From: Glenn Overby II (guardcaptain_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 07:14:56 PST
Jonathan Van Matre writes: >The monkey *is* an imaginative workaround, but do you consider a monkey >a person? I specified exactly two *people* in 174:2. Actually, you made two kissing specifications in 174:2... "...will indicate a set of two people who plan to kiss each other exclusively, at midnight..." "...midnight will not arrive until each villager has a kissing partner." The first requires two people, satisfied by Sheila and Bruce in 174:3. The second does not require people, so the monkey could be George's "kissing partner" for the purpose of bringing on midnight. >There are, incidentally, other ways of getting to midnight. A "person" >need not necessarily be a "villager", for example. Yes. And a "partner" needs not be a "person" for getting to midnight, as long as the rule has also specified a set of two "people" to kiss. Thanks for asking! Da Judge Glenn E. Overby II Clinton Twp, MI, USA ===== Icehouse Games Pages (take the IcePoll!) http://home.earthlink.net/~guardcaptain/IceGames.html -- Rule Date: 2002-01-07 15:15:44 GMT
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