Questions about a word / logic game

[Jeff Root]

I put this here in Off-Topic Babbling, not in Fun and
Games, because I'm not starting a game, just asking
about one.

I don't know what the game is called, but I expect
that it exists, and is very likely going on in Fun and
Games even as I type. One person provides examples,
and the other players try to guess what the category
is that all the examples belong to.

Q1: Does this game have a name?

Q2: Is it a better than halfway decent idea for a game?

And finally, the question which prompted this post:

Q3: What could be examples for the category "Things
which are complete" ?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

[vonmazur]

Jeff: Well they did this, sort of, years ago on TV..."What's My Line", and similar shows, although not exactly like your idea. Also there is a Netflix commercial running on radio in the US that uses some of this in the ad itself...

I do not know what to call it, it is like the "Book of Lists" that was out in the 80's, hard to pin down...

Dale

[Solfe]

A3: "yesterday." or "dinner".

[grapes]

A3: Boolean algebras in which every subset has a supremum

[nosbig5]

A3: Surprise, Failure, Idiot,

[Fazor]

proposed name: Taxono-Me!

[nosbig5]

A1 : not that I know of, although the reverse of this game (given a category, come up with as many examples as possible) has lots of different variations.

A2 : I would play it.

[Taeolas]

Sounds a lot like the "What do these things have in common" type of games, like TriBond and similar games. Granted those games usually have different joining criteria (like what do "mill", "candy", and "gin" have in common? "cotton")

[NEOWatcher]

The "$25/$64/$100 Pyramid" (depending on what year with inflation)

It went both ways:
The finale was naming items to guess the category.
The rest of the game was naming the category then guessing the item from a description.

[jlhredshift]

It is still played on "Big Bang Theory".

Sheldon: "Who am I?"

Howard: "Spock".

Sheldon: "I don't like this game!"