| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13757 Registered: 4-2010 |
Barton, Colleen, Kayla, Perkins, and Yorick, none of whom know each other, are all participating in a different activity one day. By chance, they all say the exact same thing at the exact same time. What are they doing, and what do they say? | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1016 Registered: 8-2001 |
All human? All adult? All alive? Based on a true story? From your imagination? From someone else's imagination? Are they all in the same general location? Are they all in the same specific location (like at school or in the same park)? Was what they said related to what they each were doing? Or to some outside event? (like finding out the President had been killed etc.) Time period relevant? Country? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 773 Registered: 2-2011 |
are any of them playing a sport or game? eating? cheezburgur dancing? acting? studying? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13760 Registered: 4-2010 |
All human? Yes All adult? No - Kayla is a child. All alive? Yes Based on a true story? From your imagination? This From someone else's imagination? Are they all in the same general location? Irrel Are they all in the same specific location (like at school or in the same park)? Irrel Was what they said related to what they each were doing? Yes Or to some outside event? So no (like finding out the President had been killed etc.) Time period relevant? Yope - assume modern-day Country? No are any of them playing a sport or game? Yes for Kayla and Colleen, Yope for Barton, No for rest eating? cheezburgur Noez dancing? acting? studying? No to these | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1022 Registered: 8-2001 |
Is their gender relevant? Barton - m? Colleen - f? Kayla - f? Perkins - m? Yorick - m? And just to confirm - none of them are doing their activity together? Any of them working/at work? Sport or game: Video game? Board game? Card game? Swimming? Diving? Running? Football? Soccer? Lacrosse? Tennis? Baseball? Softball? Hide N Seek? Any animals involved? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13767 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is their gender relevant? Not really, but all below are correct. Barton - m? Colleen - f? Kayla - f? Perkins - m? Yorick - m? And just to confirm - none of them are doing their activity together? Correct Any of them working/at work? Yes - Perkins and Yorick. Sport or game: Video game? Board game? Colleen Yes, Kayla Yesish, Barton...I'm not sure how to categorize the one for Barton. Card game? Swimming? Diving? Running? Football? Soccer? Lacrosse? Tennis? Baseball? Softball? Hide N Seek? No to rest Any animals involved? Yes for Perkins | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1027 Registered: 8-2001 |
Is Barton playing table-top D&D or some other RPG? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13771 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is Barton playing table-top D&D or some other RPG? No | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1736 Registered: 6-2008 |
Do they all mean the thing they say in the same sense? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 776 Registered: 2-2011 |
is Perkins an animal trainer? does he work in a zoo? does he work with a specific animal or animals? does Yorick work in an office? school? out of doors? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13778 Registered: 4-2010 |
Do they all mean the thing they say in the same sense? No, but some do-ish. is Perkins an animal trainer? No does he work in a zoo? No does he work with a specific animal or animals? Noish/Yopish does Yorick work in an office? school? out of doors? No to all | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1038 Registered: 8-2001 |
Barton Not at work - Is he at home? A public place? Is he playing some sort of paper & pencil game? Crossword? Soduko (or however you spell that)? A mental game? Like I spy? Is at least one other person involved in what he's doing? Colleen is playing a board game. Is it relevant where she is? Is she playing with others? Scrabble? Monopoly? Risk? Kayla is a child and is Yes-ishly playing a board game. Is she playing a computer version of a board game? Is it relevant where she is? Perkins & Yorick Both are at work. Do either: Work from home? Work in retail? Work at a restaurant? Work for the government? Work in entertainment? Perkins: Does he work with live animals? Literal animals or representations of animals? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 788 Registered: 2-2011 |
are any of these people talking to themselves? or are they saying this thing to another person? is Perkins addressing an animal? is it an exclamation? or something you might say when you win a game or score? like "Mate"? or "Goal"? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13783 Registered: 4-2010 |
