Actually, chrisk is working his/her balls/ovaries off by hosting this thread. There is a ton of work that goes into PMing and maintaining the stats and we all appreciate the effort. You shouldn’t take a request to code your posts properly too hard - the last go-round of Haggle there were some shady trades that should or should not have been allowed and this time chrisk is just trying to maintain a fair playing field for all involved.
Thanks, chrisk!
Sorry guys, this is a really hard time of the year for me. My son was killed last year and Christmas was his favorite time. I’m not looking for sympathy or excuses, I’m just explaining my bad behavior. I was hoping for some fun and distraction.
Thanks for the offer, but no, whiners and poor sports should not be rewarded.
If you guys still want me around, I would love to to play.
Of course!
How can I turn down a farmer chick?
jsgoddess, I offer you a look at rules 1, 5, and 18 and my Blue Box, Blue Cane, and Blue Wreath for your white items.
Glad to see that FarmerChick is sticking around, but as chrisk said, an auction will probably liven up the last day of the game. I’ll provide that for you.
My apologies to chrisk and everyone else for my lack of participation this time around. We’re down to a skeleton crew at work, and I’m pulling the duties of several extra ribs. Since my spare time has been spent in Mafia, I’m going to humbly withdraw from this round of Haggle, and offer up my items at auction.
Thanks for hosting again, chrisk!
What the hell. I accept.
Rather hanged for a sheep than a lamb!
NAF1138, I offer you a White Box and a look at Rule #12 for your Blue Star.
I have rule 12, and I would rather not let you try to steal my Christmas. But I have no boxes, and want no boxes. My blue star is yours if you can give me some cards I actually want.
Which cards are you wanting?
What do you have after that trade with our fair goddess?
Processed.
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: 3, 7, 11, 14, 17
Has seen rules: 4, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18
And holds these cards: Blue Cane, Blue Star, Green Star, Green Tree, Red Candle, White Cane, White Candle, White Star
Hal Briston (in receivership)
Holds rules: 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17
Has seen rules: 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18
And holds these cards: Blue Wreath, Green Cane, Red Candle, Red Wreath
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, 15, 16
Has seen rules: 10, 14, 18
And holds these cards: Blue Star, White Wreath
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
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, 18
Has seen rules: 3, 4, 7, 16
And holds these cards: Green Candle, White Box (2), White Cane, White Candle, White Tree, White Wreath
The Hal Briston estate auction ends at 7 pm EST tonight. Please PM me your bids (in point IOUs) for his scoring cards only, if you wish to participate. Do not send multiple PMs regarding this auction.
Example:
Good luck everybody!
So what happens with his rules?
NAF offer: I will take your tree for the star. You will have to check some scoring but I think that should still work for you.
Hmm… I was going to say that they would be donated to the Straight Dope archives, 
but what the heck. If anybody wants to spend points on rules at this point, they’re welcome to.
To keep anybody for picking up rules for really cheap though, the minimum bid for any of Hal’s rule slips is set at 5 points.
And anybody who’s already submitted bids for cards is entitled to take advantage of this reversal by submitting another PM for rules.
You auction to get those too.
I can’t part with the White tree, I seem to be the only person with one. Be that good or bad I don’t know at this point.
I can tell you I only want it for its relevance to rule 6. Unless 13 says something amazing I don’t think it has any extra value to you. But I need to get back in the game, and I think you playing rule 12 will help, but I need some other cards of value as well. If you come up with a different solution let me know. I am more then open to giving you the star, I just need to gain something from the experiance also.
FarmerChick Offer #10 to jsgoddess you can have a copy of my rule #17 and my white star for a copy of your rule #6
Rechecking the standings, I see that Uncommon Sense has Rule # 6 and hasn’t seen rule # 17 either, so I will make the same offer to Uncommon Sense if this is allowed. First one to accept gets it.
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NAF offer: US once you take the FC offer I will be willing to renegotiate for the blue star. I will take all your white items BUT the tree and the boxes in exchange for the star. You will still be able to play rule 12 and be in a solid position point wise.