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Old Mon Nov 27, 2017, 09:36am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Rich View Post
A while now. Subtle change in the manual, from "will not" to "may."

I always thought that particular prohibition was downright silly.
Why would you ever write in the rules what someone may do? Why not just eliminate verbiage referring to any such thing?

That's not the only example of surplus verbiage. Who needs a passage describing the object of the game? The rules tell you how to keep score, tell you the greater score wins; why not just leave it to one's imagination that each team would try to win? If a team for some reason tries to lose, what's the penalty, a forfeit?