A So-Called "Potentially Awesome" Game
Skimming through the online edition of The Believer, I found this fabulous game called Overrated. It works like this:
Three-plus people make a bunch of cards with people, places, and things on them.
A card is read aloud.
Players silently contemplate the item’s true worth relative to its perceived worth.
Everybody does a kind of rock-paper-scissors motion.
And then simultaneously makes one of three gestures:
Hand in O-shape, held high: OVERRATED
Hand in — shape, held level: PERFECTLY RATED
Hand in inverted-U shape, held low: UNDERRATED
Then everybody discusses why people chose what they did. If you manage to get someone else to change their rating, you get a point.
So: all you people have to do is add The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to the mix, and you're set for a fun, high-blood-pressure evening. Or possibly J.K. Rowling. Or The Newbery Medal. Or Barnes & Noble. Or . . . well, you get the picture.
Click here to download, sweeties!
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