Game 124: Say Anything

 

Normally we would play Say Anything with friends rather than as a small family group.  It's a game similar to Apples-to-Apples or Puns of Anarchy in which players "turn in" responses to another player for "judging."  In this game, the players whose turn it is to "judge" takes a card from the top of the deck and chooses one of the five possible questions.  The other players then write a response that they think will best resonate with the reader.  For instance, the second question on the card below is "What's the best Tom Hanks movie?"  As a writer you don't write what YOU think is the best Tom Hanks movie, you write what you think the reader considers to be the best Tom Hanks movie.  Once all the responses are turned in, the reader selects his favorite response (using the disk to indicate the selected response and setting the disk face down on the table).  The other players then use their two tokens to vote on which response they think was chosen.  There are multiple ways to score points -- writing the chosen response, selecting the chosen response with your token, and, as the reader, having lots of people selecting the "correct" response.

Some questions lead to pretty crazy answers, but many in this game are pretty straight-forward.  It gets interesting playing with more people and people from other families or with a group of friends because you learn more about each other and because there might be inside jokes others don't know about.  With the four of us who have lived together so long it was challenging to come up with something unique, that was likely to stand out or that might surprise someone.  Below are the responses to a question (from Caleb) about the best thing to do on the playground as a child:

Next is a question (from David) about how he might get fired.  (Context is important here as he's a teacher, and we're in the midst of the COVID pandemic.)
This next question is about who we wouldn't be surprised to find out is actually an alien.  (Eric, I'm certain this was meant as a compliment!)
For some reason it seems David decided that tossing the Kleenex eraser would add an element of fun:


Here are the final scores.  We won't mention how David's been doing with gaming this week other than to say he's consistently been a very good sport.






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