I am currently participating in Decemboar. I have forced myself to break out of storage a lot of shaving goodies that I have relegated to "back up stock" or the "I don’t think I’ll ever use this again" stock. I'm making myself mix things up some for the month by revisiting items used and stored away. It has been good to revisit some of these items and some not so good.
So, I had an idea. I’m not sure if this has been done before. I searched the threads and couldn’t find anything. With that said, here is my idea for a fun 2-week game.
Shave Yahtzee! Here’s the thought:
1 or 5 six sided dice (just your regular craps or Yahtzee dice). If you use 5, you’ll have to figure out a way to determine which is for which catagory, i.e. different colors or plainly marked.
Assign one of 5 categories to a dice (or roll 1 dice 5 times).
Each roll of the dice returns a number corresponding to a preselected item from each category. Hang in there with me, this will become quite clear in a moment.
Here are the 5 categories
1. Brush
2. Soap or Cream
3. Blade
4. Bowl/Face/Scuttle/Mug/Hand (there is no 6th that I can think of)
5. Razor
Each category will get assigned 2 – 6 items in that category. For example, in the blade category a roll of a 1 on the dice will be a Feather, a 2 on the dice will be a Derby, a 3 on the dice will be a 7’oclock Black, etc., etc. You pick the items you want to include in your categories and assign them a number on the dice.
If you don’t have 6 items in that category, no problem. Assign more than one number to that item or roll again until you get a number that has something associated with it. Let’s say you only have 2 brushes, a synth and a boar. Either make the 1,3,5 the synth and the 2,4,6 the boar or just roll until you get a 1 or a 2. For category number 4 either don’t use the 6 or assign one item 2 numbers.
I know that a lot of you guys wear cologne or scented aftershaves so I thought it was best to leave those off the category list. As "fun" as that might be I didn't want anything that might make you guys smell “funky”.
If you can fill out all 6 items per category (except #4) then there are a possible 6,480 combinations to try. I think it would force a lot of us to revisit things that we had given up on or forgotten about. I also think that 2 weeks is plenty long. I know I crave routine and when I don’t get it, I miss it, but I also appreciate the unknown. Each day would bring the uncertainty and excitement of trying something new.
I think that if this sounds like something folks want to join in on, that Jan 8th would be a good start date. It would give everyone plenty of time to try out and break in any Christmas goodies Santa left in your stocking.
Anyone else want in? I would just like to gauge participation at this point. If it sounds like fun, maybe I can develop a sign-up sheet with all that you’re going to use and how we share the experience of the day’s Shave Yahtzee.
So, I had an idea. I’m not sure if this has been done before. I searched the threads and couldn’t find anything. With that said, here is my idea for a fun 2-week game.
Shave Yahtzee! Here’s the thought:
1 or 5 six sided dice (just your regular craps or Yahtzee dice). If you use 5, you’ll have to figure out a way to determine which is for which catagory, i.e. different colors or plainly marked.
Assign one of 5 categories to a dice (or roll 1 dice 5 times).
Each roll of the dice returns a number corresponding to a preselected item from each category. Hang in there with me, this will become quite clear in a moment.
Here are the 5 categories
1. Brush
2. Soap or Cream
3. Blade
4. Bowl/Face/Scuttle/Mug/Hand (there is no 6th that I can think of)
5. Razor
Each category will get assigned 2 – 6 items in that category. For example, in the blade category a roll of a 1 on the dice will be a Feather, a 2 on the dice will be a Derby, a 3 on the dice will be a 7’oclock Black, etc., etc. You pick the items you want to include in your categories and assign them a number on the dice.
If you don’t have 6 items in that category, no problem. Assign more than one number to that item or roll again until you get a number that has something associated with it. Let’s say you only have 2 brushes, a synth and a boar. Either make the 1,3,5 the synth and the 2,4,6 the boar or just roll until you get a 1 or a 2. For category number 4 either don’t use the 6 or assign one item 2 numbers.
I know that a lot of you guys wear cologne or scented aftershaves so I thought it was best to leave those off the category list. As "fun" as that might be I didn't want anything that might make you guys smell “funky”.
If you can fill out all 6 items per category (except #4) then there are a possible 6,480 combinations to try. I think it would force a lot of us to revisit things that we had given up on or forgotten about. I also think that 2 weeks is plenty long. I know I crave routine and when I don’t get it, I miss it, but I also appreciate the unknown. Each day would bring the uncertainty and excitement of trying something new.
I think that if this sounds like something folks want to join in on, that Jan 8th would be a good start date. It would give everyone plenty of time to try out and break in any Christmas goodies Santa left in your stocking.
Anyone else want in? I would just like to gauge participation at this point. If it sounds like fun, maybe I can develop a sign-up sheet with all that you’re going to use and how we share the experience of the day’s Shave Yahtzee.