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Potion Shop (needs stone): Turns Magic Crops into Potions Defined buildings and specialists: Buildings : Farm : increases the number of available specialists by 2. Tavern : increases happiness but decreases healthiness Quarry : Allows construction of stone buildings. Potion Shop (needs stone): Turns...

Quarry: Produces stone. Defined buildings and specialists: Buildings : Farm : increases the number of available specialists by 2. Tavern : increases happiness but decreases healthiness Quarry : Allows construction of stone buildings. Specialists : Wizard : allows farm to grow Magic Crops. Build a fa...

I'll pass it on. John, if you would, present the next challenge, please.

And here are the results. total orange rat john Ling bonus somitomi - Circle of Life 10 3 2 1 4 (disqualified) orangedragonfire - Madmoiselle Noir 10 4 3 3 - LingEarth - Siúil a Rúin 8 - 1 4 3 ratammer - Round goes the gossip 7 2 - 2 2 1 commodorejohn - Teo Toriatte 6 1 4 - 1

Huh. I didn't notice that. It is indeed the case, looking back through previous rounds. I blame cognitive biases.

Yes, voting deadline is a week, so get your votes in by Saturday, the 4th of June.

Here are the contest entries, in alphabetical order. Blatantly copying from last round, there is an imposter entry by me. Gain 1 shiny Bonus point if you correctly identify which one it is. Circle of Life (English and Zulu) Madmoiselle Noir (English and French) Round goes the gossip (English and Lat...

Sure. For this round, building on the previous theme, please send me songs containing multiple languages by Friday, May 27th.

Well done, Ling.

1. not backwards 2. not misspelled 3. only F and M capital 4. not upside down 5. not vertical 6. Not in another language. 7. not colored 8. only black 9. not tiny 10. No Caesar Cipher 11.not large 12. not on multiple lines 13. no waifu 14. not diagonal 15. not bold 16. no question 17. no pig latin 1...

1. not backwards 2. not misspelled 3. only F and M capital 4. not upside down 5. not vertical 6. Not in another language. 7. not colored 8. only black 9. not tiny 10. No Caesar Cipher 11.not large 12. not on multiple lines 13. no waifu 14. not diagonal 15. not bold 16. no question 17. no pig latin 1...

Ahahhaha, excellent! I will match your move, allowing me to join your gambit.

Hollow's Way

Now, with this I have the required number of active gambits to active the Gambit gambit.

1. not backwards
2. not misspelled
3. only F and M capital
4. not upside down
5. not vertical
6. Not in another language.
7. not colored
8. only black
9. not tiny
10. No Caesar Cipher
11.not large
12. not on multiple lines
13. no waifu
14. not diagonal
15. not bold

Free Market?

16. no question

1. not backwards
2. not misspelled
3. only F and M capital
4. not upside down
5. not vertical
6. Not in another language.
7. not colored
8. only black
9. not tiny
10. No Caesar Cipher
11.not large

Free
Market

12. not on multiple lines

1. not backwards
2. not misspelled
3. only F and M capital
4. not upside down
5. not vertical
6. Not in another language.

Free Market

7. not colored

A clear win for 25 or 6 to 4 - ranked first by everybody. Congratulations, commodorejohn - you're up next. commodorejohn 25 or 6 to 4 16: - 4 4 4 4 ratammer Books From Boxes 12: 4 - 3 3 2 Suzaku Lobachevsky 10: 3 2 - 2 3 somitomi Neked íron a dalt 8: 2 3 2 - 1 SuperJedi224 Tell Me A Story 4: 1 1 1 1...

Here are your songs, ordered by song length.

Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer
Books from Boxes - Maximo Park
Tell me a story - David Chappell
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Neked írom a dalt - Locomotiv GT

Please get your votes to me by the 6th of December.

Yay!

Since it is still November and thus NaNoWriMo, the theme for the next round is Writing. This is to be interpreted fairly broadly, so songs about adjacent topics such as words, books or stories are also welcome. The deadline is the 29th of November.

It helps a lot. I was indeed hesitating, because the out Suzaku offered is obviously a trap - and even if he generously does not spring it on me, that still would have left me far behind and in moral debt to him. No, obviously while the slow and steady path back to to top is possible, it is unlikely...

So you were the one to steal all the Marmite from the whole neighborhood! And not only that, now you've even lost it!

Where's Waldo?

Blast, I have been foiled! And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for new players and their position of not already being caught up in all the political intrigue that prevents older players from such a counter strategy! I shall head to Hyde Park Corner , and anxiously laugh the whol...

That's... a really good counter, actually. I can't really progress down this road without playing into the Terminator gambit, and if both keep going we my play gets negated through time travel. On the other hand, I have come too far to back out now - I would end up way behind. I guess I'll just have...

King's Cross.

Collect a railway token, and use it to massively improve rail infrastructure. That should help... civilians... move around.

And here I was thinking I needed to post a certain number of times and wondering when I'd hit that limit

...

Very well then.

Move to Westminster to go into politics. I become a... let's see... maybe a Chancellor.