The Movie Buffet Game®
Movie Buffet is fun to play with friends who share your love for motion pictures. For the game to run smoothly you will need (1) a large pad or colored pen board, preferably on an easel so everyone can see the sentence under construction. A laptop with a projection device will work even better. You write the movie titles on whichever device you use, separating them by a dash or some other easily recognizable but unobtrusive symbol. You will also need (2) a score card or pad and (3) a list of legitimate movie titles. (4) You will also need one or two writing utensils for the pad and score card.
- Action.
- Player No. 1 recites a movie name, e.g. The Patriot or A Few Good Men, Invincible, Ready, Willing, and Able. It is best to begin with a noun or adjective or noun or adjective phrase.
- Player No. 2 may extend this word or phrase with a modifier, e.g. On Golden Pond, or play a verb or verb phrase, e.g. Snatch or Meet the Robinsons.
- The next player then extends the phrase created by the first two players.
- AND is the only word that may be used that does not appear in a movie title, Alfie AND Jerry McGuire. Each team may use AND once per sentence. Its use costs one point.
- A player or team may pass or skip its turn without losing points.
- Qualifying complete sentences may be (1) nutty complete sentences A Few Good Men - On the Waterfront - Stomp the Yard - With a Vengeance or (2) clauses that could be titles for wacky movies, Irresistable - Twins - Running with Scissors - Into the Woods - Without Warning.
- A word may be used in any of its senses, even those not intended in the source movie title. For example, Saw refers to a chain saw in the movie title but may be properly used as a verb in a smorgasbord title: Jerry McGuire - Saw - Rocky - On the Waterfront.
- A sentence is complete when a player or team cannot add another title without making the sentence ungrammatical or when 8 movie titles have been strung together.
- Each completed sentence constitutes a round.
- Scoring: Points and Values.
- The score is based on the number of words in the sentence created by both teams. Each individual title that fits the sentence is worth 1 point per word in the individual title, e.g. Ghandi is worth one point while On Golden Pond is worth three points.
- The scorer of Gandhi - Saw - Ghost Riders - Get Shorty - On Golden Pond is worth 25 points (5 x 5) should write under Gandhi Team 1, 1 point, under Saw, Team 2, 1 point; under Ghost Riders, Team 1, 2 points, and so on and so forth.
- The score is totalled at the end of each round (sentence).
- A game consists of 8 rounds (sentences). At the end of 8 rounds, the scores are totalled and victor declared!
- Challenging.
- An opposing team may challenge a submitter by asking the name of one of the actors or directors of the movie whose title has been submitted. A correct answer is worth one point. An incorrect answer costs the requester 1 point.
- Bluffing.
- A team may make up a movie title if they are stumped (or not). The bluff title counts 1 point for the team that uses it if the opposing team accepts it. If the opposing team calls the bluff, the bluffing team loses 1 point.
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