Eat Poop, You Cat: The Caption-Picture-Caption-Picture Game (Round 2 started!)

[frolic]

So this is a game I used to play over at Very Serious, which is the forum for people who follow the blog Hyperbole and a Half. This is the thread over there that explains what it is and also has examples, but I'll also explain what the game is in this thread, too, for those of you who are too lazy to follow links. Examples from our rounds are linked at the bottom of this post.

What is this game about?
How do you play?
What if I don't want to draw/draw really bad?
How do I join?
Why is it called, "Eat Poop, You Cat?"?!
Current Round List/Tracker
List of players for next round
Permalist
Results from previous rounds
Banners!

What is this game about?

This game is basically a version of Telephone, that game where everyone sits in a circle and you pass a phrase around and even though you start with someone like, "Jerry and Diane eat ice cream," you end up with something like, "Harry's diamonds are a dream," only instead of relying on bad hearing we rely on inexact drawing and captioning skills! Also we will have much more interesting subjects.

How do you play?

You get a group of people - more than four but less than so many I can't handle it, I guess - and assign them numbers. The first person, usually the GM, comes up with a caption or a picture and sends it to the second person. Let's say it was a picture. The second person captions that picture, and sends it on to the third person, who draws a picture from that caption. You continue in that manner until you run out of people on the list, then the whole thing is posted! The person running the game has to go first because when a player PMs their caption to the next player, they also PM it to the person running the game. That way, when the game is done, the person running it has everything they need to post the game as soon as it's finished.

In this thread, for the current round, we'll be running two games: one starting at the top with me, and one at the bottom with Gjarble. We can decide the runners of the next game while the first round is going; I don't always have to be one of them and in fact would prefer not to be.

What if I don't want to draw/draw really bad?

First, this game is in some parts about speed, so even people who draw really well shouldn't put a whole lot of effort into drawing if it will take them very long. Second, part of this game is about miscommunication, so if you often try to draw a dog but it ends up looking like a dragon, that just makes the game better.

I would really encourage everyone to try and draw! Even if you can basically only do stick figures or only have a trackpad. If, however, you really just can't do it, then when you sign up you can note that you only want to do captions and I'll place you on the list accordingly.

How do I join?

Just post saying that you'd like to be in on the next round! We might also have a permalist - that is, people who want to be included in every round - but you have to play one round before I can add you to the permalist.

Why is it called, "Eat Poop, You Cat?"?!

That's pretty much a mystery. The folks over at Very Serious assume that that was the end caption for a game at some point, and since I learned to play it at Very Serious, that how I think of it in my head - the EPYC game. We could rename it, but mostly I just that that having, "Eat Poop, You Cat," would get people into the thread. (Did it work?)

Current Round List/Tracker

Games are run by the first player listed: Me for red, Gjarble for blue, curiousCat for green, and fivexthethird for purple. You MUST CC your caption or picture to the leader of each game.
(PLAYERS should post in the thread when they pass their caption or drawing around so that I may adjust the tracker! They should also note WHICH GAME their caption or picture is for when they pass it along to the next person in line AND when they post in the thread AND when they CC their caption/picture to the leader of the game..)

RED GAME

1. Frolic
2. Tluthal
3. RampantVariable
4. greyscaleScavenger
5. Demonsul
6. avidGamer
7. Ether
8. fivexthethird
9. curiousCat
10. ~ATH
11. billybobfred
12. Eismo
13. DecidedlyDevious
14. Doodled
15. lazyLawyer
16. PrimeIntellect
17. Gjarble
DONE


BLUE GAME

1. Gjarble
2. PrimeIntellect
3. lazyLawyer
4. Doodled
5. DecidedlyDevious
6. Eismo
7. billybobfred
8. ~ATH
9. curiousCat
10. fivexthethird Here
11. Ether
12. avidGamer
13. Demonsul
14. greyscaleScavenger
15. RampantVariable
16. Tluthal
17. Frolic


GREEN GAME

1. curiousCat
2. ~ATH
3. billybobfred
4. Eismo
5. DecidedlyDevious
6. Doodled
7. lazyLawyer
8. PrimeIntellect
9. Gjarble
10. Frolic
11. Tluthal
12. RampantVariable
13. greyscaleScavenger Here
14. Demonsul
15. avidGamer
16. Ether
17. fivexthethird


PURPLE GAME

1. fivexthethird
2. Ether
3. avidGamer
4. Demonsul
5. greyscaleScavenger
6. RampantVariable
7. Tluthal
8. Frolic
9. Gjarble
10. PrimeIntellect
11. lazyLawyer
12. Doodled
13. DecidedlyDevious
14. Eismo
15. billybobfred
16. ~ATH
Done


List of players for next round

1. Frolic
2. Gjarble
3. fivexthethird
4. avidGamer
5. Tluthal
6. Neopie (captions only)
7. Gana0
8. Mroaf
9. unbridledExüberance
10. trotskey
11. This Works
12. Murllyshevo
13. Eismo
14. DecidedlyDevious
15. Doodled
16. audience_cat
17. lexavian


Permalist
Being on the permalist means that you are automatically included in each round, so you don't have to always be saying, "I want to play the next round, too". :] No one is on the permalist automatically, but if you've played at least one game then you can get on it by asking. To be taken off the permalist, you also just have to ask.

