Connect 3. What do they have in common game.

[notoppings]

A simple game to get the brain going. The game is easy list three items, anything goes, people, place, thing, real or myth, dates, cities, anything at all. The only thing is all three must have an obvious bond/connection that defines all three. The next person guesses the connection then submits 3 more.

Sample: Leonard P. Fibonacci. - Joseph L. La Grange. - Karl F. Gauss.

Answer: Mathematicians.

So I'll start it out with a simple one.

Igneous. - Sedimentary. - Metamorphic.

[idem]

Types of rocks.

Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed - The Jealous Husband - The Seductive Countess

[INTJoe]

What are plays?

Brooklyn Tip-Tops
Chicago Pirates
Philadelphia Keystones

[idem]

All one act comedies by Moliere. The book was lying on my desk.

Baseball teams no longer in existence?

Mustardseed
Peaseblossom
Cobweb

[Sean O]

^^Poor choices for hot dog toppings.

Sex on the Beach
Purple Haze
Cape Cod

[INTJoe]

^ drinks

Achilles Last Stand
Good Times Bad Times
Bonzo's Montreaux

[notoppings]

Led Zeppelin Songs.

Paris. - London. - Washington D.C.

[idem]

Capitals.

Aspen
Pine
Oak

[Jenniflower]

^Types of tree

The buried life
Dover Beach
Isolation. To Marguerite

[schwartzie]

Matthew Arnold poetry.

Uror Verðandi Skuld

[bladeserver]

^^ Norse mythology

Butterfly spread
canary call
iron condor

[schwartzie]

options lingo (!! who knew?)

rommegrot lemse and lefse

[bladeserver]

^^ Yummy Norwegian foodstuffs.

grace O'malley
William Kidd
Johnny Depp

[EdmontonAspie]

Pirates.

Definition
Headline Hunters
Card Sharks





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Mustardseed
Peaseblossom
Cobweb

Fairy characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream

[idem]

Game shows.

SSS
ASA
SAS

[schwartzie]

congruent triangles.


geneva fuji holly

[bladeserver]

^^ apples

leg break
Silly mid on
Bail

[Fridays Child]

Cricket.


bullseyes
hundreds and thousands
rock

[Kisai]

Types of candy.

Urth
Verthandi
Skuld

[Nikita]

Norse mythology/Norns, sisters of fate


Black
Garland of human heads
Ego Death

[Kisai]

Attributes of Kali

((apologies to schwartzie for repeating hir))

Tiberius
Gaius
Claudius

[Nikita]

Roman Emperors


Molar
Conservation of Mass
Equilibrium

[ClydeB]

Chemistry

Alessandro Volta
André-Marie Ampère
James Joule

[Nikita]

Chemistry

Not what I was going for, but I guess that could work, too.

Physicists who made famous discoveries (related to electric cell, electric current, heat energy)


Oddment
Nitwit
Tweak

[Kisai]

(not only that, but those three had metric units named after them: volts, amperes, joules)

With "Blubber": four words of Dumbledore's speech in _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_.

Calliope
Thalia
Erato

[schwartzie]

Calliope - muse of epic poems
Thalia -muse of comedy.
Erato - muse of love poems

and all heavenly bodies--

==============================
violet, blue, green

[Nikita]

hmm...colors, eye colors, colors of the rainbow - is there something tricky in here?


Agassiz
Bodleian
Ettinghausen

[bladeserver]

^^^ Ivyish libraries

irons
hammers
blowing bubbles

[Fridays Child]

West Ham.



Albert
Chelsea
Putney

[Nikita]

Areas of London?


Parents
Politicians
A large percentage of Christians

[Reganon]

They hold the majority of the power in the world?
Or is it that they think they're always right?

Henry
Ralph
Margaret

[Nikita]

They hold the majority of the power in the world?
Or is it that they think they're always right?

nope

[Reganon]

Lemme take another guess:

They lie about sex scandals?

[Nikita]

Lemme take another guess:

They lie about sex scandals?

LOL i like it, it was Hypocrisy

[Kisai]

Henry
Ralph
Margaret

Transcendentalists:

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller

This one is *hard*:

Triangulum
Sunflower
Sculptor

[Aaron Burr]

^I know two out of the three are constellation, so what is constellations for 100.

Picard
Reynolds
Morgan

[rahdam]

Captains.

