The chairperson selects an object/idea/whatever and announces whether it's animal, vegetable, mineral, and/or abstract. The others have to ask questions to figure out what it is. Whomever guesses the object correctly is given the chair for the next round; repeat ad nauseam.
[Gusset Login] I suspect Raak meant it was an anticlimax to hit upon the answer so rapidly and unexpectedly, rather than that the answer itself was anticlimactic.
[Kim] Tricky one...let's say that the animal is alive and the vegetable isn't. [GL] Yes. [Inkspot] Yes. [Bm] No. [GL] Yes. [Bm, GL] Indeed, no criticism intended.
[Inkspot] I once went into a health food shop and asked if they had any of a certain thing which the mystery object sells, and it was as if I'd asked for Watney's Red Barrel in a real ale pub. [Software] No. [GL] YES! But that's not the whole story. [Chalky] No.
[Inkspot] Yes. [GL] YES! But that's still not the whole story. (And "coffee" was indeed the substance that the health food shop looked askance at a request for.) [ZK] No. [Brendan] No. [Kim] It depends on the branch.
[Kim] No. [GL] I'm sure they'll do takeaway if you ask, but most people sit down. [snorgle] No. [Software] You are within a gnat's semiote, but... [all] *DINGDINGDINGDINGDING*A cybercafe is what it is.
Raak - cut down on the speed.(that means no) Chalky - no and no. [Clue]He isn't well-known, at least I hadn't heard of him before last week, when I went to a performance of his most famous work.
[Everyone] While we are waiting to find out which dead German composer snorgle is, I invite you all to take this short test. Which dead German composer are you?.
[Chalky] snorgle is in the chair but that doesn't stop me point out that Englebert Humperdinck wasn't German, and then discovering that there's more than one Englebert Humperdinck. And one of them was German. My humble appology is in the post.
In any case, the English one was actually Gerry Dorsey when he used to sing cover versions on Saturday Club hosted by Brian Matthew on the BBC Light Programme in the '60's.
Chalky - yes! Engelbert Humperdinck (the original one) it is! I saw Hansel & Gretel last week, and was surprised by the name - until I looked into it a bit more.
[Duj] Yes [Raak] Curiously enough, that is one of my favourite phrases and have longed to slip it into one of these games. Much as I'd love to say 'yes', in this instance, alas No [Software] I suppose it must be [see Duj reply]
[Snodgrass] Sort of, yes [Gusset] No [all] No ... hey forget it - I, too, am less than perfect :-) [Inkspot] In a manner of speaking, yes it is [Gusset] Indubitably
[Inkspot] Er ... no [Bigsmith] Nope [all] one might think so in view of the previous two questions - and as a matter of fact it *could* be :-) [Raak] No - but you're moving in the right direction -ish [Software] NO! good question [Gusset] Yes [Kim] It *might* contain numbers but don't let that mislead you
[Inkspot] It can be perceived by all of the senses [all] Yes - with the addition of a definite or indefinite article [Software] Not really [Gusset] Noo-o-o - but swearing might be applicable afterwards :-) [Raak] No
[Inkspot] No to both [Raak] The opposite to that question was asked a while back :-) Your answer is YES, it might make someone unhappy, but not necessarily deeply unhappy.
[Gusset, Software] One might suffer and be disappointed as a result but the answer is more the 'action' rather than the consequence. [all] erm .. no [Raak] No, but being dumped may fall into this category - a more generic word is needed.