Barton Not at work - Is he at home? No A public place? Yes Is he playing some sort of paper & pencil game? No Crossword? No Soduko (or however you spell that)? No A mental game? No Like I spy? No Is at least one other person involved in what he's doing? Yes Colleen is playing a board game. Is it relevant where she is? No Is she playing with others? Yes Scrabble? No Monopoly? No Risk? No Kayla is a child and is Yes-ishly playing a board game. Is she playing a computer version of a board game? No Is it relevant where she is? No Perkins & Yorick Both are at work. Do either: No to all Work from home? Work in retail? Work at a restaurant? Work for the government? Work in entertainment? Perkins: Does he work with live animals? NO - good q Literal animals As in, real cats instead of stuffed cats? Yes, but not my made-up example or representations of animals? But this is a YES as well are any of these people talking to themselves? No or are they saying this thing to another person? All of them are speaking to at least one other person, not necessarily directly is Perkins addressing an animal? No is it an exclamation? Barton - Yes. Kayla - Yesish. Colleen - Yopish. Noish/No to rest or something you might say when you win a game or score? Not quite like "Mate"? or "Goal"? No | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1746 Registered: 6-2008 |
Does Perkins work with photographs of animals? with recordings of their calls? or does he work with preserved specimens of animals? Is the "yesish board game" only yesishly a game? or does it use something that could be called a board, but also actions unrelated to the board (like for instance Cranium)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13789 Registered: 4-2010 |
Does Perkins work with photographs of animals? with recordings of their calls? or does he work with preserved specimens of animals? This, with a slight -ish Is the "yesish board game" only yesishly a game? No or does it use something that could be called a board, Yesish - it uses something that is -ish a board. but also actions unrelated to the board (like for instance Cranium)? No | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 804 Registered: 2-2011 |
does Perkins work with parts of dead animals? is he a butcher? or preserved parts of dead animals? frankfurters? cheeseburgers? is the yesish board game played on a special table? or a bowling alley? dartboard? or a mat? like Twister? is it a jigsaw puzzle? dominoes? cribbage? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13801 Registered: 4-2010 |
does Perkins work with parts of dead animals? Yesish is he a butcher? No or preserved parts of dead animals? Yope frankfurters? cheeseburgers? Neither - food is irrelevant is the yesish board game played on a special It's played on a board-ish. No to rest table? or a bowling alley? dartboard? or a mat? like Twister? is it a jigsaw puzzle? dominoes? cribbage? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 808 Registered: 2-2011 |
still with Perkins - leather? fur? glue? catgut? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13807 Registered: 4-2010 |
still with Perkins - leather? fur? glue? catgut? No to all | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1754 Registered: 6-2008 |
Twister (for the game)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13811 Registered: 4-2010 |
Twister (for the game)? No | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 819 Registered: 2-2011 |
is the yesish borad game a jigsaw puzzle? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 820 Registered: 2-2011 |
is the thing they said more than a single word? longer than a phrase? a sentence? are the dead animals mammals? birds? reptiles? is he a taxidermist? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13815 Registered: 4-2010 |
is the yesish borad game a jigsaw puzzle? No is the thing they said more than a single word? Yes longer than a phrase? No a sentence? No are the dead animals mammals? birds? reptiles? This is he a taxidermist? No | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 691 Registered: 2-2009 |
Jumping in... Is Perkins an archaeologist? paleontologist? Does he work in a museum? Are dinosaurs relevant? Colleen's board game -- Life? Clue? Sorry? Is it a game that mimics (or purports to, anyway) a real-world situation (like Life or Clue)? or is abstract or makes no claims at being a real-world "simulation" (like Sorry, checkers, or backgammon)? Is it a word-based game (like Scattergories or Scrabble)? Kayla's yesish board game -- the yesish board = tiles (like in Settlers of Catan or Carcassone)? paper? Is it a mancala-style game? Does the board-ish have a usual/set set-up, or can it change depending on the game that's being played? Is the board-ish "constructed" before play begins (for example, Catan)? while play is ongoing (for example, Carcassone)? Barton -- Scavenger hunt relevant? Yorick -- Does his work bring him in contact with the general public on a regular basis? Is he a scientist? doctor? in business? Does he work in law? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13827 Registered: 4-2010 |
