Wipeout Round 1 Board 1 (Xalxe up)

[StrangerCoug]

Hate to break it to you, but EON Productions made The World Is Not Enough up. You lose $900.


Three and four, animorpherv1. The New England tour is still lurking somewhere.

[animorpherv1]

On her Majesty's Secret Service, pass

[StrangerCoug]

Yeah.


Drench, it's two and four. If you're right, you have a fifty-fifty chance of picking up the tour.

[Prof. Guppy]

Hate to break it to you, but EON Productions made The World Is Not Enough up. You lose $900.

Drat. Double Drat! Double Dog Drat!

[Drench]

okay

ummmmmmmmmmmm

i know where one wipeout is at least

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

goldeneye

ajkidbfadskhf

[StrangerCoug]

EON's dream child as well.


Prof. Guppy, you won't be able to get back in first, but you can still try to get second (and keep the tour out of animorpherv1's hands). What'll your choice be?

[animorpherv1]

GO GO GO PROF. GUPPY WIPEOUT!

[Tragedy]

Lol, I thought Golden Eye was just a game. Or what was it called...

[Prof. Guppy]

Go, go? What am I, a Power Ranger?

Gimme a hot spot under

Moonraker

.

[animorpherv1]

Yes you are.

[StrangerCoug]

No hot spot, but fortunately no wipeout either. You got $500 back.

Do you want to try for the other or hope animorpherv1 and Drench pick wipeouts?

[Tragedy]

TRY AGAIN.

[Drench]

v/la for a week

[Prof. Guppy]

TRY AGAIN.

What the hell. You only

Live and Let Die

once.

[StrangerCoug]

You found it!


I just realized that the first post contradicts what I said earlier—I implied you had to be in the lead at the end of the round when in fact the OP says you have to win the game without wiping out. I'll let the tour be at stake in Round 2, but when I change the rules for next game I'm going to make this bit clearer.

Tomorrow Never Dies is an EON Productions original story; the other two are short stories and not full-length novels.

Give me a moment to set up.

[StrangerCoug]

ROUND 2, BOARD 1

What's in a name? A lot. Every year, about four million American couples have a name, and you must call it something. Some names, however, are more popular than others. According to the Social Security Administration, what are the eight

most popular names for girls born in 2010?

animorpherv1 and Prof. Guppy, congratulations on making it this far. (Drench, I'm sorry, but you didn't make the cut.) You two will now bid on how many names you can give that fit the category. As animorpherv1 ended Round 1 with more money, he starts. The bidding will continue until one person challenges the other or bids to name all eight correct answers.

Go for it.

[animorpherv1]

4

[StrangerCoug]

animopherv1 thinks he knows four of the eight most popular girl's names from last year. Prof. Guppy, what is your bid?

[Prof. Guppy]

Cinqo

[StrangerCoug]

What language is that? Franspañol?

Anyway, bid of five acknowledged. Back to ani.

[animorpherv1]

I'll bid a reluctant

6

[animorpherv1]

bump?

[StrangerCoug]

You can wait 14½ hours I just didn't feel like making such a minor update.

[animorpherv1]

No, just wanted to make sure we didn't lose the thread.

[Prof. Guppy]

I'll bid a reluctant

6

Exactly what I wanted. You're going to have to

Prove it!