Blockbusters - Trial Game (Game 0)

Baggly

Rules:

Two teams; whatever number of players we have, dont think team sizes matter that much. Lets leave it at max 3 per team to start with.

New players can be added to teams as they come in alternating order.

Pick a number between 1 and 3 to determine who goes first. Ill pm the number to someone to verify it.

Teams then take alternating turns choosing a block by its letter, and answering a question corresponding to that letter. The answer will start with that letter. Answers will be 1 word answers.

If a team answers correctly, the block they chose turns into their colour.

If a team gets a question wrong, it will be offered to the other team to steal the block and change it to their colour.

The goal of the game is to create a continuous line of blocks in your colour from left to right (blue team) or top to bottom (yellow team).

ABSOLUTELY NO GOOGLING OF QUESTIONS OR ANSWERS ALLOWED BY PLAYERS. Honour system is in place, so we cant stop you, but be sound and dont do it!



First come first serve for teams!

Team 1 (Blue)
Mollyb60
Jules86
Osh

Team 2 (Yellow)
BJ
Basq
Guffy

Good luck all!

Mollyb60

So you're providing the questions?
I'm in!

Baggly

Yeah ill provide questions.

beakerjoe

Id love to be involved somehow

Baggly

beakerjoe wrote: »

Id love to be involved somehow

Ok we can begin so! Anyone else wants to join in, they are most welcome.

Baggly

Molly, choose a number 1, 2 or 3.

jules86

Can I join

Baggly

jules86 wrote: »

Can I join

Welcome on board. You are on Team 1 with Molly.

Mollyb60

3 please bob. I shall address you as bob in this quiz.

Welcome aboard Jules.

Baggly

3 is the number. Necro can verify i sent it to him earlier.

Molly & Jules, you can choose to go first or second. If you choose first, please select your letter.

Basq

Sounds fun. Would like to join too if possible?

Baggly

Basq wrote: »

Sounds fun. Would like to join too if possible?

You are on Team 2 with BeakerJoe (BJ for short).

Mollyb60

Which colour are we? Blue or yellow?

Baggly

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Which colour are we? Blue or yellow?

Oh yeah right. You can choose whatever you want now.

Mollyb60

Jules I'm thinking Blue for the team. Do you want to pick a letter to get us rolling?

Mollyb60

Also Bob, same as for codenames I'm thinking we can confer on the answer all we like but our official answer will need to be in CAPS as a way to distinguish it?

jules86

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Jules I'm thinking Blue for the team. Do you want to pick a letter to get us rolling?

J for Jules please Bob

Baggly

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Also Bob, same as for codenames I'm thinking we can confer on the answer all we like but our official answer will need to be in CAPS as a way to distinguish it?

Good plan Batman.

Baggly

jules86 wrote: »

J for Jules please Bob

What J is a glossy, black, European bird, Corvus monedula, of the crow family, that can be found nesting in towers & ruins.

Mollyb60

No googling now Jules. I'm thinking a Jackdaw? Is that a thing?

jules86

Mollyb60 wrote: »

No googling now Jules. I'm thinking a Jackdaw? Is that a thing?

That's what I thought

JACKDAW ?

Baggly

Correct. Please choose a letter.

osh

I’ll play if you’re not capping teams.

Baggly

osh wrote: »

I’ll play if you’re not capping teams.

You are on Team 1 with Molly & Jules. Im going to increase question difficulty if there are bigger teams. FYI.

Mollyb60

Lets try avoid the yellows and go with an L please Bob.

Mollyb60

Welcome to Team Winning Osh.

Guffy

Should one more be needed im in

Baggly

Oh hold on.....teething issue. Do blue retain the board and ask another letter, or does it turn over to the yellows?

Baggly

Actually, lets leave it at 3 a team for now.

Baggly

Pter wrote: »

Oh hold on.....teething issue. Do blue retain the board and ask another letter, or does it turn over to the yellows?

Let's pass it over to the yellows for now. This is all new, so i dont mind discussing it, but just to keep both teams involved, ill throw it over to the other team on alternate goes.

Sorry Blues!

Yellow, pick a letter please.

Basq

Pter wrote: »

Yellow, pick a letter please.

Can we have an N K please Bob?

