Topic: Solved - NEH 415: Cadillac-based Sbarro Function Car 1978

[Carnut]

What's this?
1 point for its correct identification:

[Oguerrerob]

All I can write is that's a Cadillac Fleetwood based

[Ultra]

All I can write is that's a Cadillac Fleetwood based

Looks like an Eldorado front end to me.

[Maxiu]

1978 Cadillac TAG Function Car

[Carnut]

It's Cadillac based, yes.
But who's it by?
Maxiu has given the most comprehensive info so far with 75% of its correct name..

[geology]

sbarro

[Carnut]

sbarro

That's the guy..

[Otto Puzzell]

So, who got the point? The guy with 75% of the answer, or the 25% solution?

[Carnut]

So, who got the point? The guy with 75% of the answer, or the 25% solution?

Yes, I did ponder over that one.
But Maxiu didn't mention Sbarro, which was crucial to the answer.  I should perhaps have locked it for him, but I thought he would be straight back with it and anycase he should really have included that in his first answer..

So Geology got the point for giving the final solution, even if he did have lots of help from Maxiu.

Good lesson there - include ALL the detail you can otherwise you may lose the point!

[Otto Puzzell]

Yep

[Ray B.]

So, who got the point? The guy with 75% of the answer, or the 25% solution?

Good lesson there - include ALL the detail you can otherwise you may lose the point!

Yep too, but in that case we usually lock the puzzle a few days for the guy with the 75%. That's only fair, because a little googling based on his answer will usually bring the 25% even if you don't know them.

[Paul Jaray]

As a general rule, the puzzler decides, so I'm just giving an humble opinion:

If the answer is in the right direction but wrong, it should be open to all (a modified Cadillac?)
If the guesser obviously got the car but it is incomplete or slightly wrong, the puzzle should be locked for him.

My opinion is that writing "1978 Cadillac TAG Function Car" Maxiu proved that he found the right car, plane and simple.
The question was "What's this? 1 point for its correct identification" without a request for specific details.
On the other hand the Sbarro involvment was not a "detail".

. I should perhaps have locked it for him, but I thought he would be straight back with it

Yes, but let someone else get straight back with it sound not much better...

I felt the same with a Burney\Crosley Streamliner puzzle: I found the car but post an incomplete\wrong answer and someonelse fixed it.
...you can live with that! 

[Carnut]

All noted.
If the consensus is that Maxiu should get a point as well then I'd be happy to give him one?
Maybe 0.75 of a point?!
Advice always welcome.

And incidentally, the website I got the picture from (although I know the same picture is on many websites) did not mention Cadillac at all, just calling it the 'Sbarro Function Car', so its 'correct identification' should have said at least that as far as I was concerned, not necessarily the car it was based on.