First Day

On the first day of class we split into three groups. My group played Apples to Apples. This is a game that is billed as a party game, but it felt like our party of 13 was a little bit too large to enjoy the game as much as I have with smaller groups. This game was supposed to be an icebreaker, but it felt like it would have been more enjoyable after we had had a chance to get to know one another better. The group that played the dice game first probably had a much better time laughing and joking with Apples to Apples because they had had a loud game full of talking and interaction first.

The second game we played was not that interesting. Paper telephone is always funny at the end, but really feels very slow and quiet during the majority of the game play. I was surprised that my message was the only one to stay relatively similar to the original throughout the game, although the message was negated somewhere along the lines.

The dice game was the most fun of the three games we played that day. It took thinking, and no knowledge of other group members was required to succeed in calling their bluffs. This game was also played in smaller groups, which made interaction much easier. It was the game that we had the most freedom to have tabletalk during, because it would not interrupt the flow of the game to have side conversations going on.