But do the categories (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) just make no sense against the possibile answers?
The instructions for the game are at the top. A player picks a word from a card and the other player has to guess the word they’ve picked, starting by asking if it’s an animal, vegetable or mineral.
You’re not wrong, some of those are a stretch.
Imagine finding out moments before your first parachute jump that your parachute is actually made from cabbage.
Clearly not nylon.
Wouldn’t silk be Animal though? Are worm by-products vegetables? Were plant fiber parachutes a thing?
I got to “Money (notes)” as vegetable and thought to myself “of course, because coins would be mineral,” then saw the Piggybank as mineral and confirmed my logic.
I still don’t understand “dinner service” as mineral? Is it the cutlery?
A dinner service comprises plates, dishes, etc. What do you imagine that crockery is made from? 🙂
The items all have (A), (V), (M) so I am assuming that’s how they fit in the categories?
And the way they “fit” in those categories seems to be on what they are made of/where they come from, for example a Piggy Bank has (M) because it is made of clay, an Egg has (A) because it is an animal product and so it goes
Yeah, you can really stretch it for some of them although there are others that just flat out don’t make sense. Also bear in mind this is a kids game!
On the first go, my son made a cutting action with his fingers and then told me I have to ask if it’s an animal, vegetable or mineral, in which he replied mineral. So I was trying to think of a mineral that cuts. I asked if it was in the house in which he replied yes, and the only thing I could think of was salt.
Turns out the answer was scissors! The action was kind of obvious but the fact it was a mineral totally threw me.
Several of these irritate me but ultimately evoke a solid
But fuck me playing with the person who came up with these would test my patience.
Pizza, V? I suppose cheese and meats are optional. One can. Some do. If we get into “It has minerals in it!” then we’ll have to argue about what atoms are, so fine, pass.
Guitar (!) Strings, A? I know about catgut, for violens in my mind, but let us wiki it. Huh neat, catgut is intestenal fiber from usually goat or sheep, sometimes cat-tle, but never actually cat. And, while still preferred for concert harps and classical instruments, guitars all mostly switched to steel in the 1900s (and nylon or mixed later). So when was this game printed, how old are you imagined-ghost-of-the-author?
You’d be guessing for a while before you got that the vegetable was a marshmallow.
Police are pigs, so that works OK.
