Look Smart Trivia: Mystery Theme
4There’s mystery in the air, enigma in the water, perplexity in the dirt. Yet another Mystery Theme is upon us, so squint hard through your mental magnifying glass and figure out what these five images have in common. The first one to figure it out, list the appropriate characteristic for each, and add a sixth photo in keeping with the theme will claim a $5 Meh coupon for your own (unless you’ve won one already in the last seven days). Insert signoff catchphrase here!
Teamwork made the dream work last Friday, when the ineligible-to-win @cinoclav offered up the answers to Paris By Decade to whoever wanted them, and @UncleVinny picked them up and carried them to glory, and that $5 coupon:
- 1950’s
- 1930’s
- 1900’s
- 1920’s
- 1970’s
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Nice, umm, work @UncleVinny!
@cinoclav it was exhausting! Worked my fingers to the bone copying your answer!
@cinoclav oh hey…thanks again for the assist! Do you know how the nuts-and-bolts of this stupendous prize work? I ordered something yesterday, but there was no $5 coupon automatically applied. Was I supposed to recite an incantation? Maybe @JasonToon will know…
@UncleVinny On the order page there’s a spot to click if you have a coupon code. Use the code looksmart for your $5 off. Since you’ve already ordered your choice is probably to save it for the next time or contact customer service and ask if they’ll apply it to this order. (And you’re quite welcome for the assist!)
@Limewater bunch a freakin’ geniuses around here! Even after staring at your answers I still don’t understand…
@UncleVinny I’m probably wrong or stretching on #1, and that could affect whether or not my posted image counts.
@Limewater Oh why the jar! But you’re right – one isn’t quite correct
@lehigh @Limewater I assume for Mason Skywalker.
@lehigh Because he’s the key to everything.
@lehigh @Limewater Not just one jar…
@lehigh @Limewater Oh God - did you mean that damn Gungan? If so, we’re banishing YOU.
@Limewater I thought I might have a shot at this one…
@cinoclav @lehigh You’re the one who’s a fan of this stuff.
Alternate, probably valid answer to number one that I’m still not happy with, but I’m not expending any more energy on this.
@jrwofuga Ewokked right into that one.
one of my least favorite things is working these things out, then posting, then seeing someone posted it 10 minutes earlier. . .
@cinoclav I hadn’t noticed none of the earlier ones said wicket . . .I’m in with a chance.
Nice pun.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga Yeah, that looks way better than mine.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga Actually, you may want to revise your image submission. I think it needs to be a pun or other name similarity. So, like, a picture of a can of mace, or Donnie Yen just looking very, very ashamed of himself. OK, that’s not a pun. I just feel bad for the guy.
Wicket
Akbar
Boba
Bossk/Bosc
Solo
@cinoclav good point.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga If I were faster… and eligible… I would have posted
@lehigh Darth Gouda?
j/k, here’s part 2 of yours:
Ah, now that answer to #1 makes sense.
I think we have a winner.
Oh… except, you’re forgetting something.
never mind, you added it while I was posting.
@DennisG2014 first one wouldn’t load.
I think ‘Solo’ and ‘Boba’ gave it away as to what the general subject was. Figuring out the others is fine work by all.
@cinoclav I originally thought Bubble rather than Boba. Once I got Boba, it fell into place.
@cinoclav @jrwofuga I started from the bottom and thought… solo, pear, and then was trying to figure out what bubble tea had to do with trios (and the Life in Hell strip is a 4x4). But like @jrwofuga once I realized it was Boba not Bubble, then it unlocks
1.) Crackit
2.) Crooks
3.) Chutney
4.) Crown Cear
5.) Cup
You guys are good!
@JasonToon - I have a suggestion for how to get a little more play out of the Mystery Themes, at least for non-winners:
If answers were whispered to you, and only the “sixth photo in keeping with the theme” were posted in the open, it’d keep the mystery and the fun going a bit longer.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 good idea.
My entry for #6:
@DennisG2014 CHEWbacca?
@cinoclav Well, I was thinking Chewie, but same difference.
@DennisG2014 I’d think this would be a more appropriate image though.
@DennisG2014 @rtjhnstn Or…
@cinoclav @DennisG2014 @rtjhnstn Chew tobacco chew tobacco chew tobacco spit, if you ain’t from <hometown> you ain’t