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EARTHDATE: October 7, 2007

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FED PHRASE GAME ROADSHOW

Wednesday 3 October
by Gwaptiva

The Roadshow struck up this week in a bar that has lost a little of its former glory, the no-longer-fashionable Fedruckers on Castillo. Of course, with the Phrase Game being hosted from there, its popularity increased enormously, because the game, the host, and possibly the lure of a slithy tove for the winner, saw Lagkiller, Occy and Cloudbase all join the host. Being all experienced players, this looked like it was going to be a close one.

Lagkiller had won the spin-off for first go, and he was the first to put his teeth into a phrase in the Fedstitutions category. He started very well, selecting consonants that were in the phrase, and buying the occasional vowel, and the smile on his face widened with each. His confidence grew with the minute, even suggesting this phrase had been used before. Obviously, the production team denied this but still sent a young research assistant into the archives to make sure. Then, after losing his turn because of a misguessed consonant, Lagkiller admitted that it might have come up before, but he hadn't been paying attention when it did... if it did... allegedly. Occy's attempt didn't result in any points, and that meant that Cloudbase, who had been trying to stifle his enthusiasm for quite a while, was able to solve the phrase as "Catspaws and her Flush Toilet" for the minimum 750 points.

Occy's phrase was in that dreaded category Famous People, which inevitably means they are as obscure as er... well... an obscure thing. His guess of S however resulted in all the letters staying obscured, and Cloudbase got the turn. Only for as long as it took him to spin up Lose a Turn, and so Lagkiller once again started building up a nice little total until the absence of an N did for him. Occy showed that this day it was *he* who wasn't paying much attention, asking for the same letter Lagkiller had just stumbled over. So, on to Cloudbase, but once again fortune did not smile on him, as Bankrupt came up. So, with only the briefest of interruptions, Lagkiller could go on. Yet, in what seemed to be a developing theme, he failed at one of the final hurdles. Occy too was sticking to the way the game had been going for him thus far, and so Cloudbase once again pounced and scored 1000 points by identifying the person as William March Tweed, head of the GA's planning and zoning department (and someone with an interesting history).

The final round seemed to be made for Cloudbase, who got to start the Fed Song category phrase. This time he was able to find the T for 500 points before spinning up Lose a Turn, but being in the lead despite his poor luck, he didn't seem too worried. He did start to look mightily excited though when Lagkiller had found another 2 consonants. And yes, you guessed it: Lagkiller did well, building a nice points total that was challenging Cloudbase's lead, when fate struck, this time in the shape of a Lose a Turn. Only Occy could now stop Cloudbase from taking the victory, for the latter obviously knew the solution. Occy's poor run of form did not abate however, and so Cloudbase sealed the victory by solving the phrase as "Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders".

So, with Cloudbase being ineligible, the slithy tove for the winner carries over to next Wednesday, when we once again play the Fed Phrase Game as the Roadshow will be landing, somewhere in Sol, at 4.00pm eastern (9pm UK time, 22:00 CET).


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