Hello everyone! Welcome to my next diary entry. I really need to start writing these at night again. My nature of procrastination is getting more and more evident in these posts. Anyway, yesterday was one of those days where not much happened until night, so let's get into my life:

My Life

Yesterday I woke up around 10:00am. The first thing I did was shower, and get dressed. I then proceeded to read the 100 days of Steem, and check Steem. I am adding a disclaimer to my post on achievement 2. Several new users have been uploading screenshots of their keys drawn over with an editor. DON'T DO THAT! IN SOME CASES IT MAY BE POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO STEAL YOUR KEYS! If you are one of those users, please go change your keys immediately! I am updating the achievement so that hopefully doesn't happen again.

Around 11:30am, I tried to record the Disney rag time for the diary entry. That took a while. I really should have just included it in this entry, but I did it in the last one. Whoops.

I did not wind up posting the diary entry until 2pm, so yeah. . . whoops. After that, you may think my life was action packed. Nope. I fell asleep until 5pm. I don't know why I was so tired. I promise that I am usually much more productive. I did watch some YouTube videos as I drifted off to sleep. I guess that's what I get for watching a video about ballet. . .

I woke up at 5pm, and realized I had to leave soon for my friend's game night. I played piano until 5:30pm, and left for his house. On the way, I stopped at WaWa for dinner. I had a turkey hoagie with mayonnaise. I also had water to drink.

When I got to his house, I snapped this picture:

Now it is time for the action packed part of the article: GAME NIGHT!

Game 1: Charades, but not really

I think my name is sufficient considering I don't actually remember the games name. The way this game worked is that there are two teams. Everyone is dealt 10 cards. Each card has an item, and a description. Each person chooses 5 cards to submit. You pick items that you either think will help your team, or stump the other. For the first round, the teams alternate representatives, and which team is going. Each representative has a minute to describe the item, and if the team guesses it correctly, they get the points on the card and it is removed from the deck. You continue alternating teams, and rotating representatives until the deck is gone. You then count up the amount of points. For round 2, the team with the lowest amount of points goes first. In this round, you use the same cards, and same procedure, but you can only use one word to describe the item (it can't be in the item's name). I was the first to go for this round, and did pretty well. In the previous round, I'd been the last to go, and I got all the cards that no one knew. In the third round, the team with the lowest score again goes first. For this round, you are not allowed to use words at all. You must use gestures and sound effects to convey the item. My team went from losing in the first round to winning the game. You may wonder: "what is the reason?" The reason is because my team did not have to have me act anything out. We got everything before it was my turn. If I had had to gone, we would have lost horribly.

Word Guess

The way this game worked was that one person would hold a card above their head. Everyone else had a white board, and had to write a word that might help the person guess the item on the card. The catch is that the person with the card closes their eyes, and everyone must show their words. If anyone is matching, they must erase their board. If the person with the card guesses right, then the group gets two points (it is a work together game). If the person guesses wrong, two points are deducted. We got 8 points. The groups high score was 9. It was funny when I thought I was being creative by writing "Jack" to convey "Frost", and then 4 other people had written the same thing. That was a sad turn of events.

Cranium

I actually remembered this game's name. The way this game works is there are two teams. Each team's goal is to move their piece around the board. To this, you must pass challenges which span 4 different general types. Here they are:

Red = Trivia
Green = Performance/Act out
Blue = Art/Sculpt
Yellow = Puzzle

If you are able to get the card, your team roles a dice, and you move to the color it lands on. That color is also the next card you must draw. If you don't pass, or it is your first move, you can pick the card to draw.

My group decided that I was the best representative to do the Green cards, and kept selecting them. I was so sad when I got "hum the song" and the song was Every Rose Has Its Thorn. No one knew it on my team, and I just kept awkwardly humming the same phrase. As time ran out, my humming gained in intensity, but I didn't know what else to hum from the song.

Yellow was the bane of my groups existence, and the other group's saving grace. We kept getting scramble puzzles, and the other group kept getting something called "Mind Meld" (or something like that). For the scramble, the only one we got was:

Hint: Big Whig Rig

Scrambled Letters"
I is no mule

I figured out that it is Limousine.

For mind meld, the group is given a general topic, and they each must write three words that come to mind. To get the card, two words (from two different members) must match. That is so easy.

