Scare-te-Gories?
 

I've been enjoying the games on the forum so much that I decided I wanted to do one, too.

If enough people want to play, we can make this work.

Anyone who's on can play. Points will carry over for each person, for each round they play in. Those who play most often, will likely accrue the most points.

This is based on the game 'Scattergories', but it will be horror-based.

It's a very simple game.

These are the official rules for Scattergories, but I have changed them slightly to suit horror-based forum play:

The objective of the game is to score points by uniquely naming movies or objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter.

Gameplay

Each 'challenge' has 12 categories.

The letter that the answers can start with will be determined by alphabetical order.

Each player must attempt to think of and write down a word, term or horror movie title that fits each of the 12 categories and starts with the chosen letter. Send them to me in a PM, and don't tell anyone what you have submitted until after all of the entries have been tallied.

Any number of words in the answer is allowed, as long as the first word starts with the correct letter (Articles 'A', 'An' and 'The' are to be ignored).

For example, with a category of "Slasher" and a letter of "S", titles such as "Scream", "The Secretary" and "Sleepaway Camp" are acceptable, but "Nightmare On Elm Street" is not (wrong initial letter), nor is "Silence Of The Lambs" (wrong category). Alliteration (using the chosen letter more than once) is encouraged; Scarecrow Slayer is worth 2 points.

Players score zero points for an answer that duplicates another answer in that round, and one point for an answer no other player has given.

Acceptable answers using alliteration score one point for each word using the letter.

For example, in the "S-Slasher" example, if players A, B, and C answered "Scream", "Scream", and "Slash" , respectively, players A and B would score nothing, and C would score 1 point.

If for some reason a player thinks someone's answer does not fit the category (for instance, "Serial Mom" for the category "Slasher") a player may challenge that answer. When challenged, all players vote on the validity of that answer. If the vote is a tie, the player's vote who is being challenged is thrown out.


So...If anyone wants to do this, I'll create the first list.

I'll give it a go, sounds fun.

Sounds interesting. I m in. :)

(waiting impatiently for Newb's and Urge's nods)

suuuuuuuure

until it gets too time consuming ....

I'll give it a go as well.

Same rules as the sig? ;)

What he said

The good thing about this one is, you can choose to play a round or not...First person to score 100 points wins the game...Then another game starts if people still want to play :)

Okay, I'll make up the first one.

ha ... i guess it's time to change that sig.

I'm in too, sweetness ;)

This set will be played out for all letters until someone reaches 100 points.

All answers in this first round must start with the letter 'A'


1) Weapon

2) Killer (can be a name or noun ie: 'Jason', 'mummy', etcetera)

3) Horror/Comedy

4) 80's Horror

5) Type of death (Strangulation, Evisceration, etcetera)

6) Horror movie Actor/Actress

7) Best hiding place for the killer to wait for a victim

8) Best hiding place for a victim to elude a killer

9) Revenge movie

10) Movie based on the supernatural

11) Movie based on insanity

12) Horror movie where a child is (or children are) a major factor

Each round only lasts an hour, or until 10 entries are received...These are supposed to go kinda fast.

I'll list names and points for each round before the next one starts.

First or last name of actor?

Either, but if they BOTH start with the chosen letter, that's 2 points :)

I'll try to jump on later

Okay...Maybe you'll make it in for 'B' or 'C' :)

I'm in!

.......................

Hammerfan has quite a few unique answers :)

That's the goal, because if someone else has the same answer as you, those answers don't count.

20 minutes left on this first one :)

The ol' grey matter was actually working this afternoon! ;)

oh well,

i'm screwed then. i dont remember seeing that rule (re. unique answers)


i sent mine twice by mistake - exactly the same - network screw up

"For example, in the "S-Slasher" example, if players A, B, and C answered "Scream", "Scream", and "Slash" , respectively, players A and B would score nothing, and C would score 1 point."

oops.



i would have picked a different weapon if i'd caught that

You never know either Urge, if everybody was trying to be clever or unique the obivious answers may not have been used. :)

It's okay, the first round is almost always for working out the bugs...Kinda like a test round :)

I want to remind everyone about ignoring the articles 'A', 'An', and 'The' also...Like 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' wouldn't count for 'A', but 'The Awakening' would

Well, that let's out one of my answers! :(

Bah, would've made things easier.

WTF- there was a different name we were supposed to send the answers to, and now I can't find it.

i'm sure everyone said the same thing as i did ......... apple

Ah, the infamous apple, it ruined things for all of us didn't it? ;)

It's okay, just send em to me...I'm ready to tally them now :)

Well...In about 10 minutes...That makes an hour

What?!?!?!

Demon Seed I think

but it kept our teeth strong, and the Doctor away.

unless he was prescribing antibiotics for STDs :)

You said just one answer per question right? So we can't list seventeen weapons beginning with A and get seventeen points.

Shit.... I gave a lot of basic answers too.
Oh well, Ill try to log on @ work.

HaHa, no...Just one answer each

aardvark
alvin and the chipmunks
acting lessons
abalone
albatross

I 'spose I'll wait around and jump in on the next round

When do we get our scores? I'm leaving work in 35 minutes.

Okay...This round is over...Give me about 10 minutes to change the baby's diaper, and figure out the points

Then we can start round 2, for whoever wants to play it :)