Playing in the camper with my wife last night and I was imagining…

“Is your person a female?”
“I’m not sure how they identify.”

“Is your person white?”
“I don’t see color”

“Okay for fucks sake, does your person look like a basic bitch?”
“Yes, 100%”

“Your person is Amy”

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Huh??

Hahaha!!

“Is your person a baby daddy?”

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Huh??

I don’t know how to make it more simple.

Sorry.

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Originally posted by mark123:
Hahaha!!

“Is your person a baby daddy?”

Exactly.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Huh??

I don't get it, either.

C'mon, it's clear as mud...

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How would one play “Guess Who” is they were into this new labeling system?

I think I just found out who's sending those spam e-mails.

Here's the context:

"Guess Who" is a board game. (It's only been widely popular for around 40 years now since the late 1970s/early 1980s, so I could see how some of the old farts wouldn't know about this newfangled game. )

Each of the two players gets randomly assigned one specific person out of the 20+ possible people on the board. They then each take turns asking one Yes/No question about the appearance of the other player's person, like "Do they have red hair" or "Are they a man" or "Are they wearing a hat". Based on the response, you've ruled one or more of the possible people out, and you flip their photo down on your board so you're only looking at the ones that are still possible, which helps you formulate your next question to ask. The goal is to strategically ask questions in order to be the first to narrow it down to just one possible person and correctly guess who your opponent's character is.

Works kinda like "20 Questions", just specifically based on people's appearance, and with two players taking turns.

The joke here is that when even basic questions like "Is your person a woman" can be made overly complicated in today's society, it renders this simple children's game needlessly complicated.

To make it a little clearer, if you can't ask simple questions like "Male or Female" because it offends some snowflake, it makes it pretty hard to play the game.

We play with our kids, and I let them decide who is a boy, and who is a girl as the new game has somewhat androgenous characters.

We also ask light skin or dark skin when narrowing it down.

[quote]It's only been wildly popular for around 45 years now since the late 1970s.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah sure. Maybe in Arkansas. Monopoly, Clue and Sorry.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Here's the context:

"Guess Who" is a board game. (It's only been wildly popular for around 45 years...)

Maybe so, but I've never heard of it before. Then again: I never have been much into board games.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Monopoly, Clue and Sorry.

All games introduced in the 1930s and 1940s, so using that we can reasonably guess that you fall into the aforementioned "old farts" category.

Well my children never heard of Guess Who either. I think the wildly popular aspect is over stated.

Okay, since you're feeling pedantic tonight, perhaps you'd find the qualifier of "Widely popular amongst those who were either children in the 1980s-2000s or had children during the 1980s-2000s" would be more appropriate.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Huh??

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Well my children never heard of Guess Who either. I think the wildly popular aspect is over stated.

Is there a need to threadshit on Christmas Eve? Obviously this thread isn't for you. Why make it a sticking point?

On topic, I can see games like this dying sooner rather than later. Here's a fun search query:
https://search.brave.com/searc...usive&source=desktop

You misinterpreted my response. I was joking with Rogue? Why the indignant comments.

I guess by this thread's premise I'm technically an old fart since I've never heard of it either. Then again back in the 70s and 80s if a board game wasn't made by Avalon Hill, FASA or TSR, and use polyhedral dice (yeah, I wuz THAT guy) I didn't pay it much heed anyways.

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Okay, since you're feeling pedantic tonight, perhaps you'd find the qualifier of "Widely popular amongst those who were either children in the 1980s-2000s or had children during the 1980s-2000s" would be more appropriate.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Haha good one. I give up. Have a good Christmas.