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sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:09 pm

Szpoti wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:48 pm

I've got a gut feeling that this writer doesn't pass the dart test by a loooong shot.

What's the dart test?

It's one of the earlier rules

"Please choose people from history, or movie/TV/literary/video game chars/etc. characters that, if you were to throw a dart out the window, at least 50% of people hit would know this character."

It was dropped because, to put it as delicately as possible, it was bollocks.

Besides which I chucked a hundred darts out of the upstairs window and didn't hit anyone other than a cat

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:27 pm

Actually, Ralph Ellison served in the merchant marine.

Is it him?

No.

Octavious wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:31 pm

sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:09 pm

Szpoti wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:48 pm

I've got a gut feeling that this writer doesn't pass the dart test by a loooong shot.

What's the dart test?

It's one of the earlier rules

"Please choose people from history, or movie/TV/literary/video game chars/etc. characters that, if you were to throw a dart out the window, at least 50% of people hit would know this character."

It was dropped because, to put it as delicately as possible, it was bollocks.

Besides which I chucked a hundred darts out of the upstairs window and didn't hit anyone other than a cat

Yeah, unfortunately the sheer number of "notable" people makes it difficult for one to know all of the "notable" people.

I swear I wasn't trying to win the game by choosing a hard person, it's who I've had in mind for a while. I think they are quite well known, but in hindsight, I can see why people might be struggling to figure it out.

Three guesses left.

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:07 pm

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

I'm not going to answer this until I get confirmation from someone experienced.

I think the consecutive question rule is especially important during the last five questions, because people who have been participating could get left out.

I think the only time to break that rule is if people are taking excessively long to ask.

There are 544 people on this list:
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/american-poets.php

I checked the first 100 and none fit the bill.

sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:18 pm

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:07 pm

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

I'm not going to answer this until I get confirmation from someone experienced.

I think the consecutive question rule is especially important during the last five questions, because people who have been participating could get left out.

I think the only time to break that rule is if people are taking excessively long to ask.

They're your rules, but it doesn't look like you changed them. There isn't a rule prohibiting two consecutive guesses. There is a rule prohibiting more than two consecutive guesses (or more than three consecutive guesses if one uses a free guess, but there are no more free guesses since 20 questions have already been answered).

JECE wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:35 pm

sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:18 pm

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:07 pm

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

I'm not going to answer this until I get confirmation from someone experienced.

I think the consecutive question rule is especially important during the last five questions, because people who have been participating could get left out.

I think the only time to break that rule is if people are taking excessively long to ask.

They're your rules, but it doesn't look like you changed them. There isn't a rule prohibiting two consecutive guesses. There is a rule prohibiting more than two consecutive guesses (or more than three consecutive guesses if one uses a free guess, but there are no more free guesses since 20 questions have already been answered).

Ah, I see.

I will allow Dousing's question then.

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:07 pm

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

No.

Two questions left.

sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:39 pm

Dousing wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:07 pm

(I don’t think I’m breaking the two consecutive guesses rule but I don’t think so since our 20 questions are up)

Is it Joseph heller, author of catch-22?

No.

Sadness...

Octavious wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:31 pm

sweetandcool wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:09 pm

Szpoti wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:48 pm

I've got a gut feeling that this writer doesn't pass the dart test by a loooong shot.

What's the dart test?

It's one of the earlier rules

"Please choose people from history, or movie/TV/literary/video game chars/etc. characters that, if you were to throw a dart out the window, at least 50% of people hit would know this character."

It was dropped because, to put it as delicately as possible, it was bollocks.

Besides which I chucked a hundred darts out of the upstairs window and didn't hit anyone other than a cat

Entirely possible that we are just off track looking at writers rather than looking at other people who also wrote but were more prominent for something else.

Guess: William S. Burroughs (known to some as "Willy the Burrower")

Foxcastle wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:28 pm

Guess: William S. Burroughs (known to some as "Willy the Burrower")

No.

One more guess left!

Hold on a moment, team!

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.
19. Never won a Pulitzer Prize.
20. Not born before 1880.

NOT:
Hemingway (Foxcastle),
Kurt Vonnegut (han-shahanshah),
Jerome David Salinger (Octavious),
Mark Twain (damo666),
Stan Lee (dargorygel),
Ralph Ellison (Dousing),
Joseph Heller (Dousing, who was generously allowed two goes)
William S. Burroughs (Foxcastle)

Most of my top candidates have been disqualified by the military service or age at death requirements…

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:16 am

NOT:
Hemingway (Foxcastle),
Kurt Vonnegut (han-shahanshah),
Jerome David Salinger (Octavious),
Mark Twain (damo666),
Stan Lee (dargorygel),
Ralph Ellison (Dousing),
Joseph Heller (Dousing, who was generously allowed two goes)
William S. Burroughs (Foxcastle)

Also not Dr. Seuss (DougJoe).