AKA Alexander Siddig. He played Dr. Bashir on Deep Space Nine.
Total guess: Did they all start wiht “the one…” like Friends?
Do you mean within the book? or Where did Jordan come up with it?
I don’t think so. It would only happen if all the remaining tiles were illegal plays, which would mean that all the chains would be safe (>11 tiles) and threrefore the game would end. I don’t think it would change based on the size of the board, but I have a feeling I’m missing something, or you wouldn’t have asked the question.
I know that I’m thinking of the right book. I just don’t have a copy and I read the thing over a decade ago. It’s just a question of whether the title includes “The Story Of” and whether it’s “Little Fuzz Face” “Little Furr Face” “Little Fuzzy Face” “Little Furry Face” or some other variation. Knowing I had the right title in mind, I Googled.
While I deplore that vital Pacific War knowledge becomes “trivial” here, I can also offer a small correction: while the carriers sunk at Midway were correctly identified, the carrier sunk by a Japanese submarine after the battle was not HIRYU, but the U.S. YORKTOWN. There you go.
I googled the rules because this sounded interesting, but they weren’t entirely clear. If a company has fewer than 11 squares, but none of its adjacent squares can be played on because they’re also adjacent to two companies each 11 or larger, is it considered ‘safe’ for the purposes of ending the game?
If not, I think such a company could be reached, and then never made safe or taken over.
A particular arrangement of 5 filled cells which produces a surprisingly long lived and active ‘colony’ when used as a starting point in the famous cellular automaton ‘Life’.
Man, I should remember this specifically, but I’m mostly guessing. Fiends?
Dave Barry’s ‘Babies and Other Hazards of Sex’? Again, a guess.
Frasier is incorrect. And in general, you’re not supposed to google the answers, as that would make many of the questions pointlessly easy… although, let’s be honest, this is just a silly trivia game, so who cares?
Incorrect
Dr. Bashir is correct
Friends is correct, excellent guess
I meant within the book
Your answer to the acquire question is incorrect
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Correct and correct
“Edison Balls” is incorrect, although I’m curious what it’s a reference to. (It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that the quote is repeated…)
Little Fuzzy is correct (and a fine, but little-known, book)
Correct. (Or you can page me at…)
The rules certainly do not claim that such a company is “safe” for the purposes of ending the game. However, your analysis is incomplete. Is such a board configuration possible?
You’re right about The R-Pentomino and Dave Barry.
The bad guys in LodeRunner, however, remain unidentified…
I know it’s one of the Joker’s lines in Batman , but I don’t have a copy handy and I don’t remember what the hell the next line is. I think it might be an order to one of his henchmen to turn on the lights or something.
Company 2 can’t be merged, even though it’s not safe. Any of the 6 spaces around it would merge two safe companies. This is a 12x9 boards, which I think is standard. (My Palm version of Acquire is 12x9) I couldn’t fit it into a smaller board, so I’m inclined to say a smaller board wouldn’t have this problem, but I might have missed it.
Can’t take credit for it, Shade got the answer. I just illustrated it.
Ooh, I think you’re right! I’d forgotten that companies have to be at least 2 squares. I’ve drawn lots of diagrams, and I’m becoming convinced that you can’t make it work on a standard board. But I can’t explain it here. Basically neither a ‘corner’ or ‘wall’ of the company can be unplayable all the way round, as there’s no room for the other that make it so, and they begin to abut. eg. If company A was a long line, then a square adjacent to it would only be adjacent to one other company. If you had two lone squares of A, then you get
B AA
?C ?
??D??
since anything else in place of B, C, and D allow one of the empty square to be played in. But then none of the ? can be C, so C is only one square, which is wrong.
Now, can you do it on a different sized board? A board with a whole in, or maybe a corner, sure. But I don’t think you can do it on a rectangular board.
“Edison Balls” is incorrect, although I’m curious what it’s a reference to. (It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that the quote is repeated…)
Little Fuzzy is correct (and a fine, but little-known, book)
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Edison Balls are a ‘tool for consciousness expansion’, or ‘recreational pyschoactive device’ or just ‘illegal drug’. They appear in the film Rock And Rule.
The archon of Mars weighs in with a mighty one answer:
Poll was the tenth fire-lizard “belonging” to Menolly, the harper girl from Half-Circle Sea Hold. A bronze, he was not however a clutch-brother to Menolly’s other fire-lizards, who were:
Beauty - gold “queen” female (named for the obvious reason)
Rocky and Diver - bronze males (likewise)
Lazybones, Mimic and Brownie - brown males (two named for behavioural characteristics and the third because of having no distinguishing features)
Auntie One and Auntie Two - green females (named for their habit of nagging and pestering:)
Uncle - blue male (and the smallest member of the clutch)
Without having The White Dragon to hand I can’t be sure, but I think Poll is not even blood kin to the others. Beauty & co were all out of one wild clutch (Dragonsong). I thought when I saw this question that Poll might be one of Beauty’s offspring, but I’m unconvinced, because Menolly loses her virginity to Sebell when Rocky and Diver fly his queen, Kimi; whereas presumably she would have lost it earlier if Beauty had mated. I could be getting confused though. It’s not unheard of, and I haven’t read the Pern series for a year or two.
