Page last modified May 7, 2001.Yep, our very own Angel of Life has once again declared that no people whatsoever from anyone's list will die, and once again is entering the game with one point in his favor. If the total game score for everyone else is zero at the end of the game, he wins. Otherwise, he forfeits his seraphic five bucks.
'I don't know if [he'll] play again,' one of last year's players remarked, 'The odds don't seem to be in Life's favor.'
'Big deal,' was the reply, 'the odds are never in Life's favor, but we play it anyway.'
Divinely inspired, or just smug? You decide. In the meantime he's in for a fiver.
Interestingly enough, in a previous game, a player included his own name on his list. Why? He writes, 'Unlike the 24 other people on my list, I am not predicting my own death; I am preventing it. I believe in the Angel of Life's powers. Thank you, Angel of Life for watching over me in the next year.'
That's right, for the 1997 game, Larry Biederman put his own name on his list. (See above.) Admittedly he's not actually a famous celebrity, but the game officiants allowed it. (Though now that he has a Game of Death Rule named after him, it's all moot.) On the other hand, the moderator of some of the most highly-trafficked Usenet newsgroups (who was playing at the time), did qualify as famous. So it was only a matter of possible bad taste when his name was jokingly submitted by the coordinator himself. Again it was allowed, though Jim, the famous player, was at least somewhat relieved to hear about Larry's self-preservation reasoning.
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