Imagine something with loose influences from Battleship and Hot Potato and you're not too far off. We'll see how this turns out.

BATTLESPUD![/i]

Objective: Be the first to reach 5 points.

How to Play:
1) If you have the battlespud, you have 6 hours to throw it to someone else. You are only allowed to throw it to people who have posted on the Discussion Board in the past 2 days (check their profile and view their posts if you're not sure).

2) If you fail to throw the battlespud to a new person within the 6 hours, the battlespud explodes and you lose 2 points. The person who threw the battlespud gains 1 point.

3) It is then first-come first-served as to who next possesses the battlespud after a spud-tastic explosion.

I'll wait a bit to see how many people (if any) are interested, and if there are any questions, before I start the game off.

EDIT: I changed the "hour" to "6 hours" in the first one because I just realize the different time zones could kill the game pretty quickly otherwise. I was hoping to go for quicker, but this is the quickest I can think of that'd keep the timezones from being exploitable, among some other reasons.

CURRENT SCORE:
n/a

WINS:
Darkjedibob: 1

I'll play.

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What CoolMatty said.

I'll do it.

sure.

So.. the only people that really can participate are people that don't post a lot? That doesn't make sense

Awesome. I'll start the game tomorrow.

To keep things rolling, though, I'm going to change #2 so that you lose 2 points instead of being "killed"/not able to play for the game.

What? No? The idea is to encourage a LOT of participation. Number 1 even makes it so that players don't try throwing it to people who don't post a lot.

i'm in

in

So basically this is a game that ensures the lamest person wins.

Just like WoW.

If only we had their numbers...< / Dogma >

Potatoes potatoes potatoes.

guys Im having sex with my girlfriend while I play this game

Count me in.

Is the throwing done via PM? I'd think that'd be the only fair way, or am I missing the point of the game?

Throwing is done here, on the thread. Of course, there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from PMing, IMing, etc. the person afterwards to let them know you posted. If the throw is not made public, however, the rest of us won't know who you threw it to or when you threw it. Really, this game is only like Battleship in that you're trying to take down multiple targets. It's more the Hot Potato. And its own thing. ...Listen to how eloquent I am!

okay, so this is more like:
1) throw it to someone who hasn't posted in a very long time
2) wait for it to explode and get points
3) try to be the first person to grab it
?

No. You guys are idiots.

You

Throw

It

At

Someone

Who

Has

Posted

In

The

Past

Two

Days.

Angry dud is angry.

But if we're going to use the list of people who have "joined" the thread, then they're probably all going to watch closely enough not to get 'sploded.

Which is why it would last more than 5 posts.

i agree with dud.

also i wish the last forum game had lasted longer.

For some reason I originally read it as "hasn't posted":psyduck:

BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE ILLITERATE.

also: Enough talk. It's potato time.

/me throws potato at Baconfish

Um...I'm going to go ahead and say dud started the game.

/me passes it to Vegiemaster

Baconfish takes -2 for taking more than one hour.

[edit - idea: Geb keeps track of scores by editing the first post and updating the scores.]

[edit2- wait what? 12 hours? That's way too long. I think none of our sleep schedules are regular enough for time zones to be an issue. :p]

It's not an hour, dud, but 12, though I'm debating making it 6 instead... an hour is far too short though, considering the imbalance of the forum members across the time zones.

EDIT - I'll make it 6 hours after this round (i.e. Vegimaster has 12, though everyone after has 6.)

P.S. I'll keep score in the first post.

Vegimaster has failed to throw it to someone else. Since he has a score of 0, his score remains the same.

Since Baconfish threw it to Vegimaster, he gains 1 point.

I grab the battlespud and throw it at Darkjedibob! You got 6 hours to throw it to someone else now.

I throw it at Bobbert!

[edit]6 hours still seems kinda short, I'm alseep for longer than that

AH CRAP.
POTATOSPLODES

Bobbert throws it at NoESC.

It's been 6 hours! *boomski*

/me picks it up, and hits happydud inna head

I'm comin for ya, Baconfish.

Nevermind!

/me uses the force to freeze the potato, and then focepushes it at Geb.