TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Greetings Infomaniacs, This past weekend I went to a game night at one of my friend's homes, where we proceeded to have intense competitions of Catchphrase, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, and Rummy. Catchphrase was my favorite out of the four.
If you've never played Catchphrase, it's similar to Charades except players must use words to describe something, rather than mime actions.
Also, the gamepiece containing the words is on a timer, and if the buzzer goes off while you're trying to get your team to guess a word, the other team gets a point. So, it's similar to Hot Potato in that way.
This can all get very intense as everyone is thinking on the spot, and sometimes this make them unable to think of the actual word, even when it's completely obvious.
For instance, my friend's sister was trying desperately to guess "brown sugar," but the color was completely eluding her - even though she bakes all the time!
She sat there stammering out things like "black sugar," "white sugar," "just sugar?" while everyone on the other team held back their chuckles.
Needless to say, it was quite an entertaining evening!
Enjoy!
MelissaTODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTEQUOTE: "It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
HINT: (1753-1821), French-speaking Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat.
RANDOM TIDBITSDuring World War II, "special edition" Monopoly games were used to help POWs escape by including hidden maps, compasses and other tools within the game.
Yahtzee is the classic game of dice and poker-themed combinations. It was originally called "The Yacht Game" because it was played by a Canadian couple aboard their yacht and was invented in 1954. It was later patented by a toy entrepreneur for commercial use in 1956.
Sorry is also known as The Game of Sweet Revenge. It is similar to the Indian game Pachisi or Parcheesi, and was first introduced in the US by Parker Brothers in 1934.
Risk is the classic game of world domination. It was originally created in France in 1957 and was known as La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World). An American version was then introduced by Parker Brothers in 1959. There are 19 different versions of the Risk game, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Narnia and Transformers editions.
Battleship is the strategic guessing game of sinking enemy ships and conquering the seas. It was originally a pad-and-pencil game introduced in 1943 and known as Broadsides, The Game of Navel Strategies. It was then converted to the board game in 1967.
Checkers is the classic board game of strategy using a checkered board and tokens which are usually colored red and black. Known in some parts of the world as International Draughts, Checkers is one of the oldest known board games. One of the earliest versions of the game was discovered in Ur, Iraq and dated back to 3000 BC.
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