Chimera (game) (nonfiction)

Chimera is a party game which is made up of various other games.

It was conceived as a party game for Minicon 55, following the inspiring success of the Great Nerd Giveaway at Minicon 54.

Rules

Games and puzzles

• Who Am I? (Name on my back)
  • Multiple categories: People, places, things - the List Game
    • Allow players to contribute their own categories
• Telephone Game
• Coders / Decoders: Volvelle, Nomogram
• Logic Cards / Envelopes, e.g. Clue
• Charades
• Pictionary
• Clay pictionary
• Puppet/toy miming

Items

• Cards (postcard-sized) in dispensers posted in key locations - cards entice players, lure them in, get them started, and direct them to the game headquarters
• Coders / Decoders: Volvelle, Nomogram
  • Two-card volvelle with windows in upper card revealing details of lower card
• Logic Cards / Envelopes, e.g. Clue
  • Envelopes with windows, reveal card details -- cards might slide, changing options
• Minicon 55 custom playing cards

Perception Pranks and Pareidolia

• Gentleman with fake electrical outlet sticker bedevils people in need of charging their phones @ Boing Boing
• Pareidolia @ Wikipedia

Structural

• Pyramid, Ponzi-like games - viral memetics

Potential recruits

• Thorin - reporter, editor, newspaper publisher
• DDB - photojournalist
• Andre Guirard - writer, thinker
• Richard Tatge - game guy emeritus
• Karen Cooper - human resources

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Minicon 54 (nonfiction)
• Minicon 55 (nonfiction)

External links:

• Chimera @ Wikipedia
• Chimera (mythology)