Jumping in... Is Perkins an archaeologist? paleontologist? THIS Does he work in a museum? Irrel Are dinosaurs relevant? Yes Colleen's board game -- Life? Clue? Sorry? No to these Is it a game that mimics (or purports to, anyway) a real-world situation (like Life or Clue)? or is abstract or makes no claims at being a real-world "simulation" (like Sorry, checkers, or backgammon)? This, and none of the examples are correct Is it a word-based game (like Scattergories or Scrabble)? Kayla's yesish board game -- the yesish board = tiles (like in Settlers of Catan or Carcassone)? No paper? It can be on paper, but I usually see it as something else Is it a mancala-style game? No Does the board-ish have a usual/set set-up, or can it change depending on the game that's being played? Yope Is the board-ish "constructed" before play begins (for example, Catan)? Yes while play is ongoing (for example, Carcassone)? Yope Barton -- Scavenger hunt relevant? No Yorick -- Does his work bring him in contact with the general public on a regular basis? Yope Is he a scientist? doctor? in business? Does he work in law? No to these | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3431 Registered: 1-2007 |
Is the boardgame Mastermind by any chance? Battleships? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13845 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the boardgame Mastermind by any chance? Battleships? Kayla's is Battleship | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1092 Registered: 8-2001 |
Colleen - Playing a common boardgame? Trivial Pursuit? Backgammon? Mancala? Chess? Chinese Checkers? Chutes and Ladders? Connect Four? Checkers? Go? Othello? Stratego? Parcheesi? Pictionary? Trouble? Yahtzee? Kayla - Is she saying the phrase in reference to the game? The outcome of the game? Something about the course of game play? Perkins - Is he at work when he says the phrase? At a dig site? At a museum? Giving a talk? Is he also a professor? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13852 Registered: 4-2010 |
Colleen - Playing a common boardgame? Yes Trivial Pursuit? Backgammon? Mancala? Chess? This Chinese Checkers? Chutes and Ladders? Connect Four? Checkers? Go? Othello? Stratego? Parcheesi? Pictionary? Trouble? Yahtzee? Kayla - Is she saying the phrase in reference to the game? Yes The outcome of the game? No Something about the course of game play? Yes Perkins - Is he at work when he says the phrase? Yes At a dig site? Here At a museum? Giving a talk? Is he also a professor? Irrel | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 832 Registered: 2-2011 |
is the expression something like "I've hit something?" or "I've found something?" | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1107 Registered: 8-2001 |
"Eureka"? "Checkmate"? "You sunk my Battleship?"? :D Going back to Barton and his "Yope-ish" game: Is he doing something that requires paper? A board? Game pieces? That requires another player? A word game? A video game? A verbal game? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13856 Registered: 4-2010 |
is the expression something like "I've hit something?" or "I've found something?" No - shorter "Eureka"? "Checkmate"? "You sunk my Battleship?"? :D No to all Going back to Barton and his "Yope-ish" game: No, it's a Yes-it's-a-game game. You have an FA. Is he doing something that requires paper? No A board? Yesish Game pieces? Yesish That requires another player? Many players, FA A word game? No A video game? No A verbal game? No | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1125 Registered: 8-2001 |
??? Barton - Human Adult Male, yes? Alive, yes? In a public place, yes? And when asked "are any of them playing a sport or game" you said "Yope for Barton", yes? Is Barton "Yope-ishly" playing? Is he a ref? An Annoucers? Any pro or college sport relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13862 Registered: 4-2010 |
Barton - Human Adult Male, yes? Alive, yes? In a public place, yes? And when asked "are any of them playing a sport or game" you said "Yope for Barton", yes? This is all correct - see below Is Barton "Yope-ishly" playing? He's not playing, per se, but he's directly involved with the game. Is he a ref? No An Annoucers? No, but closer Any pro or college sport relevant? I wouldn't consider this a sport, No | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1130 Registered: 8-2001 |
Observing? Taking Photos? Reporting on the "event"? Is he being used as some equipment for the game? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13865 Registered: 4-2010 |
