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Another silly Christmas post

posted by [personal profile] emperor at 07:36pm on 25/12/2007 under ,
Following from a game of Articulate, there was debate as to which should have been easier to guess (in that game):

[Poll #1111218]
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posted by [identity profile] muuranker.livejournal.com at 11:08am on 26/12/2007
It depends what the forbidden words were, though.
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posted by [personal profile] gerald_duck at 11:11am on 26/12/2007
It probably depends a lot on who's playing. If trying to get some random person to guess, "avocado" would probably be easier, but with knowledgeable players I'd expect to say "dynasty containing kings Edward the first, second and third" and move on straight away.

…so what actually happened?
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posted by [personal profile] lnr at 12:12pm on 30/12/2007
Put it this way, I'd get the avocado.
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posted by [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com at 03:17pm on 26/12/2007
They'd be a bit tricky in Pictionary ...
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 12:10am on 27/12/2007
What sort of articulation did you all manage?

FWIW they seem like the sort of common-but-hard-to-describe words that are easy to guess depending whether someone comes up with an inspired clue ("Guacamole fruit", "King Henry, Henry Surname" maybe?) or has to try to describe an avocado or house anjou, which is tricky, unless you're on exactly the same psychic wavelength :)
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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 12:57pm on 27/12/2007
I don't think there's any real difference. As others have pointed out there are readily available descriptions for both. What it comes down to is the inspired thinking of the describer and the inspired guesses of the rest of the team.

I still like amalion's (correct) answer of "Bulgaria" to a description of "It makes me think of weightlifters"!
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