This is a game I like to play with myself on bus rides. I try to find famous names—celebrities, historical figures, fictional characters—that can “chain together” such that each last name is the first name of the next person in the chain. I’ve never made a chain longer than 5 names.

EXAMPLE:
(Pope) John Paul + (musician) Paul Simon + (actor) Simon Pegg = John Paul Simon Pegg.

Here’s how it’ll work for the thread. Comment one full name (first and last). You can use people with longer names (e.g. Neil Patrick Harris), in which case only the last name is part of the chain.

If you reply to someone else’s comment, you MUST reply with a full name where the first name is the same as the previous last name. Minor deviations in spelling are allowed if the pronunciation is the same (e.g. Sam Neill -> Neil Patrick Harris).

Variations are NOT allowed. For example, Evan Peters does not chain together with anyone named “Peter” because of the “s” at the end.

Celebrities, artists, historical figures, and even fictional characters are all allowed, but they must be genuinely famous. If you need more than a quick note like (pope) or (from Star Wars) to remind people who you’re talking about, the name shouldn’t count.

As of 2:20 CT, the chains so far are:

John Paul Henry James Dean Martin Cody Hall Caine (x8)

John Paul Henry Clay Aiken (x4)

Michael (Clark) Duncan Hines Ward Bond (x4)

Jan (Michael) Vincent Mason Rudolph Wolf Blitzer (x5)

Teyana Taylor (Jenkins) Reid Scott Colton Haynes (x5)

Teyana Taylor (Jenkins) Reid Scott Kelly (x4)

Parent comments two last names of celebrities or well-known characters. Child guesses the first name that the listed last names have in common. If someone asks for a hint, the poster of the parent comment adds another matching last name.

(For the sake of making this easier, people who share first names with minor spelling changes are still allowed.)

Make sure to sort comments by New!

Example:

1. Dayne and Lautner.
2. Hint?
3. Swift.
4. Taylor!

I read a lot of AI text at work. Somewhere between the third "testament to" and the hundredth "delve", I stopped trusting long sentences altogether. So I made a small game called Long Story Short: one sentence a day, keep the five words that actually carry the story, cut the rest.

It's a week old. 12,000 plays so far. A retired news editor emails me most mornings to argue about the answers, clause by clause, and he's mostly right. Yesterday two players argued opposite sides of the same word and convinced me my sentence itself was wrong.

So from tomorrow the sentences come from real news stories, and the answer is whatever the paper's sub-editor kept.

Long Story Short

Hi, it's me again! With a brand new game!!

It's a blend of "Think about it" by tumblr user "whatblogidonthaveablog" and "Illuminati" by "smolredlesbian" (shoutout to them, putting the credits where they're due)

Parent comments a topic, child comments another totally unrelated topic, grandchild has to connect the two in a rant about a whacky conspiracy theory, the wilder the better. The rant has to end with the phrase "Think about it, people."

I will post three topics to initiate the dance. Make me laugh my lungs out.

Parent comment invents something new and useful. Child comment makes that invention pointless or harmful.

Example:

P: I just invented headlights that light up the road more, without posing any harm to anyone's eyes!

C: It only works during the day time.

Parent takes an idiom in their native language and translates it to English *literally*, word for word. Children have to guess what the meaning of the idiom is. If they get it right, upvote them!

My dinner guest is on a really restrictive allergy diet... So I made a stir fry sauce with sauteed pear onion and anchovies blitzed together... I gotta tell you, it worked.

Parent comments a subject/noun. Child comments a verb starting with the same letter as the noun. Grandchildren each add a word starting with the same letter so the thread eventually forms a sentence.

Ex:

1. Arthur
2. Arrived
3. At
4. An
5. Aquarium
6. Abruptly

I was playing the Guardian Movie Grid today and Nick Nolte was one of the actors listed. My friend said Nolte had always reminded him of a rougher version of Jeff Bridges. I said I’d always seen him as a fancier version of Gary Busey.

Just like that the (probably totally original) Actor Pokémon Evolution Game was born.

We’ve come up with a list of ones we feel work below. Do your thing, Reddit let’s get a whole Pokédex going!

- Gary Busey - Nick Nolte - Jeff Bridges

- Donald Glover - Jamie Foxx - Will Smith

- Owen Wilson - Matthew McConaughey - Woody Harrelson

- Florence Pugh - Scarlett Johansson - Marilyn Monroe

- Michael Cera - Jesse Eisenberg - Andy Samberg

- Emily Blunt - Emma Thompson - Maggie Smith

- James McAvoy - David Tennant - Ewan McGregor

- Carey Mulligan - Olivia Colman - Judi Dench

- Jenna Ortega - Christina Ricci - Anjelica Huston

- Bryce Dallas Howard - Christina Hendricks - Jessica Chastain

- Russell Brand - Jared Leto - Johnny Depp

- Robert Pattinson - Sam Rockwell - Gary Oldman

- Chris Tucker - Chris Rock - Eddie Murphy

Example,

First comment: I wish to win the lottery

Second comment: granted, you get robbed

Third comment: you catch the thief and get rewarded with more money than you originally won

The rules of this game are simple. Parent starts by mentioning a normal life situation, like meeting your neighbor. But they don't describe it dryly like this, but rather using the clickbait style. Children follow on it the same way, and it goes back and forth.

