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20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Teasswill Posted Mar 28, 2003
2. The vegetable part is.
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
typolifi Posted Mar 28, 2003
3) Do you eat it on special occasions rather than on regular basis?
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Belle {Stunning red-head, more insane than brilliant, really... Keeper of the Top Ten lists...CDN} Posted Mar 28, 2003
4. Can the mineral, veggitable and animal parts be taken apart?
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Belle {Stunning red-head, more insane than brilliant, really... Keeper of the Top Ten lists...CDN} Posted Mar 28, 2003
(*aside* This is just one object still?)
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 28, 2003
(5) Does it always come in one piece, as opposed to you having to assemble the constituent parts yourself?
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Teasswill Posted Mar 28, 2003
(Remember animal connections means associated with/used by animal not literally joined.)
5. No
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 28, 2003
(No. "Animal" means it is, or is derived from part of, an animal. "Meat" would be "Animal", as would "Leather", "Ivory", "Bacteria", "Wool" or any object made from such things. "Associated with" and "Used by" an animal is irrelevant. The same principle goes for "Vegetable" and "Mineral". On this basis do you want to revise any of your answers before we go any further?)
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Teasswill Posted Mar 28, 2003
I'm playing according to the original radio programme 20 questions format. If you wish to take it otherwise, delete 'animal connections' from the object, but answers stay the same.
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 28, 2003
I didn't pick up on the subtleties of "Animal connections" being different from "Animal"... 
(6) Is the mineral part a container?
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Lady in a tree Posted Mar 28, 2003
(7) Is it a tube of Pringles 
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
typolifi Posted Mar 28, 2003
I think I have an idea...
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Teasswill Posted Mar 29, 2003
Peet, you were quite right that 'animal' could be derived from animal, not actual animal - I should have said associated with rather than connections - a matter of semantics!
6. Yes
7. No
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
26199 Posted Mar 29, 2003
With apologies for the brief interruption 
...
You can now play 20 questions against a computer!... (well, a huge and moderately smart database, really)... it's actually quite good, I just played and it guessed "electric shaver" correctly after 19 questions...
http://q.20q.net/q.cgi
Go for the 'anonymous login' link 
Normal service now resuming... 
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 29, 2003
(8) Would the vegetable part commonly be fed to a pet?
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 29, 2003
(That link is pretty darn 
! It guessed "A Lightbulb" in 18, even though it disagreed with two of my answers! 
)
20 questions game - animal, vegetable or mineral.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 29, 2003
(9) Is the vegetable part a liquid at body temperature?
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