Strange Games
- Dogball - difficult to explain, easy to play.
- Get Games - personalize these to your group.
- One Part Word Game - good game to play now and then.
- I just lost the game - a game you do not want to play.
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DogBall is a fun interactive game, guaranteed to annoy anyone. The rules are simple except for the complexities.
Object: Avoid getting DogBalled.
Play: To DogBall someone, point your finger at them and say "DogBall". If that person is not protected (see below), then they are DogBalled and should feel foolish. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME WITH STRANGERS. They will look at you funny.
Protection from DogBall:
You cannot be DogBalled when...
- Your fingers are crossed
- You are holding a weapon
- You are sitting or lying down
- The person attempting to DogBall you can see the back of your shoulders.
- You could not DogBall them -- that is, their fingers are crossed, they're sitting, etc.
Note: a Croquet mallet, held with the handle facing forward and the base of the mallet turned sideways -- perpendicular to the ground, is equivalent to a gun and so is considered a weapon. Turned any other way, it's just a mallet.
There are currently three "Get Games" known to exist in the world, although scientists are always searching for more.
- Get Rick! Whenever someone says "Get Rick", you must tap someone other than yourself who is not named "Rick" on the shoulder. Tapping anyone named 'Rick' puts you in the doghouse, a very, very bad place to be.
- Get Doug! Whenever someone says "Get Doug", you must tap yourself twice on the chest.
- Get Steve! Whenever someone says "Get Steve", you must hit your head twice on some solid object, such as a desk, table, wall, tree, etc.
The rules are very simple; each time you THINK about this game, say out loud "I just lost the game."
For the next fifteen minutes, you and the people around you can talk about and think about the game,
but after that, the next time you THINK about the game...
The winning strategy for this game is to forget all about it, never play it and never be around
anyone who does play it.
In the one part word game, you want to just say words that are not hard to say. Ones that do not have more than one part to them, that is, which just have one syllable1.
Object: To talk like most do, just with words that do not have more parts to them than one. When you fail, you must stand up (if you are not like that) and say "Woof! Woof! Woof!" quite loud.
Play: The more you can talk with no bad things said, the more good you are.
It is at times fun to play this game with folk who do not know that it is
the
game that you play. There could be a time when they sense that you play it
at which point they start to play too.
Note:The word OK1 is a two part word. "Fine" is a good word to use in place of that one.
1 Woof! Woof! Woof!