Bernie DeKoven, funsmith: Bear, Hunter, Princess

Friday, January 08, 2010

Bear, Hunter, Princess

Surely you all remember Panther, Person, Porcupine? Well, today I am pleased to share with you the game of Bear, Hunter, Princess as reported by the Strange Gamester himself, Montague Blister. Not that Bear, Hunter, Princess is a team game (as is Panther, Person, Porcupine), but rather that it's an alternate, whole-body version of your basic, two-player game of Rock-Scissors Paper, as also is Panther, Person, Porcupine.

Though I personally consider Panther, Person, Porcupine to be, quantumly-speaking, a much more significant leap into playful gamery, I nonetheless celebrate the existence of Bear, Hunter, Princess, as well as the directly corresponding, Fed-Ex-popularized Bear, Hunter, Ninja.

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith

Labels: fun, pointless games

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josh g. said...: I'm not sure which is copying which, but the FedEx version is awfully similar to Ninja-Cowboy-Bear as seen in this fantastic kids' book:
http://www.ninja-cowboy-bear.com/index.php
...in which all three of Ninja, Cowboy and Bear discover that while they can beat each other at different contests, in the end no one is "better" than the other and they remain friends.

Also, it's incredibly cute.
Rick Hamrick said...: Bernie, thanks to your referral to Montague, I followed his link to David Lovelace's RPS-101. Talk about taking a game light years past its most-popular form!
http://www.umop.com/rps101.htm

He freely admits it may be the game which no one ever plays due to the ridiculous volume of data which must be digested. For those interested in an only slightly crazier and more-complicated version of the game, he created 7, 9, 15, and 25-gesture variants.

All I have to do is memorize the interrelations of the 101-gesture game, and I will have filled every available cell in my brain! Perfect excuse for forgetting things going forward...
Ianus said...: That looks like a lot of fun. Reminde me vaguely of the geeky super-smart-flip-tablet-landline phone game over here: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1339.html