Welcome to the continuation thread of our fun little forum game - the last one served us well for over a decade and thus (almost) reached the 10000 posts mark, at which the thread gets automatically and permanently locked. Credits for the original thread (and basis of the rules) to @conan.
(Fun fact - it’s actually the third rendition of that forum game, but the second one never took off)
Rules
Quite simple, really:
- Poster mentioned here a few times is the person who posts the picture depicting (a fragment of) the car you have to guess. Guesser is anyone that posted a guess.
- You win by guessing the correct make and model of a car (also variant/generation/model year if required by the Poster), confirmed by the current Poster. After confirmation you become the next Poster.
- If for any reason you’re not willing to provide a new guessing picture, you may give away your turn to anyone.
- Guessing pics should contain some guessable clue:
- As a Poster you should post hints once a day until someone gets the correct answer. Hints can be either pictures or text and can contain any information that narrows down the search. It’s been standard practice to post the first hint around 24h after the original image.
- As a Guesser you should not use Google image search. But since it’s basically undetectable, the Poster is advised to make sure that their picture does not provide sensible results when searched (it can be achieved by cropping, recolouring, adding some scribbles etc. - but remember that it still has to be guessable).
- As a Poster you may require a specific variant/generation/model year of the car as the answer ONLY if the picture you provided includes a characteristic element of that version. Remember to write that requirement! For example, a picture of a grille with a red line is enough to require “VW Golf GTI” instead of “VW Golf” as the answer, since only the GTIs have that red line.
- If the car on the picture had many names/rebadges/variations and the difference is not visible on that picture, a name of ANY of those is a correct answer. For example, a picture of a headlight of the second gen Opel Insignia has Opel Insignia, Vauxhall Insignia, Buick Regal, Holden Commodore and Holden Calais as the correct answers, since all those are mostly rebadges of the same car and their headlights look exactly the same.
- If the Poster does not provide a guessing pic within 48 hours since the correct guess confirmation, anyone might
pick up pitchforks and torchespost a guessing pic and thus become the new Poster.
Hints for posters (based on previous experiences)
- Pre-war cars look samey to most people, and people usually know much less about them, so using one as a guessing object might be less enjoyable for the Guessers.
- Cars from various works of fiction (movies, games etc.) can be impossible to know for large parts of our community, since we are all interested in cars, but not necessarily in the same works of fiction. Posting a GTA car excludes anyone who hasn’t played GTA.
- “It’s probably best not to use speculative renders”
as Noporian put it. Yeah, they get posted around the car community in the internet, but they’re still basically some artwork and might not be remembered or even noticed more than a dream. - Minecraft, or otherwise pixelated/boxified, versions of cars can be too hard to guess by the details, and posting a picture of like half of the car is not exactly the point here… Also people might not be used to recognising familiar shapes in such form, so it introduces additional difficulty that’s beside the main point of this game.