The game was really close, and came down to a trivia prompt for the other team:

True or False? "A Sonnet has 16 lines"

I was so mad because it was a fifty fifty guess, and I thought the answer was obvious. They did figure it out, but it took longer than I had expected.

Werewolf Game

We then played a werewolf game where there are a bunch of different cards:

Werewolf - Tries to stay hidden and wakes up first. Lies about what they are.
Mason - Wakes up second, and identifies the other mason.
Seer - Wakes up third. Can check any other player's card, or two of the middle cards (to know which roles are inactive so that they can tell if the werewolf is lying.
Robber - Can switch their card with another player's (and look at their new card).
Trouble Maker - Switches two players' cards without looking at them.
Insomniac - Checks their own card at the end of the night.
Hunter - If the hunter is chosen as the werewolf and killed, whoever they point at is also killed.
Tanner - Wants to pretend to be the werewolf so that they get killed. If they are killed, they win.

For my first game ever, I was the werewolf. I really sucked at it. I did not realize we were supposed to reveal our roles, and was one of the last people to have to reveal my role. I stupidly said that I was the robber, and the robber said "No. I am the robber. I have his card (pointed at him), and it was a mason." The group then killed me and won.

Secret Hitler

I think every time I have played Secret Hitler (which is a handful of times), I have been a fascist and won. I will quickly explain the rules:

With the amount of players we had, there were 3 fascists, a Hitler, and everyone else was liberals. The fascists know who the other fascists are, and who Hitler is. Hitler does not know who the fascists are.

There is a presidency which rotates around in a set order. Each president selects a chancellor. The president draws three policies from the deck, and discards one. They then hand the two remaining to the chancellor. The chancellor picks one to enact.

The object of the game for the liberals is to enact 6 liberal policies. The objective for the fascists is to enact 3 fascist policies, and then make Hitler chancellor, or to enact 6 fascist policies.. There is a power that comes for the president with each fascist policy. The first three are just the power to check people's party memberships. On the 4th, the president gains the power to kill individuals. If Hitler is killed, the liberals win.

So yesterday when we played, I was a fascist, and I did not realize there were two other fascists (aside from Hitler). I played the whole game without knowing there was another fascist. My colleague (who I knew was a fascist) played the game thinking that I was the only other fascist, and thinking the person sitting next to the real Hitler was Hitler. The real Hitler was literally his girlfriend, and he did not realize she was Hitler. The thing that made the game most fun was one of the liberals was acting like a fascist just to be funny.

The first fun moment came when someone earned the power to search party memberships. They checked my colleagues, and realized he was a fascist. Before they checked his, they were debating between him and his girlfriend. He didn't realize she was Hitler so he was like "She is totally a fascist. You should check her membership." I was thinking "What are you doing?" Luckily, the person decided to check his membership. Later on, the presidency passed to me. We had three fascist policies down, and I knew that if I elected Hitler chancellor, we would win. I tried to say the only person I trusted was Hitler, and I used iron clad logic.

"We know he's a fascist (he being Hitler's boyfriend), and the first thing he did when accused was point to her and say that her membership should be checked. He wouldn't have done that if she was really a fascist, or if she was Hitler, so we can trust her."

I really thought that argument would work. It didn't. They didn't buy it, but they didn't suspect me either. So I made someone else my chancellor. I then got three fascist policies. I took a picture:

When we enacted that, I was able to kill someone, so I asked the group who they wanted me to kill, and they gave me two options. I knew that both of them were liberals, so I did eeny, meeny, miny, moe to pick which one I killed. I didn't care one way or another because either way I wasn't killing someone on my team.

Eventually, the liberals needed one more policy to win. They made the guy I talked about wanting to be a fascist earlier the chancellor. They gave him a liberal policy and a fascist policy. Instead of playing the policy he needed to win (the liberal), he played the fascist. I was very pleased after that. We needed one more to win.

The next president happened to be the person I didn't know was a fascist. He gave his chancellor two fascist policies, and we won. I had not realized he was fascist. I should have listened more carefully when they explained the rules.

I turned to the guy who had selected the fascist policy, and said "Thank you. We won because of you!" Everyone was surprised that I had been a fascist. Throughout the whole game, I'd been the only person who hadn't been accused of being a fascist. That felt good.

Back to my life

I stayed at game night until about 10:45pm. I then went home, and wrote the discussion post. I talked to Emma (who had missed for a family celebration) around midnight. We played the word game, and I finally won!

I'll see you in the next diary entry which I will definitely write tonight!