Singing Games.
At gaming day, H, her friend S, and most of the mothers, play tested a game called Sing For Your Supper. Seeing as you had to guess the name of a song to progress, I figured that game was close* to my worst nightmare.
It did remind me of Encore, a game I picked up when the kids were too little to play properly. We used to just make up songs to fit the word categories and played cooperatively.
The winning card.
Last night I pulled it out way later than I should have and the kids and I played till 2am. We played teams: H and S vs C and me. H and S won, but it wasn't as big of a shut out as I would have thought. We played fairly relaxed home rules, but it was a proper competition. The game mostly involved each team taking turns singing a line from a song, at least six words long, either containing the proper necessary word or fitting the category indicated by the space you landed on on the board.
Part of my motivation last night was to play test it to see if it would work at gaming day. Since we tended to pull out lines from filk songs more often than not, we decided it would work better as a home game, or maybe to bring with us to the next house filk.
*proper worst would be like at M's work parties where your table had to guess song title and singer faster than any other tables to be released to eat the buffet.
It did remind me of Encore, a game I picked up when the kids were too little to play properly. We used to just make up songs to fit the word categories and played cooperatively.
The winning card.
Last night I pulled it out way later than I should have and the kids and I played till 2am. We played teams: H and S vs C and me. H and S won, but it wasn't as big of a shut out as I would have thought. We played fairly relaxed home rules, but it was a proper competition. The game mostly involved each team taking turns singing a line from a song, at least six words long, either containing the proper necessary word or fitting the category indicated by the space you landed on on the board.
Part of my motivation last night was to play test it to see if it would work at gaming day. Since we tended to pull out lines from filk songs more often than not, we decided it would work better as a home game, or maybe to bring with us to the next house filk.
*proper worst would be like at M's work parties where your table had to guess song title and singer faster than any other tables to be released to eat the buffet.