Evolution
Thanks very much to my best friend Vicky Wallace, who sent me this game!
Everyone needs to know how to play "rock, paper, scissors". The game starts out with everyone as an amoeba. The amoebas wander around the playing space saying "blub, blub" and waving their arms around in the air. They move around the group until they meet another amoeba, then the two battle with rock paper scissors. The winner moves up the evolutionary chain while the loser moves down (except that the amoeba is the lowest). The chain goes: amoeba, snake, fox, human, super human, with actions as appropriate for each level. The goal is to make it all the way up the chain to super human. The trick is that to move up the chain, you must find someone else at your evolutionary level to battle with rock-paper-scissors (e.g. only foxes can battle other foxes, only snakes can battle other snakes, etc.). The first player to make it to super human status wins.
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