Team Annete/Bernice battle it out against Team Joseph/Matthew. Who wins to become the first Codemaster Champion?
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Tags: Codemaster, codemaster01
The next play-by-email word game will be Codenames. I’ve never played it but it sounds interesting. You can learn about it here. Basically, there is a group of 25 words which are the codenames of spies. Some belong to blue team, some belong to red team, and there is also an assassin and innocents in the mix.
Each team has a spymaster who knows which words belong to spies on their team. It is their job to give one word clues to get their teammate to correctly find one ore more of their team’s spies. The team who finds all their spies first wins. Incorrect guesses will help your opponent. Guessing the assassin will end your game.
Hoping for 12-16 players, but can probably accommodate any even number. Whether we play this round-robin, Swiss system, etc will depend on the number of signups.
Sign up by responding in the comments. You can choose your partner or let it be decided randomly.
Tags: Codenames, codenames_01
The game starts out with one person who picks a theme of some sort and is the only person who is “in”. He then lists three things that are part of that theme to get people started. Next, people start listing three things and anybody who is “in” will respond with yes or no to each of them. Once somebody puts down three things that are all “yes”, the people who are “in” will usually decide to declare him in (unless for some reason they are not sure that person has guessed the theme, but normally you just declare them in).
A sample game might go like this:
I post
red
blue
green
to start off the game. So Spooky guesses
orange
poop
dinosaur
to which I respond “Yes, no, no”. At this point, Spooky figures out that the theme is colors and guesses
magenta
cyan
black
To which I say “Yes, yes, yes. You are in.” Then Spooky can start answering yes or no to anybody’s questions. The game goes on until people decide to stop.
Let’s start out with a (hopefully) relatively simple one.
saving
big
money
Tags: In and Out
Starting singups for the next game after werewolf. It’s a new play by email game I came up with (maybe it exists already, I don’t know). Think of it as musical chairs crossed with Scattergories…kind of.
Each day you will be given a category. You provide an answer that fits that category. However, you do not want your answer to match anyone else’s answer. Everyone who provided the most popular answer will receive a strike. Three strikes and you are out.
The game will continue until there is only one person left. As the number of participants decrease, the broadness of the categories will decrease to match.
Sign up in the comments below or email me if you want to play.
Final Standings
| Place | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Beau |
| 2 | Kari B |
| 3 | Prestidigititis |
| 3 | The Dread Pirate |
| 5 | mbnovak |
| 6 | Aaron |
| 6 | Hungry Joe |
| 8 | Annette Baron |
| 9 | freealonzo |
| 10 | Viola Bee |
| 11 | DarkHorseAsh |
| 11 | Rhubarb_Runner |
| 13 | Randy |
| 13 | ZG |
| 15 | Christina |
| 15 | Heather |
| 15 | todahshy |
| 18 | 8BSEMT8 |
| 18 | TDO |
| 20 | joepunman |
| 21 | daneekasghost |
| 21 | eschapp |
| 21 | spookymilk |
| 24 | Peggy |
| 25 | Alyson |
| 26 | Jonathon Pope |
| 27 | Chris |
| 27 | Melissa D |
Alright guys and gals, its been a while so I thought it was about time to get a
new In and Out game going. For those of you who haven’t played this before
or may have forgotten, I have copied the directions below. It seems you guys
normally give up after a half a day of guessing, but I just had to do this one.
Your staring words:
——————-
Musical
Oscar
Unleashed
So good luck and don’t give up!
The game starts out with one person who picks a theme of some sort and is the only person who is “in”. He then lists three things that are part of that theme to get people started. Next, people start listing three things and anybody who is “in” will respond with yes or no to each of them. Once somebody puts down three things that are all “yes”, the people who are “in” will usually decide to declare him in (unless for some reason they are not sure that person has guessed the theme, but normally you just declare them in).
A sample game might go like this:
I post
red
blue
green
to start off the game. So Spooky guesses
orange
poop
dinosaur
to which I respond “Yes, no, no”. At this point, Spooky figures out that the theme is colors and guesses
magenta
cyan
black
To which I say “Yes, yes, yes. You are in.” Then Spooky can start answering yes or no to anybody’s questions. The game goes on until people decide to stop.
Tags: In and Out
In and out time, more straightforward than past iterations of mine I promise.
Two
Too
Double
Tags: In and Out
It’s been too long. If you didn’t try In and Out 9, I think it was awesome: http://spookymilk.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/in-out-9/
Here is a refresher to the rules or for those of you first timers.
The game starts out with one person who picks a theme of some sort and is the only person who is “in”. He then lists three things that are part of that theme to get people started. Next, people start listing three things and anybody who is “in” will respond with yes or no to each of them. Once somebody puts down three things that are all “yes”, the people who are “in” will usually decide to declare him in (unless for some reason they are not sure that person has guessed the theme, but normally you just declare them in).
Tags: In and Out
It’s been awhile so why not. In case anyone was wondering the theme of the last two were:
#6: Words from titles of Spookymilk Survivor Challenges
#7: Words from titles of They Might Be Giants songs
Here are your clue words for #8
Kiss
Madam
Prostitute
Tags: In and Out
If you aren’t frantically trying finish up your turbo entry on your lunch break and you’ve already solved your puzzle, or your name is Matt and just can’t stay away from this game, here is round 6.
vague
spin
sensation
The theme of the last one was to start or end words with two consecutive letters of YOUR first name.
Tags: In and Out
Because there is never enough to do around here.
February
Roman
yardstick
AND
Mayan
January
ancestor
Directions for thoes who haven’t played yet:
Tags: In and Out
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