20 Questions: Game 229

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Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:32 pm

Another thing: there have been games where I've said things like, "So this person must have been born in South America, Africa, or Oceania." Normally I would include Antarctica in there as joke, but I didn't want to draw people's attention to Palma's existence since I had him in my mind as a possibility for a future game.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:25 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm
Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:08 pm
Hominidae wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:04 pm

Correct!
Haha. Great choice! For humor, I will post what I had just typed up:

"No questions for the QM in this post.

At this point, we have ruled out him being born in Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, leaving only North America and Australia/Oceania as possibilities for his birthplace. Australia and New Zealand are very unlikely, as his first language is not English, so, going in that direction, he would have to be born in one of the more random islands of Oceania. But, most of North America has been ruled out, either explicitly by my last few questions, or implicitly by the fact that he is not a US citizen. That seems to leave as the only possibilities:

- Non-English-speaking Oceania island
- Non-English-speaking Caribbean island
- QM sneakiness [not necessarily in the answering of the questions, but in the selection of the target]: someone born in the USA but not an American citizen (and without first language English), someone born, I don't know, Antarctica? I doubt anyone has been born there."
Antarctica didn’t even pop in my head till your last few questions; I thought it would be an Indigenous/Aboriginal person but don’t know enough about significant firsts in Australia or NZ so I typed “first person born in Antarctica” into google and guessed on a whim… good person, always fun to get folks who you don’t know about but aren’t so obscure as to be impossible. New game up soon.
Yeah, I was a bit hesitant to pick him because he's relatively obscure, but he's definitely notable, and gettable using normal questioning as we just saw.

There were still some pretty populous places that hadn't been eliminated by the end, like the Dominican Republic, but the odds of me picking someone from a place that just happens to be one of the last places you eliminated via guessing are pretty slim, unless it's a really weird place.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Aristocrat » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:18 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:08 pm
Hominidae wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:03 pm
 Free guess: Emilio Palma
Correct!
Haha. Great choice! For humor, I will post what I had just typed up:

"No questions for the QM in this post.

At this point, we have ruled out him being born in Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, leaving only North America and Australia/Oceania as possibilities for his birthplace. Australia and New Zealand are very unlikely, as his first language is not English, so, going in that direction, he would have to be born in one of the more random islands of Oceania. But, most of North America has been ruled out, either explicitly by my last few questions, or implicitly by the fact that he is not a US citizen. That seems to leave as the only possibilities:

- Non-English-speaking Oceania island
- Non-English-speaking Caribbean island
- QM sneakiness [not necessarily in the answering of the questions, but in the selection of the target]: someone born in the USA but not an American citizen (and without first language English), someone born, I don't know, Antarctica? I doubt anyone has been born there."
Antarctica didn’t even pop in my head till your last few questions; I thought it would be an Indigenous/Aboriginal person but don’t know enough about significant firsts in Australia or NZ so I typed “first person born in Antarctica” into google and guessed on a whim… good person, always fun to get folks who you don’t know about but aren’t so obscure as to be impossible. New game up soon.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Spartaculous » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:08 pm

Hominidae wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:04 pm
Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:03 pm
 Free guess: Emilio Palma
Correct!
Haha. Great choice! For humor, I will post what I had just typed up:

"No questions for the QM in this post.

At this point, we have ruled out him being born in Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, leaving only North America and Australia/Oceania as possibilities for his birthplace. Australia and New Zealand are very unlikely, as his first language is not English, so, going in that direction, he would have to be born in one of the more random islands of Oceania. But, most of North America has been ruled out, either explicitly by my last few questions, or implicitly by the fact that he is not a US citizen. That seems to leave as the only possibilities:

- Non-English-speaking Oceania island
- Non-English-speaking Caribbean island
- QM sneakiness [not necessarily in the answering of the questions, but in the selection of the target]: someone born in the USA but not an American citizen (and without first language English), someone born, I don't know, Antarctica? I doubt anyone has been born there."

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:04 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:03 pm
 Free guess: Emilio Palma
Correct!

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Aristocrat » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:03 pm

Free guess: Emilio Palma

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:00 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:59 pm
 Was he born in Canada, Guatemala, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, or Nicaragua?
No.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Spartaculous » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:59 pm

Was he born in Canada, Guatemala, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, or Nicaragua?

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:58 pm

Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:55 pm
Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:54 pm
Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:52 pm
 Free guess: Elon Musk
Can't be him, subject wasn't born in Africa
Excellent point. Scratch that guess.
Scratched.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by DiplomacyandWarfare » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:55 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:54 pm
Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:52 pm
 Free guess: Elon Musk
Can't be him, subject wasn't born in Africa
Excellent point. Scratch that guess.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by DiplomacyandWarfare » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:55 pm

Aristocrat wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:54 pm
Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:52 pm
 Free guess: Elon Musk
Can't be him, subject wasn't born in Africa
Excellent point. Scratch that guess.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Aristocrat » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:54 pm

Diplomacy&Warfare wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:52 pm
 Free guess: Elon Musk
Can't be him, subject wasn't born in Africa

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by DiplomacyandWarfare » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:52 pm

Free guess: Elon Musk

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:50 pm

Spartaculous wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:49 pm
 Was he born in Mexico, Cuba, or Haiti?
No.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Spartaculous » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:49 pm

Was he born in Mexico, Cuba, or Haiti?

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:49 pm

1,8,9,12,14. Real human being born after November 21, 1963, but before January 1, 1991, somewhere other than Africa, Eurasia, and South America
2,5. Not most famous for anything to do with athletics, science, technology, mathematics, politics, government, the military, royalty, or nobility (at least in a meaningful sense); not most famous for anything to do with the arts (broadly speaking), business, or crime
3,6. Living (probably)
4. Male
7. Did not write a novel that can be found on Amazon
10. First name starts with a vowel
11. Not a citizen of the USA
13. First language not English

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:45 pm

damo666 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm
 Born in South America?
No.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by damo666 » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm

Born in South America?

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by Hominidae » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:44 pm

damo666 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:43 pm
 First language English?
No.

Re: 20 Questions: Game 229

by damo666 » Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:43 pm

First language English?

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