Community Forums => I'M BACK => Topic started by: Khushrenada on August 03, 2016, 11:27:33 PM
Title: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 03, 2016, 11:27:33 PM
Since Mafia seems to be gaining momentum on the forums again, let's get the second pillar of Forum Gaming back on track by launching Safe Words 9!
After having done some theme games for awhile, I want to mix it up by trying out an idea I mentioned way back when we first started playing this game and that was to have a new selection of words each round. Every game we've played, we've always kept whittling down the same ones over and over. While it could create some interesting tension based on certain choices, I've been curious to see what effect it will have on players and the game if the selection is fresh each time. As such, there is no real overall theme and the selection of words could be anything making a completely different theme each round.
I'll let sign-ups run for a week and then we'll start this game up Thu. Aug. 11, 2016. I hope you are able to join in.
Sign-ups so far:
Soren Lucario Insanolord TOPHATANT123 Mop it up TofuFury Chef Boyardee ShyGuy oohhboy Stratos lolmonade Silenced nickmitch
13 total player so far.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Soren on August 03, 2016, 11:33:34 PM
Duh.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:04:42 AM
In
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:04:58 AM
any theme this time?
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:09:18 AM
I don't know. If only there was a post somewhere in this thread that stated that very information. But, I guess if it requires reading, it doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:10:02 AM
what's Potpourri?
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:11:53 AM
A collection of pleasant smells placed in a bathroom to hide the stink of your poo.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:13:17 AM
It also means mixture, assortment, collection, selection, medley, miscellany, mix, variety, patchwork, mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, or gallimaufry.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:14:17 AM
It's frequently used in a category title on Jeopardy to indicate the questions will be of a random nature.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:14:22 AM
XD really? anyway I'm happy to provide a prize this time or does that fall on the host?
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:15:52 AM
Actually, I will give this game a theme. It will be a Jeopardy/Game Show theme. There will be a list of categories depending on the number of players. The person who chooses the bomb word that round will get to select the category of play for the round and the bomb word in it. I like it!
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:16:28 AM
Brainstorming for the win! so can I do the prize?
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:17:20 AM
XD really? anyway I'm happy to provide a prize this time or does that fall on the host?
If you want to offer a prize, you are free to do so. oohhboy offered a prize in one game and he was just a player in it. Of course, if you want to wait for next game when you are the host and offer it then, that would be fine as well.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Wah on August 04, 2016, 12:18:04 AM
ok in my game there will be prizes :P
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 12:21:19 AM
That's cool. In my game, there will be pain! The only prize: humiliation and explosions!
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: NWR_insanolord on August 04, 2016, 12:31:31 AM
I'm in.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: TOPHATANT123 on August 04, 2016, 11:17:32 AM
Sign me up.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Mop it up on August 04, 2016, 05:20:25 PM
Of course I'm going to join, and I expect at least one of the lists to be swears.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 05:57:38 PM
Why would you expect that? I'm probably the least offensive and cleanest humor poster here. Sometimes I feel like you just don't understand me at all.... :(
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Mop it up on August 04, 2016, 05:59:46 PM
I just figured it was something everyone was going to suggest. And you know your audience and would want to deliver.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: TofuFury on August 04, 2016, 11:07:15 PM
I'm up for a new game (though I plan on switching to a new name once Mafia is over). I just don't know how to play. What's the best thread to learn the rules for this game?
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 04, 2016, 11:41:07 PM
I guess I've never written an official explanation of how to play this game beyond the first sign-up thread. Maybe this is why we never see many new people sign-up. Well, for now, here's a repeat of what I posted in the first sign-up thread outlining the game:
"My thinking was that it might be fun to do something like musical chairs or hot potato. However, how can you do that without music and just text? Moreover, if you just have people posting things and the host/moderator of the game suddenly says stop, how do you know that the host was always planning to stop things at that point or if they are manipulating things so that certain people win and certain people lose? Well, clever son-of-a-gun that I am, I think I've stumbled on the solution.
The way the game will work is as follows. Let's say that 10 players sign up. (Which is asking a lot these days but a man can dream.) I will then post a list of 10 random words and the game will begin. The players who signed up will each choose one of the random words posted. The order can be determined by sign-up order or by randomly shuffling the names and getting a pecking order that way. Player 1 would then choose a word and post it. Player 2 would choose a word and post it and so on and so on. You can't choose a word that another player has already chosen. From the 10 words listed, 1 would be selected as a bomb or hot potato. The player who chooses that word would then be eliminated from that round and out of the game. The bomb word would also be stricken from the list."
From the remaining 9 words, another 1 of those words would be secretly chosen as the bomb word and the remaining 9 players would each select a word again starting with the next player in the rotation from where the previous round ended.
Make sense? It's really easy to figure it out once you start playing. Or just look up past Safe Words games in the Funhouse and read through a thread or two. I think you'll get it that way.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: TofuFury on August 04, 2016, 11:49:56 PM
Sounds easy enough. Thanks for taking the time to lay out the rules for me. I'll join in.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri. Sign-up Thread. Deadline is Wed. Aug. 10, 2016.
Post by: King of Twitch on August 11, 2016, 03:40:32 PM
Sign me up for the guessing game
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: ShyGuy on August 11, 2016, 07:37:24 PM
I choose "Why is everyone's name changing?" for $1000, Alex
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: oohhboy on August 11, 2016, 09:03:12 PM
I will take "anal bum cover" for $500 Trebek! Ahaha!
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: Stratos on August 11, 2016, 09:25:14 PM
In as usual. I check at least once a day so I should be able to play. PM me if I'm taking to long and I will login quick to keep the game moving.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: TofuFury on August 11, 2016, 11:52:20 PM
I choose "Why is everyone's name changing?" for $1000, Alex
I changed mine to TofuFury as that's the name I go by on other Nintendo forums.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 12, 2016, 02:28:21 AM
So, as a heads up to all the player's so far, my hope is to get 14 players for this game. I sent out some last minute pm's to a few people in hopes of drumming those last numbers but if nothing happens in the next day or so I guess I'll launch the game. Was going to send out messages sooner but got delayed with some appointments Tuesday night and then Wednesday I went straight to bed and slept until I had to get up for work again the next day. Nothing like a solid 14 hour sleep!
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: lolmonade on August 12, 2016, 08:24:11 AM
Since I signed up and neglected to properly play the mafia game, it's only fair to do the same with your safe words game. Count me in.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: Silenced on August 12, 2016, 10:24:09 AM
I always enjoy having an opportunity to ruin forum games.
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: Khushrenada on August 12, 2016, 12:08:07 PM
Yes, yes. Welcome, welcome. Here's hoping for two more suckers, er, I mean, lucky contestants. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's not what I mean. :evil;
Title: Re: Safe Words 10: Potpourri & Jeopardy! Sign-up Thread.
Post by: nickmitch on August 13, 2016, 04:58:14 PM
