Beat Tablesaw's Family.

[tablesaw]

For the fourth year in a row, I've designed an after-dinner game for my extended maternal family.

This year's game went through a lot of variations, but eventually, I settled on using the IMDB game combined with the Amazon.com game I featured in an earlier post. ALthough the mechanic was the same, I changed the game rules from when I presented this to the LA NPL and ifmud. Instead of five keywords per movie, I thought it would be better to spread things out among ten clues. This meant that each correct answer could be worth as many as ten points. Also since I was dealing with a group of about forty people of varying skill levels, I divided them into two teams. Instead of being limited to only one guess per clue, I gave each team ten guesses total, to be used whenever they wanted. It worked out pretty well, once people understood how everything worked, and by the end of the game, people were having lots and lots of fun.

So as not to let this go to waste (since I will, again, be missing the next local NPL party), I'm presenting it here. Although I prepared about ten clues for each, I'm only presenting (to my best memory) the clues that were used needed before someone in my family guessed correctly. Only one correct guess per list. That means you can have a total of two, only if you pick a book and a movie.

First, the books. The first ten are general books, and the second ten are all children's literature.

1. Three mast heads, New Bedford. (identified by okb)
   
2. Ted Koppel, hibiscus plant, West Newton, Lou Gehrig, old professor, The Audiovisial, The Thirteenth Tuesday. (identified by tahnan)
   
3. Old sweet song, seaside girls, brown macintosh, pensive bosom, absentminded beggar, quaker librarian, tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom. (identified by davidglasser)
   
4. Green glass bottle, Other Land, mumble mumble mumble, unionist minister, saffron cream, Kumbric Witch, Miss Galinda, Madame Morrible, Miss Elphaba. (identified by penmage)
   
5. Grand Gallery, Grand Master, lettered dials, seeded womb, royal bloodline. (identified by qaqaq)
   
6. Her rosary beads, First Communion, Vincent de Paul Society, floury white potatoes, shilling tip.
   
7. Black Man, Old Manse, Spanish Main, young clergyman, New England, Election Sermon.
   
8. Three farthings, girl with dark hair, varicose ulcer, chocolate ration. (identified by wesleyjenn)
   
9. Meeting tent, hymn inviting, mortify yourselves, fourteen umblemished yearling lambs, ram from the flock, whose love endures.
   
10. Nymph with lovely braids.
    
11. Father Christmas, always winter. (identified by cramerica)
    
12. Black Dog, honest hands, Cape of the Woods, old buccaneer.
    
13. Earth pile, Big Water, iron road, Wide Patrol, white blindness. (identified by slipjig)
    
14. Cloven pine, Cape Canaveral, Black Thing, Central Intelligence. (identified by greenlily)
    
15. Aunt Edith, old sheep, barn cellar, seven goslings. (identified by joecab)
    
16. Ivory Tower. (identified by off_coloratura)
    
17. Four travellers, Ball of Fire. (identified by hathor)
    
18. Amethyst brooch, currant wine. (identified by october31st)
    
19. Six Pine Trees, Very Deep Pit, Useful Pot. (identified by storme)
    
20. Empire State Building, silk strings, Head of the Fire Department, hundred seagulls. (identified by miseri)

Next, here are the movies. A through J are general films, and K through T are Christmas movies (that is, they have Christmas as a keyword at IMDB). To help you remember, I've added "[Christmas]" to each of them.

1. Marriage. (identified by nothings)
   
2. Dog, Gold, Castaway, Marriage Proposal, Drag, Moonlight. (identified by inkylj)
   
3. Shoplifting, Escape, El Train, Southeast Asia, Shot to Death, Exploitation, Film Making, Lost World, Empire State Building New York. (identified by jangler_npl)
   
4. Axe Murder, Mountain, High Concept, Extinction, Cherub, Greek Mythology, Conductor, Hippopotamus, Bach Toccata and Fugue. (identified by hathor)
   
5. Bullet Time, Onion. (identified by okb)
   
6. Dog, Love at First Sight, Stuttering, Debt Collector, Brawl, Farce, Writer's Block, Woman Pretending to Be Man Pretending to Be Woman, Queen Elizabeth I. (identified by penmage)
   
7. Fountain, Toast, Senior Citizen, Blanket, Hippie, Hysteria, Swedish Sex Bomb, Accountant. (identified by slipjig)
   
8. Nursing Home, Martial Arts, Airplane, Prison, Seattle Washington, Party, Drunken Phone Call. (identified by wesleyjenn)
   
9. Kids and Family, Film in Film, Swamp, Used Car Dealer, Carnifval, Beauty Pageant, Mad Scientist, Steamroller, Hollywood Sign, Balloon. (identified by off_coloratura)
   
10. Face Slap, Graffiti.
    
11. [Christmas], Car Trouble, Pawnshop, Fog, Record Player, Newspaper Story, Trombone, Dancing, Bandleader, Plane, Swing. (identified by qaqaq)
    
12. [Christmas], Neighbor.
    
