20 questions
nellebelle
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
Mary Ellen
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I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
Mary Ellen
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In a message dated 11/30/05 9:18:03 PM, nellebelle@... writes:
fit in one of those three categories.
When we play, one other common #1 question is "Is it or was it ever alive?"
But that doesn't really apply to some things either, like a rock or a
mountain or a cloud--they've been other forms, maybe liquid, and maybe they're
moving.
When people play in person you can get an indication with the "yes" or "no"
that it's not a purely enthusiastic YES! It's a hesitant "I can't decide" or
"not really" yes, and that makes a difference in the way the game is played.
While it's kind of fun with a computer, it's a different game.
Sandra
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> I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.I think in the original game, you were supposed to play something that DID
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> What would be "other"?
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fit in one of those three categories.
When we play, one other common #1 question is "Is it or was it ever alive?"
But that doesn't really apply to some things either, like a rock or a
mountain or a cloud--they've been other forms, maybe liquid, and maybe they're
moving.
When people play in person you can get an indication with the "yes" or "no"
that it's not a purely enthusiastic YES! It's a hesitant "I can't decide" or
"not really" yes, and that makes a difference in the way the game is played.
While it's kind of fun with a computer, it's a different game.
Sandra
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From: nellebelle <nellebelle@...>
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
-=-=-=-
Hydrogen? Electron? Nucleus? Mitochondria?
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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From: nellebelle <nellebelle@...>
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
-=-=-=-
Hydrogen? Electron? Nucleus? Mitochondria?
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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andre whetstone
we have thad this game for over 1 yr.... we have used other as - a can of pop - a triangle - paper - mouse trap and the like I am sure these probably could fit into one of the other 3 catagoties but I think it is a catch all - we have only been able to stump it once before ... but right now the kids can't think of what we used to stump it... its a challenge and a hoot!
andre'
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From: nellebelle <nellebelle@...>
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
-=-=-=-
Hydrogen? Electron? Nucleus? Mitochondria?
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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From: nellebelle <nellebelle@...>
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
-=-=-=-
Hydrogen? Electron? Nucleus? Mitochondria?
~KellyKelly LovejoyConference CoordinatorLive and Learn Unschooling Conferencehttp://liveandlearnconference.org
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Deb
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over millenia to mineral (does petroleum count as a mineral for the
purposes of 20 questions?) and now something other - often an
amalgam of things as in a plastic chair seat with metal legs. We
generally stretch the answers a bit not just yes and no but
perhaps "it used to be" as in a cotton tablecloth 'used to be' plant
or 'is made from' plant. Typically, right after "is it alive?"
and "was it ever alive?" we move on to "is it made by people?"
and "is it made of....(wood, metal, plastic, fabric, etc)?" Some of
the hardest ones have been the really simple everyday things.
I think there is (or was) a 20 questions type board game. One team
would read clues, one at a time. The quicker you got the answer the
more points you got - if it took 5 clues, 20-5=15 points; If it took
18 clues 20-18=2 points; and so on. I think the categories were
person, place, thing rather than animal, vegetable, mineral.
--Deb
<nellebelle@c...> wrote:
>it asks animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
> We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning
>first 3.
> I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the
>Plastics - once animal and vegetable which died and were compressed
> What would be "other"?
>
> Mary Ellen
>
over millenia to mineral (does petroleum count as a mineral for the
purposes of 20 questions?) and now something other - often an
amalgam of things as in a plastic chair seat with metal legs. We
generally stretch the answers a bit not just yes and no but
perhaps "it used to be" as in a cotton tablecloth 'used to be' plant
or 'is made from' plant. Typically, right after "is it alive?"
and "was it ever alive?" we move on to "is it made by people?"
and "is it made of....(wood, metal, plastic, fabric, etc)?" Some of
the hardest ones have been the really simple everyday things.
I think there is (or was) a 20 questions type board game. One team
would read clues, one at a time. The quicker you got the answer the
more points you got - if it took 5 clues, 20-5=15 points; If it took
18 clues 20-18=2 points; and so on. I think the categories were
person, place, thing rather than animal, vegetable, mineral.
--Deb
kinseysdad
A thought. An idea. A daydream or nightmare. Angels. God.
Let us know if it gets any of these right.
Sam
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<nellebelle@c...> wrote:
Let us know if it gets any of these right.
Sam
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<nellebelle@c...> wrote:
>it asks animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
> We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning
>first 3.
> I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the
>
> What would be "other"?
