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Poorly Explained Plot Game
Kev wrote: "A vertically challenged individual takes some jewellery to be smelted."Kev would that be (view spoiler)?
I can't remove spoilers unfortunately. I'd say it was a pretty bad plot explanation for Lord of the rings though.
Kev wrote: "I can't remove spoilers unfortunately. I'd say it was a pretty bad plot explanation for Lord of the rings though."
Yes! I got it :)
Yes! I got it :)
Kev wrote: "A vertically challenged individual takes some jewellery to be smelted."
You could say it was his sme-goal.
You could say it was his sme-goal.
My favorite version of this came out 20 years ago:“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
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Guy wanders through the desert with random kid to hunt down a missing person.(view spoiler)
i'm terrible at this game- but I loved the LOTR one!
Sarah wrote: "Guy wanders through the desert with random kid to hunt down a missing person.
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i'm terrible at this game- but I loved the LOTR one!"
Nice one! You didn't suck at it, I had to think for a second but I got it :)
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i'm terrible at this game- but I loved the LOTR one!"
Nice one! You didn't suck at it, I had to think for a second but I got it :)
Someone messed up an entire production of future-calendars and now someone has to pay.
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Allison wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Guy wanders through the desert with random kid to hunt down a missing person.[spoilers removed]
i'm terrible at this game- but I loved the LOTR one!"
Nice one! You didn't suck at ..."
I stink at guessing! I looked at the LOTR one and was like... wth? but then it made perfect sense when I clicked it. Same for Trike's- which is also great.
Charts the path of a subject librarian to the head of the religious library she works at.(view spoiler)
Okay this one is a movie:People vacation at tropical island resort to feed the local wildlife.
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Allison wrote: "Some of you, like me, may be stuck in a waiting room or elevator or traffic or something (PLEASE DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!)Anyways, here's the game. You poorly explain a book/series and people try to..."
And here I was thinking it was everyone's favorite Monkey
Sarah wrote: "Okay this one is a movie:People vacation at tropical island resort to feed the local wildlife.
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Could have been any of them, couldn't it?
Tom wrote: "An orphan visits a space station, murders entire construction crew.[spoilers removed]"
Should have been the title.
Crew members marooned in a strange land are killed by the locals as they hunt for food.(view spoiler)
Educated elitists travel vast distances only to be brought low by the unwashed proletariat, who take over everything.(view spoiler)
Trike wrote: "Educated elitists travel vast distances only to be brought low by the unwashed proletariat, who take over everything.[spoilers removed]"
Ha! Nice one :D
Tom wrote: "An orphan visits a space station, murders entire construction crew.[spoilers removed]"
Technically he's not an orphan -- his father is still alive ;)
An old man and his young girlfriend, along with a giant talking cat, are duped by a space alien into traveling to a distant space station where they crashland. They go looking for help on their flying motorcycles, the man and girl break up, the alien’s lies are revealed, and the cat gets super mad, all while having adventures with the sexy natives.(view spoiler)
Chyina wrote: "Boring field trip turns into '50s beach party.[spoilers removed]"
That makes me glad I never went to a beach party in the 1950s lol!!
Man gets f*ed up by faulty automated system, spends the rest of the book searching for the bug so he can fix it. Meanwhile, his fiance smuggles weapons and a priest tries to convert everyone. (view spoiler)
And a movie:Fake man suspects other people to be fake people, too, and either kills or marries them.
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Old woman goes on aggressive cleaning spree. Man attempts to avoid his responsibilities. (view spoiler)
Sha wrote: "Old woman goes on aggressive cleaning spree. Man attempts to avoid his responsibilities. [spoilers removed]"
OMG - one I actually guessed!
Okay here's one.
A serial killer would like to know if you have a personal relationship with God.
A serial killer would like to know if you have a personal relationship with God.
My guess was "specifically the Nale subplot in stormlight archive" and I had a feeling that wasn't going to be right.
Allison wrote: "Okay here's one.A serial killer would like to know if you have a personal relationship with God."
Sheesh. I can’t believe I missed that one. I kept thinking: why does that sound so familiar
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Anyways, here's the game. You poorly explain a book/series and people try to guess it.
Ex:
Unkillable child goes around beating people with a stick, blowing people up, and running away, all while plotting the murder of an adult. Everyone at his school knows and is totally cool with it.
Answer: (view spoiler)[Harry Potter (hide spoiler)]