00:12
- the message in this thread at 27 Jun 2011, 12:06:28
- somewhere (probably the scores thread) within the last few months
- somewhere/sometime else

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DavidC wrote:Gosh, you had fun in 2011 ... and I see history repeating itself in some respects.

For clarity, please would you confirm whether the current rules are :
- the message at the start of this thread at 18 Jun 2011, 21:00:12
- the message in this thread at 27 Jun 2011, 12:06:28
- somewhere (probably the scores thread) within the last few months
- somewhere/sometime else

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tubeguru wrote:Well I claimed something like 348768734 bells the other weesk, but that was clearly invalid.

I saw 8 bells the other day. Have we had a valid claim for 9 bells yet?
Seeing as this is a huge claim, it is probably the largest claimed. Is this a 4 year cycle?
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longest you've been without a post now? Because I wanna play! :D
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Hi, I was just wondering if you can post weed instead if bells on the game. For example, instead of '3 bells' could I put '36 weed'? Thanks!
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No. Three bells is a claim for three hours, which can only be claimed as "three bells" or "180 weed".

"36 weed" is an invalid claim.
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Sorry forgot the rules! I meant to put 180, not 36! But that's been answered anyway!
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