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Acid - please confirm you are happy we discuss this options before guessing (ie is you agreement with your mate that it can be discussed? It does say "people")

Cheers

We could always do it via PM otherwise.

Meh - lets discuss it anyway

The thing that I cant reconcile is that its more than 100 years old but not made of metal. It rules out lots of coins, medieval weapons and armour,

What about something like a postage stamp maybe - a penny black?

It isn't crafted!

Round up

It's between 100-1000 years old.
It's organic.
Not a religious artefact.
Not been crafted.
Not heavy.
Would sell for over £1,000 (probably).
Not functional.
Not metal.
From outside the UK.
Isn't a single word
Not found below ground
Not of animal origin


FOI

Its not an

Egg Yolk
Dinosaur Tooth
Tiger tooth
Rhino horn
Tortoise shell

Missed a couple:

is NOT living
is NOT an item which you would say is commonly held by the population (ie at least once in their lifetime)

For me that leaves something in pretty much its natural state (although it's not living), and not of animal origin (so not a tooth, bone, hair, ivory, etc.):

An old flower
An dried piece of fruit/vegetable
Spices
Seeds

:dontask:

so can we assume that it therefore must be naturally formed?

I was thinking you can omit all rocks etc as it couldn't be <1000 years old

Worth asking the question 'was it ever alive?'?

Hmm coral or a pearl?

Unless of course it HAS been crafted, and is of human origin (and therefore animal origin).

Animal origin.

Still could be a rock formed from a recent volcanic eruption or something?

Potentially it could be something like soil from the Amazon, but that's not worth £1,000.

So maybe a piece of turf from a sporting venue (non-UK)?  Could argue that it's been crafted though...

Also living

It's organic.  Rules out rocks, as does the 1,000 years thing.

dubious on the <1000 years old and not from underground IMO

Not if it's now dead.

It's organic, but not living, and not from animal origin.

so are we down to minerals?

Nope, it's not minerals.  They're not organic.

Anything like fossils, amber, etc., can be ruled out as they're >1000 years old.

What about something that has been preserved, like food rations from somewhere?

I'm no biologist, but pearls come from oysters which are animals and I thought coral was an animal.

Could it be something like an old hailstone?  Some sort of super weather phenomenon?

Let me. Get home to answer this and other thread my phone crap for typing and i am watching cricket *)

Yes, he said it's not from animal origin.

In the old game of 20 Questions, you would ask "Is it animal, vegetable or mineral?"  We know it's organic (so not mineral), we know it's not animal, which leaves 'vegetable'.

Not organic.

it's been a long day

The animal origin ambiguity is a huge clue.

Still no bloody idea though!

Excsqueeze me, but whats going on now?
 Just catching up with these threads this morning and I'm confused. Is this a different object from Mozart's hair or is the other thread the continuation of this one?

This was a thread started because any discussion we had on the guessing thread Acid was counting as a question.  The confusion is that he sent us on a wild-goose chase as we were told it wasn't of 'animal origin'...

FYP

There is a trick if it is a single word that would appear in the dictionary, which is to keep halving the range and you'll find a single page. Then you narrow the column, then the section and finally the word.

You can do that in under 20 without difficulty in theory.

I could see your plan when you asked that originally.

All the questions asked should really be doing the same sort of thing.  Trying to halve the remaining options, and with 20 iterations, it should be guessable.

On the new game I got an ambiguous no on textile.
I'm wondering now about the man made question, would it refer to the item or the material used, i:e a rubber dingy?

Man-made would mean it's been crafted by a man/woman - so it's not something in its natural state - such as a tree, a fossil, a stalactite, a river or indeed a lock of Mozart's hair.

A rubber dingy would be man-made.

Object 2 is man made I was thinking dingy also thinking cable or fishing net

Has guy fallen asleep?

Forget the net cable its under 100kg

I'm only answering in main thread, I'd undertake a review and consider OP if I were guessing