My girlfriend and I were playing Guess Who one afternoon and I thought to myself how great it would be if all of the characters were people I know.
So, I set out to improve upon the dynamics of the game by replacing all of the original face cards with cards of my own creation. Now we can ask questions such as "Has your person ever lived with me?" or "Does your person have a substance abuse problem?"
The fun-level of the game has reached a mind-blowing new high.
So, I set out to improve upon the dynamics of the game by replacing all of the original face cards with cards of my own creation. Now we can ask questions such as "Has your person ever lived with me?" or "Does your person have a substance abuse problem?"
The fun-level of the game has reached a mind-blowing new high.
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You will need:
- Guess Who? board game
- 24 images of your friends or relatives (of decent resolution)
- Photoshop software
- Files included in next step
- A printer capable of printing double-sided color prints on cardstock - OR - $10 and a Kinkos
- Exacto knife
- Ruler or straight edge
- Someone to play with
- Guess Who? board game
- 24 images of your friends or relatives (of decent resolution)
- Photoshop software
- Files included in next step
- A printer capable of printing double-sided color prints on cardstock - OR - $10 and a Kinkos
- Exacto knife
- Ruler or straight edge
- Someone to play with
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Many thanks randofo!
Cheers,
Kaspr
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thanks! this was sooo useful!!
but i have one question, how can i do the packaging for the game?
Except ours was the ultimate buget version, we just scribbled 24 of our friends names on scraps of paper and tucked them in frount of the real cards :P
It was awesome.
I noticed you mentioned asking questions like "Has this person lived with me"... I feel like that could possibly eliminate A LOT of friends.
I cant recall the official rules to the game, but I think building a set that follows a certain set of guidelines to keep the balance is the way to go. Doing so could turn the simply novelty of this into a solid game that can be played often.
Without studying the board game, I cant say what the balance system would be, but off the top of my head, if you made every characteristic a 50-50 split or as close as possible... that would be a good start.
Plus, half the fun of this would be "brainstorming" what the balance system will be, and who will fit into each section... Then of course there is the fun of digging through photos to find the perfect pics... Say you made half of the pics with their mouths open and half with their eyes open, half with glasses and so on... Then you have to go through your archives and find the pics that meet the guidelines... A nice strol through memory lane comes with that.
As little kids, me and my sister drew our own Guess Who characters :D We had about 3 different personalised Guess Who's :P
We also made our own version of Monopoly, our own version of Stratego, a lot of paper jigsaw puzzles and finally, our home-made Mikado.
If, like me, you don't have such a printer, go to Kinkos with a CD containing all your files and ask them to:
"Print on white card-stock paper the following sets of images aligned front to back. The red files with the faces should line up with the red files with the question marks. The blue and yellow files should also line up in their respective sets. Also, please don't resize the image to fill the page when you are printing it."
Will Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 work?
Only problem is, I would pick David Bowie over and over and over.
Because they are way too large.
Do you need a laser printer?