Yet another rules game - MatthewV wins

[carrier_of_the_arch]

I don't think this is buzzworthy. The quotes are there to indicate the text that has to be included. If you take them out of bgg's rule then the bit after the comma doesn't make sense

[3iff]

Thanks to all the spectators for the comments. I thought moderating this game would be easy. It's not.

[bgg1996]

The juggernaut, "Atilla the Hun", remarked that there will be exactly 1 "q", exactly 1 "p", and exactly 1 "f" in every rule. There will be 4 "x". The game will be mine!
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[MatthewV]

I don't see an 11 lettered word.

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Ooh nice catch! We may have a winner here once 3iff calls the official shots

[3iff]

[Amb]

I still have a question over my buzz on MatthewV where his rule self contradicted. Was this disagreed with?

[3iff]

Where was that? Found it

[Amb]

Yeah to me "the number five and the figure" means both "five" and "5" and definitely should have been buzzed.

[3iff]

But it's the "number five" and the "figure for a dollar"

[Zag]

I agree with the principle that you don't want the final buzz of the game to be something reasonably debatable. You want it to be a clear buzz, like the one that knocked me out (a damnably hard-to-follow rule at which I clearly failed).

Congrats, MattV!

Thanks for modding, 3iff. As you've learned, the modding of these games is mostly trivial (acknowledging obvious gaffs pointed out by others), with occasional moments of being damnably hard. You had more tough decisions than most, I think.

[bgg1996]

What?!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9_ Crap!
Good game.
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[MatthewV]

Indeed a good game, 3iff you did a good job moderating.

And a damnable quality of mine is excellence in the type of behavior that allows me to correctly underline every other character but to just barely follow all the rules.

I thought this last round was going to last a few more turns of insanity. There was no way I was going to screw up (and I think he felt the same way!) Considering we had a long word, no S and O, exact counts of F,Q,X,P, I feel my next rule would have to require more U's than E's. Anyone want to write it for me??

[MatthewV]

Oh, now I see why Amb was dead-set on the Five issue. He split the phrases of the sentence differently so that a "for a dollar" is left hanging without real meaning.

Another random comment is that after posting a rule, there is a few hours where you wonder if there is a mistake. So seeing a post like "nice rule!" is quite the sigh of relief that nothing had been caught. After my rule that included the fear of really long words in it, two people we buzzing it! It is hard to explain that feeling of oh-shit-what-the-hell-are-they-not-seeing.

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Also:

[Amb]

To be honest I had no idea why you put the bit about the dollar at the end of your rule.

[carrier_of_the_arch]

Congrats MattV for winning! That game was absolutely insane. Also, credit goes to 3iff for lasting the entire game as moderator. You had a tough deal especially for a first time mod

[3iff]

The previous game (that I somehow won) was a quiet walk in the park compared to this. On a few occasions I could barely understand some of the rules that had been written.

I was going to stick it out as moderator until the end but thankfully had assistance from some of the spectators.

I agree we needed a clear-cut end to the game and fortunately we had it. I may well do another game of this, but not for a while...I have other diversions to fry my brain.

[itisally*]

Well done everyone! I had a great time. There were times when I was glad that I has such a silly mistake early, those later rules were crazy!