Greenenders, the *really* lame tie-in

[jack]

Apples to apples is fun, but the creativity is limited, and lots of the cards are boring. Everyone suggests a Cambridge variant, which would be nice, but it'd be good to address the other problem at the same time. Ideas:

* Basically, you'd want to be able to play two cards at once, bound together somehow.
* Either you'd have noun cards and modifier cards, or you'd try to ensure every card could be used either way.
* You might be able to make these double as the green cards as well, I'm not sure.
* Or maybe every player plays one card and the judge chooses the best combination. But I don't think it could easily work.

Possible themes:

* Cambridge places and colleges
* Relative people ("player on my left's", "my last housemate", etc)
* Objects, animals, etc.
* Cambridge societies, houses
* Famous non-actors, eg. scientists, messaien, fictional characters, etc.
* Gerunds
* Stages of life (exam, first job, last foo interview)
* Amounts of things (£100, 200lb, etc.) just because
* Americans lots of people think are stupid, nethack references and fetish items because they are by far the most popular cards :)
* Food
* Adjectives: colours, temperatures, textures

Other categories?

Rule suggestions?

Comments

[icantcarenemore.livejournal.com]

What is the nature of this game?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Apples to apples? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_to_apples

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I like Apples to Apples just the way it is :-) Throw in a handful of extra cards if you want, and take out the really dull ones, but I like the mechanics

Bear in mind that relative things can be very very funny, but also very very rude and embarressing.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I like Apples to Apples just the way it is :-)

LOL. There's something to be said. The payoff is when you get a completely surprising good match (is it?), so you can't have too many. But otoh, often several rounds seem fairly uninspired. I thought this would create wider combinations without making the game any more complicated really...

Bear in mind that relative things can be very very funny, but also very very rude and embarressing.

True. I hope not all my ideas make it to life :)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Oh, does that mean you're now in charge of it not happening? ;-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

No, no, just getting buy-in for the concept.