Kevin Cadogan
Adam Jones
Billy Howerdel

[rahdam]

Lead Guitarists

Juvenile
Lil Wayne
Birdman

[Nikita]

Rappers/hip hop artists...


Imperfection
Sacrifice
Thorns

[rahdam]

(close, but not close enough)

crucifixion

Peanut Butter
Peanut
Regular

[Kisai]

Flavors of M&M's (or some other candy)

Retinoids
Thiamine
Riboflavin

(hint: they go in order under a simplified name)

[rewhu]

^ Vitamins (A, B and B1) ^

The Sandman
The Crow
The Spirit


-------------

rahdam:
Juvenile
Lil Wayne
Birdman

Were you looking for Dirty South-style rappers?

[schwartzie]

dark graphic novels that were written into movie scripts?

---------
Chicago
Palm Springs
Portishead

[PHS Philip]

Cities? Seems too obvious.

George
John
Thomas

[rewhu]

^ First names of the first three US presidents. ^

schwartzie:
Bands named after cities?

---------------

Jon
Wayne
Romeo

[Harmony]

Hmm... If I put a Lil in front of all those I get rappers... So rappers who go by Lil <name>?

Piccolo
Saxophone
Clarinet

[Tragic Hero]

Woodwind instruments.

Andrew Jackson.
James Polk.
Al Gore Jr.

[Nihilum]

Presidents.

Gravity, electromagnetic, weak nuclear

[Tragic Hero]

Presidents.

Al Gore Jr was not a President.

[rahdam]

Presidents.

Gravity, electromagnetic, weak nuclear

Fundamental forces.

Cash Flow
The Boss
Got Money

[schwartzie]

Bands named after cities?yes. You are good.


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Andrew Jackson.
James Polk.
Al Gore Jr.Tennessee lawyers go to Washington?


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Cash Flow
The Boss
Got MoneyT-Pain?

next:

Ave Maria
In Paradisum
Abide With Me

[Nikita]

Christian funeral songs?


Kolkata
Balzan Prize
10/19/2003

[schwartzie]

Christian funeral songs?
no.


Kolkata
Balzan Prize
10/19/2003[/QUOTE]

mother theresa

[Wapiti]

Ave Maria
In Paradisum
Abide With Me

Oooh, I know - songs from 28 Days Later soundtrack.


Sometimes
The Train
Faith Hope Love

[schwartzie]

king X



Next:


s. richter
of beers
stephen

[Wapiti]

Pianists?

Fixed
Ceramic
Serrated

[schwartzie]

Pianists?
no


Fixed
Ceramic
Serrated

(did you forget "servers") is it blades?

[Wapiti]

Yes, blades.

Back to:
s. richter
of beers
stephen

[altoid]

Kings?


Mandarin
Blood
Seville

[schwartzie]

Kings?


Mandarin
Blood
Seville

yes. nice!

yours are oranges


next:

durham
highland
afrikaner

[altoid]

Cattle

Today
Zero
Tarantula

[schwartzie]

smashing pumpkins' singles?


next:

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld
(they're not just politicians anymore)

[altoid]

Former CEOs? (Or, depending on your political leanings, you may be going the 'war criminal' route?)


==========
Egyptian
Prussian
Persian

(hint: not cats)

[Kisai]

Types of blue


Gaspar, Balthasar, and Melchior

[notoppings]

The three wise men.

Next: Borosilicate - Acrylic - Soda Lime.

[rara avis]

erm... materials in glass? Transparent surfaces?


ham, shem, japheth

[Kisai]

Noah's sons.

Moloka'i
Kaua'i
Ni'ihau

[altoid]

Hawaiian islands

Patau
Edward's
Warkany

[aok]

Chromosomal abnormalities.


ENTJ
ISFJ
ESFP

[schwartzie]

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld (they're not just politicians anymore)

NO. NOT CEOs. something quite different from that.





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OK--the break this logjam:
ENTJ
ISFJ
ESFP

is it...ANNOYING types?

=======================
and with regards to these three:
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld

don't look if you don't want a big hint.

coleopterists know this

[Tragic Hero]

I had to look up the meaning of the spoiler word and from that i'm guessing all have a beetle named after them?

[schwartzie]

I had to look up the meaning of the spoiler word and from that i'm guessing all have a beetle named after them?

right!! lovely slime mold beetles (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), of course.

Tragic, you wanna pull three sumpfins out of yr hat for us?

