If any player repeats a title, or fails to give a valid response within a time limit, they are out. Titles can be connected by mutual star, author, concept, director, producer or words (eg Bride of Frankenstein and The Princess Bride or even Young Einstein). The next player calls another title connected to the first, and so on. The first player calls the title of a movie. CarnelliĪKA The titles game Aim To come up with connecting film titles Brainiac rating Film school Instead, smile knowingly and join in with the leader in denouncing other players' woeful efforts. Once you have guessed the link, don't announce it. The first player to crack the code must think up a new pattern and lead the next round.Īs well as letter patterns, (eg beginning with the same letter as the name of the person saying it, beginning and ending in the same letter) the link can be conceptual, physical or anything else you can come up with. Keep going until the last person has cottoned on. The pattern being followed is to like any word with a double letter (pp in apple, ee in green) and dislike any word without double letters. In this case 'I like oranges, but I don't like lemons' gets thumbs down from the leader, and 'I like green, but I don't like red' gets thumbs up. Players then take turns to copy the pattern used. The leader begins with a sentence such as the classic 'I like apples, but I don't like pears'. I like applesĪKA Connections Aim To work out the link between statements Brainiac rating Grammar school

For more details see Hofstadter's book Metamagical Themas, if you're feeling brave. Some add or subtract fractions from certain players' scores, depending on the round. There are a variety of rules for avoiding ties. It will be the person who has been the most mediocre at being mediocre. At the end of the game (say, five rounds of five), the person who has accrued the highest score for being the most mediocre will not win, of course. At the end of each round (eg after every five games), scores are reassessed and it is the middle-most player who has won. The middle number wins, adding that many points to the player's score. Three players secretly write down a number on a piece of paper, then reveal them at the same time. The game's creator, Nobel genius Douglas Hofstadter, called it Hruska, the name of a US Senator who declared that 'mediocre people are also entitled to representation'.

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