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The Endless Game by Bex., Kyle CROCODILE, bridget orchid

July 22nd, 2007 7:51 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Set-up and begin playing a board game (or a card game like Fluxx, but not with regular cards) in public. The game should require at least three players, and have room for more. Invite strangers to come play. As the game fills up, players should leave to give their spots to strangers. Ideally, the last player will eventually be replaced, and the board game will continue unaided.

Bonus points if all the players leave the scene, come back later, and rejoin the game.

Speed Scrabble. Best game ever. Like Scrabble but for people with ADHD (not to name any names). Playable with as few as one and as many as infinity. Perfect.
No board. Each player takes 7 scrabble tiles and makes their own individual crossword puzzle. As soon as anyone has used all thier tiles they say "Go." Everyone else takes a drink and everyone takes a new tile and adds it to thier own puzzle (which may be deconstructed and rearranged at whim). Bonus points for spelling words agreed by all present to be "cool."

Best results would surely be found in a crowed bar, late at night. Zeitgeist was chosen for its abundance of tables and wankers. But upon our tardy arrival, the slatted tables were discovered to be too inhospitable for crosswords, especially for thier inhabitants who were generally in a state of advanced inebriation.

After one unfortunate incident in which crosswords were made containing no actual crossings or words, tiles were lost, and beer was spilled all over Bex Drive's lap, the rules were quickly changed by the cunning Kyle Crocodile to meet the needs of drunk stoned users of slatted tables:

Each player takes 15 tiles and makes a sentance. Those who make the coolest and most sensible sentances, or do so quickly, or using big words, may give themselves a hardy cheer and brag to those around who are not too stoned to listen.

The SF0 veterans begin playing again. When one man's curiosity is peeked. He likes scrabble, he says, but is too drunk right now. Perfect. He joins us and quickly his entire group joins us.
After a several rounds, Bex and Borchid get up and go to the bathroom. Kyle follows suit and the table continues playing without missing a beat (or noticing).
After an extended absence (long bathroom line), we then seemlessly reenter the game and continue making awesome sentances.

The odds were great against us. My lap was sopping. The scrabble tiles are now sticky and smell like beer. But we triumphed and a great time was had by all!




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Our first victims (or were we theirs - my beer-logged lap asks).
Dude.
Attempt # 2.
The rules explained and apparently understood.
Very serious work.
Poetry. Poetry, I tell you!
"Damn, oxygen is fab."
Thier first sentances.
Automated gamers.
Reentering the game.
...Way down.

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Yeah!!! +1
posted by Blue on July 22nd, 2007 9:39 PM

…for scrabble and Zeitgeist!!!

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posted by Saul Z on July 22nd, 2007 9:56 PM

Just had pleasant first experience at Zeitgeist on visit to SF with a pitcher of the Amber ale. Friend explained that if you sit there long enough you automatically make friends.

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posted by Rainbow Bright on July 22nd, 2007 10:37 PM

I love playing scrabble. My grandmother trained me well. I'm wondering if my ninja scrabble training would spill over into speed scrabble....i will have to make an attempt to find out on some drunken occasion sometime soon. Yeah for choosing Zeitgeist....perfect choice.

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posted by Ziggy C. on July 22nd, 2007 10:40 PM

Scrabulous.com, anyone?

Blitz Scrabble = Speed Scrabble?
posted by Bex. on July 23rd, 2007 3:02 AM

Scrabulous.com lets humans play against robots!!?? Who decides what word is coolest???
By the way, it is stated in the scrabulous rules that there should be no unfounded accusations of other players. Not that anyone should take that as a challenge...

I'll join ya for your round anyone...
posted by Bex. on July 23rd, 2007 3:03 AM

And don't forget the immortal and entertaining scrabble words by ze frank, my dear and glorious leader.

I'll do it again, if anyone's in the neighborhood!

boo hoo +1
posted by travelbug on July 23rd, 2007 5:27 AM

i miss zeitgeist!