>
> Mary Ellen
>
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nellebelle
>>>>>>>>While it's kind of fun with a computer, it's a different game>>>>>>>>>>The handheld game can be answered yes, no, or unknown.
The player needs to be consistent in their thinking about the object for it to work. For instance, I had "rock" and was thinking specifically of a rock that could be held in my hand. It asked, "Can you walk on it". I said no, because although rock can be used for paths, etc., and you could step on the rock I was thinking of, my specific object was not something that would be commonly walked on.
Maybe I'll try it again with the same object and say that it can be walked on. See what happens.
Mary Ellen
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Pamela Sorooshian
On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:22 AM, kbcdlovejo@... wrote:
-pam
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>Love. War. Beauty.
> We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning
> it asks
> animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
>
> I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
>
> What would be "other"?
-pam
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Mary
My kids have come up with plenty in that category. They love that game. They
actually think it's kind of spooky how it guesses everything. Sometimes it
misses but I think that depends on how my kids answer the questions. They
punched in a mermaid once and that would be other. It guessed it. Or a
parade or the wind. Things like that.
Mary B
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We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
Mary Ellen
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actually think it's kind of spooky how it guesses everything. Sometimes it
misses but I think that depends on how my kids answer the questions. They
punched in a mermaid once and that would be other. It guessed it. Or a
parade or the wind. Things like that.
Mary B
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Subject: [UnschoolingDiscussion] 20 questions
We just bought an electronic 20 questions game. At the beginning it asks
animal, vegetable, mineral, or other.
I thought everything on the planet was supposed to fit in the first 3.
What would be "other"?
Mary Ellen
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nellebelle
There is one called 20 questions for kids. We've played it a local restaurant that has a bunch of games. We don't bother with the board - just take turns asking each other the questions.
Yesterday at Target I picked up several decks of trivia question cards, in the dollar section at the front of the store. There are separate decks for movies, sports, etc. They were only a dollar a set. They look like they could be a cheap thrill for car rides.
Mary Ellen
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Yesterday at Target I picked up several decks of trivia question cards, in the dollar section at the front of the store. There are separate decks for movies, sports, etc. They were only a dollar a set. They look like they could be a cheap thrill for car rides.
Mary Ellen
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In a message dated 12/1/05 9:30:08 AM, pamsoroosh@... writes:
In college I hung out with a small group of friends and after we mastered
Chinese Checkers (meaning the more mathematical had it down to where the game was
always an exact draw) we moved to 20 questions, but we didn't limit to 20.
One game went a day and a half, every mealtime, and we were getting grumpy,
but then it happened that we were at Frontier Restaurant which has big windows
and I asked "Can we see it from here?" and the answer was YES. That was the
breakthrough we had needed.
It was "a mountain."
Up to that point we had gathered that people could get inside it (mines and
caves), it had moving parts (water, trees in the wind), but it wasn't moveable,
it was and was not alive...
Another really hard one was "a dream."
So after those two we started asking whether it was tangible, if we thought
it might be getting toward the kinds of things Pam named above.
Sandra
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> > What would be "other"?Oh yeah, the intangibles.
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> -=-Love. War. Beauty.
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>
In college I hung out with a small group of friends and after we mastered
Chinese Checkers (meaning the more mathematical had it down to where the game was
always an exact draw) we moved to 20 questions, but we didn't limit to 20.
One game went a day and a half, every mealtime, and we were getting grumpy,
but then it happened that we were at Frontier Restaurant which has big windows
and I asked "Can we see it from here?" and the answer was YES. That was the
breakthrough we had needed.
It was "a mountain."
Up to that point we had gathered that people could get inside it (mines and
caves), it had moving parts (water, trees in the wind), but it wasn't moveable,
it was and was not alive...
Another really hard one was "a dream."
So after those two we started asking whether it was tangible, if we thought
it might be getting toward the kinds of things Pam named above.
Sandra
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In a message dated 12/1/05 9:55:23 AM, mummy124@... writes:
paper in half and then half again, etc. and also related to guessing a
number between 1 and 1000.
If the person giving the answers on the 1 to 1000 always divides in half, you
can't miss. It's possible to ask bad questions and never get it, but if the
questioner attempts to divide the universe in half each time, you get to the
answer.
Sandra
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> My kids have come up with plenty in that category. They love that game.Twenty questions is related to how many times you can fold a single piece of
> They
> actually think it's kind of spooky how it guesses everything.