Observing? Taking Photos? Reporting on the "event"? Is he being used as some equipment for the game? No to these, but he is using some equipment for the game | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1134 Registered: 8-2001 |
He needs equipment to not play? I'm so lost. Is he a coach? A ballboy of some sort? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13870 Registered: 4-2010 |
He needs equipment to not play? No, he needs the equipment so others can play. I'm so lost. There are two ways you can continue: Figure out Barton's game, or figure out what they all say. Is he a coach? A ballboy of some sort? Neither | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1138 Registered: 8-2001 |
See, now I'm just getting stubborn about this. Is he in the same place as those playing? Is playing a game online? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13873 Registered: 4-2010 |
See, now I'm just getting stubborn about this. Is he in the same place as those playing? YES Is playing a game online? No | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 699 Registered: 2-2009 |
Chess and battleship both use coordinates, and I think dig sites might as well. Is this relevant? Is what they all say a coordinate (or something that sounds like one)? Is Barton's game bingo? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13882 Registered: 4-2010 |
Chess and battleship both use coordinates, and I think dig sites might as well. Yes, they do! Is this relevant? Yes! Is what they all say a coordinate (or something that sounds like one)? YES!! Is Barton's game bingo? YES!!!! | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1151 Registered: 8-2001 |
Amazing work, Kalira! NOW we're getting somewhere! SO...Barton is "running" the Bingo game, calling out the letter/number combinations. Colleen is playing chess. Is she playing long distance, perhaps via phone? (Trying to think of why she would need to be calling her moves (or someone else's) out loud...) Kayla is playing Battleship and I'm guessing called out her move. Yes? Perkins is an archeologist. Is he answering someone's question about where work is happening? Where something was found? And now we just have Yorick... He is working and does not work: In an office A school outdoors from home in retail at a restaurant for the government in entertainment a scientist doctor in business in law His work Yope-ishly brings him into contact with the public. This handy recap provided by she that can't remember what we'd already determined. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13890 Registered: 4-2010 |
Amazing work, Kalira! NOW we're getting somewhere! SO...Barton is "running" the Bingo game, calling out the letter/number combinations. YES - he is a bingo caller. Colleen is playing chess. Yes Is she playing long distance, perhaps via phone? No (Trying to think of why she would need to be calling her moves (or someone else's) out loud...) It's not relevant why; it's only relevant that she's calling her moves out loud. Let's just say that she's calling them to someone who's writing them down. Kayla is playing Battleship and I'm guessing called out her move. Yes? Yes Perkins is an archeologist. Paleontologist Is he answering someone's question about where work is happening? Yope Where something was found? Well, where they're looking. And now we just have Yorick... He is working and does not work: In an office A school outdoors from home in retail at a restaurant for the government in entertainment a scientist doctor in business in law His work Yope-ishly brings him into contact with the public. All correct. It brings him into contact with a certain part of the public regularly, but never with others. This handy recap provided by she that can't remember what we'd already determined. Well, she did a pretty good job of it -- nice recap! | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3442 Registered: 1-2007 |
Hmm this should now be obvious but isn't . Are the term B4 and the word Before relevant? | ||
| Peter365 (Peter365)
New member Username: Peter365 Post Number: 3443 Registered: 1-2007 |
Sorry posted before I'd finished. Are bingo calls like "Legs 11" or "Two Little Ducks" relevant? | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 700 Registered: 2-2009 |
Yay for lateral leaps achieved! If it's not B4/before, it has to be something else between B1 and B8... nothing else matches up between bingo cards and chess notation. Is the thing they say in common the only thing each of them says at that time? or are any of the things said in common a part of a longer sentence/speech (like "Rapunzel's going to be four steps behind the flying saucer when it lands for a spaghetti dinner in NW DC" -- yes, obviously not that)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13897 Registered: 4-2010 |
