I thought it was about time we tried another silly forum game! So I propose Eat Poop You Cat http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30618/eat-poop-you-cat (which is a kind of hideous hilarious mash-up of Pictionary and Chinese Whispers/Telephone), if people are up for it.
How this will work:
* Express your intent to play here. Once we have a reasonable number of players I'll randomise the player order, and send the first person a sentence or phrase.
* Player 1 draws a picture of the sentence, and sends it to me by private message.
* I send that picture to Player 2, who will write a sentence they think the drawing represents, and send it to me.
* I send that sentence to Player 3, who will draw the sentence, and so on, alternating drawing and sentence, with the last person sending me a sentence.
* I then post everything here in order, and we laugh. A lot.
A couple of things to note: Don't worry about being bad at drawing. This game is much better if people aren't good artists, because the humour is in the misinterpretation. Good artists, please don't try. ;) Also, please don't share or discuss anything until the game's finished, as that tends to break the game.
It's possible to simultaneously run a second game too, with the people who drew in the first game writing in the second, and vice versa, for extra confusion.
I'll play, but I don't want to draw anything. I could only draw something at home, and so that would be five or six hours of people waiting for me to make and send a picture.
You could actually just come up with the order and have everyone come up with their own phrase. So, if there are 7 players, there would be 7 phrases. They each pass it to the next player who draws it, and passes it to the next player, etc. until it gets back to the person who first created the phrase. Then everyone posts their entire progression.
Cool, this sounds pretty much like a game I've played a lot called Droodles, which I played a lot as a kid. In that, you each have a strip of paper (usually it's from an A4 sheet torn lengthways into four strips) and everyone draws a picture (any random crappy doodle) at the top and passes it around to the left/right (whichever way you've all decided passing will go). So everyone looks at the picture they've received and then writes, just below the picture, a word or very brief description of what they think it's a picture of, then folds over the picture and passes it on again, and so on until one strip runsout of space, at which point everyone folds their paper the rest of the way down, passes it along one more time, and then all unrolls the strip to see what it's turned out as. You need at least three people to play and the more there are, the less likely it tends to be that you'll recognise your original piece of paper when it comes around to you again. It can be very funny seeing what people have come up with so yeah, I'm definitely up for this :D.
Cool, had a bit of a mess around with it. Is more fun playing with friends though, especially if you're all there and talking in order to laugh and "wtf" at all the stupid crappy drawings and stuff :D.
I reckon that's enough for a game - an even number would be better because then we end with a sentence so if anyone else is thinking about it then please join in! We can always tag people on to the end if necessary if we've already started.
Nielzabub, don't worry about not being at home and taking a while to respond, or whatever. We'll all end up doing this at different times anyway so it's all good.
Let's hang on until tomorrow in case anyone else wants to join, and then we'll start.
One last thing - if you're drawing, no words please, unless it's something like a stop sign where you can't avoid it. if you're drawing my house (I don't know why you'd do that, but still), you can't label it "Silverleaf's house" because that's far too easy and therefore no fun, and the next person won't be able to humorously misinterpret it. Find a different way to communicate information... ;)
And one last last thing, 2-5 minutes is about the right amount of time to spend drawing.
Are we going to try GrySqls idea where we all pass a sentence to the next player at the same time (i.e. eight stories all in motion)? That way we'll all be involved throughout rather than the people at the end being out of the loop for what might be a couple of weeks.
Whether we're only doing one "chain" or everyone starts their own and "passes it to the next person" (like in Droodles), how many times do we go around before we stop? It's not like we're using paper that'll run out of space ;).
