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Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

#831 Having to pee during hide and seek

You've got the best hiding spot. You'll never be found. Eventually, the seeker will have to call out that he gives up and you will jump out with a big grin on your face. You, my friend, are the king of hide and seek.

But what's this? It can't be. You just got into hiding position a moment ago. Why is this happening? You, the king, have the same kryptonite that all hide and seek players have. A weakness that no man or woman will ever conquer. A weakness that will undoubtedly reveal your amazing hiding spot to the world. You have to pee.

There are two ways that you can save a little bit of grace in this scenario.
1) Get out of your hiding spot quickly so when you're caught, your great hiding spot isn't revealed. It's just you, looking stupid (and possibly doing the pee dance) in a terrible open spot.
2) Wear a diaper and don't leave your spot. Problem solved.

It's just slightly annoying.


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

#835 The Duck Hunt dog

For those of you who lived under a rock during the 90s, the Duck Hunt dog is your best friend, picking up ducks that you shoot down. He's also your worst enemy, blatantly laughing in your face every time you fail to hit a bird. If you even want to call him a friend, you can call him that one friend that you never really want to hang out with.

This dog's owner clearly never taught it manners or sportsmanship. People (and dogs) of the world, it's generally construed as rude to laugh at someone's failure in their face.

It's just slightly annoying.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

#992 Getting stuck with a Q at the end of a scrabble game

10 points is a whole lot of points in Scrabble. And can you imagine getting it on a triple letter? Crazy! Q-words are some valuable commodities on the scrabble board, that's for sure. Quit, quilt, quick, quiet, quite, all winners. The Q letter should always be sought after in the beginning and middle of the game; getting a good Q word is a winning strategy, as long as you obtain the letter when all four U's are still out and about waiting to be paired with their long lost Q mate.

What's slightly annoying is when you finally do get the sought after Q and notice all 4 U's are out on the board. Okay, okay, not the end of the world, just trade it for a mystery letter in the bag and let someone else deal with it.....what do you mean there's no letters left? Uh oh.


So you're stuck in a slightly annoying situation. The U's are all out or in other player's racks, and it's already come down to the two letter moves of "it, an, of" and the other classic last-round Scrabble moves. Let's face it, you're gonna either have to take the 10 point hit on that Q or you're gonna have to break out the illegal google-search for weird words like QI (which, by the way, is a vital force in Chinese thought according to the online scrabble dictionary).

Who's stupid idea was it to make a letter that required another letter next to it anyway?

It's just slightly annoying.