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Boromir's guess the famous game #115 [H. P. Lovecraft is the famous person, Carrot wins!]


1. I'm thinking of some famous person, it can be a film actor, a philosopher, a president, a prime minister, a singer, fictional character, mafia man etc.
2. You need to ask me a yes or no question about this person, for example, "Is the person still alive?," "Does the person work in the entertainment industry?," any question you can think of that helps you to reveal the answer. The host answers with yes or no only.
3. Maximum 1 question and 1 guess per player per answer.
4. The winner can either start a new game or say "pass." In case of a pass, the OP gets to start another.

List of mystery persons - https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/616343f570ebcb3bafb72d63/List-All-Boromirs-guess-the-famous-game-1-200


1: Activist? No
2: Politician? No
3: Alive? No
4: Actor? No
5: Born in Asia? No
6: Born before 1500? No
7: Entertainer? I'm not certain whether this person's career qualifies as entertainer, but I think yes.
8: European? No
9: Born 1800-1900? Yes
10: Sportsman/sportwoman? No
11: Born in the US? Yes
12: Writer? Yes
13: Male? Yes
14: Nobel Prize winner? No
15: Died in the 20th century? Yes
16: Novels? Yes
17: Famous for 1 character they created? Yes
18: Died 1900-1950? Yes
19: New Englander? Yes
20: H. P. Lovecraft? Yes!

Carrot wins with H. P. Lovecraft, famous writer associated with the cosmic horror genre. One of my favorite writers; some of my favorites of his stories include The Color Out of Space, At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and many others.

Scoreboard:
hownos - 21
LauraGrace - 21
nyctc7 - 21
Boromir - 17
Kawada_Kira - 11
Carrot - 11
tcrum - 4
sslssg - 3
lud - 2
Bloodshot77 - 2
StoneKeeper - 1

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Novels?

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born in america?

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Answered that in Q11.

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Famous for 1 character they created?

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died 1900-1950?

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New Englander?

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H. P. Lovecraft?

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Correct!!

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You guys are good at this game. I'm going to stick to Stonekeeper:)

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You helped me out a little with your last question.

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I hope you'll continue to play here too though, at least sometimes; it's a bummer when players leave. And you do have four wins so far.

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I'll play, it just doesn't seem to be my game. I almost don't want to win. People say Stonekeeper is tough to host, but this game is a marathon.

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Noooo don't go.
We need every player. Sometime I host a game and only 1-2 players play 😞

And you give us too much credit tcrum.
Forget the table standing, if you we will check the success rates you will find you not bad as you think (you not bad period) and we no so good at this game as you think. I for example won more games than Kawada_Kira and Carrot but if we check the success rate I am not sure I have better percentage.

However, we need to be more sensitive to the level of difficulty in the game, for example, if a previous game was very difficult then it will be better if next game we will pick more famous person. We need to remember that not every game must to be long or difficult, it is also OK to choose someone very famous.

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"However, we need to be more sensitive to the level of difficulty in the game, for example, if a previous game was very difficult then it will be better if next game we will pick more famous person. We need to remember that not every game must to be long or difficult, it is also OK to choose someone very famous."

That was part of why I picked Lovecraft for this round, after the more challenging Amar Bose round before it. The challenging ones are a lot of fun and should not be discouraged at all (and they make it all the more satisfying when you win them, because of the work you put into it), but after a harder one I chose an easier one with a very well-known author. Lovecraft is one I've been wanting to use for a while anyway because he's one of my favorite authors and I wanted to use him before someone else did, but I chose to use him on this specific round because it would be an easier one and players wouldn't get discouraged.

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"The challenging ones are a lot of fun and should not be discouraged at all"

It is a good point.


I less familiar with Lovecraft work, I read a few of his short stories, he have a unique style. There are many science fiction/fantasy fans here. One of the first pick was my favorite science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

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It's really not that hard to host, it's just answering yes or no questions. Also if you don't reply to each individual comment, it's much easier. I stopped replying to each comment during my Mithridates game, and haven't done it since. It makes the game go much smoother, and is no worse for the players; all they have to do is refresh the page and look at the OP.

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Regarding question 7, I was uncertain but do you guys think novelists/short story writers qualify as entertainers? I was thinking so, but wasn't sure, maybe people associate the word "entertainer" more with like the movie/TV and music industries? Lovecraft certainly wrote with the aim of entertaining though.

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This has been brought up before. I think anyone that provides a skill that you enjoy is an entertainer. Writer is certainly one of those.

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I take the opposite view. I put them more in the category of craftsmen. I associate entertainer with performance.

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Come on, you're reading Stephen King, He's not an entertainer?

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To me an entertainer is a performer. I have never thought of writers as entertainers, as entertaining as their writing may be.

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Wikipedia have a long list of "who is entertainer?" and one of them are writers. They don't elaborate "what kind of writer regarded as entertainer?" but I think someone like Lovecraft you can definitely define as a entertainer, A writer like Dostoevsky is harder to define as entertainer but If you ask me all the writers except academics who write non-fiction books and academic articles are entertainer and even then we will find some exceptions.

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If my person is a novelist and someone asks "Entertainer?" I'm going to say NO.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/entertainer
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/entertainer
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/entertainer

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Legitimate. And I take that into account anyway.

But none of the dictionary definitions contradict the claim that novelist aren't Entertainer.

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what about a writer of history, textbooks or technical books?

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Agreed Writer is divided into two categories...Entertainer and educator.

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👆

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I first heard about Lovecraft when I played this computer game back in the late 1980s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lurking_Horror

It was one of my favorite games at the time. It's a text game (no graphics) which hardly anyone plays anymore. It was a wonderful genre of games--Interactive Fiction--that became obsolete pretty quickly.

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