I'm hereby closing this quiz, even though there is no official winner.
The correct answer was
Grandia. Sephiroth 3D guessed this early on, and I suspect this was Jari's conclusion as well. The reason there is no winner is because of invalid guesses containing the right answer, and the reason I called it off is that the whole thing escalated. I wasn't clear enough with the rules, and I don't want anyone saying the winner was appointed unfairly.
The correct solution was to align the blocks (as done by Sephiroth 3D), which would give you the following keywords:
- COMPASS: Prominently displayed in the upper-right corner of Grandia games
- HOWL: Wind spell in Grandia games (english translation)
- YGGDRASIL: "Operation Yggdrasil" is the evil plot of Grandia (I)
- MANA: Grandia games utilize Mana eggs for magic
- (kanji): These kanji form the Japanese name Iwadare, composer of Grandia's music.
In short, the key to identifying Grandia (I) was knowing where Yggdrasil fit in.
Special note to Jari: Search engines are not illegal, my quizzes are rarely entirely solvable using your mind only.
http://www.gamefaqs.com is highly recommended when doing my quizzes. Other quizmasters may not allow search engines, though.
Since the quiz theme seems to have grown popular however, expect a few changes to the board in the near future to incorporate this. In the mean time, the next quizmaster will be
Sephiroth 3D.
Sephiroth 3D:
Your argument is that "Grandia or Grandia II" is valid, but "one of the Grandia games" is not? I don't see your logic. Where do you draw the line between completing the quiz honorably and guessing wildly?
The point of my quiz (and most others) is to use all the clues to identify a single game. If you guess all the games who contain references to "Yggdrasil" at once, what's the sport? The idea is to use your brainpower and sense of deduction to arrive at the correct answer, not leave the work half-done and guess all the games matching so far.
The second point of my rule is to make it a fair game. If I leave some clues which easily narrows the list of games down to five or so games, and the first poster answer all of those, then he's stolen the fun for everyone else. If I spend lots of time to actually crack the quiz, I don't want to be beaten by someone too lazy to finish the work but scoring a lucky guess. If you reply with three games and get one right, you still have two incorrect answers. I don't feel it's right to win that way.
Thirdly, you illustrate my point. You even admitted your first guess was a far-off guess, and when asked to choose one of them (a 50-50% chance) you chose wrongly. This leads me to believe you did not finish the quiz, but guessed anyway.
But as I said earlier, rules are set by the current quizmaster. My quizzes will continue to have this rule, you are free to do as you wish with yours.
