# Would you like to play a game? (New Feud)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [May 14, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066 "2021-05-14T12:09:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/41 "2021-05-19T21:54:49Z")

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It should be pointed out that it’s up to you, to interpret what kind of “ball” or “boat” is referred to. It’s the ambiguity that makes it fun, and allows for a wide variety of responses.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/42 "2021-05-20T11:57:47Z")

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Exactly! I hadn’t even considered a dance for “ball,” or the size of a boat. My brain said sports ball, and I thought it was fun not to specify baseball, football, etc. And I was definitely thinking, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/43 "2021-05-20T14:38:47Z")

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And, of course, in these Feuds, it’s popularity, not accuracy, that counts. You want to think like the other players, even if it’s not what was intended by the Feud creator. Categories that can be interpreted in more than one way can just make things interesting.

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**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/44 "2021-05-21T08:28:59Z")

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1. Cinderella
2. Maid in Manhattan
3. Cold Comfort Farm
4. The Godfather
5. From Hell
6. Easy Rider
7. Midnight Cowboy
8. Jaws
9. All the King’s Men
10. Beethoven

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/45 "2021-05-22T03:26:21Z")

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1. Field of Dreams
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Wizard of Oz
4. Airplane!
5. Psycho
6. Easy Rider
7. The Cowboy
8. Jaws
9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
10. The Wizard of Oz

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/46 "2021-05-22T03:32:13Z")

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I can’t believe that I actually have some matches! Not many…but hopefully enough to keep me from being dead last which is where I thought I’d be.

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/47 "2021-05-22T13:38:23Z")

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If I counted right we’re up to thirty now.

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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/48 "2021-05-24T21:25:29Z")

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1. Like Mike
2. Maid to Order
3. Field of Dreams
4. Patch Adams
5. Murder on the Orient Express
6. Easy Rider
7. Pale Rider
8. Titanic
9. Dave
10. Incredible Journey

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/49 "2021-05-31T10:41:07Z")

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Bump! I remember when a Feud would fill up in hours…

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/50 "2021-05-31T14:24:25Z")

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I was unsure which way to interpret “ball”, but very few movies (aside from Castaway!) feature the ball itself, as opposed to the sport played using the ball, so I went with “dance”.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/51 "2021-05-31T14:29:38Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> Bump! I remember when a Feud would fill up in hours…

Did you hype it over in The Game Room?

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/52 "2021-05-31T19:54:29Z")

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Perhaps in the future, limit each game to 30 players.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/53 "2021-05-31T20:22:08Z")

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> [@Rebo](#):
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> I remember when a Feud would fill up in hours…

That may have been when we had more active users overall, alas.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/54 "2021-06-02T11:53:59Z")

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I’ll start compiling scores today, if my work schedule allows.

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/55 "2021-06-09T13:59:16Z")

