Blantant Cheating or Brilliant Reasoning?
Geoff came over for dinner the other night and the three of us sat down for a game of Scattergories afterwards. This is a game where you have to come up with an answer for various questions using a randomly chosen first letter. Geoff and Dylan kept cancelling each other out with similar answers, and I started inching ahead.
Here’s the deal though - is it blatant cheating if you “assume” answers? Or just brilliant reasoning? For example: a street name starting with “K.” I wrote “Kyle” and then my stony facade broke and Dylan challenged me on it. Since I was committed, I forged ahead with “it’s in Los Angeles.” Then Google maps rewarded me with 5! Kyle Streets in Los Angeles.
Thanks to the guy at Pizza Luce who also took my phone call on the challenge of cucumbers as a pizza topping (sure). And also Geoff and Dylan should know that I totally made up “Invivio” as a company name (which it is!).
BTW - Dylan won by one point.
on March 10th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
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!
on March 10th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
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.
on March 14th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
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)
on March 14th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
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)
on March 15th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
We kept having the same answers because God(tm) was talking to us both.
on March 16th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Aw maaan, I thought that was your DOGS talking to you,