# The "I've Never" Game (Game in Progress) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 18, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226 "2008-11-18T02:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/521 "2008-12-02T01:23:17Z")
**No toothpicks for tdn. I’ve never played it either.** ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/522 "2008-12-02T01:25:38Z")
Here’s my toothpick. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/523 "2008-12-02T01:31:35Z")
Let me clarify. Give for cavities, keep for Wow ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/524 "2008-12-02T01:32:30Z")
**Never played it, never really want to**. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/525 "2008-12-02T01:49:25Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Yeah, it might be better to just do a net count every round. To illustrate: > > If you’re at zero toothpicks you can’t GIVE any, but you CAN go into the negative (post going negative should be **red** in order to avoid confusion with actually giving toothpicks away), if your count ends up being positive at the end of the round then you move on. This net-toothpick idea doesn’t allow players to “benefit” from “dead” participants, but also doesn’t give any inherent advantage to going later. > > Edit: With the new 2 toothpick rule, 1 -\> -1 would still be confusing, perhaps tally those **orange**? I will keep up with the tally. This is what I meant to do in the first place. Don’t worry about color coding, just keep going with purple and green in your responses. If a player is at 0 or negative at the end of the round they will be out. Players won’t gain toothpicks from players that don’t actually have any left. This is about as fair as I can make it. Round 3 and up - when you run out of toothpicks you will be out. I only wanted everyone to be able to give 2 statements and have fun. Winning really isn’t the point of this game. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/526 "2008-12-02T01:52:28Z")
**I’ve never played WoW either. Should I?** ---
**Author:** ![AllWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@AllWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllWalker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/527 "2008-12-02T03:28:31Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > AllWalker is the leader after Round 1 with 31 toothpicks. Yay! I’m boring! **No cavities for me!** **No Wow, either.** Which is incredible - I really should have played WoW by now, at the very least spent five minutes on someone else’s account, but I haven’t. Why the hell not? All of a sudden I am disillusioned by my own ungeekiness. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/528 "2008-12-02T03:32:31Z")
**No WoW for me.** ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/529 "2008-12-02T04:02:24Z")
I am so definitly playing the next time around. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/530 "2008-12-02T04:15:51Z")
**I’m too stingy to buy a game I have to keep paying for, and too smart to play one that doesn’t end.** ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/531 "2008-12-02T04:25:35Z")
**Give for cavities.** **Keep for WoW.** ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/532 "2008-12-02T04:34:55Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > **and too smart to play one that doesn’t end.** :dubious: I’m failing to see how avoiding endless gameplay makes one intelligent, if anything wouldn’t the necessity of players improvising their own content make one smarter? I mean, it really doesn’t, but I don’t see how it’s overly intelligent NOT playing it. Also, did this game manage to attract the only members of the game room crowd that doesn’t play WoW? Because that has to be like, the most mentioned computer game on this board and so far I’m the only one that’s bitten. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/533 "2008-12-02T04:43:38Z")
**Yes on cavities** (although no fillings: my one and only cavity resulted in a root canal and crown. I don’t go halfway with these things. ;)) but **nope, never played WoW**. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/534 "2008-12-02T04:45:05Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I’m failing to see how avoiding endless gameplay makes one intelligent, if anything wouldn’t the necessity of players improvising their own content make one smarter? I mean, it really doesn’t, but I don’t see how it’s overly intelligent NOT playing it. I suppose I should have developed that statement a little bit more. I meant that it would be stupid for me to play unending games, not that it’s stupid in general. I tend to get a bit obsessive about games I play, and devote a large portion of my time to it until I finish the game. With a game without a well defined end, that wouldn’t work out well at all. Sorry to offend, I didn’t mean to imply anything about anyone but myself, I just forgot people can’t read my mind. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/535 "2008-12-02T04:45:53Z")
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I prefer my computer games to be either text-based (ohai mafiosa!) or extremely casual web based. Spore is the first computer game I’ve played in years and years. Console games are where I scratch my itch for immersion. I consider myself over-exposed to computers though, which may have a lot to do with it. It may be a fine line, but it doesn’t _feel_ like I’m using a computer when I’m sitting on my couch holding a console controller. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/536 "2008-12-02T05:14:51Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > I suppose I should have developed that statement a little bit more. I meant that it would be stupid for me to play unending games, not that it’s stupid in general. I tend to get a bit obsessive about games I play, and devote a large portion of my time to it until I finish the game. With a game without a well defined end, that wouldn’t work out well at all. Sorry to offend, I didn’t mean to imply anything about anyone but myself, I just forgot people can’t read my mind. I wasn’t offended, just found the statement rather odd. Thanks for the clarification. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/537 "2008-12-02T07:22:36Z")
No toothpick for You, WoWer. I don’t believe in paying for games more than once. One reason I still don’t have an X-Box. :sigh: And on a side note, I’ve not played Warcraft since Warcraft II… But man that was a fun game, one of my first RTS ever… ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/538 "2008-12-02T12:42:33Z")
**I’ve only played on other peoples accounts** - and for like 30 minutes total. Just to decide that I don’t like it. Never figured that would come back to haunt me. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/539 "2008-12-02T14:58:23Z")
**erleichda** , you may post your statement now. (After you tell us if you’ve ever had a cavity or played World of Warcraft!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/540 "2008-12-02T15:28:52Z")
> [@Ro0sh](#): > > I don’t believe in paying for games more than once. One reason I still don’t have an X-Box. :sigh: What? You don’ have to pay for X-box games more than once? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226.md?page=28)