[Tragic Hero]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Brothers Karamazov
Finnegan's Wake

[schwartzie]

To Kill a Mockingbird -Nelle Harper Lee
Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Mikhaylovich Doestoevsky
Finnegan's Wake - James Augustine Aloysius Joyce

western canon? written by an intp who lived in some remote god-forsaken corner of the earth? a death as the central thematic element? all of the above?



next:
organic, Easter, brown

[zibber]

eggs

Asmodai
Belial
Iblis

[schwartzie]

names for my dred cat. aka mr schwartz the insane demonic, slayer o mice


water
common
cape rain

[Kisai]

Asmodai
Belial
Iblis

Goetic demons (we had to learn it in villain school)

This one is hard unless you show it to a math geek:

6
28
496

[Tragic Hero]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Brothers Karamazov
Finnegan's Wake


western canon? written by an intp who lived in some remote god-forsaken corner of the earth? a death as the central thematic element? all of the above?


No, you are overlooking something which is most simple.

[schwartzie]

To Kill A Mockingbird
Brothers Karamazov
Finnegan's Wake




No, you are overlooking something which is most simple.

um... books. paperweights. things made of paper and ink. 20th century. stories with guys in them? grrr.

[Tragic Hero]

Karamazov is 19th Century and a little less simple than that.

[schwartzie]

they are each profound commentary on the human condition?

[Kisai]

6
28
496

No? Okay, it was too hard.

Perfect numbers: integers that are equal to the sum of their divisors.

6 = 1 + 2 + 3
28 = 1 + 2+ 4 + 7 + 14

[schwartzie]

To Kill a Mockingbird
Brothers Karamazov
Finnegan's Wake

the authors' last novels
(whew! *wipes sweat from her brow* That took forever!!)



next:

dragster
notebook
chrome

[schwartzie]

next:

dragster
notebook
chrome

hmmm... *thinks, "these maybe are too obscure."

so: a hint. I am using chrome as I speak type.

[Tragic Hero]

Font variations? Customized backgrounds?

[schwartzie]

Font variations? Customized backgrounds?

no.... lo siento.

hint 2
they are from different entities/companies

[Tragic Hero]

Computers/Computer programs?

[putupon]

I figure they're apps, chrome's a browser, dragster could be an ftp client, notebook a notebook app.

But I can't see what ties 'em all together...

[schwartzie]

you guys are there. All I had in mind was that they were programs/applications.
putupon, I think tragic got there first, but since you are presently online, do you want to do the next one?

[putupon]

Sure!

Bill Gates
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain

[schwartzie]

famous, brilliant (rich?) aspies
EDIT: putupon did a lovely job here. He pm'd that they are also all lefties. I they are all also xNTJs, purportedly.

next:
John Dewey
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE
Felix Frankfurter

[Rudy]

famous, brilliant (rich?) aspies


next:
John Dewey
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, KBE
Felix Frankfurter

Accused of supporting communism in the United States.

Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

And it's not just the most obvious connection. John Adams is not included in this group, for example.

[schwartzie]

early American inventors?



next:

Singapore
Sao Tome
St. Pierre

[Tragic Hero]

Tom Paine was not an inventor. At lest, I think he wasn't.

Island Nations/Nations beginning with 'S'.


Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

[schwartzie]

Tom Paine was not an inventor. At lest, I think ....

Thomas Paine was an inventor who received a European patent for a single-span iron bridge. He developed a smoke-less candle, and with inventor John Fitch, helped develop steam engines. Mechanical aptitude and intellectual originality made Thomas Edison's hero

Island Nations/Nations beginning with 'S'. yes. I was looking for one more important, slightly more rare attribute....

[putupon]

yes. I was looking for one more important, slightly more rare attribute....

former European colonies?

[Rudy]

early American inventors?

It was "founding fathers" who were Deists, as opposed to Christians, actually.

[schwartzie]

Singapore
Sao Tome
St. Pierre

um... last hint for this one:

Singapore is to Singapore as San Tome is to ( fill in the blank ), and St. Pierre is to ( fill in the blank ).





Rudyh... that one was lovely.

[Rudy]

Name of the capital is same as the name of the country? Except I think Sao Tome is actually "São Tomé and Príncipe"

This one will be very easy with an internet search. I'll be very impressed if anyone knows it without one.

