CuddleBeam wrote: > If I tell you "you can take a cupcake", that doesn't mean you can take > ALL the cookies. It means you can take one. > > And if I say "a cupcake is a pastry", that doesn't mean that only ONE > cupcake is a pastry. It means that all cupcakes are pastries.
Sure, I'm with you that both meanings are valid definitions for the word "a". It's just that I think the second one makes more sense in this context. Certainly it wins on "best interests of the game" if it prevents everyone's (except Warrigal's) coin balances from being indeterminate. -twg