PatGame #015 – Mural

February 1st, 2008 at 12:59 am (simple, travel_game, family_game, guessing_game)

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Keywords: simple, travel_game, family_game, guessing_game
Equipment: none
Players: any

RULES
If you’ve ever found yourself sitting in a waiting room or hotel/restaurant lobby across from a painting and wondered what kind of game one could play while killing the time… you may wonder no longer.

Mural is a game that my daughter and I created while eating at The Omelette Parlor in Costa Mesa. There is a huge mural in the back room, full of farmside imagery. The way the game is played is basically the same way it was originally invented. We were looking at the mural — waiting for the meal — and she said, “I see something starting with the letter A.”

I don’t recall now what the something was, but once I finally guessed what it was (let’s say it was an Aardvark) I said, “I see something starting with the letter B.” She made a few wrong guesses, so I added something along the lines of, “It’s two feet to the left and one foot down.” Having narrowed down the region of the mural where it was, she was able to guess it in a couple tries. Then she said “three feet to the right,” for example.

At that point, we really didn’t need to say “starting with the letter C” because it was a given. Plus it kept us on our toes trying to keep the alphabet straight. Eventually, you reach the end of the alphabet and whoever has made fewer guesses in order to get their fair portion of the letters correct is the winner (if you need a winner).

Alternate scoring options include allowing only 3 guesses before it’s the guessee’s turn to go again. Keep track of who got to give more clues and that person is the winner.

Mural can be played with regular size paintings by using inches instead of feet. In fact, if you choose to use feet and inches at the same time, the game takes on the additional challenge (ie. “opportunity to argue”) of having to both agree on what a foot and an inch are, given that you are both sitting at a decent distance from the work of art. In this manner, Mural can be a great game for practicing your relative distance and estimation skills.

For added excitement, Mural can be played in a 3-D sense when you find yourself looking out across a landscape or garden.

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