Byzantium
New Rome
Augusta Antonina

[putupon]

Constantinople/Istanbul

Squash
Tomato
Cucumber

[Mathnerdkid]

Unrecognized fruits.

Q
A
Z

Specifically those letters.

[schwartzie]

left end of the qwerty keyboard?



ok. next. not the same:

WSX

[Rudy]

Oh! The Washington Stock Exchange game.

Here's an easy one to get the ball rolling again:

agape
eros
philia

[intellael]

love

Next:

dilation
time
speed

[Rudy]

Are you looking for something more specific than special relativity?

Courier
Perpetua
Verdana

[intellael]

Are you looking for something more specific than special relativity?

Courier
Perpetua
Verdana

LOL Not much more specific

Fonts

Next:

mofongo
maduros
tostones

[Rudy]

Hispanic cuisine? I only really know the last one is, but the other two sound like it.

Karaman
byzantium Sorry! More accurately, that should be the Byzantine Empire.
Cyprus

These are countries/nations, but they share a certain historical property (as opposed to geographic property.)

[intellael]

Hispanic cuisine? I only really know the last one is, but the other two sound like it.

karaman
byzantium
cyprus

These are countries/nations, but they share a certain historical property (as opposed to geographic property.)


Acceptable... More specifically Spanish cuisine made with plantains.

Cities... not sure what they have in common except maybe location. Over there is as conclusive as I can get. Social studies bad.. Science good...

sternum
pelvis
clavicle

They are the same city

[schwartzie]

bones in the chest/abdomen.



bedford serapis Gadsden

[intellael]

bones in the chest/abdomen.



bedford serapis Gadsden

7 letters

cup
cans
flask

[Rudy]

The Byzantine Empire, Karaman and Cyprus were all conquered by, and incorporated into, the Ottoman Empire


bedford serapis Gadsden

U.S. Flags

cup
cans
flask

Containers for liquids (We need a little more challenge than this, I think ;) )


New:

Budai
Suiren
Tian
Sorry, I think that was a little too obscure (but Kudos to anyone who gets it anyway.

Try:
hitch
latching
splice

[schwartzie]

gods
knots

next:

soup salad finger

[Rudy]

Foods coming before the main course.

Climber
Bulb
Annual

[schwartzie]

Foods coming before the main course.


la! it is so interesting how we find OTHER patterns. This is so good, I will accept it. It works. ( I had in mind "types of bowls."


Climber
Bulb
Annual

types of flowering plants

next:

imperial
demy
foolscap

[altoid]

paper sizes


next:

up
down
bottom

[schwartzie]

3of6 quarks




next:

noonday
gilled
orchard

[Rudy]

Snails? I know two of them are, at least.

maskerade
sourcery
jingo

Try not to do a google search, as it would be *way* too easy, and you all are better than that.

[schwartzie]

Yay. my man!! T Pratchett. I read everything he wrote in one long go. Took about a year. serious withdrawal problems after....
*deeply saddened that britain's national treasure has alzheimers...*

yes snails!!


9617 Grahamchapman
9618 Johncleese
9619 Terrygilliam

[altoid]

asteroids?

bok choy
broccoli
kale

[rewhu]

Veggies from the same family?

Sparrow
Mighty Sparrow
Mighty Diamonds

[schwartzie]

yep.
cruciferous (sp?) veggies

pumpkinseed
mackerel
purslane

[Rudy]

Food oils?

Nerd clue time!

Radagast
Pallando
Alatar

[schwartzie]

Sparrow - brit invasion?
Mighty Sparrow - calypso
Mighty Diamonds - reggae

they are dead bands but... I don't know the thread among them, other than the name sequence... hints?

[rewhu]

I don't think you need any hints. You did quite well! Sparrow was a reggae/calypso singer also.

Now, onto rudyhenkel's three...

[schwartzie]

Radagast
Pallando
Alatar

:heart: the *other* Tolkein-sian wizards:

Food oils?
Nerd clue time!

this very close, I was looking for the unusual medicinal aspect, which is found in these:

pumpkinseed
mackerel
purslane

[Rudy]

this real close, I was looking for the more medicinal aspect...

Fatty acids? If that's right, it's still your turn to pick.

[schwartzie]

Fatty acids? If that's right, it's still your turn to pick.

nope. narrower still.

[Rudy]

Omega-3? (I'm just guessing based on Mackerel, to be honest.)

