Gathergories
Apr. 8th, 2006 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eclectic_boyAmy' and John are in town for a couple of days. We went out to dinner, along with Abby and Larry (to Charlie Brown's Steakhouse. *Much* food is served there. Why does their salad bar include chocolate chips? (Not that I'm complaining))
Afterwards we came back to Greylock and played a parlor game that's new to me. Larry didn't remember its name, but we took to calling it The Family Feud Game until Prime came up with the far better name Gathergories -- since the object is to think the same way the whole herd does. Someone names a category ("Wheeled vehicles", "Numbers"), and each player writes down five things that fit that category. Scoring is simple: anything written down gets N points, where N is the total number of people who wrote that down. Optionally, anything which only one person wrote can receive zero points, but we didn't play with that harsher variant.
Like on the game show Family Feud, you're basically trying to estimate what everyone else will write... bearing in mind that they might not write down what they normally would have, since they too are trying to anticipate everyone else. In one case, I put down "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as one of my five in the round where the category was Books -- figuring that since it was the most recent one it had the best chance of any in the series of coming to people's minds.... but Abby put down all five of the previous books, since she knew those were the ones I've read!
Let's play sometime -- I'm curious to see how the game changes with a large group.
Afterwards we came back to Greylock and played a parlor game that's new to me. Larry didn't remember its name, but we took to calling it The Family Feud Game until Prime came up with the far better name Gathergories -- since the object is to think the same way the whole herd does. Someone names a category ("Wheeled vehicles", "Numbers"), and each player writes down five things that fit that category. Scoring is simple: anything written down gets N points, where N is the total number of people who wrote that down. Optionally, anything which only one person wrote can receive zero points, but we didn't play with that harsher variant.
Like on the game show Family Feud, you're basically trying to estimate what everyone else will write... bearing in mind that they might not write down what they normally would have, since they too are trying to anticipate everyone else. In one case, I put down "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" as one of my five in the round where the category was Books -- figuring that since it was the most recent one it had the best chance of any in the series of coming to people's minds.... but Abby put down all five of the previous books, since she knew those were the ones I've read!
Let's play sometime -- I'm curious to see how the game changes with a large group.
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I often here the parlor variant as "What Was ya'll thinking of" or something.