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[Occam's Razor]

We and some other people at an art forum play this with paintings and it's great fun, but I wanted to see if it translated to books well and see if we can play it here. At the art forum, we call the game "mystery masterpiece" and thus title the threads "mm1, mm2, etc..." We are already to mm902! Here, I thought we could play "mystery quote", where one person posts a quote or a passage from a novel and we all have to guess:

1. The Author
2. The Book
3. Chapter #

The quote can never be any more than 5 sentences long. Now, if your confused i'll give you an example


__________

Langdon read the message again and looked up at Fache. "What the hell does this mean!"

Answer:
Dan Brown
"The DaVinci Code"
Chapter 6

Now, I used a popular one and a fairly short and easy one just so you can understand. Once a person gets the right answer, the person who started the thread will reply to his/her post and write "Tag" which means the next person is allowed to make the next thread. If someone tagged my dan brown quote, I would then go to make a new thread simply called "mq2" with whole new quote. If no one is replying or no one can guess, you can give more quotes from the same book, but if people want to get tagged they have to give the chapter # of the original quote, not any of the hints. That, however, was just an example, let me start a real one see if anyone can guess it. I hope it will catch on (if not it's worth trying right?)

The blind man raised his hands to his eyes and gestured, Nothing, it's as if I were caught in a mist or had fallen into a milky sea.

So, shall we begin?

 

[hay82]

José Saramengo - Blindness, chapter 1.

Not completely sure I get the next part of the rules though.

 

[ions]

José Saramengo - Blindness, chapter 1.

Not completely sure I get the next part of the rules though.

Well if I understand correctly you would have posted the 5 lines from that section and left out the details of who wrote it where and we would have to guess.

 

[cajunmama]

I think now it is hay's turn to choose a quote from any book and everyone else has to figure out the author, book title, and chapter, and whoever guesses that correctly, gets to do the next quote. Am I right?

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Sounds fun!

I would then go to make a new thread simply called "mq2" with whole new quote.

I think it would be better if we just post a new one on the same thread - it would make the board to cluttered otherwise

~MonkeyCatcher~

 

[Occam's Razor]

Sounds fun!


I think it would be better if we just post a new one on the same thread - it would make the board to cluttered otherwise

~MonkeyCatcher~

You could do that if you wanted. According to the original rules hay82 would now start a new thread called mq2 and would post a new quote no longer than 5 sentences. I included hints in my quotes because I don't know how hard it would be for some of you to guess. If you want to just post in the same thread over and over that's ok i guess. Just make sure we know which # the mq is. Tag to you hay82!

And yes your right cajunmama

 

[sirmyk]

Yes, please keep it to one thread. I would hate to have 902 separate threads that become worthless after someone guesses the riddle. Just put the mq23 part in the title of the posts.

 

[hay82]

Mq2

"I don't want anything like that happening while I'm in charge. You see," he confided earnestly," what I hope to do is give the men in this squadron the best meals in the whole world."

There you go.

 

[lies]

I'm guessing Catch-22 by Heller, but I'll be damned if I know what chapter (damned if I care too).

 

[sirmyk]

Why do we have to know the chapter number? Isn't that a bit pointless? How many people have chapter numbers memorized?

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Why do we have to know the chapter number? Isn't that a bit pointless? How many people have chapter numbers memorized?

I agree.. it's hard to do when you don't have the book. I think we should just have book and author.

~MonkeyCatcher~

 

[Kookamoor]

I agree.. it's hard to do when you don't have the book. I think we should just have book and author.

Yup, I agree! If you want, you could put down the context of the passage too in your guess. Try and make them a little harder if you can. Leave out the characters name if it's identifying (eg: "Come her, Malfoy" would be a bit of a giveaway to most). We don't want people to be able to Google the answer up. Plus, I think the idea of needing hints would be kinda neat. Perhaps Yes/No questions can also be posed to the mq originator. If this takes off it could be made a Sticky.

Neat idea

 

[hay82]

I'm guessing Catch-22 by Heller, but I'll be damned if I know what chapter (damned if I care too).

Don't really know the chapter either, so tag you are it Lies.