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by - October 15, 2007 - 5:45 AM
Update (10/15): If anyone else wants to play, you have until end-of-day Tuesday. See details below.
We’ve had an incredible response to our previous Ridiculous Board Games t-shirt giveaways. This one’s a little different. You can still win a t-shirt, but you’ll have to do more than hazard a guess.
Our own Andréa Fernandes found some quirky board games. She also made some up. Can you tell the difference? Take the Ridiculous Board Games quiz, then tell us how you did.
Here’s the win-a-shirt part: when you come back to brag/complain about your score, tell us your hilarious idea for a fake board game. The title that gets the biggest laugh wins a free mental_floss t-shirt.
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Spirit Beam
Players are charismatic, media-savvy Christian evangelists. The player who accumulates the largest “flock” wins.
posted by Emerson on 10-9-2007 at 10:57 am
I missed two: the Space Race Game and the Small Wonder Game. Though I have to comment: Power Grid is an awesome game. In fact I believe it was a Meeples Choice award winner and may have been nominated for the Spiel des Jahres. I highly recommend checking it out. Some other strange but real games include: So Sue Me!; Pimp: The Backhanding; and Pigeon Poop.
posted by Patrick Kelly on 10-9-2007 at 11:01 am
I got 36% – 4 out of 11! What about strip BINGO for seniors!!?
posted by Daniel on 10-9-2007 at 11:03 am
I got 73% (8 out of 11)
“Dirty Rushing”, like “The Game of Life” meets “Chutes and Ladders”, the co-ed’s treacherous and titillating trek to pledging the BEST house on campus! Comes with 2 paddles! Sorting M&M’s for hazing purposed not included.
posted by Kelly on 10-9-2007 at 11:10 am
5 out of 11 I don’t think I was around for some of those games. I think a game like life, but you have dogs instead of children and have to clean up after them if you lose a turn with minature fake poop and pee!
posted by karissa on 10-9-2007 at 11:15 am
5 out of 11, those are funny…
What about “The Antiques Roadshow Board Game”.
posted by LMBorgmeyer on 10-9-2007 at 11:29 am
I got 7 of 11… interesting to think that some of those are real games… People have WAY too much time on their hands…
posted by dawnimal on 10-9-2007 at 11:36 am
I only got 6 of 11 correct. Not good.
The most ridiculous board game ever, not counting the actual Clash of the Titans board game (based on the movie no less) should be
“GASTRIC BYPASS” you have a board like the game of life, and you go from fast food place to face food place. Losers wind up on a macrobiotic commune farm and winners get to mail in for a certificate for a free Roux-en-Y gastric bypass!!!!
posted by qt314159265 on 10-9-2007 at 11:39 am
18% – dismal.
“Corporate Chutes and Ladders”
First, players draw a card to determine their race, gender, and socioeconomic status. This decides where on the board players begin; e.g., rich, white males start on the Finish square.
Gameplay is a drawing of cards to decide how quickly you advance. Watch out for cards like Whistle Blower or Sexually Harassed, which can send you all the way back to Start. Draw a Back Stabber or Suck Up card and watch how quickly you leave the other players in the dust!
posted by Trevor on 10-9-2007 at 11:46 am
Wow – that was REALLY hard! I got 7 correct, but they were purely GUESSES. Do people actually PLAY these games?
So, my suggestion for a fake board game: SCAR WARS
Descripton: Rise to the top in your quest to become a wealthy plastic surgeon! Sabotage other players by trumping their moves with the “botched liposuction” card, or the “leaky implant” card. Advance to the finish line by collecting the “wrinkled wealthy heiress” cards or “bimbo starlett” tokens. Fun for the whole family!
posted by cphirsch on 10-9-2007 at 11:46 am
I got an 82%, 9 out of 11… and its sad that I’ve actually heard of a couple of those…
As for a new game:
The Browser Wars
Collect tags and standards to get the biggest web sites on your side! Win lawsuits to have your browser featured on new PCs! The browser with the most downloads wins!
posted by Joanna on 10-9-2007 at 11:46 am
Wow, I got 10 of 11 right. It’s my best ever score on these type of quizes. I did have a secret technique. I looked at the image of the game and ones that looked sophisticated (ie. like a real graphic artist designed it) I marked as an actual game. The others I knew were fake.
