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[jazzfish]

and lo, the weekend occurred, as weekends are wont to do. friday... i forget. must not have been much. oh yes-- friday i wrote bits of my Big Ass Paper and played Rayman 2. got through the bit that i never managed to get through on the PC version. 'twas cool.
satyrday nathan and emily and i went to roanoke to buy Fellowship tickets (3:15 on Wednesday). olive garden lunch... mmm. wandered around Valley View mall a bit. then went to the Shadowlake winter party, which was quite cool. they'll all be pretty good neighbors, i think. then onto That Apartment's xmas party, which was neat. electronic talking Catchphrase is ridiculously difficult.
sunday i finished the Big Ass Paper around four, and watched nathan playing Sega GT for awhile. played ChuChu Rocket, which is a very frightening game of trying to get space mice into rocketships while avoiding the space cats. it's as odd as it sounds. then we went to andy and dave's xmas party, which was cool. then home. gave emily a copy of Ta Yu, or if you prefer, the Very Pretty But Less Clever Pipe Game.
the main reason i don't advocate waiting 'til xmas to open presents is that you don't get to see people's immediate reaction to what you give them, which is a lot of the fun. <shrug> your mileage may vary.
two days and six hours 'til Fellowship.

Comments

[jazzfish]

The problem with ET Catchphrase is that about 20% of the words, we didn't know. And we (the players) were all fairly intelligent people. This poses something of a problem when you're sitting there going "uh...uh...uh..."
(In Catchphrase, you try to get your teammates to say the word/phrase as fast as possible. You can't say part of the word, nor can you do "sounds like" or "rhymes with".) The fact that it's electronic and has a gazillion (well, 10,000) words is pretty cool, though.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Any similarity to Taboo? Have to get team to say a word without using any of a list of very useful related words, can't use part of it or "sounds like".

Table YDKJ has something like 1000 questions (max 4^5, anyhow). Good stuff :)

[jazzfish]

Sort of like Taboo, although I haven't actually _played_ Taboo to compare. Basically, in Catchphrase you get the Device which has a word on it and is ticking, and you have to get your team to say the word and pass the Device to the next player, who gets a new word, and has to get their team to say it, etc. At some point the Device stops ticking and buzzes, and whoever's team has the Device doesn't get a point.

It's been _way_ too long since I've played any sort of trivia game...

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Sounds like same idea as Taboo, except in Taboo you get a time limit and try to make your team say as many words as possible, each counting for a point. I think if you make a mistake (say a Taboo word, timer runs out) the other team gets a point, something like that.

To be fair

[mrstickman.livejournal.com]

It was much better in the late evening, when DiennaChris appeared. John, Dienna, and I (the girls' team) simply rocked at the game. (Well, I could get any clue of Dienna's in 2 seconds, except "fajita.") The only time that someone didn't know the word he was given was DaveBob. The word: "George Harrison." We smacked him.