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Games to play within the game

These are some little games that you can easily play together with other players.

Fish Race

The fish race is played in water of course. You can also play it anywhere else or with other items, but originally it took part in the swimming pool on Athor Island on the Summerparty 2011.

You need

two teams

two fishes

How to play

The players devide in two even teams. They line up in two parallel rows with two tiles space in between. The fishes are set to the end of the row so that the first players can reach them. Then someone starts the game by counting down.

The players have to pass the fish from the one end of their row to the other end. But the fish has to stay on every tile. That means that it can only be set one tile and then has to picked up by the next player and passed to the next tile.

The team which passes its fish faster to the end of the row is the winning team.

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High House Numbers

Though Ricardo is the only person in Semos who is licensed to offer gambling activities, you may like to play a little dice game with your friends. It's easy to learn and can be played everywhere.

You need

a set of dices (you get them for 100 money from Ricardo in the Semos INN)

at least two players

How to play

If you throw the dices you can look at them by right clicking and choosing "Look". The dices change their numbers every time you throw them. For this game you only need the number of the first dice.

The goal is to build the highest house number out of three numbers. The first player starts. He throws the dices and everybody looks at them. Then the player can choose where to put the number of the first dice: On the first, the second or the third place. For example, if he throws a "4" he can set it to the second place so he gets "_4_". Then the next player throws the dices and also chooses where to set the number of the first dice.

When all players have set their first number, the first player throws his second number. Maybe he gets a "2", which he best sets to the third place, because the goal is to get a high house number and a "2" isn't really good to set to the first place. Then he has "_42". All other players throw their dice after that again.

Then comes the last turn: The first player throws his third dice. If he is lucky and throws a "6", he has a really good house number: "642". Everybody else throws his last dice and sets his number. The player with the highest house number wins the game!

The fun of the game is to choose well where to set your numbers. Once set, the numbers can NOT be chanced again! So if you have a "4" in your first throw, set it to the second place because you think you will throw a better number soon and then get a "1" in your second throw, you will set it to the third place of course. But if you get a "1" in your third throw again, you HAVE to set it to the first place! Your result would be "141"... So maybe put your "4" to the first place next time ;)

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Guess which item/creature/NPC I am

This game is about guessing, which item, creature or NPC someone is.

You need

Some Stendhal knowledge but taking a look at the webpage and wiki might help, too :)

How to play

You need some players around who will guess and one who will think about an item/creature/NPC and answer yes and no questions.

When someone gets the answer, it's going to be his turn next.

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Quiztime

Starting a Stendhal-quiz is always fun for players and people who organise it. It spreads knowdlege about the game which is really helpful for younger players and increases the gamefun! It's a bit tricky to prepare but the work worth it :)

You need

Some questions about Stendhal, ingame questions like some related to quests, NPCs, Items, maps etc. and maybe a few real life questions in between to not be strickly into Stendhal :)

For giving a time example: 50 questions will take about an hour to answer

Maybe you also need some awards which players will get when they answer something correctly to keep them motivated (doesn't have to be huge awards)

You also need a nice place for doing it, like one of the taverns, INNs or Carolines house (if you want to make a public quiz)

How to play

You should inform players early when you are going to make a quiz so they can maybe prepare a little.

It's always good to give a short introduction like how long it will appr. take, how much questions you have, what the rules for answering are (e.g. first answer counts) etc.

You start asking questions then, good is it when you tell them in one line with the number before so you don't get in trouble with counting :)

It might be that you need a break in the middle of your questions, just stop the quiz for 5 minutes then (like after half of the questions)

If players complain about questions which aren't to 100% right answered but you counted them as correct already, don't let yourself be irritated, excuse yourself and go on ;) (that even happens to people, who play the game for over years now :D)

Games for Real Life meetings

During the last official Stendhal meetings, business like talks weren't the only thing we did. During the free time we build and created some games up, which are really funny and easily to organise and play. Here you'll find some ideas of how to create your personal Stendhal life meeting party.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Frog in a pond

Frog in a pond is a really funny concentration game.

You need

4-10 players (it's possible with less or more though)

a good idea, what to do with the people who fail :D

How to play

There is the sentence "One frog in a pond, splish, splash!" which is split up into parts:

"One"

"Frog"

"In A"

"Pond"

"Splish!"

"Splash!"

The first player starts and says: "One". Then the next player says: "Frog". And so on. When the sentence is finished, the player who is on turn starts with: "Two, two" and the next player has to say "Frogs, frogs", the next one "In A, In A" and so on. In the third round every part of the sentence has to be said three times, in the fourth round four times, in the fifth round five times and so on...

If someone fails to say his part correct, because he says a wrong word, doesn't say it often enough or too often or even waits too long, he has to do a funny task :D

After that, the game starts from the beginning with round one, where you say every word only one time.

Can you make it beyond round 5? :D

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