chat games

Acronomia

Acronyms, nomials, paranoia. Three of our favorite things!

In this game, players take turns issuing a verifiable yet little-known acronym, and everyone else guesses at the expanded version. First player to get it right gets a point and gets to issue the next acronym.

Example: Skally says, "PERI - what does it stand for?"
Breelyn: Partial Ectoplasmic Reducing Inductor
Darkly: Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute
Ferris: Pacific Equatorial Research Inc.
Wobbleman: Pack Everything Right Immediately

... and so on, until someone gets it. Or, forever. Or, until the laughs have been had, and everyone has to go home.

Corruption

This is a fun one. First, determine player order. We usually go clockwise around the campfire.

The starting player makes a wish. The next player corrupts that wish, turning it into a (humorous) nightmare instead, and then makes a wish themselves. The next player corrupts that wish, and so on, round and round.

Get creative. Get fun with it. Add that special "twist"... of the knife. Heh.

Example:
Player 1: "I wish for a million trillion dollars."

Bloody Jack

If you are familiar with the game "The Minister's Cat," this is the same game only adapted to October Undead.

The basic format is: "Bloody Jack is a _____ killer," where you fill in the blank. You can fill it in with anything, but if you are playing for points, then the first person to fill it in with a proper word gets the point. Chat line-order determines who's first. Yep, lag can be screwy. Oh well.

Often, whoever starts the game will choose the sequence (one of the variations below). No one else will know what it is, though, and one of the game tasks is to determine which sequence it is so you can start issuing correct statements. Usually, either the player that starts issues the points or a non-playing or appointed referee can issue the points.

Chain-Letter

Any number of players (2 or more). Timed or not answers, as you please.

Choose a category such as animals, places, television shows, people, fruit, etc. and tell everyone what the category is.

Name something in your category. If you choose animals you might say "panda." The next player has to name an animal that starts with the last letter of your animal. In this example, their animal would have to start with the letter "A" such as "alligator." Play continues until someone can't think of a word. They are then eliminated. When you have only 1 person left, they are the winner.

You cannot use any animal name twice. Back-channel chat all you want!

Behind the Green Glass Door

This is one of Kal's favorites. It is a game where you have to deduce the rules of the game.

The player starting the game (and giving points) cannot score points themselves. They issue a correct statement such as:

"You can have a classy tassle behind the green glass door, but you can't have a painted string."

The other players go on issuing statements themselves in the same format, and whenever a player says a correct statement - one that matches the (unstated but consistent) rules, the referee player, says "True statement, Millie" (or whatever the player's name is that got it right. That gives the players another sentence to use to try work out the rules.