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What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:42 pm
by poorpete
Created this game a few years ago. I keep tweaking it. My daughter likes it. It's made for two players but like to see how it works for multiple players.
Posts go in this order:
1. Definition, eg. "A game is something to play with friends" (ideally this is a leading answer)
2. Similarity, eg "You mean like basketball?"
3. What's That?, in this case "What's basketball?"
Repeat: definition, similarity, question... The goal is to be creative, amusing, and keep the game moving.
I'll start:
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Basketball is where you throw things up with the air.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 2:32 pm
by Tahlvin
You mean like lawn darts?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 2:49 pm
by poorpete
What's lawn darts?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:22 pm
by Mike
Lawn darts is a competition where you might stab your opponents.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:00 pm
by Kyle
You mean like a knife fight?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:01 pm
by poorpete
What's a knife fight?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:04 pm
by Tahlvin
A knife fight uses sharp objects.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:18 pm
by Eliahad
You mean like competition cooking?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:23 pm
by Phoebe
What's competition cooking? And I mean I really want to know because I don't understand it.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:04 pm
by poorpete
A type of show that was imported from Japan in which failure leads to shame upon you and your family.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:24 pm
by Mike
Oh... like Takeshi's Castle?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:41 pm
by poorpete
What's Takeshi's Castle?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:28 pm
by Mike
A foreign import that becomes mostly incomprehensible when reimagined for an American audience.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 1:06 am
by Eliahad
Oh, like Voltron?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:55 am
by Tahlvin
What's Voltron?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:08 am
by Phoebe
A giant robot.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:00 am
by poorpete
Like the Iron Giant?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:06 am
by Phoebe
What's the Iron Giant?
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 12:57 pm
by poorpete
A classic Brad Bird film I can't wait to show my daughter.
Re: What's A Game?
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 1:20 pm
by Phoebe
Oh, like Ratatouille?