Twenty Questions Game the Ninety-Sixth

[Octavious]

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

[Octavious]

Was the novel he was in written by either Tolstoy, Pushkin, or Dostoyevsky?

[Kakarroto]

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.

[damo666]

Does the novel in which the character appears have its own wikipedia page?

[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

[damo666]

Does the novelist last name end in 'y'?

If yes, my free guess is Fyodor Karamazov.

[han-shahanshah]

Yes; but not Fyodor Karamazov.

[Octavious]

Can't have been Lolita either way, as that was originally written in English.

Was it really? You learn something new every day

[JECE]

Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky character?

[JECE]

I guess that we already asked that.

Tolstoy character?

[Jamiet99uk]

Is it a character from "War and Peace" ?

[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.

[JECE]

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin?

[JECE]

If not, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?

[JECE]

If not, Alyosha Karamazov?

[JECE]

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

[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?"

[han-shahanshah]

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:

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

Technically, the brute-forcing is not illegal. Although I much prefer more elegant qualifying questions.

If not, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov?

It's him.

[han-shahanshah]

Congratulations to JECE!

I think this format was unadvisable, especially as it dragged on. The original was more regularly paced at least.

[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.