posted by Stew on 10-9-2007 at 11:48 am
Pish Posh:
Played like old maid only people chose to represent the UK or America and the “old maid” card being a picture of Posh Spice.
posted by Diane on 10-9-2007 at 11:50 am
11 out of 11 – 100%
guessing is my forte
posted by Kami on 10-9-2007 at 11:57 am
I got 100% too…
this is the first time I’ve aced a Mentalfloss test… how lovely!
posted by Sara on 10-9-2007 at 12:00 pm
Only 55%… and I spend a lot of time a boardgamegeek.com ! I need to start paying more attention over there.
Game Idea
Presidential Pandering
The goal of the game is to lure the most sheeple to your side by pandering to their “special” needs. You meet with the unions ? Tell them how your dad worked in the steel mill. Meet with relegious right ? Tell them how you can build the “kingdom” right here on earth. Meeting with pro-lifers ? Tell them how you’ve always been against abortion even as you’ve vetoed any restriction. It doesn’t matter if you’re right (or left) just so you have the most sheeple in your stable at the end of the game. Compromise your principles, all in the name of winning !
Or is that too much like real life…
posted by Phreade on 10-9-2007 at 12:01 pm
Title: What did the Dog/Cat eat?
Object: Guess what the dog/cat ate by looking through the vomit, guess the most correct answers and get to the vet first, YOU WIN
Steps
1 Players choose owner pawn to move
2 Opposing player selects a vomit card and shows the player the picture
3 Player guesses objects eaten and moves ahead as many spaces as objects guessed correctly
4 Read squares for additionally moves
Squares include:
Pet re-ate vomit before you could clean it up move back 2 spaces
Not all of whatever that is came back up – move back one space
Pet threw up all and is happy move ahead 2 spaces
Vomit was only on the kitchen floor – easy clean up move ahead 1 space
First player to get your pet to the vet wins!
Testimonial : “I play the live version of this game weekly, Thanks to a cat named Scooby and a dog named Kaylee. It makes for great laughs and good fun.” Janet in Virginia
posted by Janet on 10-9-2007 at 12:09 pm
I’m too embarrassed to post my score
failing
:(
posted by janet on 10-9-2007 at 12:12 pm
6 out of 11.
How about “Russian Roulette: Family Game Night Edition”?
posted by Jonathan on 10-9-2007 at 12:37 pm
7/11, not too shabby
Howabout a game along the lines of “Dream Phone” (one of my favorites as a child) – but instead of trying to talk to boys & get a date, you’re trying to navigate a Customer Service line & speak to a real person… It could be titled “Press 1 for English” or something like that (it would have to come with a warning – not for those with high-blood pressure, etc)
posted by sd on 10-9-2007 at 12:44 pm
I only got 45%. Boo!
Coporate Climb:
Players chose what type of worker to be at the company: Brownoser, Go-Getter, Office Gossip, Temp, etc. Their salaries are given accordingly.
Players advance their career while moving up the ladder shaped board
Plenty of ways in which to advance: blow the whistle, take a bribe, “a-hem” after hours work, plain hard work & determination. Players are given salaries are increased or decreased depending on result (ex: blow the whistle! Receive $1 million dollars for book advance)
First player to reach company president square without being forced into retirement or going to jail wins.
*Bonus if they still have their social security intact!
:u)
posted by rodenial on 10-9-2007 at 12:49 pm
How about “Celebrity High Life”? Kind of a cross between Monopoly, Life, and Careers. You choose your vocation (e.g. famous teen movie star/singing sensation), sleep your way to the top (graduate from the casting couch), buy your first malibu pad, create a perfume, hook up with your favourite dealer/co-dependent, lose extraordinary amount of weight, land movie deals, lose same movie deals, get a tattoo, remove same tattoo, attend AA meetings, slug a paparrazzi, enter rehab or go to jail, find faith (your choice), fire your mother-manager, lose all your fame, lose your dealer/co-dependent to your best friend, and land a role on the Surreal Life where fame and infamy reside.
Not that I’m cynical much!
posted by bowtie on 10-9-2007 at 12:51 pm
55% (sigh) I knew the Small Wonder game was fake, but what a great concept!
