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Vrish
Yes. Examples, as I said, I gave were deliberately simple so that tough ones are left for the actual game.😆 At the moment though I haven't thought about any tough either honestly 😆 but I have a feeling that tougher can also be framed if one is smart enough and rules are flexible enough to alter the number of options to be given from 3-4 to 7-8 may be as per the choice of the person framing. Who knows a question may be tougher with more options. Or the other way round. And as I said, inclusion of geographical knowledge of map of Ramayan-Mahabharat times with names of places, rivers, mountains, pilgrimages may also add variety and wider range to the game. Weapons also.
Tougher example of the question can be related to sources. Someone who is far more knowledgeable about mythological sources should have advantage in the game. For example, you can mention in the list 5 events of Ramayan out of which one is Lakshman rekha or of Tarinisen, which is only found in Krittivas Ramayan whereas others are all found in Valmiki Ramayan. Such question may be a tough one. One may give options of different Krishna leelas among which all but one have some common concept or message (but it should be logically convincing to mass to be common).
One clarification. In one question I gave as example, Hidimb is also possible answer apart from Karna. Dushasan, Duryodhan, Karna, Keechak were all humans and normal warriors and Hidimb was rakshas. It should be upto the person asking the question to make sure he doesn't leave chances of multiple possible answers and the person giving the answer either Karna or Hidimb should be given the point as long as the common characteristic between 4 of them given as logic by him/her along with the answer is of some real substance and convincing in general to majority to be so. In such case, I should have better put Vikarna as option instead of Hidimb. Alternatively, to make the solving tougher, the rule could also be made like our current character game that exact answer in the mind of the person framing the question with exactly the same reasoning should be cracked.
Regarding linking Vashisth with Sudama, I would like to ask your clarification whether relation of Guru-Shishya won't do? If it will do, then here is my attempt:
Vashishth ===> Ram's teacher
Ram ===> Vishnu's incarnation
Vishnu ===> Krishna (another incarnation of Vishnu)
Krishna ===> Sandipani's shishya
Sandipani ===> Sudama's teacher
5 links.
And that completing the sequence idea coincided in our mind. Today morning, I also thought the same with the example of Raghu dynasty and chronology and succession taking my Atri's example of fill in the blanks and Vishnu avtar's example as base. But I didn't include it today by further editing my post thinking that it would only have the limited range of dynasties. It would just be restricted to dynasties. But like you have given the example of marriages, any similar events like this can be arranged chronologically and sequence can be finished. Your trick in your example of skipping one generation in between was added dimension to it btw to my thought. That was brilliant. And also yours idea include both interpolation and extrapolation. My similar idea today morning was just of extrapolation. Extending the series further.
Lola
Yes. The odd one out is likely to be simple to participate for many but less challenging. That trade off and opposite pros and cons are always going to be there. If you create poll, my vote will go to Vrish's idea (even if I am allowed to vote my own at all.😆)
