No Blaise: The Game

A couple weeks ago Anika, Hannah, Ryan, and I were at Anika’s house in Michigan. We’re just sitting around on the couch and Ryan decides to introduce us to The Game.

The Game is played with a deck of cards and your imagination. I won’t be able to do justice to the technical ways it’s played by trying to explain it here. But, really, what’s more important is what goes on beyond the technicalities.

So, to play The Game the different players come up with “Most likely…” statements. Like, “Most likely to own a second home” or “Most likely to become a cat lady.” Then everyone votes on who they think — in the circle of people playing — will “Most likely” be whatever the said statement is.

Get it?

This won’t be me — I don’t even like cats….

As you can imagine, this can be fun and hilarious if played with friends — or, even better, fun, hilarious, and at times extremely awkward when played with people you don’t really know. The awkwardness comes from the fact that it’s a blind vote – nobody knows who voted for who – and then the person with the most votes has to guess who voted for him. Or her.

Say you’re playing with some co-workers you don’t usually hang out with. The question you’re voting on is “The person most of us want to see naked.” Now imagine what happens when the person with the most votes – say his name is Johnny — is guessing who voted for him and he picks someone who actually didn’t vote for him.

Uh-oh….

“Oh, so you, ugh, don’t want to see me naked? Ok…ha ha…thought you might have. Oops, my bad….”

Number one rule: Don’t get offended.

On that night in Michigan I referenced before all these instructions, we played for hours. Seriously, hours. And then we carried the game back to Chicago and the rest of our friends. And some people we didn’t know that well.

I can’t remember all the gems we’ve come up with, but a few I’ve won the vote on are…

“Most likely to have too many kids”

“Most likely to be a cop” (!?)

Never!

“Most likely to go to the BET awards”

“Most likely to be divorced multiple times” (Thanks.)

And of course:

“Most likely to put my kids on a leash”

WTF?

By No Blaise

Editor’s Note: No Blaise also wrote: Redecorating

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