>
paper in half and then half again, etc. and also related to guessing a
number between 1 and 1000.
If the person giving the answers on the 1 to 1000 always divides in half, you
can't miss. It's possible to ask bad questions and never get it, but if the
questioner attempts to divide the universe in half each time, you get to the
answer.
Sandra
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Ren Allen
"> What would be "other"?
Love. War. Beauty."
Nothing. The Universe. Vampire.
My kids love trying to stump it. It can't guess "Hobo", their latest
favorite word.:)
Ren
Love. War. Beauty."
Nothing. The Universe. Vampire.
My kids love trying to stump it. It can't guess "Hobo", their latest
favorite word.:)
Ren
Rebecca DeLong
Jaiden loves 20 questions, This sounds like something he'd really like. Is this a game for the computer?
Thanx
~Rebecca
Ren Allen <starsuncloud@...> wrote:
"> What would be "other"?
Love. War. Beauty."
Nothing. The Universe. Vampire.
My kids love trying to stump it. It can't guess "Hobo", their latest
favorite word.:)
Ren
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin
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Thanx
~Rebecca
Ren Allen <starsuncloud@...> wrote:
"> What would be "other"?
Love. War. Beauty."
Nothing. The Universe. Vampire.
My kids love trying to stump it. It can't guess "Hobo", their latest
favorite word.:)
Ren
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help."
-Calvin
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nellebelle
The one we just bought is an electronic game. It comes in two sizes. We bought it to bring as one of the gifts for a white elephant party. 20 Questions Handheld Game
There is also a website that plays 20 questions. http://20q.net/
Mary Ellen
Jaiden loves 20 questions, This sounds like something he'd really like. Is this a game for the computer?
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There is also a website that plays 20 questions. http://20q.net/
Mary Ellen
Jaiden loves 20 questions, This sounds like something he'd really like. Is this a game for the computer?
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In a message dated 12/1/05 4:06:23 PM, elfmama_2@... writes:
characters too. Probably lots of other things.
20Q.net
It's a good game to play in the car. We used to take turns asking the next
question, all but the one who was answering (and nobody had to play).
Sandra
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> Jaiden loves 20 questions, This sounds like something he'd really like. IsThere are games online, and some about TV characters and I think movie
> this a game for the computer?
>
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characters too. Probably lots of other things.
20Q.net
It's a good game to play in the car. We used to take turns asking the next
question, all but the one who was answering (and nobody had to play).
Sandra
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ameliegoldstein
We love this game! Mostly we've played it on the computer, but as
Sandra said, it's a whole different game in real life, and more fun.
For example, there's a pretty obvious difference between my daughter
looking really confused upon my asking a questions and saying
something hesistantly versus shouting YES! in a fit of giggles.
Those body language signs give you extra clues.
After dd and I realized how *good* the computer was at guessing
answers (and boy, is it good), we took to trying to come up with
words that would stump the game. It's also just interesting to see
how our children answer the questions. At one point she said "I'm
going to try 'my mind'!" Some of her answers were fairly non-
standard. :)
Is it colorful? Yes. Can you find it in a church? Rarely (lol). Is
it annoying? Sometimes. Does it come from something larger? Yes
(cool, I wonder what). Does it grow over time? Depends. Is it
fluffy? Rarely. Is it very large? Yes. Is it worth a lot of money?
Maybe (LOL!).
The game came up with "You are thinking of a Casino!"
Anyway, I didn't know 20 Questions came as a hand-held game -
that's so cool! We might have to add it to our Christmas list...
Sandra said, it's a whole different game in real life, and more fun.
For example, there's a pretty obvious difference between my daughter
looking really confused upon my asking a questions and saying
something hesistantly versus shouting YES! in a fit of giggles.
Those body language signs give you extra clues.
After dd and I realized how *good* the computer was at guessing
answers (and boy, is it good), we took to trying to come up with
words that would stump the game. It's also just interesting to see
how our children answer the questions. At one point she said "I'm
going to try 'my mind'!" Some of her answers were fairly non-
standard. :)
Is it colorful? Yes. Can you find it in a church? Rarely (lol). Is
it annoying? Sometimes. Does it come from something larger? Yes
(cool, I wonder what). Does it grow over time? Depends. Is it
fluffy? Rarely. Is it very large? Yes. Is it worth a lot of money?
Maybe (LOL!).
The game came up with "You are thinking of a Casino!"
Anyway, I didn't know 20 Questions came as a hand-held game -
that's so cool! We might have to add it to our Christmas list...