I won an unwinnable game of Clue!
Nov. 11th, 2002 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI found this rather impressive, as I have not played Clue since I was a little kid, and I hadn't played it much even then. But Clue was one of Josh's birthday presents.
So we listened to Lost and Found and ate a sausage DiGiorno pizza and Katie and I told Josh how to play Clue and then played it and I won! Now Katie had told me she loves Clue but isn't any good, has no strategy to it--"Oh, like me and Risk?" I said--but she was the first person to make a guess...no, not a guess, an Accusation. It was a good one, but it was wrong. Then I was worried because I knew Josh was sneakier than I and sure enough, soon he made his Accusation. But it was wrong too. Katie had been really mad ever since she made her wrong accusation, because she thought Josh had done something evil. But the truth turned out to be much stranger than that.
There are cards of three kinds in Clue--people, weapons, and rooms. You win by saying the person, weapon, and room that you put in the envelope at the beginning of the game. Well, this game had the requireed three cards, but two people and no weapon! (I think we decided that Mrs. Peacock must have used Miss Scarlet as a weapon. Well, okay, I probably decided that. It sounds like something I would think of.) So, since Josh and Katie both made accusations that took themselves out of the game, I sort of won by default.
Even if my ineptitude hadn't made me cautious, I couldn't have made a decent guess anyway because I had all six weapons accounted for. I knew I had two, Josh had two, and Katie had two. I was confused. But my hesitation due to confusion proved to be all I needed to win! All I had to do was sit there while these people who think they know things messed themselves up, and then the victory was mine for the taking...
Mwa ha ha.
So we listened to Lost and Found and ate a sausage DiGiorno pizza and Katie and I told Josh how to play Clue and then played it and I won! Now Katie had told me she loves Clue but isn't any good, has no strategy to it--"Oh, like me and Risk?" I said--but she was the first person to make a guess...no, not a guess, an Accusation. It was a good one, but it was wrong. Then I was worried because I knew Josh was sneakier than I and sure enough, soon he made his Accusation. But it was wrong too. Katie had been really mad ever since she made her wrong accusation, because she thought Josh had done something evil. But the truth turned out to be much stranger than that.
There are cards of three kinds in Clue--people, weapons, and rooms. You win by saying the person, weapon, and room that you put in the envelope at the beginning of the game. Well, this game had the requireed three cards, but two people and no weapon! (I think we decided that Mrs. Peacock must have used Miss Scarlet as a weapon. Well, okay, I probably decided that. It sounds like something I would think of.) So, since Josh and Katie both made accusations that took themselves out of the game, I sort of won by default.
Even if my ineptitude hadn't made me cautious, I couldn't have made a decent guess anyway because I had all six weapons accounted for. I knew I had two, Josh had two, and Katie had two. I was confused. But my hesitation due to confusion proved to be all I needed to win! All I had to do was sit there while these people who think they know things messed themselves up, and then the victory was mine for the taking...
Mwa ha ha.
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