Mnemonic Device Game! (Roy G Biv et al)

[Walker]

In this game first one person names a memory device, and others try to tell what it's for (or something is named and others try to make a memory device for it). If people don't get it, clues are allowed-- the more obscure the better.

Roy G Biv (let's start easy)

[Angel]

Can I have a more detailed explanation, please? Thick as two short planks and all that...

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Walker

Roy G Biv (let's start easy)

colours in the spectrum... red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

[Walker]

Yep, or a rainbow. Do you have a memory-device to give?

It goes like that. One says a memory device-- Roy G. Biv. And another says what it is used to remember-- the colors of the rainbow. Then the person who got it right gives their own.

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Walker

Yep, or a rainbow. Do you have a memory-device to give?

It goes like that. One says a memory device-- Roy G. Biv. And another says what it is used to remember-- the colors of the rainbow. Then the person who got it right gives their own.

oh... ok...

one we use a lot is

me and my sister
me and my toes

[Walker]

Um... actually, I have no idea. Is the first letter of each word something, or is each letter something?

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Walker

Um... actually, I have no idea. Is the first letter of each word something, or is each letter something?

no... parts of the words sound the same in the words they help you remember... it helps to remember both what the words are and what they are for...
it's for cell division if that helps... sorry I can't think of anything more general...

you can also just use my sis and my toe...

[Albion Knight]

I have no idea either here's a wild guess
Montreal Anthropology Management Society
Montreal Anthropology Management Training
or something in French

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

I have no idea either here's a wild guess
Montreal Anthropology Management Society
Montreal Anthropology Management Training
or someting in French

no... as I said, the words sound the same as the words they are helping you to remember... they're not initials...
my sis and my toes sound the same as the process they are supposed to help you remember... but unfortunately if you don't have a genetics background or perhaps a biology background I guess, it may be more difficult to get it...
maybe I should just say it... sorry I don't know anything more general...

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

Ah Mitosis

hehe

you must have added that while I was typing
so I'm not so obscure as I think I am...

yeah, my sis is for Myosis... which is used in sex cell reproduction, it creates people, me and my sister...
my toes is for Mytosis... which is used in somatic cell reproduction, it creates body parts, like toes... me and my toes...

[Albion Knight]

Ah Mitosis?

[§ephiroxa§]

King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk

[Angel]

Ahh! *lightning strikes brain* Now I am understanding how this works...like when you want to remember the points of the compass and you say Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Or am I still being moronic about this?

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Angel

Ahh! *lightning strikes brain* Now I am understanding how this works...like when you want to remember the points of the compass and you say Never Eat Shredded Wheat. Or am I still being moronic about this?

Nope you're right on track. North East South West

[Angel]

WOO HOO! *happy dance*

Ok....erm...this one is obvious but I learnt it when I was about 8:
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

[Albion Knight]

Originally Posted by Angel

WOO HOO! *happy dance*

Ok....erm...this one is obvious but I learnt it when I was about 8:
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

Fate of Henry the Eighth's wives I think
Got a clue from here

Originally Posted by Sephiroxas

King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk

I know this one its mathy I think

Here's one for computer geeks
A Priest Saw Two Nuns Doing Pushups
or Please Do Not Throw sausage Pizza Away