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This was a game that we played on another forum, having nicked it I think from somewhere else, and had great fun with biggrin .

The idea is that you summarise a book, poem, play, movie, television show, etc. in the form of a haiku - i.e. a three line poem where the first line has five syllables, the second has seven, and the last has five again. The object of the game is to work out what other people's haikus are based on.

An example might be,



The answer, of course, is Harry Potter.

Rules of Play

1) Make sure your summaries are in haiku form! They can be as obvious or as subtle as you want them to be; the only requirement is they follow the 5-7-5 pattern of syllables.
2) Don't post or guess more than three haikus at once. That means you can, in a single post, guess up to three haikus of other people's and post up to three new ones of your own - but then let other people have a chance!
3) You don't have to guess a haiku to post a new one, or post a haiku in order to guess, but people are encouraged to keep guessing and keep making up new ones - otherwise the thread grinds to a nasty halt with no haikus left or a couple of hundred left unguessed.
4) If someone gets a haiku wrong, don't tell them the answer - leave it for others to have a go at. You can announce the answer if you choose to after five incorrect guesses.
5) You can make multiple guesses on the same haiku.

I may add more rules if the thread gets too out of control.

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To start the ball rolling, here's three haikus for you to guess.

Her Marque: ink black rose
"All knowledge is worth having"
To "Love as Thou Wilt"

You're both right biggrin

Sadly I have no idea on either of yours! So I'll post another one.