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Dodi Schultz
April 4th, 2007, 12:30 AM
OOPS! A couple of votes were wrongly attributed first time around. This is
a corrected list.

* * * * * * *

(This is a reformat, with defs and dictionary score added, from Judy's
posting, which somehow got glitched.)

1. [Scot] A bully.
Sub by Abel N/V Score 0

2. [Old Norse] deaf.
Sub by Emery N/V Score 0

3. a grommet used in a sail.
Sub by Savage DQ Score 0

4. a lateral buckle in a horse's harness.
Sub by Stevens Voted for 6 & 12 Score 0

5. Acronym for "Terrain Evenly Declining."
Sub by Scott Voted for *9* & 10 Score 2

6. [Brit. slang] A member of a London street gang.
Sub by Crom N/V Votes from Heimerson, Stevens Score 2

7. an amiable dimwit. [regional, Southern Appalachians]
Sub by Schultz DQ Vote from Muths Score 1

8. to remove thorns from flower stems, especially of roses.
Sub by Cunningham DQ Votes from Bourne, Heimerson Score 2

9. To strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.
Sub by DICTIONARY Votes from Bourne, Muths, Scott D3

10. A ration of wild game given to feed the serfs during a time of famine.
Sub by Hirst DQ Vote from Scott Score 1

11. A scaffold lowered over the side of a ship to support workers or
caulkers.
Sub by Widdis Voted for 13 & 14 Score 0

12. [sl.] Teddy-boy - a young man adopting a particular style of dress in
the sixties, characterised by drainpipe trousers (qv).
Sub by Bourne Voted for 8 & *9* Vote from Stevens Score 3

13. a mechanical contrivance placed in fishing nets to allow the escape of
endangered marine turtles while retaining most of the catch of fish.
[<Turtle Excluder Device]
Sub by Heimerson Voted for 6 & 8 Vote from Widdis Score 1

14. to pot out in a game of tiddlywinks by a single sequence of squidges.
The act of a player to squidge (or chip) and pot all of his or her winks in
a single visit to the playing surface. [If both partners of a pair do this
in one round then they are said to have tedstered their opponents.]
Sub by Barrs DQ Vote from Widdis Score 1

NO DEF: Muths Voted for 7 & *9* Score 2

Tim Bourne
April 5th, 2007, 03:59 AM
> OOPS! A couple of votes were wrongly attributed first time around. This is
> a corrected list.
>
Please keep revising until you get someone else in the lead, Dodi!

I've been away since yesterday morning, just got back and found I've won
again! Is three deals out of five a record?

It's too late now to find a new word, I'm afraid; I'll post one in the
morning, unless someone else has done so by then.

Best wishes,

Tim B

Dave Cunningham
April 5th, 2007, 06:15 AM
Is three deals out of five a record?


Nope. It has happened to me in Tapcis and in MGames in the past ... what was really fun was dealing two games at once!

Dave

Paul Keating
April 5th, 2007, 10:57 AM
No, that has been achieved 8 times in the past. Froma Bessel set the
original record in rounds 417-421. And there have been another 8 near-misses
(that is, 3 deals out of 6).

The full stats for this are available in the Files section, under History
and Statistics\Back-to-Back Deals.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

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