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Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:21 am
by Octavious
han-shahanshah wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:52 am
Yes. Most famous Russian literature is 19th century.
You say that, but the 20th contains the likes of Doctor Zhivago and Lolita. And Humbert would have been a fun choice for webDip members overly concerned about their search history
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:22 am
by Octavious
Was the novel he was in written by either Tolstoy, Pushkin, or Dostoyevsky?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:01 pm
by Kakarroto
Octavious wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 10:22 am
Was the novel he was in written by either Tolstoy, Pushkin, or Dostoyevsky?
I would've asked if the family name of the author does end with a 'y', but this is also a good one.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:31 pm
by damo666
Does the novel in which the character appears have its own wikipedia page?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:35 pm
by han-shahanshah
Yes to the Wikipedia- the character has a Wikipedia page, remember.
Yes by Pushkin, Tolstoy, or Dostoyevsky.
Can't have been Lolita either way, as that was originally written in English.
Haha, you can now brute force the Wikipedia category.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... th_century
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:50 pm
by damo666
Does the novelist last name end in 'y'?
If yes, my free guess is Fyodor Karamazov.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:01 pm
by han-shahanshah
Yes; but not Fyodor Karamazov.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:02 pm
by Octavious
han-shahanshah wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Can't have been Lolita either way, as that was originally written in English.
Was it really? You learn something new every day
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:19 pm
by JECE
Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky character?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 6:20 pm
by JECE
I guess that we already asked that.
Tolstoy character?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 7:00 pm
by Jamiet99uk
Is it a character from "War and Peace" ?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:52 am
by han-shahanshah
Dostoyevsky character. That makes it go to the next player on here I guess, as there are only so many Dostoyevsky characters on Wikipedia.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:37 am
by JECE
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:37 am
by JECE
If not, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:44 am
by JECE
If not, Alyosha Karamazov?
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:48 am
by JECE
han-shahanshah wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:52 am
Dostoyevsky character. That makes it go to the next player on here I guess, as there are only so many Dostoyevsky characters on Wikipedia.
You gave away more information that you needed here.
there are only five on the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... characters
But there are more than two dozen characters in other Wikipedias:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7905433
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:49 am
by Kakarroto
Sorry, but I think you are posting too many guesses at once. I suggest you pick one of yours.
I was researching myself and was thinking of three possibilities (Rodion Raskolnikov, Prince Myshkin and Alyosha Karamazov) and thought if I should ask the question "is our protagonist one of the above three" and then guess one with a 'if yes' clause.
However, there is one possibility we aren't sure about so I'm asking it right now: "Does the person we're searching have an english wikipedia page?"
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:21 am
by han-shahanshah
Kakarroto wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:49 am
Sorry, but I think you are posting too many guesses at once. I suggest you pick one of yours.
I was researching myself and was thinking of three possibilities (Rodion Raskolnikov, Prince Myshkin and Alyosha Karamazov) and thought if I should ask the question "is our protagonist one of the above three" and then guess one with a 'if yes' clause.
However, there is one possibility we aren't sure about so I'm asking it right now: "Does the person we're searching have an
english wikipedia page?"
Yes. I kind of gave it away here:
Technically, the brute-forcing is not illegal. Although I much prefer more elegant qualifying questions.
JECE wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:37 am
If not, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?
It's him.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:21 am
by han-shahanshah
Congratulations to JECE!
I think this format was unadvisable, especially as it dragged on. The original was more regularly paced at least.
Re: Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:27 am
by Kakarroto
I'm very dissatisfied with the handling of the multiple guesses choice, especially since we just had a discussion over multiple questions in a row. This goes definitely against the intent of the game.
I officially protest and suggest to void the ruling and this round of the twenty questions.
If I stand alone with this issue or I'm going to be ignored, alright, but be prepared what that means for the next games.