Ya know the game Clue?
Isn't it kind of weird that you can be the one who did it... but not know it and continue having to make guesses as to who did, with what, and where?
Isn't it even weirder that if you make a wrong accusation and it turns out to be you... you are removed from the game? By who?
In the computer game, it shows the person who committed the murder in a jail cell. If you were the one who did it and you solved it... doesn't this seem like a lousy pay-off?

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Typical Hollywood ethics. Making everything messy and confusing.

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Congratulations on a very thought-provoking thread, Java! My biggest question about Clue is why don't I ever get to be Miss Scarlett?


We've been playing a game lately that we have been calling the Nelson Game. I don't know what the real name of it is though. Everyone gets a notebook or stack of paper. On the first page, everyone writes a word or phrase or whatever, then passes the whole thing to their right. Then they all take at look at what's written, turn the page, and draw a picture of it before passing it to their right again. The next time we only see the picture, turn the page and write words of what the picture is and so on until you get your own notebook back. Everyone then gets to present their story. We played with 7 people and it worked very well. We laughed the whole time, and played it over and over. We declared my mother the winner in the end for turning Santa Claus into a jalapeno pepper.

Does anybody know another name for this game?

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What you call the Nelson game is also known as "Eat Poop You Cat". Looks like a lot of fun...

http://www.alexandrafinger.com/epyc/

We should start a game on the forum.

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Thanks Merlin! Figure out a way for us to play here.

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Sounds like a fun game. Though I think we should agree to call it the Nelson Game instead of the other title...
We could adapt it for the site by having people find a link to a picture rather than drawing one.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Me figure it out? I'm the visionary - let someone else work out the nuts-and-bolts details!

Oh very well. I'll begin. I'll post the game's opening sentence like so...
...then you (and only you) will drag your mouse over the above quote (typed in white font) to make it visible. (Anyone else who wants to play should not do this.) You'll then make your drawing of the above, scan it, and post it as an attachment. Then the next player will make a statement from your drawing and post it like I did above, and so on... How's that?

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My $.02
We should allow posting of pictures from the internet for those without scanning capabilities. This might hurt some of the creative element but it makes the game more accessible.
We need to post an order of players somehow so that we all know who is next... And maybe we should put the name of the person to look at the word on the post to avoid mishaps.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

That'll work, but before we start, we need to clarify where people are in the order. Whoever wants to play, add your name to the list, and when we get 5-6, we'll start.

Merlin
12th


In the mean time, I can scan, but I don't know how to post an attachment without showing it. The only thing I could do is draw the picture real small, so that you can't tell what it is without clicking on it.

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