Machine of Death » Game Rules. We firmly believe that our Machine of Death Prediction Card Sets have millions of uses (and double that if you do them all over with your opposite hand). Below are a few of our favorites. Do you have an idea for an amazing Machine of Death card game? What about a maybe-okay Machine of Death card game? Or, played these games and have thoughts or feedback? “Thin Ice” (3 or more players) Added 10/13/11 Thin Ice is a party ice-breaker game, and is a good way to get new players familiar with the Machine of Death Prediction Cards. Each player draws a card. For example: “Dan’s TRAGIC FLAW is pride, which pushes him to genetically modify birds. This game was submitted by Dan in the forums.
“Psychopath” (4 or more players) Revised rules 3/25/12 Psychopath is a card-connecting game similar to Apples to Apples. Every player is dealt 5 cards. VARIANTS: “Starvation:” Spared hostages (cards that were not chosen) are discarded after being played, rather than being reshuffled into the deck. Spy Numbers Stations Shortwave Radio. What Would You Do? Facilitator Set-Trainers Warehouse. Station Profiles Listing. Untitled Document. The six works presented in "Oulipoems" range from poems, to poetry games, to tools for writing poetry. They are inspired by the Oulipo movement, a French literary movement which combines writing and mathematics. Members of the Oulipo create works of literature that are governed by rules ("constraints"). For example, all words might have to contain only the vowel 'e' or words might be spelled phonetically. Members of the Ouliopo are also interested in algorithmically generated texts, including, especially, text-generating machines which can result in an infinite, or at least very large, number of different texts.
One famous Oulipo book is Raymond Queneau's Exercises de Style, which is a retelling of a very banal anecdote in many different styles and following many different constraints. This directly inspired "Morningside Vector Space," which retells a similarly banal story (based on my own experience) in a range of styles. "Headline News" introduces a new level of complexity. Freebies.