Do you think that's REALLY her last name?
Another "Game of Things" anecdote. This time, the question was "Things I dream about." My darling husband was the 'reader', which meant that he read off the question, and then once everyone had turned in their answers (including himself - no one can guess the reader's answer, so that when the game is down to two players there are still three answers, so they can't just guess by process of elimination because they KNOW what answer they themselves wrote) he read out each answer for us to take turns guessing who'd written it. (The reader doesn't guess that round, either).
I think my answer was 'sleep'. I don't get enough, and sometimes I'm dead tired and falling asleep IN my dreams.
Someone else, though, put "Megan Fox".
So of course we immediately took turns guessing the three teen-aged boys playing (Eldest had a friend over). One by one, we discovered we were wrong.
I turned to my DARLING husband and said "Oh, you are SO sleeping on the couch tonight."
Play continued, each player taking turns trying to guess what the other players wrote, winning another turn and knocking a competitor out if they were correct, ending their turn (for the nonce) if they were wrong. It keeps going until there is only one left (once my mother guessed everyone correctly, no one else got a turn to guess!).
Ultimately, the winner was - you guessed it - the one who'd written Ms. Fox as their answer.
The fiendishly clever wench. My eleven-year-old daughter! The kitchen table erupted in shouts of amazement, table-pounding and incredulous laughter - I think her brothers may have been the most impressed and proud of her. We just stopped the game there, because there was no topping that.
(she said she thought to herself "what is the name of that girl all the boys at my school claim they don't like, but they really do? No one will EVER guess I wrote that as my answer." Indeed.)
We may all be in VERY big trouble, if she can scheme that diabolically. I think I should teach her to play chess.
I think my answer was 'sleep'. I don't get enough, and sometimes I'm dead tired and falling asleep IN my dreams.
Someone else, though, put "Megan Fox".
So of course we immediately took turns guessing the three teen-aged boys playing (Eldest had a friend over). One by one, we discovered we were wrong.
I turned to my DARLING husband and said "Oh, you are SO sleeping on the couch tonight."
Play continued, each player taking turns trying to guess what the other players wrote, winning another turn and knocking a competitor out if they were correct, ending their turn (for the nonce) if they were wrong. It keeps going until there is only one left (once my mother guessed everyone correctly, no one else got a turn to guess!).
Ultimately, the winner was - you guessed it - the one who'd written Ms. Fox as their answer.
The fiendishly clever wench. My eleven-year-old daughter! The kitchen table erupted in shouts of amazement, table-pounding and incredulous laughter - I think her brothers may have been the most impressed and proud of her. We just stopped the game there, because there was no topping that.
(she said she thought to herself "what is the name of that girl all the boys at my school claim they don't like, but they really do? No one will EVER guess I wrote that as my answer." Indeed.)
We may all be in VERY big trouble, if she can scheme that diabolically. I think I should teach her to play chess.