My idea: Inconvenient Truth: The Game. The object is to get the word out about global warming with a minimum impact to the environment. Too many emails? You lose- servers will be filling up landfills and leaching toxic waste when they buckle from the pressure. Too many leaflets or junk mail? You lose- too many trees chopped down. Don’t send out enough warnings? No one gets the word, and the planet is lost.
posted by Lebetho on 10-9-2007 at 1:06 pm
9 of 11! Woot! It helped I know photoshop and could tell which ones were actually pictures…
My board game is like Clue… except the victim is GW. It was me! With the homing rocket! In the Oval Office! (CIA just knocked at my door)
posted by TMo on 10-9-2007 at 1:20 pm
Got every answer right except that last one, so 91%, thankyouverymuch.
Thanks to a manufacturing error my Trivial Pursuit 20th anniversary edition shipped with a handful of cards that had questions on one side and answers to a completely different card on the other, which resulted in such hilarity as:
Q: What can a visitor at Orlando’s Sea World attraction pay $120 to swim with?
A: Lasagna
Needless to say, I did not accept my opponent’s ridiculous answer of “dolphins.”
Ok, so I guess that’s my fake game. Trivial Pursuit: utter nonsense edition.
posted by Christian on 10-9-2007 at 1:20 pm
Litigious Society
Players move around the board (with an egg shell background) trying to avoid spaces such as “Sent daughter to school with brownies, fellow parent sues for encouraging her obese child.” or “Your company produced a skirt for 8 year olds, but a pop star sues when she flashes photographers while wearing it. Next time add warning label” Meanwhile players collect rewards for landing on spaces that are associated with personal responsibility.
posted by Cassandra on 10-9-2007 at 1:20 pm
10 out of 11… with a 90% successful guessing rate.
For games, how about:
Howard the Duck, the Board Game (You know, for kids.)
or (not really a board game, but I would still like to see it):
Spherical Twister. Like Twister, but with a big exercise ball instead of the mat.
posted by Kevin on 10-9-2007 at 1:27 pm
Got seven from pure guesswork.
How about – The Martians Stole Elvis! A boardgame that spans alien races, mythical places, bisexual encounters and other grocery store news headlines (think Weekly World News).
posted by TerryS on 10-9-2007 at 1:39 pm
9 out of 11 I also used the “this graphic looks like it has been hastily Photoshopped” method ftw.
My game:
Red Dawn: The Board Game
Choose a character type – Jock, Princess, Nerd, Burn-out – and then advance along the Candyland-like board collecting weapons, food, medicinal supplies, and survival equipment.
By landing on special squares you can draw a card to gain important intel about the ambush at Commie Pinko Pass, find the secret tunnel in Minutemen Mountain, and collect all of the parts to your very own thermonuclear bomb.
Once you’ve become a nuclear superpower you can blow up the enemy and re-establish your tiny Colorado town, clean of all of the capitalist-hating sum’ bitches (and those lousy Democrats, too).
Wolverines!!
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 10-9-2007 at 1:54 pm
I must say, Christian’s “fake game”- the messed-up Trivial Pursuit- proves that sometimes truth trumps fiction! And well-said, by the way!
posted by Kelly on 10-9-2007 at 2:07 pm
I got a 9 out of 11 which is totally the best score on any of the quizzes.
“Hey Y’all, Watch This”
A dare-based drinking board game where teams nominate a member to perform the outlandish act on the card and thus earn a stupidity card. You have to earn stupidity cards in each category:
–Sure! I’ll Eat That!
–No Way, I Can Totally Clear That Jump!
–I Swear, I Won’t Get Hurt This Time.
–Oh, I’ll Show You!
Each act must begin with downing an entire beer and yelling “Hey Y’all, Watch This!” or you’re automatically disqualified for that round.
posted by Elaine on 10-9-2007 at 2:23 pm
“Book Burning”
My idea for a board game would be one where players go around the board, where each square is a banned book. The player is then given a card with a picture of the book and must burn it. The fastest burnination wins.
posted by Steve on 10-9-2007 at 3:05 pm
9 out of 11. Not to bad for guessing based purely on the likelihood the image was photoshoped.
