Tuesday, 2 December 2008 04:09 pm
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deckardcanineRemember "Guess Who? The Mystery Face Game"? It involved two boards of sorts with the same twenty tiles of faces and names on each. Each player picked up a downward-facing card to find out their own character, and the two took turns asking Y/N questions about each other's characters and knocking over the ruled-out tiles until only one remained. As far as I can tell from Google, it's been discontinued.
GW was purely a game of chance, like so many children's games meaning to equalize players of all ages. My sister and I played the game for maybe an hour all told. The big disappointment to me was that the TV ads showed the tiles moving their lips and saying things like "An excellent clue!" and "So long!" in cartoony voices. I wasn't savvy enough yet to expect otherwise in RL. Not long afterward, they added a relevant warning at the end of the ad.
In retrospect, we could have been a little more inventive with the questions. Kids in ads would ask, "Does your person wear glasses?", "Is your person bald?", etc. Each standard descriptor applied to exactly five of the twenty faces. I never thought to ask for hints about names, like whether it was four letters or started with B. For that matter, asking questions with "and/or" could make the game easier. The closest we came to that was, at our mom's suggestion, "Does your person have facial hair?" (It applied to seven faces, three of which, of course, had both mustaches and beards.) It'd take some digging for me to learn whether such questions were officially not allowed.
Anyway, having been caught up in the mania that is Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I was recently thinking about the restrictions that some players set for the sake of a thematic match, like only swordsmen or only characters from the world of Mario. It then hit me that the circa 40 playable characters in SSBB could be worked into a more interesting version of GW. Physical descriptors would be fair game ("Does your character wear pants?"), but experienced players could get into details like abilities ("Can your character fly?") and origins ("Did your character premiere before the Super NES?"). Lots of possibilities.
Of course, players might have to work out a number of gray areas beforehand, like whether Mr. Game and Watch counts as human and how to handle the duality of the Ice Climbers, not to mention the aloofness of the Pokemon Trainer while his minions do the real work. And perhaps the biggest downside to the game: Both players would rather be playing SSBB. Then again, you can't use a Wii everywhere....
GW was purely a game of chance, like so many children's games meaning to equalize players of all ages. My sister and I played the game for maybe an hour all told. The big disappointment to me was that the TV ads showed the tiles moving their lips and saying things like "An excellent clue!" and "So long!" in cartoony voices. I wasn't savvy enough yet to expect otherwise in RL. Not long afterward, they added a relevant warning at the end of the ad.
In retrospect, we could have been a little more inventive with the questions. Kids in ads would ask, "Does your person wear glasses?", "Is your person bald?", etc. Each standard descriptor applied to exactly five of the twenty faces. I never thought to ask for hints about names, like whether it was four letters or started with B. For that matter, asking questions with "and/or" could make the game easier. The closest we came to that was, at our mom's suggestion, "Does your person have facial hair?" (It applied to seven faces, three of which, of course, had both mustaches and beards.) It'd take some digging for me to learn whether such questions were officially not allowed.
Anyway, having been caught up in the mania that is Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I was recently thinking about the restrictions that some players set for the sake of a thematic match, like only swordsmen or only characters from the world of Mario. It then hit me that the circa 40 playable characters in SSBB could be worked into a more interesting version of GW. Physical descriptors would be fair game ("Does your character wear pants?"), but experienced players could get into details like abilities ("Can your character fly?") and origins ("Did your character premiere before the Super NES?"). Lots of possibilities.
Of course, players might have to work out a number of gray areas beforehand, like whether Mr. Game and Watch counts as human and how to handle the duality of the Ice Climbers, not to mention the aloofness of the Pokemon Trainer while his minions do the real work. And perhaps the biggest downside to the game: Both players would rather be playing SSBB. Then again, you can't use a Wii everywhere....
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A year ago, we saw a Marvel version of that and we were entertaining ourselves by coming up with questions that could be asked.
"Is your person a mutant?"
"Did your person acquire their powers through something radioactive?"
The list goes on....
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http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Guess-Who-Marvel-Heroes/dp/B000M5JOY6
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