14 Board Games About Pooping – Number Two
Relief! I just dropped Number Two on board games about pooping. You want another sample entrant? Here ya go!
Guess Poo? plays the same as Guess Who?. Except instead of racially profiling potential murderers in your neighborhood, you play the role of a human housefly, determined, through process of elimination, to discover which pile of poo your housefly companion wants for their birthday.
Unfortunately, Elliot Quince only created one copy of this game for his nine year old nephew. There are a number of commentors online who are passivly, and sometimes aggresively, asking Mr. Quince to make a few more copies and sell them on Etsy. But, um, copyright laws? You really don’t want to butt heads with Hasbro. That said, if you really dig the idea of custom Guess Who boards, you could always make your own. The people at Hasbro can’t do anything about the tricked out a copy that you customized for your own personal use. The website I linked to will show you how, and provide a few templates to go along with it.
If you do make your own copy, though, you may want to think about the game play value of sexism. Most copies of Guess Who? come with five women and nineteen men. That’s not an accident. There are also five people with beards and nineteen people without them. Five blonds and nineteen non-blonds. Five hats. Five pairs of glasses. And so on, and so forth. There’s a reason for this: If fifty percent of the line-up had buck teeth, players would ask if the culprit had buck teeth, eliminating half their options with a single guess. Do that five times, and you win. As an aside, here’s a little strategy when playing Guess Who?: Don’t ask for beards or mustaches, ask for facial hair. Eight out of Twenty-Four characters have a beard, mustache or both. If the person you’re looking for has facial hair, then you’re down to eight options. If they don’t, immediately ask if the person is a woman. Since none of the women have facial hair, you’re now attacking five out of sixteen candidates who are left, chopping at another 31% of your options, as opposed to the usual 23%.
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