As for my game its called Hipster Bingo.
It is a game my friends and I play when we go to concerts. We have a list of ‘Hipster qualities’ that we allow each player to pick from and create bingo cards. First one to get Bingo by spotting hipster qualities from people in the crowd that are also on his/her card, wins.
Sample list of Hipster qualities that appear on our cards.
Hipster ideally possesses no more than
1. Overhear someone use the term ‘Postmodern’
2. See a person carrying a shoulder-strap messenger bag.
3.Spot a person wearing a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-tyle glasses.
8. Hear a person describe their ‘one Republican friend.’
10. Hear complaints about gentrification.
11. 8 ft tall guy.
12. 4 ft tall girl.
13. Person wearing a sweater that is too small for them.
14. Person with less then 2 % body fat.
15. Circa – 1968 Mic Jagger Haircut.
16.Hoodie
17. White boy afro.
18.High school sports t-shirt.
19. Old school puma/vans/chuck taylors.
20. Person Smoking parliament cigarettes.
21.70’s ski vest.
22. Blogger with digital camera.
23. Ironic trucker hat/ cabbie hat.
24. Patches of non-mainstream band on clothing or possesions.
25. Star tattoos
posted by Caesar on 10-9-2007 at 3:09 pm
Sorry about the editing mistake. ‘Hipster ideally possesses no more than’ should read: ‘When playing you can only use one quality from one hipster.’
posted by Caesar on 10-9-2007 at 3:13 pm
#17 -”What the Pet Ate” reminds me of the book you can buy at National Parks – “Who pooped in the Park,” a thoroughly engrossing 1st guide to scat studies for children – recommended for the long ride home.
My score was the worst I have ever gotten on a quiz – for shame.
How about a board game for kids (spouses, roomates, etc.) called “The Bored Game.” It would start out with silly questions, stunts and challenges to get them engrossed, then would start throwing in ’stunts’ like “clean the windows in less than 5 minutes,” “put away socks” or “take out the garbage while blindfolded and walking backwards,” and question akin to multiplication tables, relationships, etc. The real winner of course will be mom (or spouse, or you). But, beware, this may be a game that gets used once or twice and left on the shelf until a new batch of whiny victims, I mean players can be located!
posted by tribemom on 10-9-2007 at 5:08 pm
Sorry if this is a double-mail, I did something weird (surprise!) and ended up doubting this was sent. If not, here it is, if so, don’t bother reading it twice!
#17 -”What the Pet Ate” reminds me of the book you can buy at National Parks – “Who pooped in the Park,” a thoroughly engrossing 1st guide to scat studies for children – recommended for the long ride home.
My score was the worst I have ever gotten on a quiz – for shame.
How about a board game for kids (spouses, roomates, etc.) called “The Bored Game.” It would start out with silly questions, stunts and challenges to get them engrossed, then would start throwing in ’stunts’ like “clean the windows in less than 5 minutes,” “put away socks” or “take out the garbage while blindfolded and walking backwards,” and question akin to multiplication tables, relationships, etc. The real winner of course will be mom (or spouse, or you). But, beware, this may be a game that gets used once or twice and left on the shelf until a new batch of whiny victims, I mean players can be located!
posted by tribemom on 10-9-2007 at 5:15 pm
55% – Boo.
I used to have a game put out in 1967 by Psychology Today called “Blacks and Whites.” It was loosely based on Monopoly. However, There were four sides of the board – the ghetto, integrated neighborhood, the suburbs, and the affluent neighborhood (I forget what they called it). You got to pick what color player you wanted to be – black or white. There were different sets of rules for the black and white players (e.g. the white players could buy property anywhere whereas the black players had to work their way out of the ghetto). The purpose of the game was to “experience” what it was like to be the opposite race. It was supposed to be serious and very educational, but it was riddled with stereotypes. Playing it today was hilarious yet uncomfortable.
In college, my friends and I merged Trivial Pursuit and Risk and called it, duh, Trivial Risk. Instead of using dice, you used trivia questions. It was a nerd’s wet dream.
posted by Jill on 10-9-2007 at 5:19 pm
55% — not bad for guessing.