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| 1. Name a movie featuring a ball. | |
| --- | --- |
| **1. Cast Away** | **9** |
| 1. Field of Dreams | 5 |
| 1. Cinderella | 3 |
| 1. A League of Their Own | 2 |
| 1. Bull Durham | 2 |
| 1. Moneyball | 2 |
| 1. Bend it like Beckham | 1 |
| 1. Dodgeball | 1 |
| 1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 1 |
| 1. Hoosiers | 1 |
| 1. Like Mike | 1 |
| 1. Remember the Titans | 1 |
| 1. Rollerball | 1 |
| 1. The Sandlot | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a maid. | |
| **2. Maid in Manhattan** | **9** |
| 2. Clue | 4 |
| 2. The Help | 4 |
| 2. Gone with the Wind | 3 |
| 2. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum | 2 |
| 2. Maid to Order | 2 |
| 2. Mrs. Doubtfire | 2 |
| 2. Cinderella | 1 |
| 2. Downton Abbey | 1 |
| 2. Robin Hood | 1 |
| 2. Spanglish | 1 |
| 2. The Maid | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a farm. | |
| **3. Field of Dreams** | **11** |
| 3. Babe | 6 |
| 3. Charlotte’s Web | 4 |
| 3. The Wizard of Oz | 4 |
| 3. Animal Farm | 1 |
| 3. Cold Comfort Farm | 1 |
| 3. Funny Farm | 1 |
| 3. Interstellar | 1 |
| 3. Ma And Pa Kettle | 1 |
| 3. Tobacco Road | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a hospital. | |
| **4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** | **6** |
| 4. Awakenings | 3 |
| 4. The Dark Knight | 3 |
| 4. Flatliners | 2 |
| 4. Outbreak | 2 |
| 4. Patch Adams | 2 |
| 4. The Godfather | 2 |
| 4. 12 Hour Shift | 1 |
| 4. Airplane! | 1 |
| 4. Fright Night | 1 |
| 4. Halloween II | 1 |
| 4. John Q | 1 |
| 4. MASH | 1 |
| 4. The Fugitive | 1 |
| 4. The Hospital | 1 |
| 4. The Usual Suspects | 1 |
| 4. While You Were Sleeping | 1 |
| 4. Young Doctors In Love | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a murder. | |
| **5. Murder on the Orient Express** | **9** |
| 5. Psycho | 5 |
| 5. Knives Out | 3 |
| 5. Dial M for Murder | 2 |
| 5. Rear Window | 2 |
| 5. Se7en | 2 |
| 5. City Confidential | 1 |
| 5. Clue | 1 |
| 5. From Hell | 1 |
| 5. In Cold Blood | 1 |
| 5. Minority Report | 1 |
| 5. Murder by Death | 1 |
| 5. The Maltese Falcon | 1 |
| 5. The Shining | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a motorcycle. | |
| **6. Easy Rider** | **23** |
| 6. The Great Escape | 3 |
| 6. Rebel Without a Cause | 1 |
| 6. The Terminator | 1 |
| 6. The Wild One | 1 |
| 6. The World’s Fastest Indian | 1 |
| 6. Wild Hogs | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a cowboy. | |
| **7. Brokeback Mountain** | **8** |
| 7. Unforgiven | 4 |
| 7. City Slickers | 3 |
| 7. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly | 3 |
| 7. Midnight Cowboy | 2 |
| 7. The Cowboys | 2 |
| 7. Urban Cowboy | 2 |
| 7. Blazing Saddles | 1 |
| 7. Cowboys and Aliens | 1 |
| 7. High Noon | 1 |
| 7. Pale Rider | 1 |
| 7. Red River | 1 |
| 7. Silverado | 1 |
| 7. True Grit | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a boat. | |
| **8. Titanic** | **15** |
| 8. Jaws | 9 |
| 8. Captain Ron | 1 |
| 8. Dead Calm | 1 |
| 8. Life of Pi | 1 |
| 8. Lifeboat | 1 |
| 8. Overboard | 1 |
| 8. The African Queen | 1 |
| 8. The Glass-Bottom Boat | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a politician. | |
| **9. The Manchurian Candidate** | **5** |
| 9. Dave | 4 |
| 9. The American President | 4 |
| 9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 3 |
| 9. Air Force One | 2 |
| 9. The Candidate | 2 |
| 9. All the King’s Men | 1 |
| 9. All the President’s Men | 1 |
| 9. Dr. Strangelove | 1 |
| 9. Frost/Nixon | 1 |
| 9. JFK | 1 |
| 9. Lincoln | 1 |
| 9. My Fellow Americans | 1 |
| 9. Nixon | 1 |
| 9. The Last Hurrah | 1 |
| 9. W. | 1 |
| 9. Wag the Dog | 1 |
| | |
| 1. Name a movie featuring a dog. | |
| **10. Old Yeller** | **7** |
| 10. Beethoven | 5 |
| 10. Benji | 4 |
| 10. Lassie/Lassie Come Home | 3 |
| 10. The Wizard of Oz | 3 |
| 10. Cujo | 2 |
| 10. Marley & Me | 2 |
| 10. The Incredible Journey | 2 |
| 10. Air Bud | 1 |
| 10. Best in Show | 1 |
| 10. Bolt | 1 |

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/56 "2021-06-09T14:05:46Z")

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And our winner is ~~~drumroll~~~ **Sternvogel**! :: flings confetti:: Good job! **Sternvogel** got 6/10 matches. Well done!

| 1. | **Sternvogel** | **174** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2. | silenus | 166 |
| 3. | Little\_Nemo | 154 |
| 3. | Maus\_Magill | 154 |
| 5. | panache45 | 148 |
| 6. | ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness | 142 |
| 6. | muldoonthief | 142 |
| 8. | Folacin | 136 |
| 8. | MissTake | 136 |
| 8. | SpoilerVirgin | 136 |
| 11. | IvoryTowerDenizen | 132 |
| 12. | Fiendish\_Astronaut | 126 |
| 13. | Rebo | 124 |
| 13. | DCnDC | 124 |
| 15. | not\_what\_you\_d\_expect | 120 |
| 16. | Infovore | 116 |
| 17. | gkster | 114 |
| 18. | Psychopants | 112 |
| 19. | kenobi\_65 | 110 |
| 20. | Ike\_Witt | 106 |
| 20. | AppallingGael | 106 |
| 22. | Thudlow\_Boink | 104 |
| 23. | Bicycle\_Bill | 102 |
| 24. | Teuton | 98 |
| 25. | SCAdian | 96 |
| 26. | emulsified | 94 |
| 27. | Chronos | 92 |
| 28. | Oly | 88 |
| 29. | psiekier | 68 |
| 30. | Prof.Pepperwinkle | 40 |
| 31. | Bayaker | 30 |

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/57 "2021-06-09T14:06:50Z")

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Thank you, Rebo!

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/58 "2021-06-09T14:12:37Z")

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Hey! A top five finish.

Thanks for running this, **Rebo**

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/59 "2021-06-09T14:39:23Z")

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Yes, thanks, @Rebo.

This was a fun one, because there were so many possible answers to each question. (That may have worked against me, though.)

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-to-play-a-game-new-feud/942066/60 "2021-06-09T14:50:16Z")

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Ha! I beat Bayaker! That’s gotta be my worst game ever, and one of the most fun ones I’ve played.

# Thanks, Rebo!

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