Push-Up Contest, multiplayer
1) Grab a friend/stranger or many friends/strangers. These are your opponents now.
2) Walk into an empty intersection with your opponents.
3) Challenge your opponents to a push-up contest.
4) First person to give up or get hit by a car loses. Last person left doing push-ups wins.
Ketamine & a Funeral, single player
1) Procure ketamine from your local drug dealer or veterinarian.
2) Wait until someone you know dies.
3) Attend their funeral while under the influence of ketamine.
4) If anyone inquires as to whether or not you’re under the influence of ketamine, you lose.
Altered Reality, single player
1) Pick a commonly used word.
2) Mispronounce it whenever you use it and make sure to “incorrect” others when they use the word themselves.
3) When you pronounce the word correctly or when you allow someone to pronounce it correctly without incorrecting them, you lose.
Analog Tweets, multiplayer
1) Wait for the urge to Tweet.
2) When the urge arrives, pull out a piece of paper (instead of your phone) and write the Tweet down.
3) Pass the Tweet to the nearest person.
4) If the nearest person enjoys the Tweet, ask them to draw a heart beneath it. If they want to retweet the Tweet, they must copy it by hand onto a new sheet of paper and pass it along to someone else. If they don’t like it, nothing happens and you lose.
AMSA (The Anti-Motion Smoothing Army), multiplayer
1) Pick a house on your block or another apartment in your building.
2) Contrive a circumstance where you are invited inside the house or apartment.
3) Locate a TV inside the house or apartment.
4) Without being seen, ascertain whether or not the TV has its Motion Smoothing feature set to ON.
5) If the the Motion Smoothing is indeed ON, deactivate this feature without being caught doing so.
6) For every successful stealth deactivation, you are awarded 1 point.
7) Compare scores with other members of the AMSA at the end of every week/month/year.
8) The person with the highest score wins.
Reputation Management, single player
1) Make up a ridiculous but plausible story about yourself.
2) Using whatever methods available to you, attempt to have this story appear on the first page of a google search after typing in your name.
3) You win when the entire first page of a Google search on your name returns only pages mentioning your story.
Doctor, Doctor, multiplayer
This game is best played in a large group with the caveat that each player needs to be prescribed at least one medication by their physician and have that medication on hand. A bucket, bowl, or similar vessel is required.
1) Players must remove a single pill or tablet from their stock of medication and place it in the bowl.
2) After each player places their medicine in the bowl, one player, henceforth known as the Doctor, mixes the tablets within.
3) The doctor will then administer a single pill or tablet to each player.
4) Each player must consume the medication that has been handed to them.
5) The doctor must administer the final tablet to themself.
6) Since this game is one of exploration and adventure, there are no defined rules or expectations for what is to come next…
Speed, single player/multiplayer co-op
1) Procure a police-issue radar gun (or one of similar quality) and a paintball marker (preferably a concealable pistol type).
2) Position yourself outside of your home, place of work, or school.
3) Scan passing cars.
4) If a car passes by at a rate of speed above the posted limit, draw your weapon and fire upon the vehicle.
5) Each tagged car is a point for your personal score, but also hopefully a move closer to more responsible driving in your neighborhood.
Space Monkey Arithmetic, multiplayer
1) Lean against a wall and bend forward while placing your hands on your knees.
2A) Hyperventilate for 15 seconds.
2B) Have your “second” (a buddy) present you with an algebraic equation to solve (or something mathematically complex).
3) Once hyperventilation is complete, signal to your second. Your second should then depress your carotid arteries with the palms of their hands. At this point, you may lose control of your body and mind.
4) Attempt to solve the math problem.
My Close Friends Are All Cannibals, single player
This game is best played on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram, but it is possible to play through snail mail or, by god, in person.
1) Whenever a friend or connection of yours posts a photo of their newborn baby (will happen with increasing regularity as you cross the threshold of Age 30) leave a comment on the photo. The comment should embody in some way the threat insinuated by the following statement: “Hey! Beautiful baby! They look delicious. How much do they weigh these days? My doctor says I need to add more protein to my diet. Please let me know if I can arrange a meeting with your baby. Thanks!”
Roommate Trap, asymmetrical multiplayer
1) While your roommate/sibling/parent/significant other is out for the day, lay out an array of red Dixie cups over every single horizontal surface in their room, making sure to fill each cup up halfway with water (or a fluid of your choice).
2) Establish a threshold for success/failure. For example, determine the halfway amount of cups. If your opponent knocks over more than that amount, you win. If not, they win.
The Subway Sniff, MMORPG
1) Assume the role of “the infected.”
2) Enter a public space without too much ambient/conversational noise, such as a subway car or library.
3) Sniff in such a way as to make it occur to people in the nearby vicinity that they too have to sniff (if you listen for it, you’ll notice that this happens automatically, naturally, and often).
4) Record your “sniff cascade”. The longer the better.
5) Attempt to beat your own record or the record of other players.
Butt Naked Wanda, single player
1) Run into a police station and scream “BUTT NAKED WANDA, BIG BROTHA THUNDA, AND THE MASTA BLASTA!”
2) If you are arrested, you lose. If you are extrajudicially executed, you lose.
Drone Warfare, single player
1) Procure a drone with camera.
2) While at work, use the drone to obtain sensitive information (CC, bank routing, and social security numbers, etc.) from your colleagues.
3) Use said information to knock items off of your future Chanukah/Christmas list.
4) If you are caught, imprisoned, or killed, you lose.