the longest game ever

Since I am poor due to lack of employment (still working on that), I made Kevin a game for our three year anniversary. He is sentimental and likes to celebrate these occasions; I could take them or leave them. It was a very long and drawn out endeavor, but hey, I have the time. The whole thing probably cost $15.


Here is the tale of our first experience playing "The Longest Game Ever." Turns out, the game was aptly titled. We began play at 7:15 pm, and I won the game at 12:45 am. The object of the game is to be the last person to lose all their point tokens. It really can go as long or as short as you want it to depending on the number of tokens you start with. You lose tokens by failing to complete tasks, losing a game, bad luck, and refusing to answer questions.

The game board consists of blank, secret, chance, and activities spaces. Landing on a secret space requires the player to draw a card and answer the question written on the card in a timely and satisfactory way--they lose token if they don't answer or beat around the bush. A chance card is random luck--like a roll of the dice or flip of a coin. An activities card involves playing a small game, and the loser of the game also loses a token.

There are also 4 larger challenge spaces--quickfire, jeopardy, gamer, and crossword. In a quickfire challenge, each player chooses an ingredient for a total of 5, then they must create a dish using all those ingredients within the time limit determined by the roll of a dice. Person with the worst dish loses a point. In a gamer challenge, 4 video games are chosen, the first to 3 wins gets to keep their point. In the jeopardy challenge, we watch a tivo'ed episode of the show and keep score. Lastly, a crossword challenge involves us doing a crossword puzzle--first to complete the puzzle, or whoever completes the most, wins.

With that explanation in mind, here are the highlights:

1. Kevin drew an activities card which required us each to 'interpretive dance' to a song of the other persons choosing. Worst dance lost. Well, he had to dance to 'To the Dogs or Whoever' by Josh Ritter, and boy was it AWFUL. It mostly consisted of skipping and hiking up his boxers when the song go to the line 'did I mention how I love you in your underwear?'

2. Quickfire challenges were awesome. The first one had syrup, vanilla ice cream, chocolate chips, cinnamon wheat thins, and caramel sauce with a 4 minute time limit. I made a take on fried ice cream while Kevin made smiley face with ice cream sandwich eyes and a syrup mouth--and he won! The second challenge had spinach, salsa verde, garlic powder, mrs. dash, and limeade with a 5 minute time limit. I made a breakfast burrito with scrambled eggs and a sour cream/limeade/salsa verde sauce. Kevin made "HOT Cows in a Blanket"-- cottage cheese rolled up in spinach with salsa and a limeade vodka shot. Except he nuked cottage cheese for 20 seconds. Apparently it never occurred to him that it would melt.... here is what was left:





Needless to say, I won that round. And the game.