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kjh131's Banzai: The Television Betting Game (Other)
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| [March 7, 2010 10:02:01 PM]
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Banzai is a truly crazy game. Its tons of fun once you get into it. Each player has a plastic pair of chopsticks and a plastic triangular bowl. One player sets a wind up timer and everyone starts putting as many plastic pieces of sushi into the plastic triangular bowl as they can before the timer goes off. When the timer finally dings, everyone counts their sushi and those who do not have the most sushi in their bowls must put more in until everyone has the same amount. The person who originally had the most sushi gets control of the game. You press play on the DVD player and a rather unorthodox betting game is shown. Sometimes they have baby races; other times you must bet who will stick their foot in a shoe that has poop in it. Once everyone has made a bet, through the use of four or five cards that have A-F labeled on them, the person who has control of the game shows his card and someone presses play again to show the results of the earlier bet. If the person who has control of the game guesses right, then it doesn't matter what anyone else bet, he wins all the sushi. If he guessed wrong the sushi is split among those who one. This continues till only one person has any sushi left.
This game is great. It's hilarious, a complete game of luck, but tons of fun. I have never played a game like this so I would have to say that every part of it is very innovative. Having to use chopsticks was a great design element as it allows for some very awkward, though funny, moments even before the game has really gotten started.
The game created conflict through betting (which almost everyone loves to do) and it keeps interested because, until you lose your last piece of sushi, you could always come back and win.
My wife found the game frustrating because she is not good with chopsticks, but she still said she greatly enjoyed it.
While this game doesn't give me any specific ideas for my games, it does teach me to keep an open mind and try anything that comes to mind because it might just turn out to be tons of fun.
I did experience flow with this game but that is largely due to the people I was playing with. My friends, wife, and I lost track of time while playing to the point that we forgot to fix dinner!
This entry has been edited 1 time. It was last edited on Mar 7th, 2010 at 22:03:54.
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kjh131's Banzai: The Television Betting Game (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 3 March, 2010
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