Impromptu Games You PlayMe and the missus were at London Zoo the other day. We invented a great game called "Spot the Paedo." We counted about 8 single men with suspicious facial hair before the end of the day. What games have you made up on the spot to play with your friends?
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rob, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 15:50)
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Classic Car GamesWe always used to find great games to play - some absolute classics have turned up during boring times during car journeys.
The Classic game is Bob-Barry. Deceptively simple, it's played between two people with each person taking turns to say "Bob" until someone says "Barry" and wins. The idea is not just to blurt out a Barry but to pre-empt your opponent and make victory all the sweeter.
Two sub-games also evolved - the Cornflakes game, where you say Cornflakes repeatedly until someone accidentally says the name of a country and loses; and The Waiting Game, where (shock! horror!) you banter back and forth with the word "waiting" until someone accidentally lets slip the name of a Third World dictator. It's also great fun to convince people that the word cornflakes is psychologically associated with geography and thus the game is a big scientific experiment. New people quickly catch on.
If you're bored, you can just go for Car, Car, Van (I was never that good at naming things), which involves driving along and announcing every car you see with "car". Vans are special and must be shouted. Mini-buses and other transport paraphenalia get greated to large shouts and cheers. Obviously whoever pronounces the object first is much better than everyone else.
(, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 22:58, Reply)
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