TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

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Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Octavious » Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:26 am

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:23 am
Octavious wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:20 am
The dart rule is a great rule as it can be interpreted any way you like. There's no way you could ever break it, so anything goes, but it does hint at the spirit of how the game might be played. More rules should be like this.

The game could be a little more varied in style, I guess. If I was doing another round, for example, I would choose someone extremely well known and obvious, but make my answers as misleading as possible. Could be a fun variant... or possibly an awful one :)
It's quite hard to give misleading answers to "yes or no" questions without lying.
No it isn't.

For example

Q Is he an award winning actor

A Yes

This would be a truthful but misleading answer to a question when the subject is Donald Trump, and in a normal game you'd expect the answer to be fleshed out a bit to avoid this.

But there's a well established precedent for not sticking strictly to yes and no, so you could also quite truthfully give this response

A He is a multi-award winning actor!

(as we all know, amongst Donald Trump's many achievements are winning the Razzie Award for Worst Actor in 2019 and Worst Supporting Actor back in 1991)

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by damo666 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:59 am

Hamish wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:10 am
Tolstoy wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:03 pm
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

As for the 50% question, I would point out that 1) Cabeza de Vaca's story is told to just about every child going through the K-12 education system in America at least once, and 2) his name returns more google search results than Cortes and Pizarro combined. Also, 3) This is a silly rule that has resulted in (so far as I can tell) zero wins for the question master in this game.
Like I said, never heard of the guy. But then, I did not go through the American school system. And I think there are quite a few non- Americans here. We would have to do a poll to see if we're the majority. It's a matter of perspective.
It all depends where the window is doesn't it.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Jamiet99uk » Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:23 am

Octavious wrote:
Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:20 am
The dart rule is a great rule as it can be interpreted any way you like. There's no way you could ever break it, so anything goes, but it does hint at the spirit of how the game might be played. More rules should be like this.

The game could be a little more varied in style, I guess. If I was doing another round, for example, I would choose someone extremely well known and obvious, but make my answers as misleading as possible. Could be a fun variant... or possibly an awful one :)
It's quite hard to give misleading answers to "yes or no" questions without lying.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Octavious » Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:20 am

The dart rule is a great rule as it can be interpreted any way you like. There's no way you could ever break it, so anything goes, but it does hint at the spirit of how the game might be played. More rules should be like this.

The game could be a little more varied in style, I guess. If I was doing another round, for example, I would choose someone extremely well known and obvious, but make my answers as misleading as possible. Could be a fun variant... or possibly an awful one :)

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Hamish » Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:10 am

Tolstoy wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:03 pm
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

As for the 50% question, I would point out that 1) Cabeza de Vaca's story is told to just about every child going through the K-12 education system in America at least once, and 2) his name returns more google search results than Cortes and Pizarro combined. Also, 3) This is a silly rule that has resulted in (so far as I can tell) zero wins for the question master in this game.
Like I said, never heard of the guy. But then, I did not go through the American school system. And I think there are quite a few non- Americans here. We would have to do a poll to see if we're the majority. It's a matter of perspective.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Trigfea63 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:35 am

That post warrants a +1 :-D

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by dargorygel » Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:30 am

I thought the purpose of the game was to garnish +1's.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Trigfea63 » Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:25 am

Also, 3) This is a silly rule that has resulted in (so far as I can tell) zero wins for the question master in this game.
The point of the game isn't for the question master to "win." It's for everyone to have fun. It's no fun investing a bunch of time thinking about the riddle, only to find out at the end that it's someone you've never heard of, and you'd have to do a bunch of google research to figure it out. At the very least, tell us at the start that you're changing the "dart" rule for your round.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by dargorygel » Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:33 am

Further, what gave me the idea was non nobility, but with de. I remembered that guy who survived.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by dargorygel » Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:32 am

I just wrote the key part... ill start the next one soon.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Tolstoy » Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:03 pm

dargorygel wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:15 am
De Vaca
Tempted though I am to declare this incorrect and continue, I think I must acknowledge that dargorygel is thinking of the right person:

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

As for the 50% question, I would point out that 1) Cabeza de Vaca's story is told to just about every child going through the K-12 education system in America at least once, and 2) his name returns more google search results than Cortes and Pizarro combined. Also, 3) This is a silly rule that has resulted in (so far as I can tell) zero wins for the question master in this game.

I was originally going to do Panfilo Narvaez (who had two claims to fame - as the guy who was sent to Mexico to bring Cortes back to Cuba in chains but instead joined him, and as the leader of the Florida expedition that Cabeza de Vaca survived), but recognized that he definitely wouldn't pass the 50% test.

On to round XL!

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Tolstoy » Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:49 pm

deMoGo wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:38 pm
I have already guessed, but I keep having this Werner Herzog movie with Klaus Kinski come to mind
The movie is Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God). GREAT movie. Really shows what a brilliant but insane director could accomplish with a single stolen video camera and a truckload of stolen monkeys. The stories about the making of the movie are just as fascinating as the movie itself.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:48 pm

Jaguar wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:41 pm
Did anyone ever guess Pizarro?
He isn't "De Pizarro" is he? So it can't be him. The answer has a "De" in their name.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Jaguar » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:41 pm

Did anyone ever guess Pizarro?

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Hamish » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:10 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:03 pm
I'm sorry to say I think whoever it is definitely fails the 50% dart test. :?
I guess it depends on where you come from. What seems obvious to one person may be very obscure to another and vice versa. I am completely lost on this one, so I'm definitely in the wrong half.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by deMoGo » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:38 pm

I have already guessed, but I keep having this Werner Herzog movie with Klaus Kinski come to mind about the search for El Dorado.

Jesuit Priest to Native, holding up a bible: "God speaks to us through this book."

Native, looking confused, puts the book up to his ear.

Conquistadors scream "sacrilege!" get angry and behead the Native.

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:03 pm

Tolstoy wrote:
Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:40 pm

NOT John Buchan OR Marco Polo (damo666)
NOT Christopher Columbus (Jamiet99uk)
NOT Hernan Cortes (deMoGo)
NOT Zheng He (Ferdack)
NOT Juan Ponce de Leon (Hamish)
NOT Francisco de Orellana (VillageIdiot)
NOT Vasco Nunez de Balboa (cdngooner)
NOT Juan de Salcedo (Jaguar)
I'm sorry to say I think whoever it is definitely fails the 50% dart test. :?

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Jamiet99uk » Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:58 pm

Stevey de Chipotle?

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by Trigfea63 » Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:35 am

One more from the peanut gallery ...

Hernando de Soto

Re: TWENTY QUESTIONS - ROUND XXXVIII

by dargorygel » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:15 am

De Vaca

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