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(thing) by Hedgehog Emperor (7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Jun 01 2000 at 10:18:11

Acrylic      Steal Three-Way-Calling, Call Waiting and programmable
             Call Forwarding on old 4-wire phone systems
Aqua         Drain the voltage of the FBI lock-in-trace/trap-trace
Beige        Lineman's hand set
Black        Allows the calling party to not be billed for the call
             placed
Blast        Phone microphone amplifier
Blotto       Supposedly shorts every fone out in the immediate area
Blue         Emulate a true operator by seizing a trunk with a 2600hz
             tone
Brown        Create a party line from 2 phone lines
Bud          Tap into your neighbors phone line
Chartreuse   Use the electricity from your phone line
Cheese       Connect two phones to create a diverter
Chrome       Manipulate Traffic Signals by Remote Control
Clear        A telephone pickup coil and a small amp used to make free
             calls on Fortress Phones
Color        Line activated telephone recorder
Copper       Cause crosstalk interference on an extender
Crimson      Hold button
Dark         Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone
Dayglo       Connect to your neighbors phone line
Divertor     Re-route outgoing or incoming calls to another phone
DLOC         Create a party line from 2 phone lines
Gold         Dialout router
Green       Emulate the Coin Collect, Coin Return, and Ringback tones
Infinity     Remotely activated phone tap
Jack         Touch-Tone key pad
Light        In-use light
Lunch        AM transmitter
Magenta      Connect a remote phone line to another remote phone line
Mauve        Phone tap without cutting into a line
Neon         External microphone
Noise        Create line noise
Olive        External ringer
Party        Create a party line from 2 phone lines
Pearl        Tone generator
Pink         Create a party line from 2 phone lines
Purple       Telephone hold button
Rainbow      Kill a trace by putting 120v into the phone line (joke)
Razz         Tap into your neighbors phone
Red          Make free phone calls from pay phones by generating
             quarter tones
Rock         Add music to your phone line
Scarlet      Cause a neighbors phone line to have poor reception
Silver       Create the DTMF tones for A, B, C and D
Static       Keep the voltage on a phone line high
Switch       Add hold, indicator lights, conferencing, etc..
Tan          Line activated telephone recorder
Tron         Reverse the phase of power to your house, causing your
             electric meter to run slower
TV Cable     "See" sound waves on your TV
Urine        Create a capacitative disturbance between the ring and
             tip wires in another's telephone headset
Violet       Keep a payphone from hanging up
White        Portable DTMF keypad
Yellow       Add an extension phone


(idea) by Chris (3.7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Mon Dec 25 2000 at 23:00:27

Boxes is a classic paper and pencil game for two or more players. To begin, make an 8 by 8 grid of dots on a piece of paper.

The players take it in turn to draw a line from one dot to another dot which is horizontally or vertically adjacent. If this line does not complete the fourth side of a square, play passes to the next player. If this line does complete the fourth side of a square, the player writes their initial in the square and takes another turn.

Play continues in this way until all 49 squares have been claimed. The winner is the person who captured the greatest number of squares.

In the early stages of the game it is best not to complete the third side of any square, as this will mean that your opponent will be able to claim the square in their turn. Consequently, between experienced players, the game tends to a reach a point where all the squares have two of their sides taken. Eventually, one person will be forced to draw in a third side, and this will usually result in the next player being able to claim many squares in one go.

The strategy lies in careful play at the start of the game. Try to make sure that one of your opponents has to be the first to draw in a third side. Often it is beneficial to sacrifice one or two boxes to your opponents in order for you to claim many more boxes on your subsequent turn.

There is no reason why boxes has to be played on an 8 by 8 grid, and experienced players may use 10 by 10 or more.

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