# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/101 "2008-11-19T13:53:21Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > I’m not sure it’s such a good idea to start a direct conflict. We’re kind of outnumbered :). True. Crap. Then it’s plan B: cuddly, pleasant non-threatening questions to make nice with them instead 😃 And while I’m at it. I’ve always played this game with booze (you take a drink if you’ve done it), and had never heard of the toothstick version until now. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/102 "2008-11-19T14:24:38Z")
> [@erleichda](#): > > Sorry, forgot I was third. > **I have never been skiiing**. Does snowboarding count? On one hand, it’s not skiing. On the other, you go up the ski lift, wear almost identical gear, strap some wood to your feet, go down the hill, and then get hammered at the ski lodge. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/103 "2008-11-19T15:46:38Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > By the way, **Hockey Monkey**? Do you have any plans for decreasing the number of toothpicks as the game goes on? Because this will never finish if there’s a constant 1050 toothpicks floating around. When we start over I’ll increase the number of toothpicks that one will have to relenquish. I’m catching up the scoring for the overnight posts now. **I keep my toothpick for skiing.** I want to try it sometime though. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/104 "2008-11-19T15:49:17Z")
> [@Santo\_Rugger](#): > > Does snowboarding count? On one hand, it’s not skiing. On the other, you go up the ski lift, wear almost identical gear, strap some wood to your feet, go down the hill, and then get hammered at the ski lodge. I don’t think it counts as skiing unless you have, yanno, put on skis to go down the hill. Snowboarding is not the same as skiing although the overall experience is similar. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/105 "2008-11-19T15:56:57Z")
**Agent Foxtrot** is the only player that hasn’t checked in at all yet. We are almost done with statement 3…only a couple of people to check in for that one. I need to have no more than a couple of statements in play to be able to keep up with scoring, so please don’t post it prematurely. It’s been OK so far, but when one person has a few to answer, it makes it difficult to keep the toothpick count correct. **Justin Credible** , you may proceed with your statement. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/106 "2008-11-19T15:59:11Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > True. Crap. Then it’s plan B: cuddly, pleasant non-threatening questions to make nice with them instead 😃 > > And while I’m at it. I’ve always played this game with booze (you take a drink if you’ve done it), and had never heard of the toothstick version until now. You can still drink if you want to. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/107 "2008-11-19T15:59:54Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > When we start over I’ll increase the number of toothpicks that one will have to relenquish. I’m catching up the scoring for the overnight posts now. We could just decrease our holdings by 30 - we’ve all still got more than that, if you take them off all of us, no one’s unfairly targeted at this point, and no one’s knocked out of the game as a result. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/108 "2008-11-19T16:09:32Z")
That works. _ **And the heavens opened up and your goddess Hockey Monkey smote you all and removed from your grasp a holding of 30 toothpicks** _ Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/109 "2008-11-19T16:15:30Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > True. Crap. Then it’s plan B: cuddly, pleasant non-threatening questions to make nice with them instead 😃 > > And while I’m at it. I’ve always played this game with booze (you take a drink if you’ve done it), and had never heard of the toothstick version until now. I’ve never heard of the toothpick version before either. I like the drinking version because even if you lose you win! Also, when there is collecting involved I start to want to win. And winning “I Never” usually doesn’t say good things about you.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/110 "2008-11-19T16:52:59Z")
Begrudgingly holds on to my skiing toothpick. > [@NAF1138](#): > > I’ve never heard of the toothpick version before either. I like the drinking version because even if you lose you win! > > Also, when there is collecting involved I start to want to win. And winning “I Never” usually doesn’t say good things about you.😉 I’m aiming to lose… different strokes, and all… > [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > That works. > > _ **And the heavens opened up and your goddess Hockey Monkey smote you all and removed from your grasp a holding of 30 toothpicks** _ > > Carry on! It might be cooler to have Round 1 count as 1 toothpick, Round 2 count as 2, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/111 "2008-11-19T16:56:11Z")
**I keep my toothpick for skiing** And a different way I’ve played it is as an icebreaker type thing - where there’s one person in the middle “I’ve never \_\_\_\_\_”. Then everyone who has runs to a different chair, last person standing goes next. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/112 "2008-11-19T17:07:56Z")
> [@Darth\_Sensitive](#): > > **I keep my toothpick for skiing** > > And a different way I’ve played it is as an icebreaker type thing - where there’s one person in the middle “I’ve never \_\_\_\_\_”. Then everyone who has runs to a different chair, last person standing goes next. The booze way works pretty well as an icebreaker too 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/113 "2008-11-19T17:32:12Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > The booze way works pretty well as an icebreaker too 😃 I can tell you you’re really sweet and a great friend and why can’t I meet someone like you to date and then throw up on your shoes, if you really want me to… ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/114 "2008-11-19T18:10:20Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I can tell you you’re really sweet and a great friend and why can’t I meet someone like you to date and then throw up on your shoes, if you really want me to… Let’s wait until the third date for the throwing up, ok? That post made my day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/115 "2008-11-19T19:26:53Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > The booze way works pretty well as an icebreaker too 😃 Well yeah, but it doesn’t work with high schoolers at official functions, who are the only people I’ve ever played that way with. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/116 "2008-11-19T22:49:57Z")
It sure is quiet in here all of a sudden. Are y’all playing ‘hide the toothpick’? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/117 "2008-11-19T22:50:52Z")
Alright, time for my statement: **I have never been drunk**. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/118 "2008-11-19T22:52:47Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > Alright, time for my statement: > > **I have never been drunk**. :dubious: **I give you my toothpick while silently feeling sorry for you.** ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/119 "2008-11-19T23:10:07Z")
**I give you my toothpick.** ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ive-never-game-game-in-progress/473226/120 "2008-11-19T23:12:58Z")
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