Guess The Item 🤔

[Zman]

Is it used to produce furniture?
No.

Is it a generic type of simple engineering like a lathe?
No
What sort of modern materials is it made of nowadays?
Paper
Does it need human or electrical power to operate?
No
I confess earlier on I was thinking of a weaving device.
Is it not.

Well, to sum up: The most important info is that it's made of paper, mass-produced today, while it was made of clay, stone, or papyrus in the old days. As I said, it only makes sense if it is completed by using a fundamental cultural technique that everybody should have but still doesn't have.

It's a book maybe the bible.

 

[looker-on]

It's a book maybe the bible.

Good guess but my item is shorter than a book, something that was and is used to exchange messages shorter than a book.

 

[Zman]

Good guess but my item is shorter than a book, something that was and is used to exchange messages shorter than a book.

Notepad

 

[Grier]

A newspaper?

 

[looker-on]

Notepad

Close but no cigar. What is a more stylish and suitable way of exchanging messages on paper?

 

[looker-on]

A newspaper?

No, that's not for exchanging messages on paper.

 

[Grier]

Calligraphy items from chisels on clay tablets to fine nibbed fountain pens?
Another dying art.

Printing Press? (now a photocopier?)

Typewriter?

Wild guess, something to do with Braille writing??

Keep firing away Zman, we're getting there.

 

[looker-on]

Calligraphy items from chisels on clay tablets to fine nibbed fountain pens?
Another dying art.

Printing Press? (now a photocopier?)

Typewriter?

Wild guess, something to do with Braille writing??

Keep firing away Zman, we're getting there.

I wouldn't call that a basic cultural technique but a special one.
Now the $42,000 questions: What ability do you need to have if you have paper and you wanted to send a message to someone? What you produce on paper and send away is the item I have in mind.

 

[Zman]

Close but no cigar. What is a more stylish and suitable way of exchanging messages on paper?

I've got it now post it's!

 

[Richie]

A newspaper. Ancient people communicated news by using stone tablets then papyrus.

 

[Grier]

A story?

 

[looker-on]

A newspaper. Ancient people communicated news by using stone tablets then papyrus.

Yes, but they did not exchange news through them as it was a one-directional process....

 

[looker-on]

Zman came closest but ignored my hint that the messages were sent not posted onto something...

 

[looker-on]

So, you have a sheet of paper, mass-produced, and you have an but without the fundamental cultural technique of being able to write with pen or pencil both would be useless. Only being literate enables you to produce the final result I had in mind and that was:
a (handwritten) letter which you send off and receive thus exchanging information.

 

[Richie]

So, you have a sheet of paper, mass-produced, and you have an but without the fundamental cultural technique of being able to write with pen or pencil both would be useless. Only being literate enables you to produce the final result I had in mind and that was:
a (handwritten) letter which you send off and receive thus exchanging information.

You bamboozled us all Thomas.

 

[looker-on]

You bamboozled us all Thomas.

With you guys one shouldn't put the bar too low. You'll have to admit that I gave you a lot of hints but noticed that they were ignored. Incidentally, how would you have described such a normal old-school letter?

 

[Richie]

how would you have described such a normal old-school letter

No better than you did mate.

 

[Richie]

I'd like another crack at What Happened.

 

[Grier]

I feel a bit silly not getting that one Thomas as i've always taken pride in my own hand writing on paper, black or white board. Old school stuff I don't use much any more except for shopping lists and sticky notes.

 

[looker-on]

I feel a bit silly not getting that one Thomas as i've always taken pride in my own hand writing on paper, black or white board. Old school stuff I don't use much any more except for shopping lists and sticky notes.

There's no need, Terry. Sometimes we don't see the wood for the trees.