Weekly Review part 5

[buster]

I'm shifting from Health Month-related reviews to personal goal reviews.  The scoring is a little different, it takes into account whether or not I'm in my goal weight range, whether or not I keep stress below a certain level and morale above a certain level.  It also tracks large bad experiences and large good experiences, which are also tracked

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[ellenlouise]

Well, you'd have to make up your own questions and tasks for Friendquest, but you could definitely play it. It probably still exists somewhere.

The board was handrawn and snakey like Pictionary. There were two teams, and each team advanced with their piece by rolling a die. There were different colors on the board for different kinds of questions (so it was also kind of like Brainiac).

The whole thing had been made up by 3 of our friends, and played by about 10, so most of us didn't know what was coming which made it super fun.

There were trivia questions, which were typed out on small pieces of paper. As I said, there were no official answers. The questions were pretty esoteric, like "name the girl Mike M. made out with at the Trowel House Dusty 45s party." At the time we were playing Friendquest that was like 3 years prior, and of course Mike M. was not there while we were playing Friendquest, and I don't think anyone had talked to him for a while. There were also definitely questions that were open to interpretation for their answer - thus the shouting matches.

There were also tasks to be performed and drawings to do, although the scoring here was a little vague. One task definitely involved miming the conception of the grandparents of our friend Travis who was there playing Friendquest with us - I think points were awarded just for participation. Another activity was something about interpreting some specific event from our past as though it were an act of a Shakespeare play? There definitely was a pictionary element too, where one person on the team had to draw things related to our friends and/or things that had happened to us. Admittedly, it is all a little sketchy in my memory -- I only ever played once and that is now 6-ish years ago. But it was so, so fun.

So, I think anyone can play Friendquest. Make a board. Get some good game pieces and a die. Write out some trivia questions about yourselves and people you know, and make up some tasks. Don't put down any answers. Gather friends. Add alcohol. Instant fun!