I’ve been feeling the urge to have some people over for a game night lately. I think as adults, we forget just how much fun it can be to sit around a table and just play a game. So, to help scratch this itch, or encourage me to get off my butt and invite some people over,* I have some tabletop trivia for you tonight.
- What condition has you removing a bucket from Operation Man’s leg?
- Name one of the pairs of rooms connected by a secret passage in Clue.
- What card game is subtitled “The French Auto Racing Game”?
- What is the most awesome activity in Cranium?
- Name one of the South American territories in Risk.
- Pente and Othello are simplified versions of what ancient Chinese strategy game?
- Name one of the 10-point tiles in Scrabble.
- What game is based on the Rube Goldberg comics from the 1930s?
- What game gave us the phrase “Do not pass Go, do not collect $200”?
- Bonus* – Based on the assortment of weapons available in Clue, what the most statistically probable cause of death for Mr. Body?
And now, because I have Clue on the brain, I leave you with this:
*You guys can totally come over if you want.
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Have to lay all these things on you all today – many of which have made me cry today (in a good way)
“Dear 16-year-old me” skin cancer PSA, no actors
“Introducing… Fotoshop Adobé” for the lulz
John Steinbeck’s letter to his son, who’d just fallen in love.
I still remember fondly the moment when I put together that Tim Curry was both Darkness from Legend AND in Clue! And then years later when my little brain exploded at the realization he was ALSO Frank-N-Furter.
….also the clown from IT. Not as fondly.
Oh! I forgot to tell my awesome Cranium story! So I was at a friend’s party and we were playing Cranium. One of the people on my team, we’ll call him J, was doing the acting one, and he was yelling “Ow my ear! He bit off my ear!” However, my friend, K, and I were completely clueless. Eventually the time ran out and everyone else in the room screamed (literally screamed), “Mike Tyson!”, to which K and mine’s reaction was “Who?” with confused looks. Yes, we are that culturally illiterate.
Later, during the same game, the people in the apartment above us started stomping on the floor because we were being too loud. We weren’t being that loud. It was about 9 PM on a Saturday on a college campus, and we didn’t drink. So we were not being too loud. Anyways, the all-play acting out a person card came up. The person was Marlon Brando. Each person had to pick how to show this person, without consulting the other people. So, independently, 4 out of the 5 groups decided to scream out “STELLLLAAA!!!!” at the top of their lungs. Cue a huge amount of stomping and banging from the people above us, and all of us laughing.
:D Fun times.
Cranium makes the best stories.
how strange, I just played this today:Â http://www.sporcle.com/games/LTH/ballroom-blitz
coincidence?
I am so busted. I was having trouble thinking of a trivia topic so I took some inspiration from my morning Sporcle. (I don’t think I stole any questions, though. I’ll have to double check)
Hmmm… I may have been more inspired than I thought.
THANK YOU SPORCLE PEOPLE! YOUR TRIVIA WAKES MY BRAIN EVERY MORNING.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJl45RzJ4e8&w=420&h=315%5D
haha, didn’t mean to call you out! i think your questions were much more challenging/creative!
It’s all good, I was actually kind of excited to find another Sporcler out there. :)
I’m guessing on most of these!!
In the meantime, a lovely young man that I’ve been messaging on OKC finally asked if I wanted to meet for coffee (and then he told me his name!) I have died. I have just died. In the library, with the knife thanks to Colonel Mustard. Jealous old fool. :)
Good luck with the coffee!
Thanks! It won’t be until the weekend after this because I’ll be out on a business trip but still very exciting. (It will be my first ‘date’ type thing in a loooong time.)
1. water on the knee
2.? the ones in the corners
3.Mille Bornes … the french auto racing game (duh!)
4. throwing the purple playdough at Teen-B and Teen-M
5. i suck at risk
6. go
7.x
8. mousetrap
9. monopoly
bonus just made my head explode i need chocolate moosetracks stat.
I believe Mr Body is most likely to die laughing at Madeleine Kahn.
This has nothing to do with anything, but:Â Do yalls get the weirdest food cravings while it’s shark week? I just ate red onion jam out of the jar, and then sugar and butter mixed together. What the hell.
Pickles and hummus.
Yeah. It’s shockingly tasty.
i will eat any thing with good hummus!!!
There is nothing that hummus can’t make better.
Except possibly dessert foods. But other than that.
#7: Q and Z!
1. Water on the knee.
2. The Conservatory and the …. library?
3. Streets & Alleys (this is a guess.)
4. The purple dough.
5. Crap, I haven’t played Risk in forever. I’m going to guess Brazil, as it is huge.
6. Go
7. J
8. Mousetrap
9. Monopoly
10. I’m just guessing, but I’m going to say the lead pipe.
#4 had better be sculpting. Â No other activity has ever lead to my standing on a coffee table screaming “IT’S A DUCK IT’S A Â DUCK ON A PLATE HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT’S CLEARLY A DUCK ON A PLATE.” *
For #10, I’m going to go with bludgeoning?
* It was not a duck. Â It was an ice cream sundae.
Its totally the sculpting.
#2: it’s the Conservatory and the Lounge, and the Kitchen and…I think the Study? or the Library. one of the two.
#6: Goh.
#8: Mousetrap
#9: Monopoly!