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Another submission to a GameCareerGuide.com game design challenge

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/575/gamecareerguidecoms_game_design_.php

The challenge?

“Create an original, yet simple, game that requires nothing more than a few people and spoken words. The game must be easy to play and easy to learn and teach others. Average gameplay time should last at least one minute, but up to 30 minutes.”

My first thought, since I’m only a year out of college, was a drinking game I submitted this as a slightly modified version of that since I wasn’t sure how well that would go over! Also, I wanted to call it “Who’s in Bed Together?” but changed that to make it more PG.

Here’s my submission:
Game Name: “Who’s in cahoots?”

Description: This is a game that could be played very easily by a group of people sitting around in a circle, and would be a great way to get to know other people better. One person starts and states the name of two or more other people in the group that they believe are in cahoots based on some similarity that those people share (for example, they could both be drinking lemonade, they could both love chihuahuas, they could both be game designers etc.) It’s the job of everyone else in the group to figure out what this similarity is – whoever figures it out first gets one point and it is their turn to say who they believe is in cahoots. The first to 5 points wins!