Spoilers

[mneme]

willshetterly posted a set of rules for commenting in his blog/journal, including "no spoilers". Naturally, I had to post some.

I've numbered them, to make it easy to guess what they're spoilers -to- -- some are easy, some trivial, some pretty hard. drcpunk is ineligible because she guessed most of them already and was told the rest.

1. It's a sled. (fleetfootmike)
   
2. He's a she. (easy, but arguably devotedbear. Ambug was the first to name it, though)
   
3. They win. They win, but the king still dies. One wins, two lose, one doesn't play, all but one dies, and he's not the one that won. (kokoinai)
   
4. After going to the moon, they come home. (stormsweeper)
   
5. After going to the moon, they go into space and conquer the galaxy.
   
6. The big bad guys lose. The big good guys have left the building.
   
7. They do, in fact, find the promised land. And keep it for a while. Here are some rules for you to follow. (fiddledragon)
   
8. He loses, but gets a new job, and so do all his friends.
   
9. They win. But that's boring, so they start over again. (tirerim)
   
10. They die and go to heaven. (fiddledragon)
    
11. Five return, and one goes alone. (fiddledragon)
    
12. Some go, two stay and rule. And two stay for a long while, and then go.(fleetfootmike)
    
13. They live happily ever after.
    

(the last one's not worth guessing, but it's the only spoiler without a specific behind it)

Comments

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

5 -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? I don't remember them conquering the galaxy, but I sort of skimmed the ending...

some hints, kinda

[mneme]

Nope.

Hint: 5 and 6 are paired (much more, internally, than 4 and 5 are). 5 is also distorted by my memory imposing a false symmetry with it and 4 -- a much more accurate spoiler would be "they go -around- the moon, then conquer the galaxy".

I'm somewhat surprised, for similar reasons, that nobody's guessed #8. #9's kinda obscure. Unless you've read it, in which it really isn't.

Now #3, well, that actually -is- obscure, though it might be helped if one understands that the three "endings" are of three different novels.

Re: some hints, kinda

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

I think someone guessed 2001: A Space Odyssey for 4, but weren't sure whether they actually landed on the moon. So maybe that was it.

Re: some hints, kinda

[mneme]

Nope!

This is too much hinting, but 5 becomes -far- easier once you've guessed 6, as 6 is by far the more popular work.