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Not sure if this will work in the forum, since it is meant to be played quickly... but... we'll see. When I was in Junior High, I (briefly) joined an after school group called "Odyssey of the Mind." A somewhat intelligent/creative group that had yearly competitions and so on. Anywho, as a mental warmup on some days, we'd play this game.

One person (me) starts off by naming a small object, it could be anything, really. Then the next person has to name something larger than that object. Simple.

The fun and sometimes challenging part is trying to name objects that are funny, creative, or odd. So if one person says "a baseball," a good answer might be "Half an armadillo" and a bad answer (while correct) would be "a football."

After a while, of course, these objects are going to get pretty large, we don't want to have any answers like "Our solar system" and then "The entire known universe," so we have to set a limit. Say, no objects larger than Earth. Then someone says "reset" to go back to a small object again.

So, the plain english rules:

- Make a new post with an object larger than the object in the previous post. If the previous post says "reset," you must name a small object for everyone else to build off.
- No posting twice in a row.
- No objects larger than Earth.
- Objects must be tangible. No fair saying "Clayton's Ego is bigger than..."
- Try to keep the object close to the size of the previous object. Keep the chain going as long as possible!...
- ...but be reasonable. Plungers come in all sizes, so if someone says "a plunger," assume that its a pretty standard one, about 3 feet tall?
- If at any time you feel the object posted is too large to be useful anymore, post the word "Reset."
- To keep it fair, I think posting "reset" should also forfeit your turn. You cannot make another post until after someone else.
- Be creative! Be funny! This would be a good game to spend/earn rank points in.

Any questions? I'll start:

A thumbtack (first thing I saw :))
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Nancy Kerrigan's Kneecap (pre-Tonya Harding).... too harsh? :huh
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Half a large watermelon!

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A mildly truncated picket post.

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A red chair missing its arms and feet.

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A child's giant red balloon just before it is going to be popped by being sucked into a jet engine.

I thought it was good...
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Pi/fourths of two quart juice cartons:)

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A hollow armadillo shell

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A Mechwarrior's Left Missile Pod

Basic info - A Mech' is about 13 ft. tall, so the Pod would be about 1.5 ft. tall and 1 ft. wide-ish.

[Edited by gamer_extreme_101 on 09-12-2004 at 07:46 PM GMT]

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A tap-dancing male lion wearing armor and with four left paws.

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A two-square-long serpent.

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four goblins ductaped together.
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An old mainframe computer.

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The room said computer is stored in, the carpet all torn to shreds and stained with the coffee of programmers long since gone insane.

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A collapsed small log cabin.

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A collapsed small log cabin with a one-inch layer of ice around it.

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Donald Trump's bedroom, filled with mice.

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ENIAC

Would anybody object to a new rule requiring pictures of the objects? Exactly how big is Donald Trump's Bedroom, anyhow?
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Level 3, 1S1E.

Here is a picture.

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ClaytonW wrote:
Would anybody object to a new rule requiring pictures of the objects?
Yes, because that takes away all the creativity and imagination from the game. If you have to find pictures of the objects, you can't use "four goblins ducttaped together" etc.

But it's your game, and that's just my opinion. Choose yourself.

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Well I don't know, it just seems that some answers are difficult to tell what size they are, especially when preceded by "A large..." or "A small..." A user could always make their own image, or tweak an existing one. You could easily MSPaint some goblins together.

Hmm... For now, forget I said anything about the rule.



[Edited by ClaytonW on 09-13-2004 at 01:29 PM GMT]
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the 2 tar mama rooms on level 24

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A full-size soccer pitch(field) with a confused player standing in the middle of the field wondering why no one is there when in reality his game is tomorrow.

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