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Often take a look and then put on the thinking cap. If and when the answer comes, someone else has usually gotten there first. Must admit to often being stumped, most of these are quite creative and require searching back to periods and persons in ones memory not thought of in decades.
One of the downsides of this, in this computer age, is that the identities can often be solve by the most creative googler, without much regard for the solver's knowledge of history or anything else. An effort was made a year or so ago, to make rules that the subject had to meet some minimum standard of fame, such as a Wiki article. It's a balancing act between not giving enough information, or giving so much that it's easy. It seems to have evolved to a point at which the first clue is diabolically obtuse, followed by a few more enlightening hints.
Yeah, I kind of have my own rule...if I don't know it without having to google items, I won't answer.
Been awfully busy and not able to look often, but still log on and catch up.
One of the downsides of this, in this computer age, is that the identities can often be solve by the most creative googler, without much regard for the solver's knowledge of history or anything else. An effort was made a year or so ago, to make rules that the subject had to meet some minimum standard of fame, such as a Wiki article. It's a balancing act between not giving enough information, or giving so much that it's easy. It seems to have evolved to a point at which the first clue is diabolically obtuse, followed by a few more enlightening hints.
Well some of the subjects on here are so obscure that it takes some very skillful "creative googling" to even come close to identifying them.
On the other hand when I've picked fairly well known people that I was already quite knowledgable about--rather than searching for a relatively unknown historical figure on Wikipedia, people have guessed them in 20 minutes...
However, if only a few people are participating, and many of those log in only once a day or so, posers that are relatively easy to recognize from the details given would simply default to the first person that logs on.
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