1. Frolic
2. Gjarble
3. fivexthethird
4. avidGamer
5. Eismo
6. DecidedlyDevious

Results from previous rounds
Round 1
Blue game
Red game

Banners!
Made by the lovely Gjarble~

[DJ-P0N3]

I'll join this!

[DecidedlyDevious]

Considering I have -1 drawing talent, there is no way I CANNOT join this.

[frolic]

Most excellent, good sirs/good sir and madame. I shall add you both to the round.

You get +1 game points for no drawing skills.

[fivexthethird]

I will join this

[frolic]

That is most excellent news.

[curiousCat]

Sounds like a plan.

[Gjarble]

Oh man, I play this all the time IRL and it always ends in hilarity. I am more in than... something that's in other things a lot. A suggestion for the game: Instead of just 1 chain started by the GM, how about each player starts a chain and they are run simultaneously? That way, there's less waiting around, and you can still keep track of everything provided it's all CCed to you.

(Also, I remember reading on Wikipedia that one of the other names this game is known by is "Ipupukat" or something like that- I'm betting "Eat Poop, You Cat" is a romanization of that. The article appears to be gone, though. My family just refers to it as "Telephone Pictionary".)

EDIT: I just realized what your concern with someone other than you starting a chain may be- you don't want to be spoiled before it becomes your turn to participate, right? Also, I can imagine you not being very happy with having to manage multiple games instead of one. So how about the chain starter is CCed every step of the way instead of CCing ALL of them to you, and everyone posts their own chain when the round is done?

[frolic]

Yeah that is exactly the response I was typing up: being spoiled and/or being flooded with a lot of PMs is not my dream. And, another concern, I'm totally cool with multiple games but that seems like a lot of games for the first round. Maybe the person at the end and the person at the beginning could both start one and then we could run the game both up the list and down the list so no one has to wait for ages, but without totally overwhelming people?

Of course on VS they play like a million games at once, as you might have guessed because there is a whole subforum for it, but before we do anything too fancy we should play a few simple games probably.

[Gjarble]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[frolic]

Awesome. Would you like to volunteer to run the game going up the list? I'm going to leave the first round open to join for awhile longer, maybe a day, but I can just keep you at the bottom of the list if you want the job, as opposed to giving it to whatever poor sap ends up at the end.

[avidGamer]

Oh god, that might end up being me. Because I just have to join this. Because I haven't played telephone since I was in fifth grade. (and it was ruined by assholes who changed the word to something completely different halfway through)

[Gjarble]

Awesome. Would you like to volunteer to run the game going up the list? I'm going to leave the first round open to join for awhile longer, maybe a day, but I can just keep you at the bottom of the list if you want the job, as opposed to giving it to whatever poor sap ends up at the end.

Sure! Thanks for the offer.

[frolic]

Oh god, that might end up being me. Because I just have to join this. Because I haven't played telephone since I was in fifth grade. (and it was ruined by assholes who changed the word to something completely different halfway through)

No one who doesn't want to run a game will have to run a game. That would be dumb and lead to horrible things.

Awesome. Would you like to volunteer to run the game going up the list? I'm going to leave the first round open to join for awhile longer, maybe a day, but I can just keep you at the bottom of the list if you want the job, as opposed to giving it to whatever poor sap ends up at the end.

Sure! Thanks for the offer.

Awesomesauce

[Vasch]

Is it too late for me to join?
If not, I'm up too.

[frolic]

Is it too late for me to join?
If not, I'm up too.

No dawg, it is not all up in being too late. I think I'm going to cap this round at ten players though, since that is long enough for a good shananigaggle but not long enough to take forever.

[bobthepen]

I am so in.

[Prime Intellect]

Argh I want in.

[frolic]

You can both totally be in, and that will be all for round one! 8D I'll send out the picture to Mayor tonight.

ETA: sent

[DJ-P0N3]

Sent the caption to DD!

[Gjarble]

Blue game has been started. I hope you're ready, Prime!

[frolic]

Hooray, blue game! Everyone should remember to note whether you are passing along your drawing/caption as a part of the blue game or the red game. In theory you could just tell by who is sending it to you, but it's much easier to leave the thinking out of it, right? xD

[Prime Intellect]

So, to clarify, I'm PM'ing the caption only to the next person in line?

[DJ-P0N3]

So, to clarify, I'm PM'ing the caption only to the next person in line?

Yes, thats correct.
I asked the same thing!

[Prime Intellect]

Moved along to bobthepen.