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The story
A quiz thread was heating up on 5ch’s Newsspeed VIP board, where a questioner doles out three hints one at a time for others to guess a game title, and whoever gets it right takes over as the next questioner. Titles ranged from famous names like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, and Metal Gear Solid to more nostalgic picks like Mahjong Fight Club, Wonder Momo, and Ishtar no Fukkatsu (The Return of Ishtar), with participants either nailing the answer instantly or agonizing over it. The thread also saw pushback on the hints themselves, with comments like “A beetle hint for Mushiking? Way too easy,” sparking discussion about how hard it is to pitch the difficulty just right.
What people said
Correct! That was fast
Thanks
Feel like I could nail it by the second hint
Balancing three hints is tough
Should've saved that one for last
Home Run Derby, correct!
Correct! Fast
Mutsugoro
Four Guardian Gods
Fighting
That's a tough one — mind if I set the next question?
Theme park
Picking up trash
Silent Hill
Go ahead, answer it
Gondola
Metal Gear Solid
Gondola
Bow and arrow
Ah, must be Pooyan
1. Classic
pop'n music
Nope
Correct! Go ahead, next one
Right, I'd even forgotten Nyamco's name
Nope
It's fine, anything goes
Correct!
Go ahead, next
Correct!
Hint 3 was going to be hula hoop
Knife
Let's just get the answer for this one first
Background and Talking Points
This format is a classic 5ch VIP relay game: the questioner drips out three hints, and whoever answers correctly sets the next question — with no fixed host or moderator, it’s an entirely self-organizing bit of fun. The titles that came up spanned generations and genres, from console classics like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, and Metal Gear Solid, to older arcade and PC-8801-era games like Wonder Momo, Pooyan, and Ishtar no Fukkatsu (The Return of Ishtar), to more niche fighting and puzzle titles like Mahjong Fight Club and Clock Tower. The thread’s big talking point was how to calibrate hint difficulty: commenters contrasted the overly easy case where “beetle” alone gives away Mushiking with tougher cases like “movie, theme park, picking up trash,” which are unsolvable unless you already know the genre — sparking debate over how hard it is for a questioner to strike the right balance. Note that this article excerpts only part of the posts; the thread itself is an ongoing relay and doesn’t include a final conclusion.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Newsspeed VIP) thread “Three-Hint Game Title Quiz.”
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