I hear a lot of objection, which is fine, but no proposals. What do you all propose we name the category of DW games that share the 1-2-3-4-4 base paytable?
These are just names and labels. I'm fine with whatever name we want to assign to it, if we can all agree. Several months ago, I proposed using "NSU" as the category name, and I still don't have any problem with that. As I stated, we've done the same with JoB, BP, DB, DDB, etc. These no longer refer to just specific paytables, but now also refer to entire categories of paytables. While most people assume "9/6 JoB" when JoB is mentioned, we can also specify a variation by saying "8/5 JoB". So "NSU" or "NSUD" would still retain their "10/6" assumption, while saying "15/9 NSU" would give the variation.
Another argument in favor of using "NSU" as the category name is that everybody already knows what the basetable is, i.e. 1-2-3-4-4-10-16. So when I say "15/9" NSU, you immediately know what that means even if you don't like the "misuse" of NSU. If we come up with some other name like "XYZ", saying "15/9 XYZ" won't immediately convey what we're talking about. Over time, though, the name will gain acceptance. Sounds like it's time for a survey.
Oh, and Harry, we do call "swans" and "turkeys" by the same category name - "birds" 
And sometimes the category name is the same as the creature - "lobster" can mean "spiny lobster", "maine lobster", etc. Notice the prefix designating the variation
JD
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----- Original Message ----
From: jaywilly240 <wha724@comcast.net>
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter"
wrote:I agree with Harry. NSUD refers to a specific pay table. (Before I
happened upon Skip's designation for the game, I called it K-Mart
Deuces, because the same pay table was used in that little red
plastic hand held game sold there. Radica was the manufacturer, I
think, and I remember John Grochowski once calling the game Radica
Deuces).
>
>
> In general sense, John is correct. But in my mind, "NSUD" is a
> specific reference to the 99.73% paytable and no other.
>
> vpFREE, in categorizing various DW paytables, seized upon the
> "1-2-3-4-4-200" footprint of the 99.7% paytable and extended the
NSUD
> moniker to any other game sharing those payouts. However, keeping
in
> mind that NSUD stands for "not so ugly ducks", is it really
> appropriate to refer to the 10/10/20 97% paytable as "not so ugly"?
> (or even "pseudo-not so ugly"?)
>
> Just as with Airport deuces, NSU deuces should be a reference to a
> single paytable -- I fully expect that Skip Hughes, who coined the
> name, intended as much.
>
> It makes sense to group "1-2-3-4-4-200" paytable games together.
But
> some other name would be much more appropriate. There's truth in
the
> adage "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". But would
> anyone really be satisfied were we to call a swan and a turkey by
the
> same name?
>