[schwartzie]

Omega-3? (I'm just guessing based on Mackerel, to be honest.)

good guess!! purslane is a lovely "edible weed," and an excellent source of omega 3


and you get to do the next, rudy.

[Rudy]

:heart: the *other* Tolkein-sian wizards:

Right! This means it's your turn.

Okay, one sec... not sure if this will be easy or not for most:

marathi
dravidian
punjabi

[altoid]

Languages spoken in India? Or cuisines?

Oxheart
Valencia
Hillbilly

[Rudy]

Languages is correct.

Tomatoes?

nociception
proprioception
mechanoreception

[altoid]

Three of the "other" body senses (other than the classic five - sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch)?

R
N
Z

(not Radio New Zealand...:p)

[Rudy]

mechanoreception is touch, actually, proprioception is the sense of knowing where the parts of your body are, and nociception is pain (feeling the destruction of tissue, more specifically.) But, I was only looking for "senses", so you got it. I'll be thinking about R N Z...





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Clue request for "R N Z"? Just a little one...

[altoid]

Think about numbers

[Rudy]

Ah, now it's simple: Reals, Naturals and Integers. *smacks self* Ah, and schwartzie, yours I think was types of intuition... now, for the next one...

[Rudy]

Oxford
Dover
Dayton

HINT #1: Important events with a common thread happened in these locations.

[altoid]

Oh! Trials occured there regarding the teaching of evolution? It applies to Dover and Dayton, just guessing on the other.

Next up:

Albiero
Sirius
Procyon

[secretagentm]

Sirius is a star, and I think Procyon sounds star-ish, so my guess is that they're the names of stars.


33⅓
45
78

[altoid]

They are, but I was going for something a little more specific...

Hmmm, thinking about yours...


Oh! Record sizes.

[secretagentm]

Sorry, I didn't do very well in my astronomy class. I could never stay awake.

Hint: they're speeds of rotation.

[altoid]

D'oh! Speeds.

hint: 1 & 0

[secretagentm]

Close enough, it's just semantics.

Uh binary? Binary systems?

[altoid]

Yep :)

[secretagentm]

Hmmm more abstraction!

C
G
A
in no particular order.

[altoid]

Musical keys?


Clotho
Lachesis
Atropos

[secretagentm]

The Fates. Ahh I had to google that, I had no idea. Lachesis and atropos sound like diseases characterized by lethargy haha.

I may be giving this away, but think of genetics.

[altoid]

Ah, okay. Nitrogenous bases


Hurt
Wish
Last

[secretagentm]

NIN songs.

Xerxes
Ramesses II
Alexander


They all share the epithet "The Great"
(Rudyhenkel's answer is right too)

[Rudy]

Xerxes
Ramesses II
Alexander

Rulers of Egypt (at various times)

Next:
fork
paper
noodle

[putupon]

Chinese inventions

charcoal
saltpeter
sulfur

[Rudy]

Components of gunpowder

Nicaragua
Chad
Michigan

[secretagentm]

Okay, I give up, I can't think of anything. I need a hint.

[Rudy]

Think geography, rather than man made political boundaries.

[secretagentm]

Oh, their names! They're named after the lakes they border.

Clarissa
Orlando
Mrs. Ramsay

[Rudy]

Oh, their names! They're named after the lakes they border.
Well, I'm not sure if it was that, or that the lakes were named after them. What I was looking for is that they are both names of lakes, and names of political bodies. You got the answer implicitly, if not explicitly.

[Visum]

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zimbabwe
Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany

[Rudy]

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zimbabwe
Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany
What's going on here? Five things? No, no.

In any case, the clue is still secretagentm's, as no one has answered it:


Clarissa
Orlando
Mrs. Ramsay

[secretagentm]

They are fictional characters. All are female, but (hint) Orlando is somewhat ambiguous.

[Rudy]

Virginia Woolf.

justice
courage
restraint

[secretagentm]

Virtues

Germany
Timor
New Guinea

[Rudy]

Split into east/west sections at some point.

Saint Helena
Saint Vincent
Saint Lucia

[secretagentm]

Island nations.

Repulsion
Rosemary's Baby
The Tenant

[Visum]

What's going on here? Five things? No, no.

In any case, the clue is still secretagentm's, as no one has answered it:

It gets easier with five. If you like just take three of them.
Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany

[Rudy]

You still need to answer one first ;)

[Visum]

Your right, how did I think I could get by that?

