From: owner-frc-digest To: frc-digest@nvg.unit.no Subject: frc-digest V1 #96 Reply-To: frc Errors-To: owner-frc-digest Precedence: bulk frc-digest Tuesday, 31 January 1995 Volume 01 : Number 096 Missing Judge? Re: Missing Judge? Not lazy, not sloppy... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: KUNNE@crnvma.cern.ch Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 14:01:54 WET Subject: Missing Judge? Where areth thou, O Mighty Wizard Judge? Ronald ------------------------------ From: Oerjan Johansen Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:11:29 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: Missing Judge? On Mon, 30 Jan 1995 KUNNE@crnvma.cern.ch wrote: > Where areth thou, O Mighty Wizard Judge? ^art > Ronald Greetings, Oerjan. ------------------------------ From: Stein.Kulseth@TF.telenor.telemax.no Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:15:46 +0100 Subject: Not lazy, not sloppy... just practical minded. Just as I'm writing this my mailhorn starts going toot toot with (possibly angry) requests for action. I'll read them in a minute. For the record I brought 30:9 and 30:10 home for the weekend, and as I deemed them both valid, I didn't bother to go back to work just to tell everybody so. Now they are of course valid by timeout. So current status is: Ronald Eligible till Feb 3 09:18:53 Stephen Eligible till Feb 2 18:35:08 All others ineligible Points: Stephen +2.5 Ronald +1.5 Vanyel +1.0 Doug +0.5 Oerjan -2.0 Rules: FR 30:1 (Ronald - Jan 16 12:38:28) * Valid * +0.5 SP >>>> All future Fantasy Rules shall contain as their first line a string of characters between angular brackets < and >. This string must be derived from the string in the first line of the previous VALID Fantasy Rule, consistent with all string transformation rules given in earlier VALID Fantasy Rules. String Transformation Rule 1: If the string contains an M, then a character shall be added at the end of the string. >>>> Notes: All OK, half a point for a nice easy start adhering to the theme (of course, Ronald suggested the theme so no surprise that he sticks to it nicely) ==== FR 30:2 (Oerjan - Jan 16 16:51:45) * Valid * -2.5 SP >>>> All first line strings longer than 2 characters must be a correctly spelled English word or phrase. In order to facilitate this, the first character of any string may be freely changed into another one. >>>> Notes: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is *not* what I hoped for. And, Oerjan, you can thank Ronald for trying to pressure me to give you -3 SP, to keep my integrity I only give you -2.5 SP. Valid, though. ==== FR 30:3 (Oerjan - Jan 16 17:21:47) * Valid * -0.5 SP >>>> All last lines of Future Rules must consist a string enclosed in square brackets, whose meaning is somehow related to the string on the first line. Moreover, the first string of any future Rule must consist entirely of characters from the first and last line strings of the previous Rule, none repeated more times than in the previous first and last line strings combined. [ELEPHANT] >>>> Notes: Better, yet still not entirely to my liking. 0.5 points off for leaving the field very open for the next player. ==== FR 30:4 (Doug - Jan 16 21:23:33) * VALID * +0.5 SP >>>> If a string consists of four different letters, then it may be trans- formed into another four-letter English word, provided the new word satisfies the restrictions of 30:3. [TAPE] >>>> Notes: OK play. Far from spectacular though. ==== FR 30:5 (Oerjan - Jan 17 14:19:58) * Valid * +1 SP >>>> Every string in a Rule must be at least as long as the longest first line string in the previous Rules. There is only one remaining type of strings, namely strings enclosed in curly brackets, which may be placed only when required by previous Rules. If the last line string of a Rule contains consecutive vowels, the next Rule must contain a curly bracket string containing the consonants of that last line string. [GLACIER] >>>> Notes: Still getting better :-) ==== FR 30:6 (Stephen - Jan 22 15:38:37) * Valid * +1 SP >>>> If a first line string contains a G, H or I, that letter may be changed into any pair of letters, except where the change would disobey some other transformation rule. Curly bracket strings may never be English words. No two consecutive valid rules may include a curly bracket string. Every new fantasy rule from now on will be invalid unless it states some previously unknown restriction on all curly bracket strings, and some previously unknown transformation rule on first line strings. The letter Y shall be regarded as a vowel, whatever its sound in a word or position in a string may be. {RCILG} [RICHES] >>>> Notes: Nothing that will change the world here, but some restrictions that might be handy (we seem to be needing restrictions here, I haven't been near invalidating a rule yet ... :-) ==== FR 30:7 (Ronald - Jan 23 09:07:39) * Valid * -1 SP >>>> Curly bracket strings must contain a substring which is a French word. (Example: IL in 30:6). All first line strings must contain a U. [MY DAUGHTER] >>>> Notes: The Wizard Judge does not know French, and considers himself merciful for not going below -1 SP. Everybody please point out your French words when submitting a rule including {} strings. ==== FR 30:8 (Vanyel - Jan 23 10:18:14) * Invalid * 1 SP >>>> A subset of a string is any set of letters which are all in that string, but a substring is a string which appears in order within the main string. All curly bracket strings must contain some substring which may be rearranged into an English word. (e.g. RCILG:GIRL, GDMORTH:DORM) A first-line string may be reversed in order, but if so, at least two letters and no more than three must be changed. {GDMORTH} [GUITAR] >>>>> Notes: Ah, ... at last an invalid rule:-) There is no substring in RCILG that can be reordered into GIRL (the C separates the R from the ILG). ==== FR 30:6 (Stephen - Jan 26 18:35:08) * Valid * +1.5 SP >>>> If a first line string has an "S" as its final character, then it must be changed into some other letter to make a valid string transformation. However, if a first line string has an "S" in some other place, as the nth character, say, the next first line string must have an "S" as the (n+1)th character. {MOND$GH TR} Each curly bracket string must have more non-letter characters than the previous one. [BRACKET] >>>> Notes: We seem to be getting somewhere. Nice string transformation rule. ==== FR 30:7 (Ronald - Jan 27 09:18:53) * Valid * +2 SP >>>> The string transformation rules in this and future Fantasy Rules shall be identical for all three types of string. For instance: When forming a string of any type, the E is the only character that may be used twice. [GREAT] >>>>> Notes: Yet another good rule. For all its simplicity it is remarkably difficult to interpret! And no French!! (And no Shakespeare either) - -- The Wizard Judge ------------------------------ End of frc-digest V1 #96 ************************