Engaged to be married? Are Dorothy and Nancy H/A/F? Is same-sex marriage relevant?
Are Dorothy and Nancy humans?
Are they machines?
Is this a case where the operators engage one of them on a task, and the other one stands idle?
No.
reply to kk_fusion:
Engaged to be married? Yes
Are Dorothy and Nancy H/A/F? Not sure what this means. Is same-sex marriage relevant? No.
reply to Peter_Morris:
Are Dorothy and Nancy humans? Yes
Are they machines? No
Is this a case where the operators engage one of them on a task, and the other one stands idle? No.
Human adult female. A standard abbreviation for this game. So are they adult women?
Was Nancy legally prevented from getting engaged? Was she mentally or physically unable to perform whatever ritual is necessary to get engaged? Did she break off her relationship?
Are they living in circumstances that result in only one man being available?
If so…
Do they live in an isolated, micro-tiny village?
Are they characters in a science fiction story about the last three humans left on earth?
reply to kk_fusion:
Human adult female. A standard abbreviation for this game. So are they adult women? Yes. Or at least of legal marrying age.
Was Nancy legally prevented from getting engaged? No.
Was she mentally or physically unable to perform whatever ritual is necessary to get engaged? No.
Did she break off her relationship? No.
No to all.
Did they both want to marry the same person, but live in a monogamous society?
No.
Have they only got 1 engagement ring ?
reply to pjd:
Have they only got 1 engagement ring ?
No
Is the historical time period when this happened relevant?
Is religion a factor?
Did Nancy want to get engaged? To a specific person?
Is Nancy’s would-be fiance related to Dorothy? To Dorothy’s fiance?
Is Nancy a fictional character (i.e., does the solution involve her being a character in a book / movie / TV show, etc., not just a character in this puzzle)? Is Dorothy?
reply to Fretful_Porpentine:
Is the historical time period when this happened relevant? Somewhat I guess.
Is religion a factor? No.
Did Nancy want to get engaged? Not sure. To a specific person? Not sure. Maybe.
Is Nancy’s would-be fiance related to Dorothy? To Dorothy’s fiance? No relations in fiancés or potential fiancés.
Is Nancy a fictional character (i.e., does the solution involve her being a character in a book / movie / TV show, etc., not just a character in this puzzle)? Is Dorothy? Both are.
Are Nancy and Dorothy both characters in the same fictional work?
Was there an in-universe impediment to Nancy getting engaged? Or was she unable to get engaged only for out-of-universe reasons (e.g., only one character could get engaged because the writers didn’t want the story to get repetitive)?
reply to Fretful_Porpentine:
Are Nancy and Dorothy both characters in the same fictional work? No.
Was there an in-universe impediment to Nancy getting engaged? No. Or was she unable to get engaged only for out-of-universe reasons Yes. (e.g., only one character could get engaged because the writers didn’t want the story to get repetitive)?
Are Nancy and Dorothy both characters in related fictional works?
Does the answer have anything to do with actor availability?
No.