Binary Questions
In its original form, this game consisted of just questions. These had to be binary( or dichotomous): yes or no questions. Since this game involves a random word out of more than a hundred thousand, many questions are necessary to find the answer. If you scatter countless questions around this site, you’ll eventually find what you’re looking for. You’d be better suited by letting your questions work together, stacked on top of one another–a structure building toward an answer.
Mud, rock and shit are the materials available for the foundation you must build upon.
Rock is the most stable, the most certain, the best sort of question to build up from. Every question that narrows down the possible answers is a rock. Any question that doesn’t work counter to what you already know is a rock.
Mud isn’t going to help you much, in fact it may actually damage what you’ve already built and cause a series of elucidating questions to sink into the ground. If your line of questioning is veering off the paved rock road, then you’ll get mired in mud. If you start asking questions that have already been ruled out by a previous question, then you might as well be trapped in quicksand!
Frustration is expected. Whether you’re showing contempt for the game, or just making a shot in the dark hoping to finally put an end to the misery, sometimes a question is so off track that it goes beyond mud to being the occasional piece of shit. Examples include, “Is it Britney Spears?” or “Can you go shove it?” or “Is it your mom?”