Many of you have not seen the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, so you may not know what I'm talking about. Questions is a simple game that requires no no equipment, just and imaginative mind.
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Signing UpStep 1: Scoring, Rules and Fouls.
Scoring is done by foul. Fouls can be called for:
Statement: Player fails to reply with an actual question.
Hesitation: Player takes too long to reply or grunts or makes a false start.
Repetition: Player asks a question identical to or synonymous with one already asked this game.
Rhetoric: Player asks a rhetorical question.
Non-Sequiur: Player responds with an unrelated question.
ex.
R: We could play at questions.
G: What good would that do?
R: Practice!
G: Statement! One - love.
R: Cheating!
G: How?
R: I hadn't started yet.
G: Statement. Two - love.
R: Are you counting that?
G: What?
R: Are you counting that?
G: Foul! No repetitions. Three - love. First game to...
Statement: Player fails to reply with an actual question.
Hesitation: Player takes too long to reply or grunts or makes a false start.
Repetition: Player asks a question identical to or synonymous with one already asked this game.
Rhetoric: Player asks a rhetorical question.
Non-Sequiur: Player responds with an unrelated question.
ex.
R: We could play at questions.
G: What good would that do?
R: Practice!
G: Statement! One - love.
R: Cheating!
G: How?
R: I hadn't started yet.
G: Statement. Two - love.
R: Are you counting that?
G: What?
R: Are you counting that?
G: Foul! No repetitions. Three - love. First game to...
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pleabargain says:
Jul 18, 2009. 11:04 AMReply
I use this in my classes with my HS students. Fabulous way to get them to slow down, think and stop reacting.
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pdub77 says:
Apr 11, 2009. 3:32 PMReplya friend and i did this scene in an acting class i took in college. fantastic movie! one of my favorites. statements, i know, but i know which way the wind is blowing.
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 3, 2008. 10:23 AMReply
WHO WANTS TO PLAY QUESTIONS?
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snoyes says:
Jul 3, 2008. 7:47 PMReply
How do you play?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 3, 2008. 8:01 PMReply
Didn't you read the instructable?
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snoyes says:
Jul 3, 2008. 9:20 PMReply
Is that important to the game?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 3, 2008. 11:19 PMReply
don't you think so?
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snoyes says:
Jul 4, 2008. 6:49 AMReply
Hadn't you told me to think "la"?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 4, 2008. 4:37 PMReply
i'm sorry, what did you say?
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snoyes says:
Jul 4, 2008. 8:50 PMReply
Comma splice. Statement.
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 5, 2008. 1:30 AMReply
Cheating! not one of the rules
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masterochicken says:
Jul 5, 2008. 7:18 PMReply
Are you sure?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 5, 2008. 11:57 PMReply
did no one read the rules?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 6, 2008. 9:02 AMReply
Who reads?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 7, 2008. 3:59 PMReply
don't you?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 7, 2008. 5:25 PMReply
Isn't it obvious?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 7, 2008. 8:35 PMReply
isn't what obvious?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 8, 2008. 12:13 AMReply
Isn't it all?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 8, 2008. 1:18 AMReply
what are you playing at?
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pdub77 says:
Apr 11, 2009. 3:29 PMReplywords. they're all we have to go on.
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masterochicken says:
Jul 8, 2008. 2:15 AMReply
Weren't we playing a game?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 9, 2008. 3:50 AMReply
what game?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 10, 2008. 1:08 PMReply
Isn't it all a game?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 10, 2008. 3:40 PMReply
what do you mean by that?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 11, 2008. 6:45 PMReply
What does any of it mean?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 13, 2008. 6:04 PMReply
what do you mean by that?
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snoyes says:
Jul 13, 2008. 6:18 PMReply
Repetition! 2-love.
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 14, 2008. 8:29 PMReply
weren't you done playing 15 comments ago?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 14, 2008. 2:26 PMReply
Isn't that kind of cheating?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 14, 2008. 8:29 PMReply
who's cheating?
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snoyes says:
Jul 14, 2008. 8:45 PMReply
Do you think a deep enough comment nesting level will crash the Instructables server?
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Jake-off (author) says:
Jul 15, 2008. 2:34 AMReply
irrelevant!
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snoyes says:
Jul 15, 2008. 5:10 AMReply
Where do you see 'irrelevant' on the list of fouls?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 15, 2008. 10:41 AMReply
Why didn't you read the rules?
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snoyes says:
Jul 15, 2008. 11:18 AMReply
Are the rules important to the game?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 15, 2008. 11:40 AMReply
Are you serious?
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snoyes says:
Jul 15, 2008. 12:35 PMReply
Who else is bored and wants to quit?
bthadon1 says:
Jul 15, 2008. 1:27 PMReply
Are you people serious?
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masterochicken says:
Jul 17, 2008. 5:10 PMReply
About what?
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captainjohn says:
Jul 28, 2008. 9:45 PMReply
Am I the one to BUMP this thread?
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