13. [Christmas], Department Store, Daydream. (identified by joecab)
    
14. [Christmas], Hallucination, Corkscrew, Chess, Historical, Pin Up, Light Bulb, Interrogation, Germany, Sabotage, Nazi, Escape, Prisoner Of War Camp.
    
15. [Christmas], Snow, Flashback Sequence, Unrequited Love, Castle, Bully, Suburbia. (identified by october31st)
    
16. [Christmas], Suitcase, Name Change, Father-Son Relationship, Paris France, Doctor, Lawyer, Pilot, Perry Mason Spoof Scene, James Bond Spoof Scene, FBI Agent. (identified by mlstrm)
    
17. [Christmas], Midnight, Candy Bar, Chinatown, Mass Destruction, Suburbia, Microwave Oven, Cult Comedy.
    
18. [Christmas], Boxing, Essay, Construction Site, Tuberculosis, School Play, Window Smashing, Playground, Irish American.
    
19. [Christmas], Teddy Bear, Walkie Talkie, Funny Accent, Estranged Couple, Fragments Of Glass, Exploding Helicopter. (identified by Eric Berlin)
    
20. [Christmas], Ticket, Crowbar, Tar. (identified by acroarcs)

I'll do my best to keep up with guesses as you make them.

Comments

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

I'll take "low-hanging fruit" for 100.
#11 is The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I really hope my guess for A is right... we'll see.

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a movie as well.

[storme]

I'll snag #11 from the first list - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And I'll think about the second list but I suspect I won't be able to guess any of them.

[storme]

feh, since someone else snagged #11 seconds before me, I'll take 19 instead - Winnie The Pooh.

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a movie as well.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

#17 is the Wizard of Oz

[penmage.livejournal.com]

#4 is Wicked, and F is - Shakespeare in Love?

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

Oh! We can do one from each list. So D is Fantasia

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

#13 is Watership Down, and, ummm....The Producers for G?

[davidglasser.livejournal.com]

3 is Ulysses.

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a movie as well.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

My guesses:

M - A Christmas Story

15 - Charlotte's Web

[wesleyjenn.livejournal.com]

I believe 8 to be 1984 and if M isn't National Lampoons Christmas Vacation it should be. :)

[tablesaw]

Sorry, M is incorrect. Feel free to guess another movie.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

A - The Princess Bride

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a book as well.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

Damn, that was my guess.

[october31st.livejournal.com]

18 is Anne of Green Gables and O is Edward Scissorhands.

[miseri.livejournal.com]

20 - James and the Giant Peach

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a movie as well.

[miseri.livejournal.com]

None of the movies are ringing any bells for me....

[okb.livejournal.com]

#1 is Moby-Dick.

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a movie as well.

[okb.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, is E Shrek?

[jangler-npl.livejournal.com]

C: King Kong?

[tablesaw]

Correct, feel free to guess a book as well.

[jangler-npl.livejournal.com]

7: Johnny Tremain? Probably wrong.

[tablesaw]

Sorry, that is incorrect.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

#14 is A Wrinkle In Time.

[off_coloratura]

#I is The Muppet Movie.
#16 is the Neverending Story.

[(Anonymous)]

S is "Die Hard."

Eric

[qaqaq.livejournal.com]

5 = The Da Vinci Code, K = The Glenn Miller Story?

[wesleyjenn.livejournal.com]

Aha!

H is Say Anything. :)

[inkylj.livejournal.com]

Surely movie B is Pirates of the Caribbean.

My guesses:

[mlstrm.livejournal.com]

L. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
P. Catch Me If You Can

Re: My guesses:

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I was gonna say P was The Man Who Knew Too Little.

Re: My guesses:

[tablesaw]

Your guess for L is incorrect, which is good, because you're only allowed to guess one movie.

P is correct, though.

[acroarcs.livejournal.com]

T is Home Alone, and I'm sad for myself.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

You'll simply have to believe that I knew many of these, but of those left, I can only guess that #2 is "Tuesdays with Morrie".

I'm at a loss on the movies, but I'm not up on Christmas films, so.

[(Anonymous)]

I've already idenitified a movie, but I'm amazed no one has gotten Q.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

Me too - I'm thinking that everyone had the same reaction that I did, and decided to leave it for someone else while they guessed at something else they knew.

Except tahnan of course.

[la-sonnambula.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is really difficult. I can't think of a single one.