Comments on: Blantant Cheating or Brilliant Reasoning?

by: nina

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:11:23 +0000

Aw maaan, I thought that was your DOGS talking to you,

by: sari or scott

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:33:51 +0000

We kept having the same answers because God(tm) was talking to us both.

by: nina

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:37:41 +0000

It’s more fun to have goofy silly answers anyways. Sari and Scott came over for a game the other night and it was very cute because they kept choosing the same answers for questions. Like “rootabaga” for a vegetable. Ok, I’m cranky again about the lack of spell check on this thing (and too lazy to drop it into word)

by: karl

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:39:59 +0000

I don’t think it can be considered cheating. If you can verify an answer, it must be legit. The alternative would be to establish some sort of baseline about an individual’s actual knowledge of the world. I don’t think the technology exists to do a brain scan that records what someone knows exists in the world versus what they think might exist in the world. You could play the game on the ‘honor’ system but what’s the fun in that. Any game is better if you have to use google to resolve disputes.

Isn’t commandment #6 “Thou shalt not gloat”?

also

I think the Bible says something about not testing God (Deuteronomy 6:16)

by: nina

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:07:05 +0000

But who’s to say it was cheating? The answers were correct after all… I took a leap of faith and God loves the faithful.

by: Dylan

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:33:28 +0000

The important point is that I won.

Even if I hadn’t, a cheater never wins in the eyes of God.

Scattergories is the best game!