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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Part of the confusion arises, I think, because this thread a number of different games from the Only Connect series on.
There are the sequences, picture or word.
Missing vowels
Connection, picture or word - similar to the groups on the wall at the end.
Picture rounds that work as a kind of visual chardae or pun - so a hook, a house and an old bloke might be linked by 'gaff' or the pictures can be spoken in a certain way to make a phrase.
The programme includes a mix of games - some where the link is due to general knowledge, but many are to do with the visual, aural or mathematical properties of the items. It may help partcipants if the label their challenge as a knowledge question or a puzzle question ?
Or perhaps we should specify a thread for each type of game ?
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Boogie
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I think maybe a thread for each type of game would be too much, considering the numbers who play.
I think labelling the post would help too much! The thing with the TV game is that there are lots of possible connections on the final board - we can't do that here, so working out the type of connection we are looking for is part of it, imo.
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LeRoc
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(I have an idea about Boogie's question but I don't want to set the next question ![[Smile]](smile.gif) )
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Here it is again, what is the connection -
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
Stork
Jean Sibelius
25th anniversary of German reunification
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Ariel
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Well, each to their own. I can only say that faced with picture 1 my first thoughts were: spillage, computer failure, water and picture 2 was: exercise, fitness, indoor gym, and I could see no easy way of linking these, let alone with the other pictures. It never occurred to me that the answer was that they didn’t actually connect to each other but to their equivalents in another set. Anyhow, let’s move on and see if anyone can crack Boogie’s latest.
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LeRoc
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quote:
Ariel: It never occurred to me that the answer was that they didn’t actually connect to each other but to their equivalents in another set.
Life isn't always what you expect
Coming back to Boogie's question, on the risk of answering it, in 2015 we have the 150 year anniversary of Sibelius. It is also 30 years since the aqueduct is on UNICEF's World Heritage list. And the reunification thing is obviously an anniversary. I don't know about Stork, it can mean many things.
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LeRoc
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Ah, I know the answer.
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Ariel
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Stork margarine's been around for 95 years - arrived in Britain in 1920.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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There's no obvious date for all of these, but they all celebrate anniversaries in 2015, but they aren't logical centenaries or all round numbers.
(I wondered if they all occurred on the same date but the Reunification of Germany is 9 October and Sibelius was born in December)
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Boogie
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The dates are not all 2015 - one is 2016
(The Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 2016, the rest are 2015)
[ 20. October 2015, 07:40: Message edited by: Boogie ]
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LeRoc
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All these things are the subject of commemorative coins.
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jacobsen
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It's been a week! may I have a go, please?
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The man who made time, made plenty.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I've just got it! These are not just "commemorative coins", but more specifically 2 Euro commemorative coins issued by different countries during 2015. (The Stork is Latvia, by the way, not Holland).
Strangely enough a similar question was asked on Monday night's TV programme.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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(I'd just looked the stork up as a commemorative coin and registered that, but I think we need Boogie to confirm that's what she had in mind.)
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Boogie
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Yes - they are all pictures on commemorative Euros for 2015 and 2016.
Sorry I ran away to spend some before letting you know!!
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LeRoc
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I'm not sure if it's mine or Baptist Trainfan's. If it's mine, I'd like to give it to jacobsen.
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jacobsen
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So Kind.
What is the connection between
1. Old salt
2. Double Bass
3. Composition?
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LeRoc
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I'm going to go out on a limb here. Heavy metal.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Antonio Salieri who composed music using thoroughbass or figured bass notation?
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LeRoc
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My reasoning was: Old Salt is usually a name for an elderly sailor who talks a lot, so could be an Ancient Mariner. Apart from the Ship connection, Ancient Mariner is also an Iron Maiden song (based on the poem of course).
In heavy metal, they often use a double bass drum in the drum set.
And 'composition' could refer both to the act of composing heavy metal songs, as to the heavy metal composition of river water, for example.
Hey, I gotta start somewhere ...
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Baptist Trainfan
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@Jacobsen (and everyone):
"What is the connection between ..." questions need FOUR items.
"What is the last in the sequence ..." questions need THREE items.
So we need a fourth clue in this one.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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A few times we have offered three clues and said a fourth would arrive if people needed it. Because on the show, teams do occasionally get it from the first one or two in the sequence.
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Baptist Trainfan
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What about "Coleridge"?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Coleridge Goode the double bass player died last week.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor composed choral works such as "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" etc.
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LeRoc
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I was just thinking the same thing when I took a shower 5 minutes ago
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LeRoc
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I'm not impatient but ... I want to know!!
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jacobsen
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Sorry chaps, I was away. Baptist Trainfan gets it from three clues. Just as well, as I couldn't think of a fourth.
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The man who made time, made plenty.
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LeRoc
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So, should I brush up on my train knowledge?
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Baptist Trainfan
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That's for me to know and you to find out.
Philosopher
Mercury
Clock
Hen.
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LeRoc
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Haydn symphonies
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Baptist Trainfan
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Wow, LeRoc - way too easy for you, clearly!
Well done.
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Sipech
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With the Limericks thread closed, here's a friendly nudge to LeRoc.
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Albertus
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This game might have come to a natural end, but in case anyone would like to keep it going, may I try out this one I came up with the other day?
What connects:
A dropped pilot;
A shipwrecked correspondent;
A travelled aunt; and
An inventive dowager?
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Baptist Trainfan
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I presume that the first three are Bismarck, possibly Robinson, and Augusta. I suspect some sort of US city link, possibly sporting, but can't make it out.
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jacobsen
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Maggie Smith played the aunt in the film of Travels with my aunt, and the Dowager in Downton
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The man who made time, made plenty.
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Albertus
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She did, though it's not about her or Downton
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Albertus
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You've got the right aunt- Augusta, from Graham Greene's 'Travels with my Aunt'- and the right pilot- Bismarck, from the title of Tenniel's famous Punch cartoon after he was sacked by the young Kaiser Wilhelm II. So you need the other two. BT is going the right way with US cities, though not with what they have in common.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Might the inventive dowager by Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who worked out how to make Chatsworth profitable?
Problem is that "Mitford" USA is a fictional place rather than a real one; also it's supposedly in one of the Carolinas while Bismarck is in the Dakotas and Augusta is in Georgia.
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Salicional
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Is it state capitals? If so, the shipwreck could be referring to Columbus.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I wondered about that. But I don't think Columbus was a "correspondent".
I thought about Lemuel Gulliver, but he doesn't fit either. What about someone called Stephen Crane?
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Albertus
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Yes, since it's been mentioned, it is state capitals . Bismarck North Dakota and Augusta Maine.
I suspect someone will now get the shipwrecked correspondent by going through the list. Any shipmates of a certain age and tradition might be able to find the dowager!
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Salicional
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Ah...Saint Paul. Clever, Albertus!
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Albertus
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![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
One to go!
(BT- don't worry- I won't tell your congregation or your Regional Minister you couldn't spot that one! ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
[ 04. December 2015, 15:18: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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Albertus
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Don't think the inventive dowager's really a Baptist thing, though.
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