How about a “Forrest Gump” game? You go around a playing board and collect things for your little suitcase like a feather, magazine, Curious George book, industrial baseball cap, ping pong paddle, etc. Land on different squares and you pick “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates” cards which require you to do different tasks like carry your friend through a jungle, or swing from a tree like a monkey or dance like Elvis or tap a ping pong ball into a bed pan or run crazy while being chased by a pick-up truck. When you complete each task you get one of the items for your suitcase. First person to fill his/her suitcase wins a shrimp cocktail.
posted by Cyndi on 10-9-2007 at 5:48 pm
8 out of 11, not too bad.
How about “Ultimate Fighing Championship: the Home Version.” That’s good and stupid.
posted by Amber on 10-9-2007 at 5:53 pm
I scored a measly 36%.
Species Feces!
Identify animals by looking only at images of their feces. Fun for the whole family! Take pictures on hiking trips to expand the number of photo cards in your game set.
posted by Julie on 10-9-2007 at 6:00 pm
9 out of 11, woo hoo!
My favorite actual board game that you would think was fake was Tabloid Teasers. We played the crap out of the game when I was younger.
posted by Sara on 10-9-2007 at 7:18 pm
I also got 9 of 11. Yay for Rio Grande Games!
My fake board game would be called “Grad School” and would obviously draw heavily from the circumstances of my life. You’d get extra points for thwarting rhetoric students with your arguments, talking your way through class when you haven’t read the assigned homework, and, of course, moving from bar to bar to take advantage of Happy Hour drink specials and free wings.
The winner gets enough Ramen noodles to sustain them for a month, as well as tickets to the next horrifically boring departmental lecture. Yay!
posted by Mary on 10-9-2007 at 9:03 pm
55%!?!
posted by Emily on 10-9-2007 at 9:10 pm
How about “Fantasy Scrabble”?
Think scrabble, except players have the option of putting down fictional words.
The catch is simple: one has to come up with the definition/meaning of the word, and the other 3 players decide whether its good enough to score.
It’s like nomic, or calvinball for board games. What do you think?
posted by Erfendi on 10-9-2007 at 10:05 pm
Scored 8/11.
Boardgame: What’s in Uncle Edgar’s case?
Combination of a Clue/Who Dunnit with a trivial pursuit. Each player would get a naked Edgar Hoover doll that you have to win pieces of clothing for it by answering questions who the culprit is All the clues would be based upon what is in their FBI files. The winner is, of course, the first player to have Hoover completely dressed in women’s clothing.
posted by Naomi on 10-10-2007 at 12:37 am
How do you play this one? What site can I go to?
posted by board games on 10-10-2007 at 3:40 am
8/11
My girlfriend and some friends of ours get together regularly to play “The World Series of Trivial Pursuit”. (Uber trivia nerds that we are. We also have a daily email discussion/ competition regarding our results on the Mental Floss Quiz.) Basically you play just like regular TP, but we have taken question boxes from 6 different versions of the game and added an extra die. The white die is used for moving around the board as usual. The red die determines which box the question comes from. Keeps the game interesting and diverse. I still say the original Genus 1 edition is the gold standard for TP. Green Rules!
posted by Dave on 10-10-2007 at 9:49 am
70-something percent…not too bad. The game that I do loath is the Sweet Valley High board game from the 1970s. My niece found it in a closet and we haven’t put it aside since.
Hmmmm….idea for a board game. I suggest a rousing game of Apathetic. There is never a winner, but no one really cares.
posted by Katey Wilks on 10-10-2007 at 10:07 am
I got 7 out of 11… not bad
A game for today’s youth… As a young, new face to Hollywood you must make your way to retirement without: a DUI, a trip to rehab, losing custody of your kids, or a sex tape.
posted by E on 10-10-2007 at 11:52 am
I could play Janet’s game of “What The Dog/Cat Ate.”
- You would get extra points if your vomit card is the one with Christmas tree icicles(garland) in it.
posted by Tdave on 10-11-2007 at 1:29 am
You all are way to esoteric. How about this for a game: Flick a Booger. No, not real boogers. You use that stuff they make those sticky hands out of. If you answer a question right, you get to flick a “booger” at one of the other player using a little catapult.
posted by Sam on 10-15-2007 at 7:03 am
damn 7 out of 11
this would be easier if the fall from grace game were involved
there would be a wide range of characters from the czars to mike tyson(all being known for how fast tehy hit the earth) and whoever lasts through all the struggles that the tough luck cards and has tleast amount of points by the time they reach the finish line wins
posted by chuck on 10-15-2007 at 7:28 am
“Valley of the Dolls”
Struggle to stay out of the lime-light and rehab!
