Scattergories

Ezekiel Zelias Chaos

Scattergories is the game where you and players are tasked with thinking up words that can be found in "categories"(e.g. boy's name, capitol, food, favorite historical person). The words are determined primarily by a multi-sided die which is covered in letters of the alphabet. For boy's name and a dice roll of R, you may select names such as Richard, Roosevelt, ronnie, etc.

My dilemma: My group and I came across the category "Words associated with Exercise." I had selected the word "wander" as a means by which one can obtain exercise. By our group, it was determined that Wander has no association with exercise, but I wanted a broader perspective.


A fun game to get into, I would recommend it to anyone having friends over.

AbsoluteZero

Wander is not a word associated with exercise. What the hell were you thinking?

Lurk

I thought this would be a gore in video games thread...I thought the thread was a pun on "scatter gories".

I am dissapointed.

KalTorak

What about "weights"? Walking? Water polo? Windsurfing?

Khavall

"Wander"?

What are you, retarded?


Wander?

KalTorak

Willpower.

ED!

KalTorak wrote: »

What about "weights"? Walking? Water polo? Windsurfing?

The objective is to think of words that everyone else wont think of. Of course I guess you could eliminate others points by writing down words they thought of as well.

However wander isn't exercise, no matter how "broad" you can get. I think its accepted that if there is no legitimate use of the word in ANY language-groups common dialouge, then the word is wrong.

But yea, Windsurfing I could see (even though I don't see that as exercise, so much as recreation) might've worked. Definitely someone would have guess weights and walking though.

Food

Well maybe he's wandering around with a weight clamped to his leg, like he just escaped from an old time prison.. That would be pretty good exercise.

HappylilElf

If "walking" counts then so does "wander".

An acceptable definition of wander would be to go somewhere at a leisurely pace.

It's essentially walking but trickier.

I'm not sure I'd consider either exercise but if you're going to count walking then wander works too.

Visti

This thread is ridiculous and you should feel ridiculous.

JohnDoe

Wander should not count.

Kristmas Kthulhu

Visti wrote: »

This thread is ridiculous and you should feel ridiculous.

redraptor

I lurched with nausea when I read the title. So many terrible childhood memories. Anytime the power would go out we would play this horrible game. Once I was old enough to drive I honestly drove to a river and threw it in like Jumanji.

TheOne(AndOnly)

I remember play this with my dad, the category was TV shows and the letter was T

His answer was Tool Time with Tim The Tool man Taylor.

5 points and the win.

HappylilElf

Visti wrote: »

This thread is ridiculous and you should feel ridiculous.

Hey, I read a thread titled "scattergories" because I'm drunk.

What's your excuse? :P

shutz

Shouldn't this thread go into the "Critical Failures" forum? It is, arguably, table-top gaming.