Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Sedentary Players' Guide to Duck, Duck, Goose
As I grow older, there is one, almost universal game that has proven ever more central to both my growing and my olderness - the one you know as Duck, Duck, Goose. At the same time, as my olderness makes itself apparent in everless subtle ways, I have with increasing impatience sought out a version of this most wonderful game that doesn't involve running around. Not that I'm too old to run around. It's just that the people I play with tend to be. Too old to run around without hurting themselves a little beyond fun.
Today, because it's you, I am happy to go to these great lengths to introduce to you, special, my latest and perhaps most profound bit of funsmithery yet - a way to play Duck, Duck, Goose sitting down entirely.
It is based, loosely, on the game of A What, don't you know.
Everyone sits in a circle. Ah. One player, let us call her the "Goose," starts the game by turning to the person to her right and saying "duck." That person, the duck-pro-temps, turns to the person on his right and similarly says "duck." And on and on it goes, until one player, instead of turning to the person on his right and saying "duck," turns to the person on his left and says "goose" and then turns to the person on his right and says "duck." The person who was "ducked," as has heretofore been the case, says "duck" to the person on her right. But now, the person was, um, said "Goose" to, says "Goose" to the person on his left, don't you see. So now the Duck is going one way, the Goose the other. And the only thing you supposedly don't want to be is the person who finds himself simultaneously both.
That person being the Goose for the next round.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
Today, because it's you, I am happy to go to these great lengths to introduce to you, special, my latest and perhaps most profound bit of funsmithery yet - a way to play Duck, Duck, Goose sitting down entirely.
It is based, loosely, on the game of A What, don't you know.
Everyone sits in a circle. Ah. One player, let us call her the "Goose," starts the game by turning to the person to her right and saying "duck." That person, the duck-pro-temps, turns to the person on his right and similarly says "duck." And on and on it goes, until one player, instead of turning to the person on his right and saying "duck," turns to the person on his left and says "goose" and then turns to the person on his right and says "duck." The person who was "ducked," as has heretofore been the case, says "duck" to the person on her right. But now, the person was, um, said "Goose" to, says "Goose" to the person on his left, don't you see. So now the Duck is going one way, the Goose the other. And the only thing you supposedly don't want to be is the person who finds himself simultaneously both.
That person being the Goose for the next round.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
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