Round 2999 AULACOGEN Results

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Tim Lodge

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Jul 20, 2019, 6:28:41 AM7/20/19
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I thought AULACOGEN was a good word, as I could see no possible etymology.  The OED says it comes from the ancient Greek for 'furrow' via Russian.  It means, as four far-sighted playes guessed, a rift valley.  You all came up with some imaginative defs.

It's fitting that our long-serving statistician, Mike Shefler, should take the honour of dealing Round 3000.  He got 6 votes for his fungal defence mechanism.  The real winner is Judy Madnick, who got an unnatural 5 for her biocompatible polysaccharide.

Over to you, Mike.

--  Tim L


 *** AULACOGEN ***

1.  Nitrogen.               
Submitter: Tony Abell Votes: 0 & 0 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0
Voted for by: Nobody              

 2.  The all-seeing, all-knowing Eye.            
Submitter: Debbie Embler Votes: 5 & 11 Score: 2  + 0 + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Shani Naylor, Ryan McGill            

 3.  a gastric secretion that aids in the breakdown of dietary fat.        
Submitter: Efrem Mallach Votes: 7 & 11 Score: 3  + 0 + 0  = 3
Voted for by: Shani Naylor, Hugo Kornelis, Mike Shefler        

 4.  a gentleman brigand of the Scottish border; a border-rider.           
Submitter: Shani Naylor Votes: 2 & 3 Score: 1  + 0 + 0  = 1
Voted for by: Dan Widdis             

 5.  of wide-mouthed fish which belong to a similar but not the same genus.    
Submitter: Johnny Barrs Votes: 11 & 12 Score: 2  + *2* + 0  = 4
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Ryan McGill            

 6.  a compound used as an alternative to gold on electrical contact surfaces.    
Submitter: Tim Bourne Votes: 7 & 11 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0
Voted for by: Nobody              

 7.  a highly biocompatible polysaccharide extracted from plants, especially millet.  
Submitter: Judy Madnick Votes: 11 & 12 Score: 3  + *2* + 0  = 5
Voted for by: Efrem Mallach, Tim Bourne, Mike Shefler        

 8.  a rare infectious disease that causes the cartilage in the kneecaps to gradually crumble.
Submitter: Hugo Kornelis Votes: 3 & 11 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0
Voted for by: Nobody              

 9.  a trial of two or more actions jointly, when a common question of law or fact exists in those actions.  
Submitter: Dan Widdis Votes: 4 & 12 Score: 1  + *2* + 0  = 3
Voted for by: Nancy Shepherdson             

10.  a square or chevron-shaped column on which symbols can be prominently displayed; extensively used in Nazi Germany.
Submitter: Nancy Shepherdson Votes: 9 & 12 Score: 0  + *2* + 0  = 2
Voted for by: Nobody              

11.  a substance produced by certain fungi that inhibits or suppresses the defense mechanisms of the plants it feeds on.
Submitter: Mike Shefler Votes: 3 & 7 Score: 6  + 0 + 0  = 6
Voted for by: Debbie Embler, Efrem Mallach, Johnny Barrs, Tim Bourne, Judy Madnick, Hugo Kornelis

12.  _Geology_  a narrow, sediment-filled rift valley which is thought to be the remnant of an incipient rift that failed to open further, typically one that initially formed a triple or quadruple junction with other rifts that developed fully.
Submitter:  OED  Votes: - & - Score: 4  + 0 + 0  = 4
Voted for by: Johnny Barrs, Judy Madnick, Dan Widdis, Nancy Shepherdson    

No Def: Ryan McGill Votes: 2 & 5 Score: 0  + 0 + 0  = 0


   


Def Vote 1 Vote 2 Tot Votes Guess DP Score








Mike Shefler 11 3 7 6 0 0 6
Judy Madnick 7 11 12 3 2 0 5
Johnny Barrs 5 11 12 2 2 0 4
 OED 12 - - 4 0 0 4
Efrem Mallach 3 7 11 3 0 0 3
Dan Widdis 9 4 12 1 2 0 3
Debbie Embler 2 5 11 2 0 0 2
Nancy Shepherdson 10 9 12 0 2 0 2
Shani Naylor 4 2 3 1 0 0 1
Tony Abell 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tim Bourne 6 7 11 0 0 0 0
Hugo Kornelis 8 3 11 0 0 0 0
Ryan McGill 13 2 5 0 0 0 0

         

Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 20, 2019, 6:58:01 AM7/20/19
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Congratulations to Mike - and grateful thanks for the recording of our attempts - when was 'Keckle' played? it looks like it works out before 1990

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Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 20, 2019, 7:02:37 AM7/20/19
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Slapped wrists - dixonary.net answers my question - 1989

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>Congratulations to Mike - and grateful thanks for the recording of our attempts - when was 'Keckle' played? >it looks like it works out before 1990

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Tim Lodge

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Jul 20, 2019, 7:38:04 AM7/20/19
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Johnny

Thanks for reminding us all of the archive at dixonary.net - I'd forgotten that it contained the original discussion that led to the birth of the game.  It's extraordinary that it's taken almost exactly 30 years (plus 16 days) to get to Round 3000.  And it's a tribute to the game's instigators that it survived being played on slow and expensive dial-up connections - I was on 9600 bps when I started, but five years ealier in 1989 it was probably even slower.

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Jul 20, 2019, 9:05:06 AM7/20/19
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1200 baud IIRC.
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Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 20, 2019, 11:37:36 AM7/20/19
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I was playing the 'other' game - OZWIN - on 36k for some years (how? - I don't know: but I do remember much earlier connecting to CIS by acoustic coupler - maybe 45 bps if you were lucky)

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Shani Naylor

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Jul 20, 2019, 5:30:02 PM7/20/19
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What's the 'other' game?



Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 21, 2019, 7:56:16 AM7/21/19
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OZWIN was another forum on compuserve and it played a game that was very similar to dixonary which was on the Tapcis forum. Ozwin was sort of dedicated to forum control but of course when compuserve went AOL-like there was no need for such software.

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Daniel Widdis

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Jul 21, 2019, 6:05:47 PM7/21/19
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There were apparently multiple “other” games.  I got started on the CompuServe MPGAMES forum, and was referred to the TAPCIS version from there.  MPGAMES eventually merged with GAMERS and that community still lives on a website called DreamLyrics which maintained a version of the “other” game until a few years ago.

 

But the original TAPCIS version is what lives on here!

Guerri Stevens

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Jul 22, 2019, 11:57:48 AM7/22/19
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Back in the early days I learned a lot of new words, and I am not talking about the ones provided by the game.

Johnb - co.uk

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Jul 22, 2019, 12:00:24 PM7/22/19
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Growing up?

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