The game consists of a track, on which players travel by rolling dice.
The Game it’s self is Hollywood themed.
You can choose to be various “dolls” such as
Marilyn Monroe
Anna Nicole Smith
Lindsey Lohan
River Phoenix
Paris Hilton…etc
You start by choosing your career, as a musician, movie star or simply born into millions
Landing on Certain squares like “Career move,” “Kids,” and “Marriage” (which you can land on multiple times.) results in drawing a card. Cards may reveal things like:
“You’ve become a scientologist and are at peace with your inner alien, roll again.”
“You made a movie with Jennifer Lopez, Sorry you’re Career has ended.”
Or,
“You lose custody of your kids, back to start.”
Avoid squares such as:
“Sex tape released, go back 2 squares, unless you’re Paris, then advance 2 squares.”
“Partied with Britney and got a D.U.I. Lose A Turn.”
“Got Sent to Rehab, back to start.”
First to make it to the finish wins!!!
posted by Downchez on 10-15-2007 at 9:08 am
I liked the “Red Dawn” idea but i have a few good ideas myself.
1.”Betty got Herpes”-It’s kind of a cross between “Guess Who?” and “Clue”. There is a board with all these colorfull places such as “The Dive Bar”, “The Bus Stop”, “The Club”, “The Gym” ect. Along with that there should be characters like “Mike the Bartender”, “Dave the Sales Rep”, and “Jimmy the Meth Addict”. You move around the map collecting clues to find out who infected your friend Betty.
2. “Data Entry”- It’s a game where everything is colored different shades of gray. Basically the board is four cubicles you move around in a circle. There will be wild card spots but all they’ll do is give you bad things like “lose three turns”, “wait in cubicle until blah blah” or “move back three spaces”. The first person to move around the board four times gets to commit suicide.
3. “Shower Jousting Shield Chasers”. In this game you have been sentenced to prison and sent to one of Californias quality correctional facilities. The goal of this four player game with a timer is to move around the map collecting things and assuming positions that protect you from being penetrated by an angry gang during shower time. Think “Mouse Trap” but instead of a cage you get jumped by an angry gang of horny inmates.
posted by Jared Probst on 10-15-2007 at 2:17 pm
I got a 55%. Oh well. Anyway–my idea is that the ultimate idea of the game be to kill some sort of microorganism. You can draw cards for various antibiotics and other life killing items. However, not all things work on all germs, so choose carefully. You also don’t want to treat an antibiotic resistant form with the wrong antibiotic, and you don’t want to kill the cell the virus is living inside of. Choose carefully, since you want to be germ-free first. However, being germy is preferable to being dead.
posted by Amanda on 10-15-2007 at 6:55 pm
Just Missed one. The first one.
Cheese Board:
There’s a board. And it has cheese.
Let’s say there are 5 Categories of cheese.
Hard
Soft
Raw Milk
Goat
Stinky
One each category of cheese you have to answer the correct type of cheese according to a description. (Maybe you get hints and a decreasing number of points per hint)
There will be questions about cheese making and styles. Cheese in popular culture. (A la the “cheese sketch” or “A Grand Day Out.”)
Okay, so you’re building a cheese knife. Each portion of the knife is worth a certain number of points. Once the knife is assembled you attempt to ‘cut the cheese”. The first person to do so wins!
Wooo Hoo!
posted by mungley on 10-15-2007 at 11:52 pm
Elaine, I think I played this in college! I didn’t get stupidity cards though. Who else played it?!
posted by Michael on 10-17-2007 at 10:52 am
Real game I own:
MC Hammer: The Board Game
Cassette tapes full of beats are provided. Cards contain random words. As play goes around the room, each person has 30 seconds to freestyle rap the given words to the beat. There is a board which you move your MC Hammer to the goal.
posted by Jeremiah on 10-17-2007 at 11:06 am
Profound Pursuit.
posted by DW on 10-17-2007 at 12:26 pm
4-11, yeesh.
