mirrorshard | The categorization game (Reply)

As pointed to by

nou - an interesting mind exercise. Take eight objects, and divide them into two categories, each with four items in, on any basis you like. Using http://kevan.org/category.cgi for the word list helps, that randomly generates eight for you. It also lets you pick a seed number, guaranteeing that we all get the same word list to compare efforts - I've chosen 4242, and I suggest you go there and put that in, and play with the lists a couple of times (either in your head or with the little javascript whatsit they give you) before you open this

Things that have moving parts: net curtain, beast, clock, dilettante
Things that don't: caffeine pill, bourbon biscuit, spear, poster

Things that could potentially go off: beast, caffeine pill, bourbon biscuit, poster
Things that couldn't: net curtain, clock, spear, dilettante

Things that usually have something written on them: caffeine pill, bourbon biscuit, clock, poster
Other things: net curtain, beast, dilettante, spear

Shiny things: clock, poster, spear, dilettante
Non-shiny things: beast, net curtain, caffeine pill, bourbon biscuit