Topic: Big Stumper's little brother - 2pt and 1pt game

[CMF]

You know what CMF?  You're a little bugger!!

Ga?tan Dugas?

Dammit, I almost had it..... 

Yup, that's him. This Canadian flight attendant is supposedly the first man to have AIDS.

Points/Beers: smokester - 35 CMF - 27 eel - 6 indie - 4 goldshirt*9 - 2 Stumpies: Code: [Select] Aston, Francis William Balcerowicz, Leszek Benavente, Jacinto (y Martinez) Bo?njaković, Fran Bourne, Matthew Coleman, Eldridge Wayne Cope, Edward Drinker Cribb, Roger Cunningham, Michael Dugas, Ga?tan Dyson, James Edison Thomas Eiffel, Gustave Fisher, Vilyam Genrikovich Foucault, Michel Goscinny, Ren? Gosławski, J?zef Haining, Peter Hart, Kitty Carlisle Levi, Bon Maleev, Alex McAdam, John Loudon Miller, Stanley Mitoraj, Igor Murray, Sir John Nasheed, Mohamed Nouwen, Henri Pavlov, Ivan Rogers, Richard Rushdie, Salman Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp Shumakov, Valery Stallman, Richard Stockhausen, Karlheinz Takahashi, Rumiko Tippett, Michael Wallace, Randall Watson, James D Yeo, Robert

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Dammit, I almost had it..... 

I have spent the last 3 days ignoring the flight attendant option, as I thought is was too wacky.

next:



Nationality:

1. French
2. Dutch
3. Belgian

Profession:

1. Food critic
2. Designer
3. Pianist

Born:

1. 1963
2. 1967
3. 1972

Game has:
[countdown=7,10,2009,23,04]I won!!![/countdown]

[CMF]

Charles Kaisin?

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Charles Kaisin?

Yup, I see you are back on form now..

Charles Kaisin

Points/Beers: smokester - 35 CMF - 29 eel - 6 indie - 4 goldshirt*9 - 2 Stumpies: Code: [Select] Aston, Francis William Balcerowicz, Leszek Benavente, Jacinto (y Martinez) Bo?njaković, Fran Bourne, Matthew Coleman, Eldridge Wayne Cope, Edward Drinker Cribb, Roger Cunningham, Michael Dugas, Ga?tan Dyson, James Edison Thomas Eiffel, Gustave Fisher, Vilyam Genrikovich Foucault, Michel Goscinny, Ren? Gosławski, J?zef Haining, Peter Hart, Kitty Carlisle Kaisin, Charles Levi, Bon Maleev, Alex McAdam, John Loudon Miller, Stanley Mitoraj, Igor Murray, Sir John Nasheed, Mohamed Nouwen, Henri Pavlov, Ivan Rogers, Richard Rushdie, Salman Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp Shumakov, Valery Stallman, Richard Stockhausen, Karlheinz Takahashi, Rumiko Tippett, Michael Wallace, Randall Watson, James D Yeo, Robert

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next:



Nationality:

1. American
2. Australian
3. South African

Profession:

1. Aeronautical Engineer
2. Photographer
3. Playwright

Born:

1. 1953
2. 1957
3. 1962

Game has:
[countdown=7,11,2009,01,58]I won!!![/countdown]

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I have been through the permutations twice and can't see a name that fits.  Does it matter which order you enter the 3 things into google for him to show on the first page?  I am using Nationality - Occupation - Birthyear.

[CMF]

I am using Nationality - Occupation - Birthyear.

