The Set Game

[flyingchicken]

Hint: It's so shallow you might hate me for it.

I googled for five minutes and couldn't find any.

Uh, sorry, more specifically, for the rule, not for word-sums as you described.

 

[Perfection]

No, I hate you already. So don't worry about that.

 

[flyingchicken]

Okay, maybe it's so shallow you might hate me even more.

Come on, keep on guessing.

 

[Catharsis]

Err...

Rule: Number of enclosed loops in word, when first letter is capitalised, is a prime number
Member: Received
Non-member: Antidote

 

[flyingchicken]

? -- edit: oh wait, got it, no.

Members: Banana, cerise, spuds, punani
Nonmembers: Jump, penis, butt, arbitrage, nutritional, bikini, thong, revive, pornography, oak, mushrooms, vagina, chicken, steel, onions, juniper, meat and two veg, potatoes, apple, sporadic, received, antidote

 

[Stuck in Pi]

Words that have two of the same letter in them?
Member: food
Nonmember: cat

 

[flyingchicken]

no

Members: Banana, cerise, spuds, punani, food
Nonmembers: Jump, penis, butt, arbitrage, nutritional, bikini, thong, revive, pornography, oak, mushrooms, vagina, chicken, steel, onions, juniper, meat and two veg, potatoes, apple, sporadic, received, antidote, cat

 

[Perfection]

What do you mean by shallow? Simple rules are good, complex rules aren't. Using obscure things is also not good.

 

[flyingchicken]

Do you people play boardgames?

 

[Mise]

Rule: They all have a scrabble score of 8.
Member: hairs
Non-member: tornadoes

 

[flyingchicken]

*bing bing bing* (appropriate accent) We have a winner!

Final list
Members: Banana, cerise, spuds, punani, food, hairs
Nonmembers: Jump, penis, butt, arbitrage, nutritional, bikini, thong, revive, pornography, oak, mushrooms, vagina, chicken, steel, onions, juniper, meat and two veg, potatoes, apple, sporadic, received, antidote, cat, tornadoes

Scrabble isn't obscure, is it? Anyway, congratulations Mise, you're our new GM.

 

[Mise]

Members: United Kingdom
Non-members: Republic of Ireland

 

[Catharsis]

Rule: Country whose head of state is a woman
Member: Federal Republic of Germany
Non-member: Russian Federation

 

[Perfection]

Scrabble isn't obscure, is it? Anyway, congratulations Mise, you're our new GM.

No not at all, good one

Rule: Starts with a vowel
Members: Ears
Nonmembers: Funkytown

 

[Mise]

Nope to both rules.

Members: United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany
Non-members: Republic of Ireland, Ears, Funkytown, Russian Federation



And yeah, flyingchicken's one was great

 

[Neverwonagame3]

Countries with former colonies? (Though I'd call Siberia a colony)

Members: United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, Portugal
Non-members: Republic of Ireland, Ears, Funkytown, Russian Federation, United States of America

 

[BananaLee]

Cool countries

Members: Iceland
Non-Members: Zimbabwe

 

[Catharsis]

Rule: Same number of vowels as syllables (or perhaps countries that obey that rule)
Member: The Netherlands
Non-member: Belgium

 

[Mise]

Nope to all those rules.

Members: United Kingdom, Federal Republic of Germany, Portugal, United States of America, The Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland
Non-members: Republic of Ireland, Ears, Funkytown, Russian Federation, Zimbabwe

 

[Catharsis]

Rule: Membership of NATO
Member: Poland
Non-member: Djibouti