homemade game
Played a homemade game with some friends recently. 8 of us present and everyone had to think up and write down 20 famous people. All the names were cut into strips, folded up and placed in a bowl. Two teams were then formed and one person from one team had one minute to take a name from the bowl and describe the person named on the paper until one of their team guessed who it was, then another name was picked and so on until the minute was up. The names that were guessed correctly were placed in a pile to be counted at the end of the game. So for example if i took out a piece of paper and it had 'Bill Clinton' I would say 'ex president of US who didn't have sex with Monica'. Someone on my team says 'Bill Clinton', i place bit of paper onto my teams correct pile.
The two teams keep taking turns until all the names in the bowl are used.
Halfway through this game it became glaringly obvious that we were going to suffer a big defeat so I decided we needed to 'help' ourselves. As we were drinking I went to the fridge to get beers and pocketed a scissors and a sheet of paper. Then everytime I went for wee I could cut strips of paper similiar to the ones with the names on them and put them in my pocket, then I would quietly 'add' them to my teams correct pile when no one was looking. This tactic was proving extremely succssful and our teams 'comeback' was looking good. Well it was until someone asked me for a lighter whereby I stood up put my hand in pocket, whipped out my lighter and, as I'd forgotten they were there due to beer, I also pulled out about 15 folded bits of paper which fell onto the floor around my feet. After this I was searched by the opposing team who uncovered two folded sheets of A4 paper in one sock and a scissors in the other sock. I was well and truly caught. My teams winning pile was examined for 'blank' bits of paper and they were all removed. For the record, we lost.
( sneep used to date Freddie Starr's hamster, Fri 18 Nov 2005, 12:09, Reply)