Then players B and E can sabotage this big ring by giving points (the common
number) to each other. This then breaks the ABCDEF ring and forms two smaller
ABEF/BCDE rings.

                A -> B B -> C
                ^    | ^    |
                |    | |    |
                |    v |    V
                F <- E E <- D

Whereas before all six players would end up with six times the common value of
points passed, with the B-E sabotage, the four players A, C, D and E all end
up with four times the common value of points passed and B and E end up with
eight times the common value of points passed. However, the common value of
points passed cannot be as big (as B and E have to pass points to two people)
and so all players will end up with fewer points than had the six-player ring
been complete. B and E will have to negotiate with and possibly lie to the
other players in order for the common value to be passed to be low. 

Players are free to lie to and deceive one another about their point-passing
intentions, though not who they have passed points to once orders are written.
For instance, in turn one, all players may visibly agree to form a giant ring
but only for two of the players to renege and form a ring of two (making them
benefit relative to all the other players).

7. Should a double ring be formed (for instance, A gives to B, B gives to C
and C gives to A, forming an ABCA ring, but A gives to C, C gives to B and
B gives to A, forming an ACBA ring; in each case any one transaction in one
of the 3-player rings breaks the other 3-player ring) then neither of the
equivalently-sized rings has effect. However, three neat 2-player rings do
take effect. More complicated examples are probably inevitable...

8. NMRs hurt this game badly. If you NMR, then a set of orders will be
selected for you at random from any sent in by other players to be used in
that contingency. (Conversely, you are allowed to send in orders for your
ally to make sure [s]he doesn't stab you, but they'll only be used if [s]he
NMRs and your set is the one chosen at random.) **End of rules**

             S P A C E F I L L E R - the GIT Panda Name Sweepstake

        In continuing my long series of facts about me that you probably did
not want to know, I'm back at home now, and typing this sitting on my bed, so
I've decided to tell you about some of the other inhabitants thereof.
        I'm only 21 years old and dreadfully insecure so I am Officially
Allowed to keep cuddly toys, tend to them and give them love and affection.
My two favourite animals in the world are ducks and pandas. Ducks are cute.
They float, fly and swim gracefully round ponds and look puzzled. Baby ducks
(oh, all right, ducklings) paddle with their little webbed feet like there's
no tomorrow and make the silliest noise. Pandas look big and cuddly. Real
pandas aren't, but there's no reason why not to have cuddly toys without the
real animals' vices. So I have nine cuddly toy pandas at home and I wuv them
vewwy much for they awe the wuvwiest wuvwies in the wowld.
        From smallest to largest, we have Petite Panda, 11cm high, 2oz or so
massive, French and female. Uncle Betty is her consort being a couple of cm
taller. The long thin mechanical Lovely Panda is next, being battery operated
and shaking his head as he pads along. The next three pandas are all about a
foot and a quarter or so tall, cuddle size, and tip the scales at about a
pound and a half; Reginald Clarence Panda-Dickson and Pandora live in my bed
while Alan Headbutt lives on the wardrobe with the two bigger pandas; first,
Pandante, two feet tall, wears a yellow bow, plush and posh; secondly a panda
2'6" high, quite fat, has a white face with matching ball-less white eyes (ie
he looks blind) and a big round fat fluffy nose. Lastly Pandax is over half
as tall as I am, weighs about half a stone and is almost too big to cuddle.
        Can you guess the name of the second biggest panda? There's a prize!