Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, share anyway.
It’s a very quick number game called “By a Whisker”
Happy to show how it’s played to anyone whose interested. Just pick any number.
6
- You lost by a whisker.
Well, it certainly is quick.
We dress up as Trump’s cabinet and run into walls as hard as we can.
WAY back in the early 90’s we used to go to a bar that played satellite radio. So unlike a jukebox, no one could ever know what song was coming up. Therefore…
The first person to shout out the name the band that wrote the song that is playing makes everyone else drink. Was a wicked fun game on quarter beer night.
Fast forward to modern day times, and it has continued to carry out even when not in bars, so…. Now- walking around a supermarket with the girlfriend, and it’s:
“Aerosmith, drink!” or,
Chris De Burgh, drink!
Even if there’s nothing to drink. So, not only has it transcended the years, it also evolved into a non-drinking game.
The song game. I feel like a lot of people have come up with it naturally.
One person plays a song. The next person has to then play a song with some sort of connection to it. Like, you could follow the velvet underground’s “Sunday Morning” with Nirvana’s “Lithium” because it has the line “Sunday morning is every day for all I care”. Any connection is valid so long as the group accepts it, but I prefer lyrical ones myself.
That’s it. You go around until you lose interest.
I like it as a way to share music, because to do well you typically have to actually listen with their song.
A similar game I’ve played is someone names a word, nothing crazy obscure, and a song with that word in its lyrics. To use your example, maybe “Sunday” and then Lithium. Next person has to come up with a song that has that lyric as well. Go until someone can’t, then start a new word. The one who ended the run could easily be made to take a drink if that’s your setting.
The Special Edition of this game is that you have to sing the line as “proof” that the lyric is in there.
On long drives, the alphabet game. Just watch out the window for signs, license plates, and other stuff outside the vehicle that has text, and see how quickly you can get through the entire alphabet in order.
(Passengers in a vehicle can safely play this, the driver shouldn’t.)
When ever I visit people in Germany I make sure to put my PET bottle that I get for the train in with their empty PET bottles.
Germany has a deposit on them so they will eventually take those empty bottles to the supermarket. However I bought my bottle in Switzerland which does not have deposits on bottles so the machines in Germany won’t accept them, which is for them to figure out!
There is a process engineer in Stuttgart somewhere absolutely howling in frustration
Oh man, my poor germans. In Finland the bottle return accepts bottles outside the return program with no complaints, just worth 0,0€.
Play it alone or with other people.
I usually play it with movie actors, but you can use any characters, fictional or otherwise.
First person picks two characters/actors who never interacted. Let’s take Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Second person/team has to come up with a story involving the two. They can be any age, so it can be 60 year old Dolly mentoring a young Tim, or old Tim being cared for by Dolly aged 30.
Shit I just lost the game.
I have a friend who loves the shit out of this one: Fuckable - Sexy scale - but with inanimate objects. Fruits, pies, cocktails, cars, trains, etc. There are many alterations to the scale that can be made: Fiona, Sheryl, Britney, Kylie matrix; Fuck = +y, Marry = -y, Kill = +x, ??? = -x; whatever else
I don’t get it but it sounds fun. Can you give an example?
