The Invisible Idiot game is quite simple once you get the hang of it. Below are ten clues representing names that come from a specific category (i.e. actors, musicians, etc.). Each clue is a series of words. To solve the clue, you must find words that mean the same thing as those in the clue. Once you get all of the words in a clue, string them together and it will sound like the name. Different parts of one word are separated by commas, and different words are separated by semi-colons. So, for the clue "Christmas Song; Thorn, Web" you'd get "Carol; Burr, Net." Carol Burnett. See? Easy. :wink:

1 point per solved clue, 3 points for getting the category, and 2 extra points for solving the whole thing at once (including the category) before any of the clues are solved. The person with the most points once the whole thing is solved (including the category) posts the next set of clues.

Oh, and if you're wondering, the name "Invisible Idiot" comes from the linguist who tried to translate "Out of sight, out of mind," literally.

The clues:

Hello (slang), Manipulatory appendage; Retained, An attraction

Sensory organ, Bag; To possess knowledge of (past tense), 1000 kilograms

Mathematical operation, Antonym of lose; Centre, Male elephant

To steal (slang), A solid hydrocarbon, BABBlers; To come to terms with something, Vase, Scream (onomatopoeia), To swear

Girl (slang), Sick, Huh (Canadian), Letter of the alphabet; Unit equal to one centimetre per second squared, Flower

To put into; To perform (music), Pronoun (object)

An enthusiast, Sister (abbreviated); A squirrel's nest, Dull pain

A ladder, A bog; To sell, Monarch

24 hours, To make an offer (buying); Area sheltered from wind, Letter of the alphabet

Automobile, A title of nobility; To speak, To increase

Good luck!

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Shaquille Oneil [am I on the right track?] 8-[

Isaac Newton

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þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Edwin Hubble

Nicholas Copernicus

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I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

I'm gonna guess, no.

chick ill o - then I got lost with my imagination

Astronomers

Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Edwin Hubble
Nicholas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Phil Plait
Francis Bacon?
Stephen Hawking
David Levy
Carl Sagan

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" The universe is running away
I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Boy, I sucked at this game. #-o

Yes! One point.

Yep, two points.

6 more for the names (Musashi got Newton, you already got 2 and Francis Bacon is incorrect) and another 3 for the category.

Looks like Parrothead is next with a total of 11 points. Well done!

Edit: Sorry, Candy. Maybe in the next round. :wink:

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LOL... fun coming up with clues. Here we go...

Lustful, headpiece; delivery vehicle; Bumble for one, digit, baking chamber;

A vowel, spear; Stalk of threshed grain, wine (en francais), celestial region.

Canis Lupus, band of hoodlums; Be, 24 hr period, we; They protect castles, " a Picasso or a Garfunkel".

Not bright, a vowel, three; Belonging to a former Iranian leader, _ - dah, a sheltered bay, needs scratching.

Napoleon's country; Written for shopping.

Knighthood title, happy; Support, _ Annan, the night before.

Extra, frozen water; Speak wildly, a letter.

Strong wind, to own; An opening, canonized (abbr).

To touch, 9 (Roman num.) ; Repair, sick, our star.

Washington and Foreman; " That's Show_", and (en francais)

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" The universe is running away
I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Composers, I believe.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dmitri Shostakovich

Franz Liszt

I'll let someone else fill in the rest.

Oh, and who was "An enthusiast, Sister (abbreviated); A squirrel's nest, Dull pain"? I still can't figure it out.

Francis Drake.

Correct on the answers you gave to my clues.

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I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Bingo.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Maurice Ravel

Gustav Holst

Felix Mendelssohn

Georges Bizet

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I would recomend that you number the clues/hints so that it is easier for others to figure out which ones are still left to be solved.

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Looks like this round is complete.

Grey got 3 points for naming the category and 4 single points for his answers for 7 total.

5 points to Maksutov for the rest of the answers.

The next set of clues is up to Grey.

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There's this new stuff called dark energy
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I'll see if I can put something together by this evening. In the meantime, Maksutov, if you're bored and want to put something together, feel free to have at it.

I'll do the first and last one, you guys can fill in the rest:

1. Hole tool, half an em; ewe wrangler; month, earth orbit

7. Professor, ancient; kill, cask

Alan Shepard, Junior First: MR-3, Freedom 7


Donald Slayton Last: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)

Theme: The Original Seven Mercury Astronauts

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Hey, Grey, where are you?

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Grey?

Okay, we'll give Grey until 7 PM EST tomorrow (24 hrs from right now).

Until then...

Victory, Discoloured; House of Worship, Knoll

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Winston Churchill

short sleep, north for one, long time.

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" The universe is running away
I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Napoleon.

you should have ended it with

"piece of a skeleton, letter of the alphabet, component (eg of machinery).

intend to, rene decartes conclusion; use of visual sense, fluff in one's pocket, a binary state.

Sorry, had problems logging on and then got swamped with school. I knew I should have left someone else to figure out the category so I wouldn't have to come up with a list!

Here it is:

not short, not as much

punch, tell on, comfort

dessert, definite article, impale, donkey

exhibition, weep, pronoun, we

sculptural toy

river horse, box, assuage

expire, exclamation, a girl's name, leg joints

song, eastern grain, instructed, boring

fur, holder, lamp, throw

a hatchet, not her, not a woman, confront

To and..., Homer Simpson's catchphrase, "*** my groceries, plural form of hotels

... of Bengal, ouch i stubbed..., diesel

easy as pie

Frodo Baggins

Bee[my]thoven...popular guy, second time in this thread.

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Greek Philosophers

not short, not as much
Thales

punch, tell on, comfort
Socrates

dessert, definite article, impale, donkey
Pythagoras

exhibition, weep, pronoun, we
Democritus

sculptural toy
Plato

river horse, box, assuage
Hippocrates (was he a philosopher?)

expire, exclamation, a girl's name, leg joints
Diogenes

song, eastern grain, instructed, boring
Aristotle

fur, holder, lamp, throw


a hatchet, not her, not a woman, confront
Anaximander ??

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