Jason (The League's brother) returned from college with all kinds of new-fangled ideas, but one of my favorite was the best game in the world.
DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION
This game spawned the movie game listed below, and the rules are simple.
Have at least two players (although three or more is preferable so there is always a horrified witness).
Now, one person is the question-person, and the other is an answer-person.
You will take tunrs in each role, but the question person's job is to dream up an absolutely horrific situation. Now dream up another. Now present these two options to the answer-person. The Answer-person must select between one of the two horrible fates dreamed up for them, and they cannot say "I don't know." They MUST answer. And, yes... DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION!!!
The question I like to kick a new game off with is this (and it's a borrowed one, so fogive me for not being original):
If you had the choice between:
four magical tree frogs stuck to your face for the rest of your life, constantly singing an endless loop of Canned Heat's "Going up the Country"
OR
Having your hands replaced with screaming monkey heads (no, they cannot be removed)...
what would you choose?
This sort of question sets the tone of utter devastation. And no, DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION!!! Sure, we'd all rather be dead than spend the next 30-40 years with screaming monkey hands, but is that worse than singing frogs on your face? I don't know! I cannot say! But you may have to.
Then, once the answer-person anguishes and screams and finally decides upon a horrific fate, they might ask the question-person an equally soul-piercing question, or they may turn on the witness.
The witness, I might add, should not really say anything unless the answer-person simply cannot decide what should hypothetically befall them.
Now go forth and have fun with this game.
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