That's the combination I used

[CMF]

That was the Australian playwright Stephen Sewell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sewell_(writer)

Points/Beers: smokester - 35 CMF - 30 eel - 6 indie - 4 goldshirt*9 - 2 Stumpies: Code: [Select] Aston, Francis William Balcerowicz, Leszek Benavente, Jacinto (y Martinez) Bo?njaković, Fran Bourne, Matthew Coleman, Eldridge Wayne Cope, Edward Drinker Cribb, Roger Cunningham, Michael Dugas, Ga?tan Dyson, James Edison Thomas Eiffel, Gustave Fisher, Vilyam Genrikovich Foucault, Michel Goscinny, Ren? Gosławski, J?zef Haining, Peter Hart, Kitty Carlisle Kaisin, Charles Levi, Bon Maleev, Alex McAdam, John Loudon Miller, Stanley Mitoraj, Igor Murray, Sir John Nasheed, Mohamed Nouwen, Henri Pavlov, Ivan Rogers, Richard Rushdie, Salman Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp Sewell, Stephen Shumakov, Valery Stallman, Richard Stockhausen, Karlheinz Takahashi, Rumiko Tippett, Michael Wallace, Randall Watson, James D Yeo, Robert

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next:



Nationality:

1. Bulgarian
2. Czech
3. Romanian

Profession:

1. Fantasy author
2. Film director
3. Human rights activist

Born:

1. 1932
2. 1935
3. 1938

Game has:
[countdown=7,19,2009,14,25]I won!!![/countdown]

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That was the Australian playwright Stephen Sewell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sewell_(writer)

Ok, he comes up on the second page for me using all the variations of inputting the facts.  This nearly happened once before as it seems that search returns vary depending on country.  If you are sure he shows on your first page of search returns, then I have thought of a way that might solve this issue.  The rules could be changed to add the birth month as well as the year.  It would make it slightly easier as it would guarantee a high on the page placing for your stumper, but if you hit the right combination without it it usually is pretty easy anyhow.

Another way might be to make this game a "name that wiki stumper" whereby you search wikipedia and not google for the answer.  It should unify the searches regardless of where you are, and it would make it much simpler to select a stumper (all you would have to do it think of a profession, nationality of timeframe for their birth, and pick one of the returns not having to research how google handles it), and it might make the game more fun?

Either way it should be dealt with now if the mechanism for solving this game is flawed.  What do ya think CMF or anyone interested?

[CMF]

I don't really like the thing with the month. Already, that it is long to find a good stumper.
As for the other one, how exactly will it work? It sounds good.

And is my new stumper still valid or do I have to post a new one with the new rules?

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actually scratch that, it seems to be working fine and I think I honestly missed it.  I believe google was set to my local search after researching the World game when I tested the combination again.

I'll get onto the new one in the morning.

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Unbelievable, got this on my first google..

Milo? Forman?

Spent 4 days on the last one.......

[CMF]

Milo? Forman?

yup

Points/Beers: smokester - 37 CMF - 30 eel - 6 indie - 4 goldshirt*9 - 2 Stumpies: Code: [Select] Aston, Francis William Balcerowicz, Leszek Benavente, Jacinto (y Martinez) Bo?njaković, Fran Bourne, Matthew Coleman, Eldridge Wayne Cope, Edward Drinker Cribb, Roger Cunningham, Michael Dugas, Ga?tan Dyson, James Edison Thomas Eiffel, Gustave Fisher, Vilyam Genrikovich Forman, Milo? Foucault, Michel Goscinny, Ren? Gosławski, J?zef Haining, Peter Hart, Kitty Carlisle Kaisin, Charles Levi, Bon Maleev, Alex McAdam, John Loudon Miller, Stanley Mitoraj, Igor Murray, Sir John Nasheed, Mohamed Nouwen, Henri Pavlov, Ivan Rogers, Richard Rushdie, Salman Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp Sewell, Stephen Shumakov, Valery Stallman, Richard Stockhausen, Karlheinz Takahashi, Rumiko Tippett, Michael Wallace, Randall Watson, James D Yeo, Robert

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Nationality:

1. Danish
2. Irish
3. Dutch

Profession:

1. Barrister
2. Astronomer
3. Heart Surgeon

Born:

1. 1901
2. 1907
3. 1914

Game has:
[countdown=7,22,2009,15,51]I won!!![/countdown]