I might have watched it be played played once as a kid but it was still the first thing I thought of when I saw dysentery .
Same here. Never played the game and didn’t make the connection.
I didn’t play it, but I certainly watched my kids and their friends play the game. And that’s the first thing I thought of as well when I saw dysentery.
Actually, I thought all of today’s game was rather easy.
I’m too old for that reference too, but somehow I recognized it
Me too. As my third category after yellow and green
I would have thought it was an old reference not a young one. I remember seeing it when I was in college (or maybe highschool) which was a scary number of years ago.
For the typical American it’s an old reference- for the typical SDMBer, a young one
I got it thinking it was something completely different!
Totally up the alley for Gen Xers like me. Two of the words were immediately apparent to me, but it took me a second guess to get the third and fourth.
Nah. They have categories involving musicals I’ve never heard of and other stuff like that from time to time, so it’s fair enough for me.
They’ve used names of characters in TV shows I don’t watch. Those days I just take the loss.
I mean, usually, you have one of the other categories to support you. If I can’t figure out two categories, then, well, try another day. You can’t win 'em all.
American references confound me, especially sports teams or something to do with coins or other familiarities. Though Oregon Trail is a US game and was not a thing where I grew up, I’m used to being stumped by local references.
Having said that, I got that one and the Fords pretty easily.
Totally hooked by Tuesday’s red herring, but after that I cleared the board fairly quickly starting with Purple. I’m unfamiliar with SPEED and SPOONS in that context, though.
I recognized the silverware for what it was - but the fast one was harder, since I knew that one by a different name
So am I. Plus, PAN is a card game that the mom of my childhood best friend regularly played.
I’ve never heard of either of those and I thought I was pretty well read on the subject. I got immediately suckered by the red herring, and audibly groaned when it wasn’t even a “one away.”
Once again the yellow group of direct synonyms saved me from the red herring. What ended up as blue and purple both felt like candidates for red. But since… Hearts is my favorite card game, I connected green. Speed was a competitive game in my household, and I remember having fun playing Spoons. Bridge is that old person’s thing with weirdly small cards.
Some wild stabs in the dark from me today. It had a theme that was somewhat American so I had to make some lucky guesses.
And I thought today was incredibly easy. I guess it helped that I like beer, baseball, and pizza.