Trivial Matters

Here’s another game I recently discovered, Cineplexity. A friend brought it to a BBQ and we spent hours playing as more and more people kept getting added to the game.

The rules are fairly simple. Each person takes a turn as the “Director” and picks two cards from the pile. Each card has a element of a movie (e.g. basic plot, actors, time period, setting, etc.) and everyone else has to think of a movie that fits both cards. The Director either picks the first one shouted out or (in our case) the best answer offered. The person who names the movie gets to keep one of the cards as a point, and the other is added back into the deck.

In about 3-4 hours of playing, we only came upon one combination that seemed impossible. The cards were for a time period of the 1800s and a prop of either an escalator or elevator. (If anyone can name a movie that fits that, I’d love to hear it.) As the game progressed, we started weeding out the more obscure cards into each others’ points pile, which allowed the game to continue far longer than I think was planned.

I should also add that no movie can be used more than once. We made a side game of listing movies and trying to find a combination that they would fit.

I’d recommend this for anyone who (like me) visits IMDB on a regular basis.

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