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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1758948" data-attributes="member: 259">My wife's not a gamer, but we play plenty of games.  Her parents got us into Cribbage, which we play pretty often, and are pretty evenly matched at.  I'm better at words than she is, so I tend to win our games of Boggle and Scrabble, but she plays anyway to be sweet.  She's better at facts than I am, so she tends to win our games of Trivial Pursuit, though I play anyways to be sweet <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Those are our main games.  At parties, we play a game called variously Pol Pot or The Hat Game, a type of charades that's immensely fun.  The rules are as follows, if anyone's curious:1) Everyone gets three scraps of paper, on each of which they write the name of a famous person or character.  I always explain before the game that Frodo might be famous, but Elrond isn't; that Reagan is famous, but Paul Wellstone isn't; that Hercules is famous, but Ariadne isn't.   Still always someone thinks they can get away with a Richilieu or a Ned Stark, and we mock them for it.2) Fold up the slips and put them all in a hat.  3) Divide into two teams.4) In round one, a player from team one has thirty seconds to draw as many slip from the hat as possible and describe the person on the slip.  They can motion, sing, speak, whatever, as long as they don't say the name.  If they pass on a name, they lose a point; otherwise, they gain one point for each name their team correctly guesses.5) Play then passes to the other team, and back and forth until all the names have been drawn from the hat.  If a team draws the last name from the hat and has some time left on the clock, take note.6) Round two begins with the team that drew the last name continuing their turn, with however much time they have left on the clock.  This round, when you're describing a person, you're limited to saying one word, although you may still gesture.7) Once all the names are drawn, move to round 3 the same way you moved to round 2.  In round 3, it's entirely charades:  no speaking at all. It's a tremendously fun game, great for parties. Daniel</blockquote>

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