Chris
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#4: You're all for it, and you're you and not him.

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#2: We've just

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#1. Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma?

#2. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period.

#3. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period. Period.

#4. Huh? Huh? Huh?

#5. Using the same word isn't the key. Systematical Guessing is.

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#6. A combo of short words, and many commas, periods, etc. might just work, but I could be wrong, as people often are.

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OOG: #s 1, 3, and 4 were correct.

Also OOG: I have surprisingly just ran out of mod points. So I guess I won't be modding future ones for a while or something.

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#1. Obviously, in a dictionary, "zeppelin" is after "aardvark," but I don't know if you'd agree.

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#7: It's all about the count, if you'd just go out lookin' for a countin' to use, if you can.

Chris
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Offgame: you didn't score Sillyman's 6th guess.

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OOG: No, I didn't, because I'm out of mod points and I spent my last ones trying to fix the mod up someone gave Niccus (it didn't follow the rule)

Chris
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How about if you just post messages saying which guesses follow the rule and which don't - then other people can mod the guesses as appropriate if they want to.

For example, make posts like:

Sillyman #1 : +1
Sillyman #2 : -1
Sillyman #3 : +1
Sillyman #4 : +1
Sillyman #5 : -1

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#7. Mod. Point. Yay. Happy. Fun. Joy.

The INVISIBLE ROLLERBLADE is: The entry must have punctuation > the length of the longest word in the entry.

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coppro
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Sillyman has got it!

Now, if some kind mod would mod him up by approx. 14 points, that would be very kind of them.

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Okay.

#1. Three and fifty numbers of red doors.

#2. Hidden images fall newly over rooms of death.

#3. Final Neather of revered Droding flee before Beethro.

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I've gone through and taken away everyone's mod downs and modded up people who guessed the rule. (Except for mine, but I don't care about mod points.)

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coppro
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Only the last game, unfortunately. I still have some -7 on my page from the one a few back.

Ah well, I wonder who'd be bored enough to go through this entire thread modding -1s to 0s?

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coppro wrote:
Only the last game, unfortunately. I still have some -7 on my page from the one a few back.

Ah well, I wonder who'd be bored enough to go through this entire thread modding -1s to +1s?

[off game]

Why +1?
An you would only have to start from page 18.

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typo.

Chris
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Sillyman wrote:
#7. Mod. Point. Yay. Happy. Fun. Joy.

The INVISIBLE ROLLERBLADE is: The entry must have punctuation > the length of the longest word in the entry.

How does the rule go exactly? Both these were 'good':

#4: You're all for it, and you're you and not him.

#1. Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma?

Yet #4 has 4 punctuation marks, and "You're" has length 5 or 6, depending on what you're counting. #1 has 5 marks and 5 letters per word? The both seem to go against the rule as stated.

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Chris wrote:

Sillyman wrote:
#7. Mod. Point. Yay. Happy. Fun. Joy.

The INVISIBLE ROLLERBLADE is: The entry must have punctuation > the length of the longest word in the entry.

How does the rule go exactly? Both these were 'good':

#4: You're all for it, and you're you and not him.

#1. Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma, Comma?

Yet #4 has 4 punctuation marks, and "You're" has length 5 or 6, depending on what you're counting. #1 has 5 marks and 5 letters per word? The both seem to go against the rule as stated.

For #1, presumably sillyman's underlined > means "greater than or equal to". #4 ... well, you're is a contraction that can be counted as one or two words. Basing a rule on the number or length of "words" in a potentially nitpicky environment is problematic in any case: word is one of those everyday words with no well-defined technical meaning.

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Znirk wrote:

For #1, presumably sillyman's underlined > means "greater than or equal to". #4 ... well, you're is a contraction that can be counted as one or two words. Basing a rule on the number or length of "words" in a potentially nitpicky environment is problematic in any case: word is one of those everyday words with no well-defined technical meaning.

Right on both accounts. It was "There must be at least as many punctuation marks in the phrase as letters in the longest words.", and I counted contractions as separate words/

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#1: For now, obvious rules don't impress.

#2: When Beethro freezes, nine other roaches don't move either.

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Sillyman, does your #2 actually fit your rule?

Also: is there any reason everything has to be done through mod-ups and mod-downs? It seems we all keep running out of mod points...

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Znirk wrote:
sillyman's underlined > means "greater than or equal to"

OK, it was underlined!

I was reading the forum via email, where it looked like a _ followed by a > followed by a _. Is this some kind of secret UBB code for underlining? We already have [ u ] for underlining.

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Chris wrote:

Znirk wrote:
sillyman's underlined > means "greater than or equal to"

OK, it was underlined!

I was reading the forum via email, where it looked like a _ followed by a > followed by a _. Is this some kind of secret UBB code for underlining? We already have [ u ] for underlining.

It's a convention for representing underlines in cases where an actual line underneath isn't possible, like text-only email or usenet messages.

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or you could just use the greater-than-or-equal character, ≥

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#4. The first guesser, in the night, overlooks technicalities that must be realized to win this Drodtastic game.

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Tahnan
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Sillyman wrote:
#4. The first guesser, in the night, overlooks technicalities that must be realized to win this Drodtastic game.

#3: The first guesser, myself, did not have an overabundance of evidence regarding those deeply-hidden technicalities.

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#1: This guess may well turn out to be the first one that is wrong. Then again, it might not. I hope.

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#4. This fourth note is obviously needed to catch me up with the moderator, as the rules deem necessary.

GUESS: A sentence fits the rule if five words, in order but not necessarily consecutive, start with the letters "f, n, o, r, d".

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Correct. Make a new rule, dude. Fnord.

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Tahnan
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With the approval of those participating: Unless someone dumps a whole lot of rank points on me, I'll just be noting "+1" or "-1", rather than actually modding guesses.

#1: In this round, you do have some non-zero chance of accidentally following the rule.

#2: I'm going to wait before giving too many hints.

#3: This will be the final example of the rule in this post.