Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Board Game Rules Favor

Hello Friends,

I call out to you friends in hopes that you will do me a favor. Let me explain. I am doing a Folklore Project for my Folklore class on varying rules for popular board games. So, I am calling out to my friends, who I know will help me out here, to email me variations(rules that aren't in the rule book that comes with the game) they may have on rules to popular board games.
For example:
Monopoly-
-$500 in the middle of the board, to be gotten by the person who lands on Free Parking, replenished after each recieval.
-$400 is recieved when a player lands on Go
Uno-
-When a Zero is laid down, everyone passes their hand to the right
-When a yellow card is played, everyone must touch their head
Risk-
-During Troup Transfer a player may only move their armies from one connecting country over.
or
-During Troup Transfer a player may move as many armies from as many country's as they want as long as the countries are connecting

I am looking for these kinds of things.
The games that I am looking for alternate rules include:
Monopoly
Uno
Risk
Clue
Life

If you choose to be the bestest friend that I could ever want/have I would require the following information from you:
Name:
Gender:
Birthplace:
Home Region:
Age:
Occupation:
Religion:
And your signature on the attached release form: (If you are one of my far away friends, then I would need permission to sign the form for you)
This information is for my teacher and the Folklore Special Collections file, to verify that you exist. It is standard folklore documentation.

Additionally, I would need:
The name of the game you have alternate rules on:
The rules (If you could include ALL of your alternate rules, it would be appreciated):
And if you have any story behind how the rules came about or background as to where you learned your rules (whether it be your older sibling or a friend and whether they were created to settle an argument or if you just don't know how they came about):

I realize that this is a lot of information to request from you, but I ask that you open your heart, find your inner child, give them a lollipop and then help me out in my project.
I thank all of you who decide to help me participate in this project and I shun the rest for three seconds and then get over it.

If you decide to participate, please email me back the any information you can provide.

Thanks!
Becky Derington

3 comments:

Marie said...

This sounds a lot like an email I received....

Justin said...

Here are the rules--

1. Justin Loses.
2. There is no number 2.
3. Everyone else tries to win.
4. Justin just tries not to lose.
5. Justin still loses.

Becky said...

Poor Justin. It sounds like you've been playing with Deringtons. Or Lisa.