How about “Larry Craig’s Foot-Tappin Morse Code Challenge” Contestants are provided with a life sized shoe hinged to tap a bathroom tile. The timer starts and you have to tap out – in Morse code – a convincing argument why you should be allowed to retract your guilty plea. The kicker is, its impossible to win!!!
posted by Ben on 10-17-2007 at 12:54 pm
I got a 64%, but that awesome (mediocre is the new awesome) score pales in comparison to this new board game:
Dollars Incense!
“Travel the globe peddling your aromatic goods. Start out hawking patchouli from your home while you try to expand your business. The first person to build enough capital to open a perfume laboratory and control the market wins! But take caution! Dirty hippies and capitalists will both conspire to cheat you of your wares, though each will make you feel bad in a different way.”
posted by Cap'n Ganch on 10-17-2007 at 1:08 pm
Fecal Position
It’s kind of a Rorshak test meets Candyland, but using actual photos of…well…Rover’s leftovers.
posted by Joel on 10-17-2007 at 3:21 pm
The _______ Cavity
The doctors take on fun! View the cavities picture and guess which cavity you’re in. It could be any kind of cavity, human, animal, plastic.
posted by Miss Nae on 10-17-2007 at 11:46 pm
Ennui
The game is played in rounds, wherein each round a different player is the judge. The first judge can be the youngest person and then move clockwise around the board (or bored). Each round begins with the judge drawing a card. The card has a beginning sentence, such as: “Once, at the county fair . . .” or “At the estate sale after my Unlce Lou died . . ” and four words. the words can be tangible items, emotions, verbs, etc. Each player (but not the judge)has to make up a short story using the beginner phrase and all of the words on the card. After two or three minutes, each player will read their story. The point is to be the most boring. Players will secretly select who the judge has decided is most boring. Players who match the judge and other players move ahead two spaces, if only one player matches the judge, the judge and the player move ahead three spaces, if no one matches the judge, the judge moves ahead 4 spaces. The player with the most boring story will move ahead one space if they have not moved under any of the other conditions. The board is 375 spaces long. The game ends when someone reaches the finish line, or all players agree they are bored and opt to watch Ninja Warrior on G4 instead. In the latter instance, the winner shall be whoever is farthest.
posted by Mandy on 10-18-2007 at 7:44 am
sad: only 6 out of 11.
How about a game about environmentally-conscious gangsters? The goal is to gain alternative fuel cards through out the game so a large amount of drive-bys can be performed. Penalty’s will be given to anyone who has aregular gas card at the end of the game.
posted by Nicole on 10-18-2007 at 5:12 pm
Nicole – your idea is both rediculous and plausible. However, it is lacking a name. I am not mocking you at all – but the instructions state, “The title that gets the biggest laugh wins…”
To that end may I suggest:
Gas Attack!
The tag line: Ganstas Go Green
posted by Kimberly on 10-20-2007 at 5:47 pm
I got 5/11.
Now, here’s an idea for a board game: “DON’T DROP THE SOAP” where you are in prison and your goal is to win parole.
Is it real or made up? After you guess, click on my name to find out…
posted by It's good to be the King on 3-19-2008 at 1:56 pm
11/11. I actually have heard of every one of the real games. How sad does that make me?
My proposed game is called “You Can Never Go Home Again: The Game of Revisiting Your Youth”
The game has only one mechanic. You roll dice. You move. Endlessly. In a colorful circle. Like all games from your youth, the rules are poorly written, it contains a bunch of cheap plastic pieces that will break with the slightest touch, there are a hundred cards and chits, all of which are easy to lose and 100% essential to play the game properly, and it has a pasted on theme from some saturday morning cartoon from twenty years ago. You and your friends will take turns rolling the dice and moving your cartoon character pawn in a never-ending circle for hours until you finally come to accept that nothing from your youth, especially the Thundercats, will ever be nearly as cool as you remember it and you all get get those cartoon logo damn tattoos removed.
The Deluxe edition smells like your parents’ garage.
posted by Mr Truth on 9-19-2008 at 10:25 pm