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Developed for Second Life by RaddDadd Upshaw
Tic^4 is a 4*4*4 version of Tic-Tac-Toe, but "dis ain't no baby's game." A player's objective is to get four of his marbles in a row in any direction. A win may be lateral or diagonal. Up to 7 wins at a time in 76 directions are possible. (However, if you manage to win in 7 ways, your opponent must have been working quite hard to lose!)
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Object, setup & play
Roadmap and History
Object, setup & play
Roadmap and History
Script:
Tic^4 — The main script that runs the game
Planes Rotate — Operates the four rotating planes
Rainbow — Runs the Rainbow object for players to choose colors
Build Tic^4 board — Creates the board from a plane and a sphere
Objects:
"Tic^4" — game board. Sixty-four spheres of 0.5m diameter, arranged in a 4*4*4 grid of 1m center-to-center spacing. Also a control cube, which is the root prim. 65 prims total.
"Rotating Planes" — Four thin planes 4m * 4m, and a tiny sphere at the center. 5 prims total.
"Rainbow" — Six identical arcs. 6 prims total.
=76 prims total. (Coincidentally, there are 76 ways to win at Tic^4.)
The Yellow-Wins game was found embedded in a comment by Sparkle at SodaHead.
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[Introduction]
1.
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Q. When I was in
New York recently,
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Someone mentioned a
"phantom hitchhiker" who
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Supposedly haunts the
Am
New York State Thruway.
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Sounds weird;
Em
What's the story?
Dm Bb G C
B. A., Des Plaines
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A: For the last five years,
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The story has
surfaced periodically
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Of a young, beared man
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Dressed all in white
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Who thumbs rides along
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the thruway.
3.
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When the fellow is
given a lift,
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the story goes,
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He begins talking about
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religion --
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Then disappears
Em
from the car
Dm
During the
Bb Bdim
conversation
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Dr Lydia Fish
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of Buffalo State College
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Is studying stories
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of the phantom.
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So far
she has collected
More than
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sixty reports of
Dm7 G
The Mysterious Stranger
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | The Mysterious Stranger, page 2
[The Mysterious Stranger]
5. [Slow & sultry -- hot]
C
Sunday Chicago --
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out in the street
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People out walkin'
Am
around in the heat
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So many you meet
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Who don't give
Dm Bb Bdim
any of themselves6. [Driving, rising heat]
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Summer-bound city --
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out for a drive
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The people are dead
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but the city's alive
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The city's a hive.
Em
It's pretty if
Dm Bb Bdim
you're just driving by
[Bridge #1]
Cmaj7
Passing the towers
Dm7
that crowd by the lake
Ebmaj7
Thinking how much all this
Dbmaj7 C
city seems fake.
7.
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One person hitchhiking
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-- going somewhere
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In a dress and old sandals
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a beard and long hair
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I stop to help him
Em
in spite of my fear
Dm
He gets in my car but
Bb Bdim
he gets in the rear
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We don't say much
D
after we say hello
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Wondering why I stopped
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-- How this will go
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I'm getting nervous
Em
and light up a smoke
Dm
When my passenger
Bb Bdim
finally spoke (he said:)
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | The Mysterious Stranger, page 3
9.
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"Sunday Chicago --
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what can a man do?
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I'd be glad to help if
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I just had a clue.
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So many of you who
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Don't give any
Bb Bdim
of yourselves.
10.
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"Bummer-bound city --
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my friend I perceive
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You are the kind who
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would like to believe.
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If you will receive
Ebmaj7
Your God in your heart
Dm7
You can begin
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To play your part."11.
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Something inside of me
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started to burn
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When he asked,
"Do you believe
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Christ will return?"
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I looked in the mirror
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-- he wasn't behind!
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The whole thing
must have been
Bb
produced by my mind.
[Bridge to end]
Cmaj7
Sunday Chicago --
Dm7
It's all been reborn
Ebmaj7
Ever since
Dmaj7 C
that morning.As you can tell by the links below, the phantom hitchhiker has been around for a long time, and many other stories in many states can be found searching the web. I swiped the introduction from a Q&A column in a Chicago paper (which one I don't recall).
"The vanishing hitchhiker (or phantom hitchhiker) is a reported phenomenon in which people travelling by vehicle meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle. Vanishing hitchhikers have been reported for centuries and the story is found across the world, in many variants...."
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Vanishing Hitchhiker in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_hitchhiker
"...Lydia M. Fish of the State University College of New York at Buffalo discovered in more than sixty texts she and her students collected locally that the current hitchhiker is likely to be "a beautiful young hippie clad in shining white" who engages his host or hosts in a conversation about Jesus and His Second Coming before disappearing. Sometimes he even leaves his seat belt buckled up..."
The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand, 1981
http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/vanish.html
"The core story concerns a traveller who offers a ride to a vulnerable-looking pedestrian, only to find his passenger has disappeared without trace. Later investigations reveal that the passenger was a supernatural entity, not a living human being at all."
The Vanishing Hitchhiker at Fifty-Five by Gillian Bennett
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_199801/ai_n8801434
Although stories of "vanishing hitchhikers" in Chicago date back to the horse and buggy days, Marys tale begins in the 1930s. It was around this time that drivers along Archer Avenue started reporting strange encounters with a young woman in a white dress.
Resurrection Mary -- Chicago's Most Elusive Ghost by Troy Taylor
http://www.prairieghosts.com/resurcem.html
Chicago's Other Vanishing Hitchhikers! The Flapper Ghost & Others! by Troy Taylor
http://www.prairieghosts.com/flapper.html
Phantom Hitchhiker on Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/images?q=phantom+hitchhiker
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[chorus] Bb7 Going to the bank oh Doncha think it's funny F The bank is where Db C7F They keep the money
1. F They don't sell shoes They don't bake bread They only deal in dollars and cents instead Bb7 Give all your dough and wot the heck F Just to get it back y'gotta write a check [chorus]
2. They don't sell nails An' they don't cobble shoes Dealin' with a bank can Give me greenback blues And if you ever do meet an officer Ya get no thanks Leaves me wond'rin' why we bother to deal with banks [chorus]
3. They don't produce a product If they're s'posed to be a service Then why do they always make me so Nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nervous? And if you sign away your cash And everything you own and you never do anything rash or unusual MAYBE you'll get a loan! [chorus]
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #4
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