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Other People's Money (1991)
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Hint 4 is a Bad Hint. The Keyword for Other People's Money (1991) do NOT include "title spoken by character." So you only had 12 real hints.
Most of your games include one or more Hints that cannot be found in an IMDB Search. You cannot assume that we've seen the film.
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I agree that IMDB is not accurate on things like that. Even if we've seen the film, we not might remember it. Why use it as a Hint?
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You dont have to stick to the script. Otherwise it's just a matter of who can fill out a form the fastest.
It's supposed to be difficult.
You are a good player and host.
And you're cute.
Fuck it man, its Chinatown....
I agree, I don't see any serious issues here. We had a bit of a misinterpretation, which has been known to happen. There aren't really any hard and fast rules when it comes to the hints, other than that they have to have something in common between the movies. Hints can be easy or difficult. There's no one-size-fits-all way. And actually it's good that some of the hosts have their own style with more creative hints.
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Definitely, Fred is a great host.
shareMe-ow
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OUTSIDE!
HAha.
Ok you got me pegged.
How bout I rub up against your leg, and sing this....https://youtu.be/JvwyUR2x3eI
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this has happened a few times. nothing to worry about. good game.
shareOk, so to sum up the situation, Vastuntitled wins the round and gets the point, but seems to want to pass on the next round. Hownos has offered to host the next round in his stead. I'm in favor.
shareI going to start one. my games don't last long.
shareIs vast the first host to win?
shareI don't think so. I can't remember which specific rounds they were, but I'm pretty sure Fred won one or two of his own games.
sharefred and lud have won as hosts. can't think of any others.
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there have been plenty who had the opportunity but they usually let the guesses keep going beyond the limit in order for one of the players to win. what's rare is someone taking the win that way rather than extending the game so they wouldn't.
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I haven't read everything here and I wasn't implying that there's anything wrong with taking the win since it's in the rules. But I was just pointing out how most were reluctant to win that way so they extended things a little instead.
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I actually thought you did a great job, with the exception of Hint 4, which threw us off. “Title spoken by character” shows up in the Keyword search for Casablanca, but not for Other People's Money (1991). After deleting the Keyword phrase, (when others had given up), I had 32 titles. Some had already been guessed and some I'd already ruled out. So I looked up Other People's Money and it met all the other hints.
After posting my Keyword comment, I entered “based on play” in the IMDB Advanced Search. Only 4 titles showed up, so it actually was a great set of hints. Two of those titles had already been guessed, Other People's Money was there and the other sounded unlikely. Without Hint #4, somebody would have guessed it sooner.
For Casablanca, you could have used Under 2 hours running time or Keyword includes “based on play.” Since a lot fewer films are based on plays than novels or books, we would have guessed it much sooner.
If you copy and paste an exact Keyword match, that will help rookies and newbies. tcrum said that the Keyword match I posted for The Hudsucker Proxy was how she guessed the film.
FredB posts clever comments about the films guessed, but he does not post ambiguous hints. Laura and I just got him to stop posting 3 or 4 hints at one time, so we have more chances to Delete bad guesses.
There is some choices the guesser has to make. When someone says based on a book, you can try entering book or novel into the keyword phrase. It may work , it may not. I usually try some different combos to see what I get. If someone doesn't specify its in the keywords but just says, car chase, to me its still likely to be in the keyword phrase list. But that's what makes the game fun. I have no problem with trickier clues. It shouldn't be all just the numbers, hunches work great, as well as knowing each players likes and dislikes for movies. I have my criteria I set for each player based on what I know they usually choose.
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Also every game doesn't have to be epic. If you don't have much time to host , just do a simple game..I've done it, and I've seen Hownos do it as well.😃
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I use the imdb title search to give me movie ideas for hosting. Horror...6 to 7..with 4000-8000 votes. I go through like that and then add them to my imdb list "movies to use on Stonekeeper".
shareWhen someone says based on a book, you can try entering book or novel into the keyword phrase. It may work , it may not.
Almost always when a movie is based on a book, it'll say so up at the very top of the IMDb page in the "writers" section. For example, on the IMDb page for The Pelican Brief (1993):
"Writers: John Grisham (book), Alan J. Pakula (screenplay)"
Of course in that movie's case there's also "based on novel" in the plot keywords section, but not all novel-based movies have that, especially lesser-known ones. However, the writer section at the top of the page is pretty reliable in this regard. share
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