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Hix wrote:
The Invisible Rule is:

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×Your post's first letter must be a consonant if the previous (official) post's first letter is a vowel; your post's first letter must be a vowel if the previous post's first letter is a consonant.

You know, you could have a point there...

#12: This is my 12th guess

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Hix wrote:
The Invisible Rule is:

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×Your post's first letter must be a consonant if the previous (official) post's first letter is a vowel; your post's first letter must be a vowel if the previous post's first letter is a consonant.

Yeah, Hix got the rule. By the way, this is exactly the situation that I was trying to avoid by suggesting the 6-hour limit, but unless Erik adds it to the beginning of the thread it's a "house rule" which must be specified at the beginning of the round.

I will mod Hix up and he may start the next round now.

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In case you are wondering, these are the changes that I would like to see in the official rules:

Maurog's Amendment:

7. A player may not exceed the number of posts made by the host. (Off-game posts are not counted.)
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10. The winner gets modded up by the amount of the pot (the total amount of negative mods for the game) minus the amount of his own posts modded up. In other words, the total amount of negative mods for the game are given to him. If he wishes to be host, he will also be given mod points to run the game.
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11. A player cannot post a sentence after his own sentence unless at least 6 hours have passed or some other player posted his sentence. A player cannot try to guess the Invisible Rule unless at least 6 hours have passed since his last post.

12. A player who guesses the Invisible Rule incorrectly is out of the game.


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[Last edited by Maurog at 02-25-2006 12:21 PM : Removing second half of rule 11.]

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Maurog wrote:11. [...] A player cannot try to guess the Invisible Rule unless at least 6 hours have passed since his last post.

What, even if someone else posts a sentence or guesses the rule after his last post? That seems to give an unfair advantage to everyone else.

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Hmm, you're right, that part isn't needed as long as rule 12 is in effect.

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Off game: Initial posts with the new invisible rule coming up. Enjoy!

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#1:

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#2:

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#3:
earl Hamiltonian
rector imaginary gram

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#1:


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#1: love truth

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#1:

Interest

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#1 :why :do :so :many :words :in :the :examples :begin :with :colons?

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#4:
Noting that Chaco's #1 guess was edited less than a minute after posting (I modded it anyway)

Chris: Can you see the Smilies that this forum supports?

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#2: :but :I :usually :read :posts :via :email

offgame: I will assume it's OK to post twice in a row until either the official rules in the first post get changed or Hix specifies "house rules" for this round.

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off-game

Hix wrote:
#4:
Noting that Chaco's #1 guess was edited less than a minute after posting (I modded it anyway)

Chris: Can you see the Smilies that this forum supports?

was your second comment intended to be offgame? or is the whole thing part of you 4th statement thingy (or whatever you call it)?

#1

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offgame: the whole lot was in bold. I took it to mean that the whole lot make up a post which follows the invisible rule.

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Offgame:Yes, I'm using the rules from the first post in the thread, but if anyone wants to test out some really short posts, I wouldn't insist that those posts contain 3 words that previous posts do not. Please note that a post is an official post if and only if it begins with #x for the proper value of x. Using "offgame" to indicate non-official posts is encouraged (but not required), but using "offgame" within an official post may confuse some players.

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offgame: it's confused me now. my #2 post was intended to be a one sentence entry with a separate "offgame" sentence at the end. Did you take it as such? Or did you take the whole post as a guess?

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Offgame:A post is either an official entry or not (in its entirety). That's why it's confusing to have "offgame", "off game", "off-game", or "THIS IS NOT PART OF MY ENTRY" as part of an entry -- I have to consider such comments in my determination of whether the post follows the invisible rule.

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#3: :ongame :thanks :for :clearing :that :up

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#2:

sad serious emotional

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#4: :this :is :a :much :easier :way :of :gaining :mod :points :than :writing :real :posts

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#2: Explosions are fun :boom

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Offgame: Hix, click the "more smilies" link on the reply page

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#1 :Annoying :people :with :are :since :I :them .

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#3: Isn't this game annoying?

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#5:

Look, a post with no emoticons at all!

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Offgame: Look, a post in clear contravention of rule 7, "A player may not exceed the number of posts made by the host"!

(Is that rule still in force?)

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#5: In order to give everyone a bit more data to work with, I will tell you that every "off-game" post I have made since becoming host does NOT follow the invisible rule