O T H E R   G A M E S   (oh yes)

CHOICE had no entries, so I'm not going to run it. I shall take this as
a vote against my proposed rule changes for Choice Plus. Actually, there
was one entry, but it was from Stretchy, so it doesn't count.

			  T H E   D E A D   P O O L

This one is motivating me to get this thing out sooner rather than later.
Days could be crucial on this one.

GEOFF BROWN  1) Mother Theresa   2) Frank Sinatra     3) Sly Stallone's baby
ANDY MANSELL 1) Queen Mother     2) Boris Yeltsin     3) Michael Barrymore
JAMES HARDY  1) Burgess Meredith 2) Catherine Hepburn 3) Mary Tyler Moore

Rules Queries: had two players picked the same person, the prize would have
been split between those two players had the doubly picked person won; if
two of the above die on the same day the prize is split (as "times of death"
are rather hard to come by and unreliable). Geoff sent me a quid coin, James
a quid cheque and a pound stake will be removed from Andy Mansell's OMR
account (Oi! Stretchy! Do it!). The winner gets three pounds. Yes, three
whole English pounds... can you imagine it? No more entries accepted. Sorry!

	 The infamous, notorious, one and only... B E F F Y   N O S E

John Colledge confesses to being a tad confused by my last adjudication;
the 10 rules from which the scoring rule is picked at random change from
turn to turn, John. Though you picked 12 in turn 1 which was under 751, it
didn't score because on turn 1 a number had to have digits with even sum
(turn 1 rule 8) to score - NOT be even and under 751 (turn 2 rule 8). Turn
3 will have a different set of 10 rules to turns 1 and 2, turn 4 different
still, and so on. Sorry for not explaining clearly enough - mea culpa.

Last time the random number was 2; numbers whose last digits are prime score.

			  GAME H                   GAME L
John Colledge            751    0 points         751     0 points
Mark Stretch             102 +102 points          99     0 points
Andrew Huddleston        654    0 points          11     0 points
						1000 -1000 points
EVERYBODY ELSE          NMR!    0 points        NMR! +1000 points

Running totals: Huddleston    606 points        Huddleston       -2 points
		Stretch       102 points        Colledge          0 points
		Colledge        0 points        Stretch           0 points
		Everyone Else   0 points        Everyone Else +2000 points

Do y'all see how the game is played now? Huddo makes a gutsy play in game L
and takes the lead as a result; Stretchy is the only scorer in game H but
can't wrest the lead away from Andrew. Game H is still very open and it's
not too late to join and quite possibly win, particularly with successful
use of submitting two numbers a turn. Anyone who wishes to debate the
primality or otherwise of the numbers 0 and 1 with me, kindly step outside.

These are the ten rules for turn 3. Pick a number based on these ten rules,
one of which will apply to the numbers that you all pick.

1: Must be divisible by 4 and/or 5.       2: 3 digits, first higher than last.
3: Must be prime number +/- 1.            4: Last digit is four letters long.
5: First digit odd, number under 750.     6: All digits even, or all odd.
7: Under 350 and/or divisible by 111.     8: Must be greater than 800.
9: Must be chosen by at least 2 players. 10: Must be exactly 1000.

Even digits are 0,2,4,6,8; odd digits are 1,3,5,7,9. Leading zeroes don't
count. 0 is spelt zero, and we're using the English language for spelling.