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| HOW TO PLAY: |
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| REQUIREMENTS: 2 or more people w/ cell phones that have text messaging capability and people (phone numbers) stored in the address book |
| Step 1: |
A message is decided upon (see below for suggestions) |
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The message is typed into the phone of each participating player (into the body of the text message) |
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Everyone’s phone is then passed to someone else in the group (across the table, around the circle, it doesn’t matter as long as nobody has their own phone). |
| Step 4a: |
Someone chooses a letter, A-Z, at random. (It can be picked by someone in the group, a waiter/bartender, or even out of a hat) |
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Someone chooses a number at random. (It can be picked by someone in the group, a waiter/bartender, or even out of a hat). |
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That number dictates the recipient of the text. For example, if you ask your waiter for a letter and he picks M and you ask the hot girl at the next table over to pick a number and she picks 7, the message would get sent to the 7th “M” in everyone’s phone address book.
[NOTE: If the letter is "K" and you have no "K's" in your phone, you go to the next letter: "L"]
[NOTE 2: If the letter is "S" and the number is 5 but you only have 3 "S's" in your phone, you just keep scrolling (so, in that case, you'd land on the 2nd "T" since you didn't have enough "S's"] |
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The text message is simultaneously sent to that person (in this example, the 27th person) in each phone’s address book. |
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Everyone is informed who the message went to! Some people will laugh, some people will cry, some people will immediately begin sending apology texts (which some people might choose to make illegal at the beginning of the game, but that’s up to personal choice). |
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| Text Roulette – Message Suggestions: |
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| Round 1 Messages (Beginners) |
| [Note: These messages might sound harmless, but think about all the people in your phone – Ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends? People you haven’t talked to in years? Family friends? Business contacts? – there are probably quite a few people in there to whom even the most harmless of messages would be a little embarrassing or awkward.] |
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Hi. |
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What’s up? |
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Haven’t talked to you in a while! How’s everything going? |
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My favorite color is blue. |
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[anything else the group agrees on] |
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| Round 2 Messages (Intermediate) |
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I miss you. |
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I have a big secret to tell you. |
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I was just thinking about you and was wondering – do you ever think about me anymore? |
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Sometimes I don’t wear underwear. |
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[anything else the group agrees on] |
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| Round 3 Messages (Advanced) |
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I have a burning sensation when I urinate. |
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I know this might seen like it’s coming out of nowhere, but I think I might be falling in love with you. |
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I should have told you this a long time ago but… I hooked up with your sister. |
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Do you have a condom I can borrow? |
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[anything else the group agrees on] |
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| Round 4 Messages (Extreme Danger Round) |
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- Individual players can type whatever message they want to into someone else’s phone! |
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| Another popular variation of the game is: |
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“Knock-Out” - where you find out who the text is going to BEFORE it is sent and you can either say “I’m in” (send it) or “I’m out” (give me my phone back to erase it) and the last person standing (who didn’t fold/quit) is the winner. Note: Gambling is illegal, so playing this like poker and requiring everyone to put some amount of money in the pot at the beginning of each round whereby you lose your money when you fold/quit and the last person standing wins the pot… well… that would be illegal so we don’t encourage that twist.
NOTE: Both the original version and the “Knock-Out” version can be played with a “Wimp Clause” that allows you to choose one person up or one person down from the person that it was chosen to receive your text. [We had to institute this clause during the first weekend of play in Atlanta when one of the girls in our group almost started crying because a message, somewhat sexual in nature, was about to be sent to one of her business colleagues.] |
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Contact Us! |
| This game was conceived in 2007 and is already sweeping the nation! But, because it’s so new, we’re definitely looking suggestions to make it better, other versions/spin-offs you come up with, and we definitely want to hear your stories (the good, the bad, the ugly) of your Text Roulette games around the world! |
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