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)
• Telephone Game
• Coders / Decoders: Volvelle, Nomogram
• Logic Cards / Envelopes, e.g. Clue
• Charades
• Pictionary
• Clay pictionary
• Puppet/toy miming

Items

• Coders / Decoders: Volvelle, Nomogram
• Logic Cards / Envelopes, e.g. Clue
• 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

Potential recruits

• Thorin - reporter, editor, newspaper publisher
• DDB - photojournalist
• 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)