Mollyb60

Pter wrote: »

Let's pass it over to the yellows for now. This is all new, so i dont mind discussing it, but just to keep both teams involved, ill throw it over to the other team on alternate goes.

Sorry Blues!

Yellow, pick a letter please.

That's fair enough actually. I can't remember how it goes in the show. But for fairness sake I'm happy enough with this system.

Do we get a chance to answer and steal a hex if Blues get the answer wrong?

osh

Has to be beside a yellow doesn’t it?

Basq

osh wrote: »

Has to be beside a yellow doesn’t it?

You're right.. amended!

FYI - Blockbusters on TV had buzzer system between contestants IIRC so makes this more difficult. Winner keep picking could be over too quick though I reckon.. essentially this is Blockbuster meets Connect 4!

Mollyb60

osh wrote: »

Has to be beside a yellow doesn’t it?

Thought so yeah.

Baggly

Mollyb60 wrote: »

That's fair enough actually. I can't remember how it goes in the show. But for fairness sake I'm happy enough with this system.

Do we get a chance to answer and steal a hex if Blues get the answer wrong?

Yes.

Basq wrote: »

Can we have an N K please Bob?

What K is a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.

Basq

Pter wrote: »

What K is a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.

Absolutely no clue what this could be.. trying to think of names for extreme winds and can only think of hurricane or cyclone.

Confer - any clue BJ or Guffy?

Baggly

Basq wrote: »

You're right.. amended!

FYI - Blockbusters on TV had buzzer system between contestants IIRC so makes this more difficult. Winner keep picking could be over too quick though I reckon.. essentially this is Blockbuster meets Connect 4!

We are having an ongoing chat in our games workshop/brainstorm thread if you wanna pop your thoughts up!

Its hard to balance the tenseness(?) of a buzzer game with the practicalities of it being an on thread game.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057882251

beakerjoe

Basq wrote: »

Absolutely no clue what this could be.. trying to think of names for extreme winds and can only think of hurricane or cyclone.

Confer - any clue BJ or Guffy?

Ive no clue,

Baggly

Pter wrote: »

What K is a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain.

Basq wrote: »

Absolutely no clue what this could be.. trying to think of names for extreme winds and can only think of hurricane or cyclone.

Confer - any clue BJ or Guffy?

Clue may have been a bit too obscure. As we are still feeling this out, im just gonna add in a bit i was debating to include.

What K is a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain, as well as a brewing company/brand of beer from Hawaii.

jules86

Get thinking blues I sense a chance to steal

Baggly

Rest assured yellows, even if ye dont know, blues questions will be sufficiently obscure to keep things interesting. Im hoping it will be steals a go-go.

Basq

Pter wrote: »

What K is a southwesterly winter wind in Hawaii, often strong and bringing rain, as well as a brewing company/brand of beer from Hawaii.

As a "beer aficionado", I'm disapponted to say I'm still stumped!

Baggly

Basq wrote: »

As a "beer aficionado", I'm disapponted to say I'm still stumped!

Its good stuff. And you can get it here sometimes as well.

Source: my drunken memory.

Mollyb60

jules86 wrote: »

Get thinking blues I sense a chance to steal

I hope you know this coz I don't!

Baggly

Any chance Guffy secretly lives in Honolulu?

beakerjoe

Ive no idea about Hawaii bar Lilo and Stitch. I know Kona is a Hawaiian word from the wrestler Crush but I think thats just a general Hawaiian word.

beakerjoe

Basq wrote: »

As a "beer aficionado", I'm disapponted to say I'm still stumped!

Im a cider man, so Im no help

Basq

beakerjoe wrote: »

Ive no idea about Hawaii bar Lilo and Stitch. I know Kona is a Hawaiian word from the wrestler Crush but I think thats just a general Hawaiian word.

That's one more Hawaiian word than I know.. d'ya just wanna go with that?

jules86

Mollyb60 wrote: »

jules86 wrote: »

Get thinking blues I sense a chance to steal

I hope you know this coz I don't!

Unfortunately haven't spent much time in Hawaii drinking beer

Mollyb60

jules86 wrote: »

Unfortunately haven't spent much time in Hawaii drinking beer

Osh? Anything? If not I'll be making up a Hawaiian sounding word and going with that. Lol.