I spent the weekend with my SiL and her sister at their Aunt's cabin near Windsor. It was a glorious weekend of woodstoves, spiked hot chocolate, and snow shoeing.
Last night we played a hunting, fishing, and camping trivia game. It's basically a themed Trivial Pursuit, but with the board changed just enough to avoid copyright infringement lawsuits.
It was the funnest game I've played in a long time, mostly because the questions were hilarious. At Christmas, we played a Christmas trivia game with hilariously stupid questions. At the time, I never thought I'd play a game that could reach that level of awesome badness. I was wrong. Aside from having no consistency with grammar, capitalization, numbering/letter multiple choice options, the questions often made no sense. Or they were, really, a matter of opinion and not belonging in a trivia game. Clearly, the cards weren't proofread. Or they were proofread by semi literate fourth grader. It made for fun gaming.A good example of the proof reading quality is seen in the two cards below (the answers are in italics following the question) - see if you can spot the errors (I'd never heard of Naismith's rule, but apparently, it's a real thing):
Are here are two awesome questions about fish. Remember, 1/3 of the target audience for this game is people who like to fish:
3 comments:
But, what about all of those land-dwelling fish?!
I know! It's the wording that kills me. I mean, if it was just "where do most fish live?" then it'd just be a stupid question. But the "most" implies that there are a minority of fish that don't live in water. I know there are some species that can survive droughts and periods of dessication, but I doubt that's what they're refering to.
Ah, it must have been amazing to snowshoe all over the place!
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