It occurs to me that the “Three famous people” game that I described yesterday can be played the other way. Rather than the challenge being to find the answer, the challenge can be to come up with a good question.<\/p>\n
It can be surprisingly difficult to find two famous people with exactly *one* other famous person obviously connecting them.<\/p>\n
For example, yesterday Sharon suggested “Tom Hanks” and “Neil Young”. I thought she meant Jonathan Demme, since he connects them through the film “Philadelphia”. But it turns out she meant Daryl Hannah, which definitely works as a good answer at the moment.<\/p>\n
So maybe we can design a kind of crowd sourcing game: Contestants post two famous names, and various people out there on the internet try to guess who is the third famous person clearly connected to both of them.<\/p>\n
Your goal as a contestant is to post two names that will result in nearly everybody guessing the same third name. The greater the unanimity of response, the higher your score.<\/p>\n
By the way, we should probably ban the use of famous people who strongly evoke one person in particular (e.g.: Stan Laurel).<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, I wonder whether we can use this general method for turning around any<\/i> guessing game: Given any given guessing game, use the Crowd to create another game, one which measures the quality not of the answers, but of the questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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