The man locked in the crate realised with shock that a bunch of bananas is as good as Jesus.

September 26, 2006 9:11 AM

How do you transform lettuce into Pacman? The Sentence Game, that's how.
posted by randomination (22 comments total)

It's an online version of Eat Poop You Cat; Chinese whispers through pictures. There are lots of examples to browse, and you can register fairly easily to play.
posted by randomination at 9:15 AM on September 26, 2006

Whoa, by the name I thought I would like to play this... but I can't draw "If the orchestra had only realised that green cheese was better than applesauce, the end of the world could have been averted."

Not in a reasonable amount of time anyhow.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:48 AM on September 26, 2006

The interface is kind of clumsy, but it's a fun idea and some of the examples are pretty amusing.
posted by brain_drain at 10:10 AM on September 26, 2006

A great game, and kudos are due for implementing it on the web. If only it worked...
posted by anotherbrick at 10:12 AM on September 26, 2006

...after posting, and a couple of error messages, it finally does, and with hilarious results (Bossy Africa = Weeping Kansas).
posted by anotherbrick at 10:17 AM on September 26, 2006

Carrot plus knife = mushroom. A weird metaphor I came up with yesterday. Can you guess what it means?
posted by Monkey0nCrack at 10:23 AM on September 26, 2006

Kids these days don't know a shiitake from a morel from a chef's knife?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:34 AM on September 26, 2006

Super Duper Games just implemented their version of this, which looks a bit nicer.... Telegram.

SDG probably deserves it's own FPP.
posted by TuxHeDoh at 12:32 PM on September 26, 2006

Can you guess what it means?

Mushrooms are orange and have handles.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:36 PM on September 26, 2006

Heh. Good stuff.
posted by cortex at 5:53 PM on September 26, 2006

Well, I just wasted a few hours. WHat fun. What jolly good fun.

Honestly, I had to teach myself Paint in under an hour, and was pretty happy with the result, and then got a good laugh afterwards. Good stuff.
posted by Navelgazer at 7:13 PM on September 26, 2006

I'm waiting for my first art submission to finish out the game it's in. Line art with a sharpee, digital camera, coloring and finishing in GIMP—hardcore!
posted by cortex at 7:40 PM on September 26, 2006

This turned out ... odd.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 10:07 PM on September 26, 2006

I am so bad at art. No fair. I want to play too. I'm sure I could barely even draw a vegetable.
posted by MsWonderland at 10:57 PM on September 26, 2006

You are nothing compared to the vast scope of the universe, Mulp. Now go to bed.
posted by cortex at 7:03 AM on September 27, 2006

I'm sitting here laughing my ass off at this one.
posted by primer_dimer at 7:23 AM on September 27, 2006

I GIF YOUR FACE OFF! However, their email notification system is really, really broken. I had to go a-huntin.
posted by cortex at 8:28 AM on September 27, 2006

It didn't take long for someone to try to ruin it. Oh boy, coffee sure is goddamn swell.
posted by JHarris at 8:28 AM on September 27, 2006

I'm not entirely convinced that was even ruination, though. The site has shown some odd behavior—I submitted (once) an innocuous opening line that has shown up in at least four complete games now. The site is a bit rough around the edges.
posted by cortex at 8:40 AM on September 27, 2006

The coffee thing was definitely an error, the user whose sentence it is has been a normal participant otherwise.
posted by jheiz at 10:52 AM on September 27, 2006

cortex, it's not the size of the ship but the motion of the ocean. And it seems to be repeating the error pretty frequently, though in random amounts.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 12:57 PM on September 27, 2006

Conclusion: this amateur site design is amateurish!
posted by cortex at 1:14 PM on September 27, 2006