Repulsion
Rosemary's Baby
The Tenant
Director Roman Polanski

Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany

[altoid]

Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany


Can we get a hint? ;D

[Rudy]

Can we get a hint? ;D

Well, to Visum's credit, he did give us five things from the category further up:

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zimbabwe
Serbia-Montenegro
USA
Germany

Still not enough for me, though =/

[Visum]

Madagascar
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Austria
Zimbabwe
Serbia-Montenegro
Bolivia
USA
Brazil
Chile
Germany
Zaire
Argentina
Yugoslavia
China
Israel
Ecuador
Angola
Poland


I have two other very significant hints that should move us on if this doesn't.

[Visum]

Next hint: Zimbabwe

[altoid]

Countries that have experienced hyperinflation?


Next:

Party Girl
Best in Show
Broken English

[Visum]

There you go, and the list goes on and on and on, with Zimbabwe being the latest and current disaster.

[altoid]

Party Girl
Best in Show
Broken English

Hint: Looking for a person these three have in common.

[Rudy]

Parker Posey

heart
moon
horseshoe

[altoid]

Marshmallow shapes in Lucky Charms?

anabasis
cleave
dust

[Rudy]

Words that can have opposite meanings? (I admit, I had to look anabasis up)

raindrops
woolen mittens
doorbells

[RoadieRich]

"These are a few of my favourite Things"

Mending a fuse.
Knitting a sweater by the fireside.
Going for a ride on Sunday Mornings.

[secretagentm]

"When I'm 64"

Mrs. Robinson
Cecilia
Anji

[Rudy]

Simon & Garfunkel

The Police
Comic Strip
Card Game

[altoid]

Sting?

Capulet
Pain
M.D.

[Rudy]

I'm afraid the answer was "Peanuts". It's a song by the Police, a comic strip, and a card game. But we'll let altoid's clue go ahead anyway, as it's been a while.

[schwartzie]

medical treatment

==============

North Vietnam
minatory
Skyhawks

[altoid]

Nope (not what I was thinking anyway)

hint:

of Capulet
of Pain
M.D.

[Rudy]

House!

Thinking of next one...

Meh, this may be too easy:

Dance
Consume
Warm

[Rudy]

Alright, I was thinking of fire, but clearly that was too oblique. My fault.

Another shot:

cat
sword
angel

[schwartzie]

arch?

[Rudy]

No, sorry. Here, I'll expand the list:

dog
lung
black
cat
sword
angel

[schwartzie]

fish

next:

North Vietnam
minatory
Skyhawks
================

hm...this wasn't as successful as I'd hoped.
Try this. Either add "Rocco DeLuca and the Burden" or shorten the list to

Vietnam
minatory
Skyhawks

[Rudy]

The answer: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 15 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Time for a Super Nerd Round!

Torm
Tyr
Ilmater

[schwartzie]

yeeps. a challenge:

gods of forgotten realms!

next contribution in the SN round:

Mr Holmes
Mr Mason
Laban Billington

[Rudy]

Cthulhu!

This one shouldn't be too hard:

Richard Rahl
Rand Al'thor
Harry Potter.

Now, these are all book characters, who are wizards, and the protaganists of their own series. What else do they have in common?





RudyHenkel added to this post, 11 minutes and 34 seconds later...

Hint: Something happened before they were born.

[schwartzie]

...well... how about ... the pregnant moms all were resisting a great evil--and, all their moms die shortly after the hero is born.... specifically, their births were foretold--they all were said to be the persons capable of defeating the evil.

I'll wait for the yea/nay to try another set ...

[Rudy]

That's right. Next set, schwartzie?

[schwartzie]

whew! OK:


ego
do something
round midnight

[Rudy]

Betty Carter Songs.

butterflies
acid
bread

Hint 1: Where are all three things found?

[schwartzie]

ah. stomachs!

lessee....

snowshoe
somali
himalayan

[Rudy]

Breeds of cat.

dutch
convection
solar

[RoadieRich]

ovens

Bartholomew
Nicolas
Benedict

[altoid]

saints?

spider
ice cream
elephant seal

[Perf]

Names of Popes?

Lloydminster
Akwesasne
Foz d'Iguacu

[questionableme]

For altoid: they are all things that have been named after Stephen Colbert.
For Perf: they are all cities that lie on borders?

