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boz4PM
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 Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject: Suggestion for Games or even a Trivia Section |
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I know we have the excellent quizzes section here but I have been meaning to suggest this for a while and I wanted to know what people think.
I post (as Nenya) on an excellent LOTR message board called The White Council. In the Books section there there are various 'trivia threads' and games. I am wondering if anyone would be interested in them here.
1. Trivia games: They are open to anyone to join in and the rules are simple: someone posts a question, the person who gets it right then asks the next question. There is a '24-hour rule' whereby if the person who won doesn't post their question after 24 hours the thread is 'open' for anyone to ask a question. There are separate trivia threads on: The Hobbit, LOTR, The Silmarillion, The Unfinished Tales.
2. Same rules as the trivia games (person who guesses posts next question) but this is acronyms. You choose a place, person or event. You state whether it is from The Hobbit, LOTR, or The Sil. The wording has to be absolutely as per the text. You then give the acronym (maximum 5 letters).
For example:
LOTR event TBOPF - would be 'The Battle of Pelennor Fields'
The Hobbit place TLHH - would be 'The Last Homely House'
3. There is a game there that has a whole section to itself. There are games for the films, LOTR (book), the 'expert' game (The Sil, UT & BoLT), and the 'fast' game where whoever is hosting states a board time and gives a day and everyone meets and plays 'live'.
For this game the host thinks of an item. Then you have to guess what the item is by asking questions. The one hosting can only answer 'yes' or 'no' (and in extremis - 'yes and no'). Again, the one who guesses correctly hosts the next game.
So what do people think?
Admins, if people like this idea where should these threads go? General Discussion?
Please let me know what you think and if people are interested I will start these/some of them up.
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Viv
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like a hoot. 
(The admins are out for the weekend, so don't get discouraged if it takes them a day or so to respond.) |
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BittenBuggy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Oh wow, great idea boz! Sounds like such fun!
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sindohte
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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I especially like the acronym game idea.
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Scribe
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I think we'll try one or two in general discussion first and if there is a lot of interest in it, I don't see why we can 't move it into a separate section on its own once its gains in popularity. |
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boz4PM
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Scribe.
I'll see if anyone else has a suggestion for the games they'd like to see first posted, otherwise I'll start a trivia and acronym one in a few days if enough people look interested and we'll see how it goes. |
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Andreth
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I've taken a look at threads like this at a few different sites and it looks like a lot of fun. Great idea! |
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boz4PM
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:49 am Post subject: |
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Okay well I will start an Acronyms game and a LOTR Trivia game and see how we go from there.
If anyone wants more - such as a Silmarillion or Hobbit Trivia game, then let me know.
I also forgot another good one: a 'quotation' game. You jumble up the letters (though keeping each word separate) and say where it's from. People have to identify the quotation: unscrmable the letters and say who said it and to whom. For example:
LOTR - ot sophe nde i dero ned ot rhaste karbgein
'To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking' : Eomer at the Battle of Pelennor
LOTR - eon hefit veedress rontaeh
"One thief deserves another" : Saruman to Merry
If anyone is interested in this game, let me know also.
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boz4PM
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Question for admins:
Wasn't thinking, really, when I started the trivia threads but now I am wondering whether, to avoid any confusion, they shouldn't really be in the Books section? Rather than General Discussion? I realise they are games, but they are Books based (LOTR is not movie trivia, e.g) and you have to be fairly well-read in the books to find/know the answers for a lot of questions. If they continue to be popular I may well start a UT one and even one for The Hobbit too - again you'd need to be well-versed in the books for those.
What think thee about them perhaps being better in 'Books', and, if you agree, would it be possible to move them?
Apologies if this is hassle. If it is, don't worry and leave them where they are. |
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