Analysts of Babel
A downloadable game
This one was lingering in my drafts before I thought to do 100-word games. Fortunately, it was very easy to cut down.
ANALYSTS OF BABEL
any players, cooperative
erasable writing surface, utensils
job description: create database of everything.
twenty questions-like. start with two things. anything.
e.g. ‘atom’, ‘library’, ‘davinci’, ‘the year 1987’, ‘the number 5’, ‘love’
think of question where one thing is ‘no’, other is ‘yes’. write it in tree diagram. ‘no’ on left.
e.g. for ‘atom’ and ‘library’: is it visible to naked eye?
create another thing.
answer questions about new thing until you land on another thing, presumably wrong.
think of question where one thing is ‘no’, other is ‘yes’. write it in diagram, replacing second thing.
repeat indefinitely.
Full rules for download.
Published | 10 hours ago |
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | maybewhalen |
Tags | One-page, Tabletop |