Brussels
Verona
Tahiti

[Perf]

For altoid: they are all things that have been named after Stephen Colbert.
For Perf: they are all cities that lie on borders?

Brussels
Verona
Tahiti
Yep.

[questionableme]

Too hard? Here's a few more:

Brussels
Verona
Tahiti
Geneva
Bordeaux
Montieri
Milano

[Rudy]

Tough one... Just came back from buying my Milano cookies at the store, and made the connection. They are all Pepperidge Farm types of cookies.

near
rat
loyalty

[questionableme]

They are all Pacific island groups.

dominoes
playing cards
Great Expectations

[Rudy]

They all have "pips"... very clever.

*thinking*





RudyHenkel added to this post, 23 minutes and 54 seconds later...

Richard
Pride
King

Shouldn't be too hard...

[schwartzie]

lion


next:

Timothy
Colin
Brome

[questionableme]

Hay.

a yard
a camera stand
a handicapped dog

[Rudy]

Three feet.

Madness
Strait
Curious

[schwartzie]

george

Verne Gagne
Sugar Ray Robinson
Charlton Heston







is there a name to this type of puzzle construct. It's kinda fun....

[questionableme]

They're all famous people with Alzheimer's.

jeans
baseball games
trash cans

There's a game called Tribond that is basically just this game with a board. There's also a new game show in England called Only Connect that is similar, but far more pretentious. I've also seen this type of puzzle in a couple other places that I can't recall, but overall it's not very common.

[questionableme]

I seem to have a habit of causing this thread to grind to a halt.

Here's a hint. Solving this triple will basically give you the answer to the previous one:

house
butter
dragon

[schwartzie]

flies.

zoom zoom. off we go again.

gimme a min to think of something.





schwartzie added to this post, 6 minutes and 22 seconds later...

whiskey
tape
free

[questionableme]

Scotch.

cube
clock
revenge

[secretagentm]

rubik's.

veined cheeses
russian cats
tobias funke tried to join this group

[questionableme]

They are all blue.

Lima
Quebec
India

[secretagentm]

Letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
I only remember this because the other day I was looking up letters after seeing Dollhouse (the characters are named after different letters). Luckily, Quebec especially stuck in my head.

Pantalone
Arlecchino
Il Dottore

[questionableme]

These are all characters in the Commedia dell'arte.

bread
wind
the bank

[Maayan]

They're all involved in the bread-making process. (You were expecting a more clever answer, weren't you. I'm sorry.)

hermeticism
gnosticism
magic

[fomatizer]

Topics of Hermetism, Theurgy, Western Mysticism, Qabala, etc. (Can't get more specific, I wiki'd that much.)


Miguel Ángel Asturias
Salman Rushdie
Gabriel García Márquez

[callmemigs]

Authors of novels about Magic Realism. (not sure with this though)

Jean Grey
Taranee Cook
Liz Sherman

[Rudy]

Fire-themed super-heroines?

Bear
Nanny
Blue

[fomatizer]

LOL, no rules against Googling it. :) Rudy, would you like a teddy?

5.5" Nanny's Mini Bear Kits - Blue
A powder blue perfect for the little man in your life.

Style # 94036


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[Rudy]

Nope, wrong.

Hint, they are all prefixes to the same word:

Bear-----------
Blue-----------
Nanny--------

The number of dashes I used does not indicate the length of the word.

[Tragic Hero]

There are rules against googling isn't there?

For the above. I had thought it was state but then realised that it was bear market not state.

[fomatizer]

Nope, wrong.

Hint, they are all prefixes to the same word:

Bear-----------
Blue-----------
Nanny--------

The number of dashes I used does not indicate the length of the word.I know the answer! ...BALLS. No? Not balls?
State?

Derrida
Lyotard
Foucault

[Rudy]

I picked this clue mainly because Google-ing is not likely to help. That's why I like word prefixes; I assume people are going to use Google no matter what the "rules" are, so try and pick something that Google will not help for.

So, use Google if you like.





RudyHenkel added to this post, 1 minutes and 36 seconds later...

I was looking for "berry", actually, but State fits nicely as well, so I'll accept it.





RudyHenkel added to this post, 12 minutes and 19 seconds later...

The answer to fomatizer's is postmodernism.

Mine:

Frosty the Snowman
General Douglas MacArthur
Popeye the Sailor

[altoid]

Cartoons?

philip
menagerie
ceiling

[Rudy]

No, I'm afraid not. At least, I don't think MacArthur was a cartoon.

