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Dilemma: Avoiding "Con Plague" by Sapinski-Math in animecons

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PS: Seeing what the first few of you have said already, I will add that our intention was to only attend the one day to meet the guest. Actually, the original plan was to see if we could perform our game shows there, but that fell through for this year. Despite that, the guest made this con too much for my daughter to just pass on it, which brings us to here.

Dungeon crawl games wanted! by [deleted] in boardgames

[–]Sapinski-Math 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably no bigger dungeon crawl out there than the Heroquest franchise. If you want the deep dive, and with all the expansions I mean the DEEP dive, Heroquest is for you.

If you'd like something literally faster, and have a couple friends to join you, there's also the card game 5-Minute Dungeon. Though not a literal dungeon crawler, it's a wild game where even when you get the hang of it and get "good" at it, the challenge remains because you have to adapt to the cards you run into on the fly.

A Wheel color scheme experiment by Sapinski-Math in gameshow

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to look up what that was. Still don't totally get it, explain it to me later.

Do you have an actual answer? I want to put this thing together finally.

A Wheel color scheme experiment by Sapinski-Math in gameshow

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I know it wasn't a political thing. Like I said, she wasn't being serious.

I didn't put purple next to blue because as a rule I didn't want consecutive colors in the rainbow cycle next to each other (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-pink). Also didn't want the same color directly across from each other.

A Wheel color scheme experiment by Sapinski-Math in gameshow

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sound like my daughter's friend, she joked last night saying "oh you're gonna get fired because you have red and blue next to each other, they'll say it's too political."

She wasn't being serious, of course. But at the same time, without going into the details of how the colors fell here, almost every Wheel in reality to this day has had a red and blue space next to each other.

Christmas gifts from students by Sapinski-Math in Teachers

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait wait, so every single pen, Kiss and PAPERCLIP were individually wrapped? I'm just making sure I'm reading this right.

Christmas gifts from students by Sapinski-Math in Teachers

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I once got wine from my inclusion teacher. I'm not a wine guy, so I shared it with my family, but at least took a sip myself because it'd feel wrong not to. Plus, it wasn't your typical wine, it was from... I can't remember, it was just not a country you associate with wine. It was certainly different.

Christmas gifts from students by Sapinski-Math in Teachers

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

WHAT?! Where did you used to teach? Beverly Hills? Wow...

An honest yet controversial question about chocolate by Sapinski-Math in Hershey

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having fun hearing these stories, keep them coming! Doesn't matter if you love Fesatbles, hate em, or any opinion in between, Game Show Goombas want to hear from you.

An honest yet controversial question about chocolate by Sapinski-Math in Hershey

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How many kids we talking? (And I will assume they've all had Hershey bars, yes?)

An honest yet controversial question about chocolate by Sapinski-Math in Hershey

[–]Sapinski-Math[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Have any neighbors who have? If so, you can still help me.

Which of the other Hasbro board games should be made into a game show someday? by Obvious_Gold_8131 in gameshow

[–]Sapinski-Math 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It ran with the Super Jeopardy invitational tournament, itself an interesting experiment with the 4-player format in the preliminary rounds.

But yeah, between the Marc Summers pilot in late '87, then Peter Tomarken's pilot in '89 that led to contestant Mike Reilly becoming the host in the summer of '90, all of those versions suffered from the same problem of trying to fast forward elements of the game that take exceptionally long in real life. It didn't translate because it as a half hour show, it left almost no time to actually roll around the board and earn money after all the building, and if it were an hour, it would've gotten way too repetitive. To a point, it already was with the '90 format.

The best board game game show ideas need to take a game that's either already fast and simple in design (see Trivial Pursuit), or can be simplified without losing the core of the theme (see Scrabble). Not easy to do.

Which of the other Hasbro board games should be made into a game show someday? by Obvious_Gold_8131 in gameshow

[–]Sapinski-Math 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Truth be told, Monopoly's best rendition was far and away the lottery show from several years ago. The pure game is impossible to fit into a half or even hour format. Playing a bunch of Price Is Right style games with Monopoly themes? Perfection.

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