From: Brian Brokaw <brokaw@teleport.com>
To: LilRoB255@aol.com <LilRoB255@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Head Scratcher
Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 9:50 PM

From: LilRoB255@aol.com <LilRoB255@aol.com>
To: brokaw@teleport.com <brokaw@teleport.com>
Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999 2:25 AM
Subject: Head Scratcher


>hey Brian,
>
>     My name is Robert ive been playing pokemon for a while and have been
>asking tons of questions lately ive receaved answeres to all of them except
>this one. According to the ruel book nothing comes cloce to ansering this
>queation well here it is...
>
>Ok i have a Pidgeot in play...Lets say my opponent has only his active
>pokemon out Hitmonchan. I do Hurricane attack with Pidgeot::Hurricane::will
>take his active pokemon to his hand if it does not die. well the thing that
>gets me is if at that point he has no pokemon in play to put as active does
>he die??? He cant play it because after the attack the Hitmoncan goes to
his
>hand then its his turn finally he draws a card then he plays traner
etc...All
>that time no pokemon in play because he is accoding to the ruels not
alloued
>to do anything What HappenS?????? Do he die or can he play his pokemon at
the
>beginning of his turn.


If either player has NO POKEMON IN PLAY (on the table) they LOSE immediately.
There would be no time after your Hurricane for them to play a Basic Pokemon
to the table (since they can only do that on THEIR turn).  So you would win
the game immediately.  This rarely happens against Pidgeot (it is so easy
for your opponent to play extra pokemon to their bench before your turn,
that rarely will anyone be stuck in this position...)

But it is a legal way to win a game (Hurricane their last in-play Pokemon
back to their hand).

Brian Brokaw