mc5 - Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game

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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral-Abstract: The Pants Memorial Game

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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.

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[Snodgrass] No.
[Inkspot] Yes.
[Brendan] No.

April Showers?

Bermuda Triangle?

The fictional work referred to previously - is this a song?

[GL] No.
[Chalky] No.
[Darren] No.

Time for a hint?

Does the answer appear in the title of the work?

Raak]How about a one or two more questions on the source of the work, followed by a hint.

Is the fictional work pre-1850?

Is the fictional work by a man?

Fog?

[Inkspot] No.
[Brendan] Yes.
[Darren] Yes.
[snorgle] No.

The answers to Brendan and Daniel refer to the specific fictional work, not the body of fictional work, for which the answers would be No and Yes.

Daniel?!

Is the fictional work/body of work pre-1500?

I must admit I'm running out of questions here. Fiendish problem-setting from Raak and a good puzzle.

Is the fictional work European in origin?

[Darren[ Oops, sorry.
[Bm] No/No.
[Darren] Yes (but the fictional body of work isn't).

Hint: The fictional work is a novel, and the fictional body of work is a cartoon strip.

(novel)Was it written after 1900?(cartoon) did it appear in a comic?

Is it a dark and stormy night?

(in which case, I'm assuming the cartoon strip is Peanuts ...)

[Inkspot] No/No.
[Brendan] YES, it is a dark and stormy night!

Excellent puzzle, Raak!

OK, let's have an ANIMAL.

Is it a shaggy dog?

Continuing the dark and stormy night theme and the 'wouldnt send a dog out on a night like this' idea

[Snodgrass] Sadly not.

Is it human?

Is it a specific individual?

[GL] No.
[Raak] No.

Is it a fish out of water?

Is is mammalian?

[GL] No.
[Kim] No.

Is it a reptile?

Is it extinct?

Is it a bird?

Is it indiginous to a particular continent?

Raak] A wonderful candidate for Limited Short Stories sometime. The opening chapter of Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Is it an insect?

[GL] No.
[all] Yes!
[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[Kim] No.

Is it a fish?

In the water this time

Is it a Tasmanian Wolf?

Did it live between 225 and 65 million years ago?

Is it a single celled organism?

[GL] No.
[all] Nope.
[Inkspot] Nuh uh.
[R.J.F.] It is not.

Is it a virus? (since they don't really have cells)

Did it become extinct during recorded history?

A Sabre Toothed Tiger

Is/was it fictional?

Did it live between the present and 65 million years ago?

[Darren] No.
[Raak] No.
[Snodgrass] No.
[GL] No, entirely real. I'm not even aware of any famous appearances in fiction.
[Inkspot] Good question: no.

Did it live underwater?

Summarising...

Animal, but not a bird, fish, reptile, insect, mammal, single-celled organism, or virus. Not indigenous to any particular continent. Went extinct more than 225 million years ago.

Was it a vertebrate?

[GL] Yes.
[Raak] An accurate summary, and no.

Was it amphibian?

A trilobite?

[Inkspot] No.
[Raak] Correct!

Gosh, er, let's see....

ABSTRACT, with VEGETABLE connections

Is it fictional?

Standard opening.

[Bm] No.

Is it something which can be an attribute of a human?

Is it a song title?

[Darren] No.
[Dujon] No.

Is it connected with environmental issues?

[Raak, Brendan] well played on both the 'setting' and 'guessing' - wish I had the opportunity to participate more this week :-(

Is it a human concept?

Standard opening number two.

Is the vegetable connection something to do with food?

Is it a well known phrase or saying?

Is the vegetable a fruit?

I shoudl revise the description to say it can be either ABSTRACT with VEGETABLE connections or VEGETABLE with ABSTRACT connections. And the VEGETABLE might include ANIMAL as well, depending.

[Chalky] No.
[Bm] Yes (this applies to the possible ANIMAL part as well).
[Darren] Yes.
[GL] No.
[Inkspot] No.

Is it a turnip for the books?

Is the vegetable connection, a vegetable?

Is it an amusingly-shaped vegetable/fruit?

[RJF] No.
[Inkspot] No.
[Chalky] No.

Is it a name of something a man made to be eaten?

eg a birthday cake.

Is the vegetable a forest?

[Inkspot] Yes.
[GL] No.

An easter egg?

[Inkspot] No.

A simnel cake?

Very seasonal.

[Software] No. And the mystery object isn't seasonal.

Is it associated with a particular country?

Does it involve chocolate?

Is it a chocolate orange?

Is it a type of pie?

[Inkspot] Not very strongly.
[all] No.
[GL] No.
[Darren] No.

Is it associated with a particular part of the day?

[Inkspot] No.

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