With a nod to the other thread, and as another boredom-killer, I give you the Anti-Match game.
The goal here is to come up with a unique answer, or at least to match as few people as possible.
Submit your answers in a similar format as the one used in the other game:
answer
answer
answer
Make comments below your answers. You are on your honor not to peek at other answers before answering.
I’ve never done this before, and I don’t know how popular it will be, so I’m not sure how to declare an endpoint. I will probably stop it after a week, even if there are very few responses. I will definitely stop it after 25 replies, because I have never done this before, and I want to give myself something I can manage.
Scoring:
Unique answer: 10 pts.
Matching 1 other player only: 5 pts.
Matching 2 other players only: 2 pts.
Matching 3 other players only: 1 pt.
Matching more than 3 players: 0 pts.
I encourage Googling to get specific wordings and spellings write.
Title of a Hollywood film from the 1930s
Detective on Law & Order (any version; regular character)
Beer produced in a Spanish-speaking country
European capital
Board game (alternate names for the same game will be counted as one)
Type of residence (ie, structure used as a home for an indefinite length of time; if you think yours is obscure, give an example)
Famous playwright (status of “famous” is at the discretion of the judge and sole scorekeeper)
Landmark in Asia (alternate names for the same landmark will be counted as one)
They have to be real answers, though. I have been to Bukhara, and have a picture of myself in front of the fortress, so I don’t need to check it out, but I will be checking the others out, if I don’t know them.
If people reach too far for the obscure, they may reach to the same depth. That’s part of the fun of it, I think.
The Texas Rangers - I found a list of films made by year and picked an obscure title
Arleen Gonzalez - I checked Wikipedia. I figured the LA version was one of the lesser known series and Gonzalez was a lesser known character from it.
Cherusker Roja - I picked Ecuador as a relatively obscure Spanish speaking country and then googled beers of Ecuador. This was the last beer on the list.
Valletta - A tough one. There’s only a limited pool of European countries to choose from. But I figured Malta was likely to be overlooked even if people went for the samll countries.
Asphodel - My conch. I own a lot of boardgames and this is the most obscure game I own. According to BGG, only twelve people own a copy of this game.
Cardboard box - I tried to think outside of the box. Je ne regrette rien.
Hatcher Hughes - He won a Pulitzer Prize. In 1924. So I think he counts as a famous playwright that nobody is likely to have heard of.
Ark Fortress, Bukhara - Similar to my beer logic. I picked Uzbekistan as a relatively obscure Asian country and then googled “Landmarks of Usbekistan” and picked a item from far down the list. It’s an amazing coincidence that you’ve actually been there.
22 - I used a random number generator.
That’s why I tried to make sure I added a random element.