Hmm this should now be obvious but isn't . Are the term B4 and the word Before relevant? Not quite, but you can't get more OTRT than this!} Are bingo calls like "Legs 11" or "Two Little Ducks" relevant? Not these -- I've never heard those before If it's not B4/before, it has to be something else between B1 and B8... nothing else matches up between bingo cards and chess notation. Right Is the thing they say in common the only thing each of them says at that time? Yes, for Barton, Kayla, and Perkins. Colleen says the "common thing" and one other letter (she's calling out her move, but you knew that already). or are any of the things said in common a part of a longer sentence/speech (like "Rapunzel's going to be four steps behind the flying saucer when it lands for a spaghetti dinner in NW DC" -- yes, obviously not that)? This is true for Yorick | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 703 Registered: 2-2009 |
All righty, since we haven't asked yet, then... B1? B2/be too? B3? B5? B6? B7? B8? | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1169 Registered: 8-2001 |
Yorick's work: White collar? Blue collar? Academic? Sales? Is his job unusual? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13905 Registered: 4-2010 |
All righty, since we haven't asked yet, then... B1? This B2/be too? B3? B5? B6? B7? B8? Yorick's work: White collar? Blue collar? Academic? Sales? Don't think it's any of these Is his job unusual? I wouldn't say so | ||
| Kalira (Kalira)
New member Username: Kalira Post Number: 705 Registered: 2-2009 |
Meteorologist/weather man? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13908 Registered: 4-2010 |
Meteorologist/weather man? Nope | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 847 Registered: 2-2011 |
is Yorick an actor? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 848 Registered: 2-2011 |
or a beekeeper? | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1172 Registered: 8-2001 |
The certain part of the public: Predominately of one gender? Of a similar age as each other? All of a similar class? Those geographically close? People in the same profession as Yorick? People in the same profession as each other? Does he work for craft services? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13914 Registered: 4-2010 |
is Yorick an actor? or a beekeeper? Neither The certain part of the public: Predominately of one gender? Of a similar age as each other? All of a similar class? Those geographically close? This is true, but not the main relevant piece. No to rest People in the same profession as Yorick? People in the same profession as each other? Does he work for craft services? No HINT: Yorick doesn't say "B1"; he says... | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 1184 Registered: 8-2001 |
He says: Be one? Something very close but not exactly B1? Beyond? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13918 Registered: 4-2010 |
He says: Be one? This Something very close but not exactly B1? Beyond? | ||
| Biograd (Biograd)
New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 1760 Registered: 6-2008 |
"Be one" in the sense of "turn into one"? (like for example, "Don't just be LIKE a successful businessman, BE ONE!") in the sense of "harmonize"? (as in "Be one with nature") Or does the "one" only make sense in context? (like "Always be one step ahead of the competition") | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 856 Registered: 2-2011 |
is Yorick a priest or rabbi or other religious leader? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13922 Registered: 4-2010 |
"Be one" in the sense of "turn into one"? (like for example, "Don't just be LIKE a successful businessman, BE ONE!") Not exactly in the sense of "harmonize"? (as in "Be one with nature") Yes, slight -ish Or does the "one" only make sense in context? (like "Always be one step ahead of the competition") See below is Yorick a priest or rabbi or other religious leader? YES -- which means I can finally say **********SPOILER********** All five people say "B1" (or "Be one"). Barton is a bingo caller. He has just pulled out ball B1 and is calling it out. Colleen is playing chess. She has just moved a piece to square b1 and is calling out her move. Kayla is playing Battleship. She "fires a shot" at square B1. Perkins is a paleontologist on a dig. The dig site has been divided into a grid, and he calls out "B1" to start the search in that area. Yorick is an Eastern spiritual guru, imploring his followers to "Be one" with the universe. Thanks everyone for working on this puzzle -- I had no idea when I started it if it would go well or flop. One more puzzle from me before I head off. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 865 Registered: 2-2011 |
Excellent! BTW, in case I don't post again before Tuesday, have a good time - you will be sorely missed | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13927 Registered: 4-2010 |
Thanks -- I'll miss it here too! |
