[Fictionary] a modest proposal for the next round

[Hutch]

Sounds like fun to me. Are you going to say ANY sort of obsolete game?
Or do you want to limit it in some fashion: to "children's games" or
something?

BB,
Hutch

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On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in trying something different, to stretch our creativity in a
> slightly different direction. But I realize that I can't unilaterally change
> the game without consulting all the players. So please let me know if you
> agree or disagree with my proposal for the next round:
>
> As a followup to the JINKIM round I was asked for the rules to my fictitious
> 19th-century children's game (copied below in case you didn't see it). In
> working on the proper way to word the description I came across an old book
> of such games. I'd like the next round to involve players trying to write in
> its style; rather than a dictionary definition of a word, I'd like us to
> each explain how to play STONE. As always, you'd send me your fake rules,
> I'd slip in the real rules, and then we'd vote for the most plausible Stone.
>
> Please let me know by Friday Noon (EST) whether you're okay with this
> variant round,
> Jim
>
>
>
> At 11:44 AM -0500 11/28/11, Jim Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jinkim is played in an open field or playground, in the center of which a
>> knife has been set into the ground with the blade sticking up several
>> inches. The players, who may range in number from twelve to one-hundred, are
>> divided into two teams, and from each team a target, or jinkim, is chosen.
>> All but the jinkims are given a clothes-pin. The jinkims are made known to
>> the members of the other team, and then all players scatter promiscuously
>> about the playing area.
>> Each player must fix their clothes-pin to the clothes of the jinkim of the
>> other team. Once he has done so, the player leaves the field to the
>> side-lines. The jinkims may not leave the playing field, nor remove any
>> clothes-pins which have been placed on them, nor may any other player touch
>> a clothes-pin so attached, except that the jinkims may use the knife to
>> scrape off or cut off their clothes-pins, with the caution that while doing
>> so they will be in one place, and therefore easier for the other team to
>> catch.  During the entire game all players chant, "jinkim! jinkim!".
>> As soon as all of the members of one team, except its jinkim, have
>> returned to the side-lines, the game is concluded, and the jinkims stand
>> while the number of clothes-pins successfully attached to each is counted.
>> Which-ever team has put the most pins onto the other team's jinkim is
>> declared the Winner.