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Step 3Start with the easy things
Now begins the 99percent of the effort, so you may as well get going on the easy bits first.
With my kids and any of my friends who weren't too grossed out to talk about it we brainstormed a list of animals to act as a guide for all the poos we would need.
At the same time we started to discuss the criteria, what sort of things would be easy to categorize poos under and what sort of things would make the game fun to play. With trump type games you compare category statistics of cards one at a time and see who wins. No card should be able to be beaten on everything, because whoever holds that card will always loose, by the same token, no card must be able to win on everything, because the person who holds that card will always win.
A good game as millions of permutations so that each time it is played it can be played differently. As our list of possible poos grew, I started to think about the challenge of taking poos of wild or exotic animals either found a long way away from where I lived or otherwise in a zoo. Given that a zoo for humans is the reverse of a prison, and the inmates are either rare or dangerous, I knew that trying to blag my way into on of them was going to be hard. I started with the easy poos.
Locust (the live gecko food) and then cricket (a bit small but still gecko food, so we had plenty of them), dog (loads of that about), horse (my partner has one), worm (loads of those all over the lawn and the flower bed), rabbit, sheep, cow, hamster and rat quickly followed, and before I knew it I was one quarter of the way towards my goal.
As I started taking pictures, I also started researching some factoids. Great trump card games not only give you the criteria to judge each card, but also give you a few snippets of information about the subject, so I started looking things up that related to the animals in question and where possible their poos. I bought a few books on the subject to see if I could get any facts and figures from them, but discovered that despite living in a world almost covered in poo, there is very little written about it.
I also drew up a list of definitive criteria so that I could measure each poo against them when I was taking the photographs. Some trump games seem to think that more criteria is better, but for a good game about 6 criteria seems to be the best amount. The criteria we all agreed on were:
Frequency, length, width, smelliness, hardness and yuk factor.
For your game you will think of others no doubt.
With my kids and any of my friends who weren't too grossed out to talk about it we brainstormed a list of animals to act as a guide for all the poos we would need.
At the same time we started to discuss the criteria, what sort of things would be easy to categorize poos under and what sort of things would make the game fun to play. With trump type games you compare category statistics of cards one at a time and see who wins. No card should be able to be beaten on everything, because whoever holds that card will always loose, by the same token, no card must be able to win on everything, because the person who holds that card will always win.
A good game as millions of permutations so that each time it is played it can be played differently. As our list of possible poos grew, I started to think about the challenge of taking poos of wild or exotic animals either found a long way away from where I lived or otherwise in a zoo. Given that a zoo for humans is the reverse of a prison, and the inmates are either rare or dangerous, I knew that trying to blag my way into on of them was going to be hard. I started with the easy poos.
Locust (the live gecko food) and then cricket (a bit small but still gecko food, so we had plenty of them), dog (loads of that about), horse (my partner has one), worm (loads of those all over the lawn and the flower bed), rabbit, sheep, cow, hamster and rat quickly followed, and before I knew it I was one quarter of the way towards my goal.
As I started taking pictures, I also started researching some factoids. Great trump card games not only give you the criteria to judge each card, but also give you a few snippets of information about the subject, so I started looking things up that related to the animals in question and where possible their poos. I bought a few books on the subject to see if I could get any facts and figures from them, but discovered that despite living in a world almost covered in poo, there is very little written about it.
I also drew up a list of definitive criteria so that I could measure each poo against them when I was taking the photographs. Some trump games seem to think that more criteria is better, but for a good game about 6 criteria seems to be the best amount. The criteria we all agreed on were:
Frequency, length, width, smelliness, hardness and yuk factor.
For your game you will think of others no doubt.
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