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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#61 Post by JECE » Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:47 pm

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#62 Post by Octavious » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:16 pm

DougJoe wrote:
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Not Neil Gaiman, Oct?
He'd have likely made the top 20. I did enjoy Neverwhere, and Good Omens is a favourite (although it's hard to say how much of it was him). He'd be in good company, with Peake, Mantel, Dahl, Herbert et al. But not quite top 10
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#63 Post by Octavious » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:19 pm

Is it Fitzgerald?

Scrap that... Died too young
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#64 Post by Octavious » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:23 pm

Is it the world's worst author, Jerome David Salinger?
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#65 Post by sweetandcool » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:27 pm

Octavious wrote:
Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:23 pm
Is it the world's worst author, Jerome David Salinger?
No.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#66 Post by Foxcastle » Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:07 pm


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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#67 Post by sweetandcool » Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:23 pm

Foxcastle wrote:
Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:07 pm
Is he on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_in_war
No.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#68 Post by han-shahanshah » Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:52 pm

Combatant in WWI?

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#69 Post by sweetandcool » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:00 am

han-shahanshah wrote:
Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:52 pm
Combatant in WWI?
No.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#70 Post by sweetandcool » Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:38 am

1. Real
2. Not Female
3. Not alive
4. Native English Speaker
5. North-American
6. Lived during 20th Century
7. Lived to 70+ years old.
8. Not associated with the movie/music industry.
9. Not born in or after 1925.
10. Not known for being in the military or law enforcement [they did serve].
11. Not known for politics or activism.
12. Not an inventor or businessman.
13. Not a criminal.
14. Not a sportsperson.
15. Not an artist. [Technically, they are, just not in the sense of painting, sculpting..]
16. Writer.
17. Not on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_in_war
18. Not a combatant in WW1.

NOT: Hemingway (Foxcastle), Kurt Vonnegut (han-shahanshah), Jerome David Salinger (Octavious).

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#71 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:41 am

2 questions left. I think narrowing down birth/death would be helpful. What do people think are good guesses for that?

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#72 Post by damo666 » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:23 pm

Mark Twain

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#73 Post by Jamiet99uk » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:28 pm

Foxcastle wrote:
Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:41 am
2 questions left. I think narrowing down birth/death would be helpful. What do people think are good guesses for that?
Other things we have not established, but may wish to consider:

- Ethnicity / race (we may assume it's a white guy, but not necessarily).
- Were they famous for one great novel, or something else.
- Were they even a writer of fiction.

(I am NOT asking any of these questions at this stage, QM)
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#74 Post by dargorygel » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:40 pm

My mind, perhaps expecting odd things from sweetandcool... keeps pushing down unusual 'writers.' I think, question wise, that Jamie and fox have suggested some good guidelines... but we only have two questions.

Should we use up some of those free guesses before we narrow?

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#75 Post by Foxcastle » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:43 pm

damo666 wrote:
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Mark Twain
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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#76 Post by DarthPorg36 » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:50 pm

e. e. cummings

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#77 Post by DarthPorg36 » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:52 pm

scratch that he served in WW1

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#78 Post by sweetandcool » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:34 pm

dargorygel wrote:
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:40 pm
My mind, perhaps expecting odd things from sweetandcool... keeps pushing down unusual 'writers.' I think, question wise, that Jamie and fox have suggested some good guidelines... but we only have two questions.

Should we use up some of those free guesses before we narrow?

Stan Lee
No, but epic guess.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#79 Post by sweetandcool » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:35 pm

damo666 wrote:
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:23 pm
Mark Twain
No.

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Re: Twenty Questions - Game 109

#80 Post by han-shahanshah » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:59 pm

Ambrose Bierce fits.

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