# Anybody up for a holiday round of Haggle? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904 "2007-12-05T13:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/321 "2007-12-21T00:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Hey Chrisk, can I gift an item to someone? [/QUOTE] Yes, but they’ll have to accept it before the trade deadline. Just make an offer without asking anything in return. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/322 "2007-12-21T00:34:57Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] I have 17 too. [/QUOTE] Noted - I guess I forgot to update that trade from Monday in the right database. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/323 "2007-12-21T00:35:39Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Missed that offering earlier. Good luck with it. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I don’t think US is going to be back before trading ends. You want the star, its yours, but not for a cane. Give me a wreath of any color and you got it. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/324 "2007-12-21T01:09:42Z")
**Drain Bead** Holds rules: 4, 7, 10, 15, 18 Has seen rules: 1, 3, 11, 14 And holds these cards: Blue Candle, Green Cane, Green Candle, Green Wreath, Red Box **FarmerChick** Holds rules: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 17 Has seen rules: 4, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18 And holds these cards: Blue Cane, Blue Star, Green Cane, Green Star, Green Tree, Red Candle (2), Red Wreath, White Cane, White Candle owes **Hal Briston** 63 points. **jsgoddess** Holds rules: 2, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16 Has seen rules: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, 18 And holds these cards: Blue Box, Blue Cane, Blue Wreath, Green Box, Green Cane, Green Candle, Green Star **NAF1138** Holds rules: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 Has seen rules: 10, 14, 17, 18 And holds these cards: Blue Star, Blue Wreath, White Wreath owes **Revenant Threshold** 5 points. owes **Hal Briston** 10 points. **Revenant Threshold** Holds rules: 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16 Has seen rules: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18 And holds these cards: Blue Cane, Green Wreath, Red Cane, Red Candle, Red Star (2), Red Wreath is owed 5 points by **NAF1138**. **Santo Rugger** Holds rules: 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 14, 16 Has seen rules: 15 And holds these cards: Blue Candle, Blue Tree, Green Box, Red Box, Red Cane, Red Tree, White Cane, White Star **Uncommon Sense** Holds rules: 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18 Has seen rules: 3, 4, 7, 16 And holds these cards: Green Candle, White Box (2), White Cane, White Candle, White Star, White Tree, White Wreath owes **Hal Briston** 10 points. Ding-dong, the bell is rung. Okay, final submissions can come in any time. If you don’t care about announcing it publicly, you can just say ‘I hand in all the cards I’ve got’ or whatever on the thread, or send me PMs. If there’s anybody I haven’t heard from by tomorrow morning, I’ll start nagging. Haven’t heard from anybody by tomorrow afternoon at 5pm, then I’ll assume they handed in everything. I think I know who has a lock on the win, but we’ll let it play out by the book for now. And thanks everyone for participating! ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/325 "2007-12-21T01:17:35Z")
Take all my cards. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/326 "2007-12-21T02:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] Take all my cards. 🙂 [/QUOTE] take all mine too. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/327 "2007-12-21T02:34:06Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] NAF offer: US lets make it the Green Candle and the White Wreath for the blue star. [/QUOTE] Accepted Too late, forgot to refresh. Take my cards too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/328 "2007-12-21T02:55:54Z")
take all my cards too ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/329 "2007-12-21T03:11:05Z")
Gah. Missed the auction (today was my 10th wedding anniversary). I’m supposed to turn in my cards? ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/330 "2007-12-21T03:33:34Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] Gah. Missed the auction (today was my 10th wedding anniversary). I’m supposed to turn in my cards? [/QUOTE] Happy Anniversary! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/331 "2007-12-21T03:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Happy Anniversary! [/QUOTE] Thank you! We haven’t murdered each other yet. Success! ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/332 "2007-12-21T10:18:52Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Happy Anniversary! [/QUOTE] Second that sentiment, and yes **jsgoddess** , you are supposed to do just that. Any questions about this part of the game? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/333 "2007-12-21T10:28:54Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] Gah. Missed the auction (today was my 10th wedding anniversary). [/QUOTE] Happy Anniversary! 🙂 I turn in all my cards, too. ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/334 "2007-12-21T12:39:33Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk] Second that sentiment, and yes **jsgoddess** , you are supposed to do just that. Any questions about this part of the game? [/QUOTE] Yes goddess, happy anniversary! What happens now Chris? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/335 "2007-12-21T14:42:58Z")
I turn in my cards and weep for their fate. Gotta throw a little drama in there. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/336 "2007-12-21T14:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] I turn in my cards and weep for their fate. Gotta throw a little drama in there. [/QUOTE] Alright! That’s everybody but **Drain Bead** - I’ve sent him (or her?) a PM, but if there’s no response by whenever I have a chance to do some scoring, I’ll assume everything in that case as well. And, since somebody was using the gender-indeterminates for me upthread, I’m a guy BTW. Might be late before I can do scoring - forgot to take the database with me to work again today. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/337 "2007-12-21T22:00:45Z")
Okay, here goes with the final scoring. I’m going to post two people at a time until we get close to the end. **NAF1138** Blue Star: 8 Blue Wreath: 15 White Wreath: 15 Scores 38 points for card values under rules 1-6 and 16. Gross score: 38 Paid out 5 points owed to Revenant Threshold. Paid out 10 points owed to Hal Briston. Total score: 23 **FarmerChick** Blue Cane: 3 Green Cane: 3 White Cane: 3 Red Candle \* 2: 10 White Candle: 5 Blue Star: 8 Green Star: 8 Red Wreath: 15 Green Tree: 40 Scores 95 points for card values under rules 1-6 and 16. Gross score: 95 Paid out 63 points owed to Hal Briston. Total score: 32 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/338 "2007-12-21T22:08:47Z")
**Drain Bead** Green Cane: 3 Blue Candle: 5 Green Candle: 5 Green Wreath: 15 Red Box: 25 Scores 53 points for card values under rules 1-6 and 16. Shares control of green, but doesn’t score for it because of holding no stars. Gross score: 53 Total score: 53 Even though he’s quit, I’ll add at this point that the **Hal Briston** auction netted 86 points, mostly due to **FarmerChick** ’s enthusiasm. **jsgoddess** Blue Cane: 3 Green Cane: 3 Green Candle: 5 Green Star: 8 Blue Wreath: 15 Blue Box: 25 Green Box: 25 Scores 84 points for card values under rules 1-6 and 16. Scores a bonus of 5 for sharing control of green, with 1 stars, under rule 11. Scores a bonus of 18 for having control of blue, with 3 blue items, under rule 14. Gross score: 107 Total score: 107 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/339 "2007-12-21T22:14:09Z")
**Revenant Threshold** Blue Cane: 3 Red Cane: 13 Red Candle: 5 Red Star \* 2: 16 Green Wreath: 15 Red Wreath: 15 Scores 67 points for card values under rules 1-6 and 16. Scores 50 for having control of red, under rule 8. Gross score: 117 Collected 5 points on an IOU from NAF1138. Total score: 122 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-holiday-round-of-haggle/428904/340 "2007-12-21T22:17:39Z")
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