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azurelunatic) wrote2012-06-28 05:20 am
azurelunatic) wrote2012-06-28 05:20 am
"Yes No Maybe"
"Yes No Maybe" is the sort of conversational word game that gets invented by (possibly elementary school) students with too much time on their hands.
When speaking, the yes/no/maybe ratio must be maintained at 1:1:1 throughout the conversation. If someone says one, the others must be said in short order to maintain the balance.
You can lose points by either saying one of the words (by accident) and failing to fill in the others, by failing to fill in when someone else says one for you to catch, or by filling in wrongly when someone utters a red herring. Attempting to actually keep score is probably unwise.
The game is over if: class starts, everyone is laughing too hard to continue, or everybody gets bored.
Darkside and I invented this game with each other in ~2001. (College students, in fact.)
When speaking, the yes/no/maybe ratio must be maintained at 1:1:1 throughout the conversation. If someone says one, the others must be said in short order to maintain the balance.
You can lose points by either saying one of the words (by accident) and failing to fill in the others, by failing to fill in when someone else says one for you to catch, or by filling in wrongly when someone utters a red herring. Attempting to actually keep score is probably unwise.
The game is over if: class starts, everyone is laughing too hard to continue, or everybody gets bored.
Darkside and I invented this game with each other in ~2001. (College students, in fact.)