Tales of a Tabletop Gamer

If you play as many tabletop games as I do, you are bound to encounter some surprising events in the course of game play. But none, I'll wager, stranger than this one.

I brought my favorite party game, Time's Up, to a church picnic and taught it to an interested group. The conversation with a teen I'll call Tony went something like this:

Me: You have to get your team to say the words on the card. It can be a movie...

Tony: Like Titanic?

Me: Right. Or a song or a book. Give clues to your team...

Tony: Like, "The movie where a ship hit an iceberg"?

Me: Yes. But don't say any of the words on the card.

Tony: Like you can't say, "In this movie, the Titanic started to sink"?

Me: Right. Okay, let's start. You go first, Tony.

(Tony picks a card)

Tony: Okay, it's a movie about a ship, and it hit an iceberg and sank.

At this point I leaned over to the player next to me and whispered, "Freaky."