Hint: What object do they all have in common.

[altoid]

Doh! Pipe.

[Rudy]

Glass!

Politicians.
Track teams.
Pantyhose.

[Tragic Hero]

They all run.

An objective one.

Getting rid of telephones
Making a World War
Killing a Son

[schwartzie]

tragic, are you looking for a single answer to both sets?

[Tragic Hero]

There was two answers to the separate sets; however I'm removing the subjective set.

Getting rid of telephones
Making a World War
Killing a Son

And a hint if you're completely lost.
Getting rid of 'forty thousand red,white and blue shoestrings'

[schwartzie]

ok well then this hwy 61 revisited.


next:


blood
smooth
transitional
--------

a hint. here's a 4th item for the list: "puffs"

[Rudy]

Tissue!

Kid
Milk
A Fall-guy

[questionableme]

I guess they're all related to goats.
There are rules against googling isn't there?

I had been using Google this whole time, because there's some obscure stuff here. Then when some of these were going unsolved for awhile, I figured that maybe other people weren't. So feel free to use Google, people. You can't be expected to know everything.

An easy test to see if your triple might be too easy is to type your three things into Google and see if the answer is in the first five hits or so.


For my triple, I'm going to revive one from the previous page:

bread
wind
the bank

Frankly, I found the given answer wholly unsatisfactory:
They're all involved in the bread-making process.
Not really sure what wind or the bank have to do with making bread. Do you need wind to make bread? I guess you might need money to make bread (especially if it's pumpernickel), but still it seems like a stretch.

[Rudy]

Not really sure what wind or the bank have to do with making bread. Do you need wind to make bread? I guess you might need money to make bread (especially if it's pumpernickel), but still it seems like a stretch.

I think, with the bank clue, she was alluding to the fact that bread is used as a metaphor for money.

[schwartzie]

For my triple, I'm going to revive one from the previous page:

bread
wind
the bank

Frankly, I found the given answer wholly unsatisfactory:

Not really sure what wind or the bank have to do with making bread. Do you need wind to make bread? I guess you might need money to make bread (especially if it's pumpernickel), but still it seems like a stretch.

I assumed that we were dealing w, for example "amish," sourdough or other such bread in which the baker retains some of the beastie-filled stuff as a "starter" for the next batch (the "bank"); and the act of winding dough is a process. One might wind dough into a coil, e.g. You must not be very domestic, Q.

back to the drawing board....

[Rudy]

break!

break bread, break wind, break the bank

Now for my clue...





RudyHenkel added to this post, 1 minutes and 57 seconds later...

Ball
Salad
Coin

[questionableme]

They are all things that are tossed?

Here's a really silly one:

a light switch
a nymphomaniac
a traitor's friends

[Rudy]

can be turned on in an instant, or some wording along those lines.

Song
Policeman
Heart

[schwartzie]

beat

next:


funding of international terrorism
deforestation
$7.86 Billion lawsuit

[schwartzie]

oops. did I kill this thread?

a hint: if you read the day's news--or maybe the last week's news, you find this sad little story.

[schwartzie]

oops. did I kill this thread?

a hint: if you read the day's news--or maybe the last week's news, you find this sad little story.

wow. dead indeed.

Answer: united fruit company. The same folks bemoaning the slight cavendish infection; cavendishes are the kind of banana sold most in the US. It it reproduced asexually, and seems to be subject to a blight. The company is also being sued by families whose loved ones were allegedly killed by terrorist organizations sponsored by United. Lifes so hard sometimes for megacorps.

Um.. something alternative to maybe see if this thread has any air in its tyres.

hill
water
crown

[Rudy]

Jack and Jill, presumably. Or, perhaps, that is just a smokescreen to conceal the truly clever answer?

Golf course
Wrestling
Bowling Alley

[schwartzie]

Jack and Jill, presumably.

**ding ding ding** * kee--rect on the first throw



Golf course
Wrestling
Bowling Alley

.

[INTJoe]

Jack and Jill, presumably. Or, perhaps, that is just a smokescreen to conceal the truly clever answer?

Golf course
Wrestling
Bowling Alley

Pins.

[Rudy]

Pins.

Correct. You need to post a new set, though...

Since INTJoe is offline, someone else can post a set.

[INTJoe]

pole
rubber
sprinkler system