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But do the categories (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) just make no sense against the possibile answers?

The instructions for the game are at the top. A player picks a word from a card and the other player has to guess the word they've picked, starting by asking if it's an animal, vegetable or mineral.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Several of these irritate me but ultimately evoke a solid

But fuck me playing with the person who came up with these would test my patience.

Pizza, V? I suppose cheese and meats are optional. One can. Some do. If we get into "It has minerals in it!" then we'll have to argue about what atoms are, so fine, pass.

Guitar (!) Strings, A? I know about catgut, for violens in my mind, but let us wiki it. Huh neat, catgut is intestenal fiber from usually goat or sheep, sometimes cat-tle, but never actually cat. And, while still preferred for concert harps and classical instruments, guitars all mostly switched to steel in the 1900s (and nylon or mixed later). So when was this game printed, how old are you imagined-ghost-of-the-author?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The items all have (A), (V), (M) so I am assuming that's how they fit in the categories?

And the way they "fit" in those categories seems to be on what they are made of/where they come from, for example a Piggy Bank has (M) because it is made of clay, an Egg has (A) because it is an animal product and so it goes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

You'd be guessing for a while before you got that the vegetable was a marshmallow.

Police are pigs, so that works OK.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I got to "Money (notes)" as vegetable and thought to myself "of course, because coins would be mineral," then saw the Piggybank as mineral and confirmed my logic.

I still don't understand "dinner service" as mineral? Is it the cutlery?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

A dinner service comprises plates, dishes, etc. What do you imagine that crockery is made from? 🙂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, some of those are a stretch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine finding out moments before your first parachute jump that your parachute is actually made from cabbage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Wouldn't silk be Animal though? Are worm by-products vegetables? Were plant fiber parachutes a thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

“Early parachutes were made of silk. The most common fabric today is nylon.”