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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 11:47:32 GMT
In the Fill In the Blanks game on LatinD, I've sometimes read the blanked words and considered how much of an idea they give you about the text they came from. Then, recently, it occurred to me that that could be turned into a game, and here it is:
Post some words out of a short text or passage of a longer one and have other members guess what text they're from (or, short of that, the author). I won't set a limit to the number of words, put please just use common sense: enough words to make it guessable, but not as many as to basically quote the whole thing. The person who gets it right posts the next puzzle. Let's limit the number of guesses at three per player. Hints may be provided at the puzzle-poser's discretion. If a puzzle remains unanswered for 24 hours, the answer should be revealed and open floor declared.
Here's for a start:
nobilissimus, inductus, finibus, perfacile, praestarent, potiri, flumine, Germanis, provinciam, vagarentur, bellum, multitudine, fortitudinis, longitudinem, latitudinem
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 11:54:18 GMT
Sounds like Tacitus.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 11:55:07 GMT
Wrong! Though not a bad guess.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:16:24 GMT
Well, my 2 guess would have been Tacitus or Caesar.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 12:21:41 GMT
It is Caesar. Second paragraph of De Bello Gallico:
[2] 1 Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. Is M. Messala, [et P.] M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent: 2 perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, totius Galliae imperio potiri. 3 Id hoc facilius iis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur: una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit; altera ex parte monte Iura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit. 4 His rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent; 5 qua ex parte homines bellandi cupidi magno dolore adficiebantur. 6 Pro multitudine autem hominum et pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis angustos se fines habere arbitrabantur, qui in longitudinem milia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patebant.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:25:42 GMT
Well, that was my first impulse, but then it felt too obvious.
What am I supposed to do now?
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 12:26:25 GMT
You may post words from a text for others to guess.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:32:47 GMT
That's a weird game.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:37:08 GMT
Priape, Bacchi, Venus, genas, oscula, rapias.
Is that ok for that game or do I need to provide more words?
I don't really understand the rules.
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 12:38:58 GMT
It's OK.
What's unclear about the rules?
I'll guess the words are from Catullus (though one or two other candidates come to mind).
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 12:46:17 GMT
No, actually I think they're from the Ars Amatoria passage where Ovid advises men to take kisses by force, aren't they?
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Post by Pacifica on Mar 29, 2023 12:46:55 GMT
(I think the ending goes rapias illa tamen.)
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:47:47 GMT
It's OK. What's unclear about the rules? I'll guess the words are from Catullus (though one or two other candidates come to mind). I don't know ... it's not Catullus ... so what do I do next? Give additional hints? Are you allowed to go again? What are the basic rules?
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:49:50 GMT
It's OK. What's unclear about the rules? I'll guess the words are from Catullus (though one or two other candidates come to mind). Well ok, maybe this game could be fun. That was the guess that I was hoping for. It's such a good guess and yet so wrong.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 29, 2023 12:53:17 GMT
Do I need to give more hints if you don't get it? There really need to be clearer rules :>
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