Comments | martian687: ITR Games

martian687

ITR Games

Jul 23, 2010 11:41

I must be getting old because the only ITR game I can remember is Assimilation. I also have vague memories of a game that involved a two-finger vampire bite? I recently joined a Pervasive Games club in Pittsburgh and would like to suggest more games we could play. Please comment with the names/rules of any ITR games you can remember. Thanks!

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ejwu July 23 2010, 15:46:20 UTC

The Happyville trilogy - Psycho Killer (kills people), Vampire (converts people to psycho killers), and Zombie Master (converts people to zombies).

martian687 July 23 2010, 15:47:57 UTC

That definitely sounds familiar. Do you know if there are rules online somewhere?

Happyville origamist July 23 2010, 17:02:48 UTC

General rules: Most of the players are "happy", but a few are not. The persons who start out as not happy are determined by drawing papers out of a hat; their identity is to remain secret (finding them is the point of the game). Everyone is given or makes an 11-inch narrow cylinder (a duct-tape dagger, made by rolling up a piece of paper and wrapping it in duct tape). This dagger is coated with a deadly neurotoxin. Anyone struck by a dagger walks to the graveyard (designated area; usually the Galileo foyer, but that might be impractical for if you import these games to Pittsburg) and dies. (I think headshots are disallowed for obvious reasons, but a strike to the arm or leg is still lethal.) On the way, they will convey one and only one piece of information: if asked by their killer if they are happy, they respond honestly. Any happy person who kills another happy person is so overcome with angst that they return to the graveyard and commit suicide in a suitably dramatic and/or amusing fashion. (A happy person who kills a person who ( ... )

Accumulation origamist July 23 2010, 17:03:27 UTC

The other game I remember from my first year is Accumulation: everyone picks a short word and repeats it. You attack people with daggers, and if you hit, they begin to say your word instead of theirs. (Simultaneous hits exchange words.) You go until everyone is saying the same word.

Re: Accumulation martian687 July 23 2010, 17:08:52 UTC

Thank you for the type-ups! This is very useful (and bringing back so many memories)!

Ghost in the Graveyard kuddliphish July 23 2010, 19:50:30 UTC

We would play Ghost in the Graveyard down in the woods next to a soccer field on CMC. I may have forgotten some details, but I think the game went generally like this: one or two people are picked as ghosts. They go and hide in the woods. Everyone else hangs around base (we used a garbage can at the edge of the field) for a while to let them hide, before splitting up to search for the monster. The ghosts try to sneak up on people and tag them without being seen. Anyone tagged is out and goes to hang out around base. If you spot a ghost before being tagged, you yell "ghost in the graveyard" and everyone runs back to base. The ghost can still tag people during this chase, and I think the last person tagged is the next ghost.

We would also play capture the flag and red rover sometimes, but ghost in the graveyard was a staple.