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1000 blank white cards
Via my dog wants to be on the radio [1] comes this rather fasinating game
called 1000 blank white cards. [2] The rules? Well, short of drawing the
cards yourself (well, you and the other players) there aren't really any
other rules, other than play proceeds clockwise, unless otherwise noted.
Something like Nomic [3] with cards, only less rules.
I remember years ago in college (“Uh oh, there he goes again, reminiscencing
again!”) my friend Bill and I are in one of the library study rooms trying to
kill time between classes (we had a couple of hours). There was a blackboard
in this particular study room and fortunately we actually had chalk on us!
(And no, we weren't TA (Teaching Assitants)s—I think we had the chalk for use
playing pool where we would chalk up part of our hand to help the cue stick
slide but I digress). What I don't recall is if we actually had a checker
board on us, or drew one but at any rate, somehow we had a checker board and
pieces. We started to play a game of checkers, but to make it more
interesting, after each move, we would add a new rule to further complicate
the game.
The only one I remember is “Kings [in checkers, which we were playing] now
move like Queens [like in Chess, which we weren't playing].” We both laughed
ourselves silly over that one, but I guess you had to be there at the time to
get the full effect. I also remember winning the game since I was able to
contrive a set of rules that forced Bill to forgoe a turn, thus loosing the
game.
Anyway, it seems that 1000 blank white cards is a similar game—similar in
that “we make up the rules as we go along.” And those can be real fun if you
have the right mix of people.
[1]
http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/
[2]
http://www.trouserarousal.net/cards/
[3]
http://www.nomic.net/
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