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There’s an old game called “Twenty Questions” in which one person thinks of the name of an object and the other person, or group, tries to guess what it is. The first question is, “Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral?”

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(2007). Ask: “Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?”. In: The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68222-8_20

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