The Weird Al Game of Things
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:05 am
I was thinking of doing this as a Survivor challenge, but I thought, what the heck, it seems like it could be a fun regular WOWAY game. If you've never played The Game of Things, it's similar to Cards Against Humanity, except the players create their own answers, and the scoring is more objective. In each round, one person selects a card (think "Things you would never say to your wife"), and each player writes an answer--it can be as serious or funny, and as family-friendly or obscene as the group wants. Then you pass your answer to the person who selected the card that round, that person reads each response, and the other players take turns guessing who wrote each answer. If you guess right, you keep guessing; if you're wrong, it moves on to the next person. You get a point for each correct match, and whoever first reaches a pre-determined number of points wins (or whoever has the most points after a pre-determined number of questions).
Now, doing it online would require altering the format a bit--having one designated host for each game, rather than alternating each turn--but I think it's possible. However, I think it's critical for maximum mandatory fun that it still be played live (otherwise it would take forever). What I'm thinking is, if there's interest, I'll post a list of topics and have the players PM me their responses in advance. Then we all come together to play live in this thread. I figure the first time we play I'd cap it at five people, just so we have an idea of how long it takes, and then if we decide to do it again, we can adjust in either direction if we have to. And it's a fluid thing, so anyone who wants to host at any point can step in and crack out a game. (Well, I mean, once the current game is over.)
The topics themselves would have at least somewhat of an Al connection, so the players' answers wouldn't necessarily need to be Al-related (although they could be). So for instance, if one of the topics was "Places where Harvey the Wonder Hamster doesn't belong," you could answer "a pet store" or "the Bronx Zoo" or "any WOWAY topic besides Ask Harvey"...or you could take it in another direction, though maybe we should try to keep it PG-13.
Sound fun? Would anyone be interested in a game maybe this Friday night?
Now, doing it online would require altering the format a bit--having one designated host for each game, rather than alternating each turn--but I think it's possible. However, I think it's critical for maximum mandatory fun that it still be played live (otherwise it would take forever). What I'm thinking is, if there's interest, I'll post a list of topics and have the players PM me their responses in advance. Then we all come together to play live in this thread. I figure the first time we play I'd cap it at five people, just so we have an idea of how long it takes, and then if we decide to do it again, we can adjust in either direction if we have to. And it's a fluid thing, so anyone who wants to host at any point can step in and crack out a game. (Well, I mean, once the current game is over.)
The topics themselves would have at least somewhat of an Al connection, so the players' answers wouldn't necessarily need to be Al-related (although they could be). So for instance, if one of the topics was "Places where Harvey the Wonder Hamster doesn't belong," you could answer "a pet store" or "the Bronx Zoo" or "any WOWAY topic besides Ask Harvey"...or you could take it in another direction, though maybe we should try to keep it PG-13.
Sound fun? Would anyone be interested in a game maybe this Friday night?