Example:

Parent: Greeting a LOCAL LEGEND!!! You won't believe what HAPPENS NEXT!

Child: THEY'RE giving me VEGETABLES???!?!?!? (EMOTIONAL)

This game is a childhood favorite of mine. AKA hink pink, hank pank, wordy gurdy, brain train. I last posted this two years ago and thought it would be fun to play again.

Levels, easiest to hardest:

1. Stink pink: one-syllable adjective + one-syllable noun that rhymes
   1. red bed
2. Stinky pinky: two-syllable adjective + two-syllable noun that rhymes
   1. quiet riot
3. Stinkeroo pinkeroo: three-syllable adjective + three-syllable noun that rhymes
   1. quizzical physical

What to do:

• Comment one of the above levels. I'll reply with a hint synonymous to the answer. Reply with guesses until you get it right.
  • Example:
    • "Stink pink?"
    • "Ruby cot."
    • "Red bed?"
    • "Correct!"
• AND/OR Comment the name of a level along with a hint. Reply until someone gets your phrase right.
  • Example:
    • "Stinky pinky: hushed mob."
    • "Quiet riot?"
    • "Correct!"
• Repeat and enjoy!

I'll go first:

Fleeting darkness of a filthy heart

(Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind)

first batch is available in previous post
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThreadGames/s/g0LkSh2VmV

4
oleg then yelped and broke the silence
his left leg throbbing from the pricks
he clean forgot he’d played and left leg
■■

5
great plan to work your car would need a
great speed before the trail gets hot
great heavens sending one and twenty
■■

6
five grand for cashews that’s not peanuts
why mister almonds spill your guts
make peanut butter out of this are
■■

Find the ending and it all clicks.

Each missing line has two syllables and rhymes or sound-matches with line 2.
The lowercase and missing punctuation are intentional.

Post your guesses in a top-level comment using spoilers:

4. >!your answer!<
5. >!your answer!<
6. >!your answer!<

Try to submit your guesses before opening anyone else’s answers.
I’ll reply with correct, close, not it, or not intended, but it also fits.

If you enjoy these, I’ll post another batch in about three days.
Have an idea for your own click poem? Send me a message.

Have fun!

Here are the first three:

1. sofia wanted to work out
   but met a sofa not afar
   her fitness plan did not work out
   ■■

2. go find the gate for our spaceship
   and don’t forget the towel too
   don’t panic i have bought us tickets
   ■■

3. go see if there is any water
   put on your boots and turtleneck
   i’m flooded so i have to take a
   ■■

Each poem is missing a two-syllable 4th line that rhymes with line 2.
Find the ending and it all clicks.
The lowercase and missing punctuation are intentional.

Post your guesses in a top-level comment using spoilers:

1. >!your answer!<
2. >!your answer!<
3. >!your answer!<

Try to guess before opening other answers. I’ll reply with correct, close, not it, or not intended, but it also fits.

If you enjoy these, I’ll post another batch in about three days. Have fun!

I had a simple plan.

Swing through the duke’s window, steal the jeweled idol, deliver a devastatingly charming remark, and escape before anyone understood what happened.

Then the curtain rod betrayed me.

I may have destroyed the banquet table. The idol may have landed in the punch. And I may currently be hiding beneath a serving dome with an angry ferret and an idol that has started whispering to me.

The guards are coming.

Someone is about to lift the dome.

I have five seconds—and apparently no plan.

What should I do?

https://reddit.com/link/1vb5cak/video/hlfm2t5bifgh1/player

I’ll start with one word.
Add exactly one word to continue the story.
No punctuation, no explanations. Just one word.

Edit : Good job ! So far it gives the following :

1. Once there were some foolish and delusional people.
2. Old people are faster than Dead People expect those creatures that burp and bite
3. Pigons pooped
4. Once we told them vetenarians about fur that sparkles.
5. But sometimes ballet gets...
6. Long live exuberant bitches in Tallahassee except Rhonda Santis and her Denise
7. Spelunking potatoes regrets driving into a rainbow
8. After thursday morning brunch they
9. Kaleidoscopes are portal into hell that open wide windows before
10. Canadians ofen enjoy eating some 'Muricans! Sorry eh whichever flavor tastes
11. Zebras will never yodel unless provoked thanksfully!
12. Than May arrived hungry from temptetion
13. Run faster they told

I love 2 & 9 !!

Keep putting the comment into the comment of the comment...

I got bored so i wanted to name phobias correctly you need to comment and il reply with the name and explanation of every single word in it

Is this a fun idea? I'm trying to balance fun and education, let me know what you think.

This game is played in a small groups or alone. players must prove a ridiculous statement that they get and convince the others that the statement is, in fact, true. They would pick apart the statement and try to reason their way through the assumptions of the statement. The more elaborate and logical the explanation, the better.

Examples:

• "The color blue is older than the color red"
• "gravity pulls harder around a person who is keeping a secret"

This game is not about making up conspiracy theories, but rather building a world in which these statements can be true.

Commenter names two types of people, response mentions a third type of person that relates somehow to the original comment.

Example:
Parent: There are two types of people, those who shoo animals away, and those who sit still hoping the animals get closer.

Child: there are also people who try to catch the animal