Game Time: Design a Birthday Game
3Design a Birthday Game
Design a forum-friendly birthday game for us, then come back later and vote for your favorites.
We might use the winner’s game next year.
The winner will be decided by star votes.
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What do we get if we win?
@Star2236 51% ownership in mercatalyst.
@Star2236 Something vague and probably not as cool as you want it to be.
@Star2236 @Thumperchick So, a one-item IRK that has a best-by date more than a week before the 'thon?
Pick three items that are in front of you right now, and come up with a two-sentence erotic interaction between them.
Choose an item posted in the current 'Thon, and defend your contention that it’s the best thing since the third mouse button.
@werehatrack erotic?
Am I still on Meh?
@werehatrack Good thing I wasn’t in my trunk when I read this.
@yakkoTDI And it has received precisely the number of stars that I anticipated when I posted it.
Hide Irk.(Or another Meh character such as Glen)
Step 1)
Hide some Irk/Glen/other Meh stars in a room. You can either print the out, use the plush, or draw a picture of them, or creatively represent them some other way.
Make it hard to find.
Step 2) take a photo of area where character is hidden.
Step 3) turn it over to the masses to try and find where you’ve hidden Irk.
Once found… Someone else can waste time creating their own irk search.
Bookmark this page with every intention of coming back and posting an amazing game idea; forget to do so before the end of the entry period. Be mad at yourself.
@mossygreen your half-assery got the most stars.
You won, but is it really winning?
@Thumperchick Winning on a technicality! It’s the Mediocre Way!
@mossygreen @Thumperchick It will be an easy game to play!
P.S. Congratulations!
@Kyeh @Thumperchick I play it pretty much every year in one birthday game post or another.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @Thumperchick Same here.
Tradition!
@brainmist @Kyeh @Thumperchick (wipes proud tear from eye)
@brainmist @Kyeh @mossygreen @Thumperchick That’s why I’m posting today. (I was posting for a good chunk of the event; I just had to eventually go to sleep.)
The Unsolvable Puzzle
Summary:
A “broken” puzzle is posted by the moderator. It’s illogical, missing a piece, or has contradictory clues. The goal isn’t to solve it, but to creatively justify a solution anyway.
How It Works:
Example puzzle: “A room has no doors and no windows. Inside is a penguin, a can of Sprite, and a playing card. What happened?”
Players submit their theory: serious, funny, absurd, plausible.
Midway, a “wildcard twist” is added (e.g., “The penguin was wearing shoes.”), and players can revise or riff off others’ entries.
Bonus:
Participants vote at the end for: “Most Likely,” “Most Unhinged,” and “Best Use of the Sprite.”
Enhance this game using meh forum tools:
An idea for you cross-marketing with Side Deal.
Write up a product description for something sold on side deal that whereas is very accurate is not very helpful.
For example, “Hitchhiker’s essential paraphernalia decorated in Umpirecore aesthetic”
The answer would be the stripey towels. (Towels were considered important hitchhiker gear in Guide to the galaxy)
A scavenger hunt through either side deal or morningsave with clues every 15 mins. People have to screen shot the item they think the clue is representing.
The staff could post a contest with photos of their coffee mugs and a list of the staffers, with the challenge being to accurately match as many mugs to staffers as possible. Each staffer would provide one cryptic “clue” that could identify their mug. (You have a year to come up with this, and multiple co-conspirators to involve.)
Telephone, but in whispers: The first person whispers a couple sentences that make sense to the next. Then that person can change any 1 word before whispering it to someone else, and so on. The game ends when the original whisperer gets the mutated whisper back.
Two truths and a lie. Each person will list 3 things about themselves and 2 will be true and 1 will be a lie. The audience needs to determine which is the lie.
@cengland0 or two truths and a lie about products…like it is still edible even though it is 3 years past expiration
@tinamarie1974
LOL.
Match game with actual products being sold.
Maybe you earn a discount if you clear the board
First fuco that I got was the one with the captcha. Remember that? Where you had to solve I forget how many crackers and an opens the string so that you could buy the item. Repeat that only if you don’t do it within a certain number of minutes the area that you uncovered starts to cover back up gradually maybe between 1 and 2 minutes whatever and if you can open the entire screen the irk is free
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
Simon says gif game (post a GIF and a word you think of from the GIF; the next poster posts a GIF based on that word and a new word based on their GIF)
Or if we’re making this VMP exclusive, showme commands
Find items that aren’t in the Meh-rathon on side deal
Have users make write-ups for items they wish were on Meh
“Answer a stupid question”
Users can pretend to be IRK and write scathing answers to each other. Must follow-up with a question to be answered by the next IRK.
