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Message from discussion QFTCIWSSSG Game 1 Rounds 4,6: foreign refs, game objectives

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From: t...@panix.com (Dan Blum)
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Subject: Re: QFTCIWSSSG Game 1 Rounds 4,6: foreign refs, game objectives
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Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:

> * Game 1, Round 4 - Geography - Foreign references in English

> 1. A dangerous game involving revolvers.

Russian roulette

> 3. Confrontation between three opponents facing each other.

Mexican standoff

> 4. High waistline style.

Empire waist
(The French Empire WAS a country.)

> 6. Software that performs a desirable and a covert effect
>    simultaneously.

Trojan

> 7. A childhood disease.

German measles

> 8. A sweet roll, often for breakfast.

Danish

> 9. A board game for 2-6 players where the playing surface is
>    shaped like a star.

Chinese checkers

> 10. Cheese sauce over toast.

Welsh rarebit

> * Game 1, Round 6 - Sports & Leisure - Object of the Game

> We give you the objective; you name the game.

> 1. Be the first person to get around the board, through the
>    Molasses Swamp, and reach Home Sweet Home.

Candyland

> 2. When you reach the final square, identify the image being
>    drawn by your teammate before your opponents do the same.

Pictionary

> 3. Be the last person to stack a block without the tower
>    falling over.

Jenga

> 4. Occupy all 42 territories on the board by eliminating your
>    opponent's armies.

Risk
(although this is somewhat obsolete)

> 5. To be the person who has acquired the largest fortune in
>    paintings and cash at the end of the game when all the bank's
>    paintings have been sold.

Masterpiece

> 6. Be the first to determine how and where the victim was killed,
>    and who did it.

Clue (aka Cluedo)

> 7. Be the first person to bear off all 15 of your men from your
>    home board.

Backgammon

> 8. Be the first person to reach square #100.

Chutes & Ladders (aka Snakes & Ladders)

> 9. Solve your opponent's code in fewer moves than it takes your
>    opponent to solve your code.

Mastermind

> 10. Once there are no more stones in the hollows, to have more
>    stones in your store than your opponent has in their store.

Mancala
(not a good question, as there are lots of mancala games with
different names - I know, not your question)

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Dan Blum					         t...@panix.com	
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."