May 27: Friends' Contributions

For last night's Jeo-Party, I had three friends submit 2 categories each, which was incredibly delightful, not only because it meant WAY less work for me, but also it was great to have a diversity of voices and ideas during the game. (I was also SUPER proud of one of my friends for using the word "eponymous" in one of her clues!!) I also tried out a new round called "Categories". I give one team a word, and they have 4 guesses to figure out the category it belongs to, for $1000. If not correct, I give another word, and they give 4 more guesses for $800. Then another word for $600, another for $400, and another for $200. The idea is that the more words you have, the easier it is to guess the category, thus the fewer points you receive. For example:

• Lemonade ($1000)
• Smores ($800)
• Samoa ($600)
• Tagalog ($400)
• Thin Mint ($200)

The category is....

Girl Scout Cookies

A few of my categories were apparently WAY too easy, but others were just right. Interestingly enough, the hardest one was the example I made to show my friends how it worked:

• Pepper (guesses included spice, fruit, vegetable)
• Munchkin (guesses included donuts, dessert, and my husband guesses chickens which was close but not quite right)
• Zelda (my husband finally guessed it correctly, but other guesses included video game characters)
• Bernie
• Fela

The category is...

Klopotoski Pet Names

This week's Jeo-Party was also delightful because my husband played the game with our friends (usually he does not play because he sees the answers while he codes the game, and we usually edit it and play test it together, but we did not have time to edit it together this week, *and* I have learned how to code and edit everything on my own, so he doesn't see any of the answers anymore!) 

I continue to have a delightful time with our (mostly weekly) Jeo-Party trivia games. I like that we are able to gather people from anywhere in the world for online games. Even though it started as a safety precaution during the pandemic, I might continue this for the foreseeable future as a fun, easy, safe way to get people together. (Selfishly, I also *love* learning all the fun tidbits of trivia to put together for the game..... which also helps me find delightful things to blog about as I learn more and more delightful facts!)

With delight,

♥Jamie