“GET the IRK !” gameplay only lasts a few seconds, the winners are the losers, and has endless levels of disappointment…
People post pictures of items that they have purchased on Meh. The first person to guess the name of each item and purchase date gets a point (price too?) At the end of the game the person with the most points gets an expired bag of circus peanuts.
How about a global picture game. Displaying Irk, an Irk bag, Glen (yuck), etc at public places around the world. No photo shop. Most interesting or one w most likes wins.
@tinamarie1974 Didn’t we have an Irk stuffie that went around the world until it was lost somewhere in France? (Like how the Travelocity travel gnome was a thing.)
Try to trigger every AWESOME mediocrebot terms …
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot Hey now, that’s too easy.
you’re an all-star
Meh-nopoly. Jail can be the Meh store front and other “properties” can be things like speaker docks, knives, candy corn, pasta drop, etc, etc. Irk, medicorebot, glen, Chicken on the mic, etc can be the gameboard pieces
So many possibilities
@mediocrebot roll 2d6
I propose the
“@f00l automatically wins something wonderful” game.
So awesome.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
Write the most annoying, Karenesque complaint you can about an individual item that has been recently sold or the website in general.
Winners can be decided by the number of likes, with a few additional ones being selected by a panel of traumatized Meh support service employees.
@ShotgunX nope pick another name like Irks…
Guess the expiration date. Ok this mostly applies to food products, but we’ve all ordered a speaker dock or Bluetooth thingy that was shoved in a corner for the next time you need it, and when you go to grab it, it’s covered in dust and the battery has no life left to charge up! The oldest unused items win
Everyone has to pick a number between 11 and 11. Everyone that guesses correctly has to send me a birthday present.
Call it IRKhouse innovations game. Build IRK a home after all, he needs a place to stay that is MEH. Get several boxes of toothpicks ( can be wooden or plastic toothpicks) Lay out a level area, perhaps even use styrofoam base, where you will try to build a house that irk would live in but you only have one hour to do so. All pictures must be taken of the house while you are building said irk house and then posted here. The best designed and irkest house built ( that is standing not fallen down like well matchsticks) will win .The house must be built only using toothpicks and defying gravity that’s tries to make you lose-no cheating using glue, hot glue guns , stickers etc.
May the best toothpick house builder defying gravity win.
Uggh … just D&D style an
Birth irkday…. Like weirdo Halloween meh-rathons… extra points for LARPing with previously awarded irk-items
I came up with a second one this morning:
Put Irk and/or Glen in viral memes.
Post your worst/meh-est.
highest star count wins.
BUILD YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY IRK
DAY ONE: Go to sidedeal and morningsave and choose products for your irk. You have a $100 budget (the irk bag is free).
You will list the products with a screenshot of the product, the url, the price, why you chose that product/what you like about it and why you want it in your irk.
You must address all of the above or your irk will be disqualified and never have a chance to be seen in real life on your doorstep.
DAY TWO: People will vote for the irk they they’d most like to receive. They need to click like, reply to the irk they voted on, explain why they voted for it and why they want what is in it. The irk with the most votes wins.
You can vote for ONLY one irk. If you voted for more than one irk the first irk with your vote is the vote that will count. The rest won’t count for the win or for you.
Both the irk creator and one randomly chosen person who voted for the winning irk and posted about it following all the rules will win that irk. Meh will decide if the rest of the players who voted for the winning irk get anything (or nothing), for example, an irk bag, a discount code, a trackr, something else… Or if everyone who played are winners and they all get token “gifts”.
The creation of irks will close at the end of the first 24 hours. During the second 24 hours is when everyone else gets to vote.
Irk creators can vote too, including on their own irk (but voting for your own irk gets you chastised in your profile for liking your own post
).
Winning this irk will not count against the limit on how many irks you can buy. Ink for irk people can participate to win an irk too.
PS: meh - since this is posted late in this game it might not be seen by very many people so may well not get very many votes. Feel free to swipe it for your next birthday celebration anyway.
/showme birthday bump
@mediocrebot umm not what I was expecting
birthday bump
BUMP BUMP BUMP
I didn’t realize this was still available so…
MEH MAD LIBS!!
Brilliant copywriter creates the story and we fill in the blanks for the reveal at the end of the Mehrathon.
@llangley
Meh’d libs?
@pakopako doh! Nice catch!!
I always like the baking challenges, but July is always too hot for the oven. We should sculpt Irk out of ice cream.
/showme a gremlin made out of ice cream wearing an orange shirt from meh.com outside on a hot summer’s day trying to bake a cake
/giphy balloon bump
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I’d like to thank @Thumperchick and everyone at meh for a fun birthday celebration and my major award. Also everyone who starred my post. Also everyone who did nothing to stop my travesty of a win.
/youtube Christmas story a major award