Twenty Questions

[axn]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

All specific things mentioned as examples (a modern car, a modern computer, etc.) can be clearly eliminated, so it's none of those.

How did you eliminate a modern car?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by cheesehead

(14) Is it one of multiple identical, or practically identical items?

It is still lavalamp's turn. The answer to #13 was a yes, see rule 4.

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by axn

How did you eliminate a modern car?

With this: "No, there is no selection of colors."
Admittedly, if the object is a particular modern car or a very unusual class of modern car, there might be no selection of colors, so my assessment wasn't necessarily 100% accurate. But it does eliminate common general types of modern cars (e.g. it can't be a type of car like "Chevy Volt" or "VW Beetle" or whatnot).
Uncwilly, on #10, can you please clarify which definition you answered Yes to? Was it, as I assumed, this definition? "Would something that is battery powered be considered "chemically powered"? Would you considered a camper that resides in the bed of a pickup to be 'chemically powered', because the pick-up that moves it is chemically powered?"

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

Uncwilly, on #10, can you please clarify which definition you answered Yes to?

Originally Posted by lavalamp

10) Is it chemically powered?

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Would something that is battery powered be considered "chemically powered"? Would you considered a camper that resides in the bed of a pickup to be 'chemically powered', because the pick-up that moves it is chemically powered?

Originally Posted by lavalamp

Yes, I meant chemically powered in the sense of a fuel that is burned up in a heat engine.

If lavalamp's answer is affirmative to either of my questions or both, then yes is the answer to his initial question. Question 6 might help out.

[lavalamp]

14) Since it is chemically powered, but does not use a heat engine, does it contain a fuel cell?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by lavalamp

14) Since it is chemically powered, but does not use a heat engine, does it contain a fuel cell?

No, it does not contain a fuel cell.

Next person.

[Mini-Geek]

(15) Is it made to transport more than two people?
(I would've just said "Can it hold ..." but how much you can fit in/on something isn't the same as what it's made to carry)

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

(15) Is it made to transport more than two people?

You made a brave assumption that is is made to transport people.


Yes, it is made to transport more than 2.

You have the next go.

[Mini-Geek]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

You made a brave assumption that is is made to transport people.

Perhaps, but I'd think most things that are 'a form of transport' in this size range are made to transport people.

(16) Does it move under its own power?

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Mini-Geek

(16) Does it move under its own power?

No, it does not.

Next person.
[lavalamp's 12 hour pause has not expired yet.]

[retina]

This puzzle format reminds a little bit of charades:

Originally Posted by Blackadder

"Ah ha. Lets see if I've got this straight."
"If I admit that I'm in love with ..."
[guard shakes his head]
"No?"
[guard does a half somersault]
"Oh, If I say that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool, but we can't quite make that out, and roast them over a large fire."
"Whereas, if I don't admit that I'm head over heels in love with Satan and all his little wizards, you will hold me upside down in a vat of warm marmalade."
[Blackadder sees the guard expecting more]
"... and remove my testicles with a blunt instrument resembling some kind of gardening tool."
[guard nods]
"Well in that case, I love Satan."
[guard produces a scythe]
"Oh, it's a scythe."

(17) Does it have sails?