Do/Date/Dump, MASH, and other games

Do/Date/Dump is one of my favourite games ever. Do you know how to play? You list three people of comparable attractiveness and each person that is playing needs to say that IF THEY HAAAD to, then which of these people would they do, which would they date, and which would they dump. This works best if everybody playing is from a group (like at summer camp, high school friends, a theatre production team, etc.). DDD is fun when you list 3 equally hunky guys, but is even more ridiculous when you list 3 incredibly unattractive guys.This game is similar to Desert Island- where you list 3 people and have to kill one to eat, let one swim away (with the 1 person dingy), and one to repopulate the island with. You can also play Desert Island like "you're stuck on a desert island and you only have 1 book to read- what book is it?" or "you're stuck on a desert island with a dvd player and one movie- what movie?" or "you're stuck on a desert island with only one source of protein- which is it?" etc.

They play Desert Island in the episode "The Fire" of season two of the US The Office. You can watch the full ep here.

Gillian and I were joking about this game the other day, and we were wondering how this game would be played at Grebel. Clearly "doing" is out of the question... so maybe we could replace it with "write your first name with that guy's last name tee hee" or "write LF + XY" with a heart around it where XY are the guy's initials. Or IF/HH/HF instead of D/D/D which is Interlock Fingers, Hold Hands regularly, or High Five. (We all know I have a "thing" with interlocking fingers- see this post and this post).

Another fun game that who doesn't like to play is MASH. If you don't know how to play that then seriously- it's time for you to have a sleepover with a bunch of grade seven girls because I swear this game is riotously crowd pleasing. You set up the paper in the picture below. Write MASH at the top (standing for Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House), then make a list of four boys (celebrity inclusion is a rule that should be decided on before playing- I recommend only added celebs if there are only two hunky boys in the grade). Here is where things get a bit more open ended. You can make a list of a couple careers, a couple annual incomes, a couple cities/countries to eventually live in, a list of potential numbers of children (ALWAYS include "20" as one of the options... 25% of your friends will have 20 children!), what car the future will bring, etc. Then an arbitrary number must be decided. Now the person in the picture below employed a strategy I had all but forgotten about- the "cross-offer" draws circle until the person who's future is being told says stop. Draw a dot between each ring and thats the arbitrary number. More common is just to start making tallies until the person says stop. The number should be more than 5 but less than say, 15, or else the game will go on too long. The cross-offer then goes through, starting from MASH, then boys, then city, then careers, then cars (in this example). Say the number is 6, and crosses every 6th item. The last thing left in each category is the true future.You can play mash online at http://www.playmash.com

Other fun games include cootie catchers (As Dane Cook says: "Pick a Number, Okay now Pick a Colour, Okay you're gay." Because weren't 3/4 of the flaps related to homosexuality?)

Also fun is "Would You Rather" where you present two options and the person HAS to chose one. Like would you rather be blind or dead? 7 feet tall or 4 feet tall? Really zitty but thin, kind of fat with a perfect complexion? Kill a human you don't know or your cat that you love? Go for 60 hours without eating or without sleeping? (What are some good ones you've played?)

What were some other hilare games that you used to (OKAY. Be honest, you played it yesterday didn't you? Because I did...) play?