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The Frisbee began when a young couple were tossing a 5¢ cake pan on the beach; they were offered 25¢ for it. They started a business called the “Flyin’ Cake Pan.” The design was retooled and name changed several times: “Whirlo-Way,” “Flyin’ Saucer,” “Pluto Platter,” then Frisbee.
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A driver distracted by playing Pokemon and a pedestrian playing Pokemon, each injured in separate accidents but treated at the same time in the same ER, were among the first reports of augmented reality application-related injuries, which prompted medical research into reality based games.
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We played a lot of board games growing up.
We had the classics like Checkers, Clue, Trivial Pursuit, and Monopoly. We also played oddly specific games like a Clue-style Sherlock Holmes who-dunit, The New York game which involved navigating the subway to visit famous Manhattan sites, and an It’s a Wonderful Life themed trivia game.
Consequently, I love board games, and have always had an affinity for Monopoly. But not, apparently, as much as some people.
Recently, a user by the name of Yamaha234 posted to the r/pics Subreddit about a unique discovery their in-laws made. During a home remodel, the couple pulled up some old carpet only to find a life-sized Monopoly board underneath.
As My Modern Met explains:
The room-sized Monopoly board is based on the classic U.S. version of the game, complete with Chance and Community Chest spaces, a jail, and railroads.
Iconic sought-after spaces such as Park Place and Boardwalk also feature. The giant floor edition appears to have been hand-painted by the previous homeowners years ago.
Check-out Yamaha234’s actual picture:
While tearing up their carpet, my in-laws found a giant monopoly board from pics
Personally, I think the jail square is the perfect location for time out if you have naughty kids.
Reddit users were floored. And while they didn’t all agree on the merits of Monopoly game-play, they had a lot of fun with the idea.
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As shocking as this discovery was, it may not be totally unheard of.
Apparently a lot of people’s families’ basements had shuffleboards made of tile.
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And not just shuffleboards!
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One user explained that this was fairly common for houses built in the 1950s, although I’ve certainly never heard of it.
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Makes you wonder how many gems like this are hidden under grungy carpet across America.
Enough, it turns out, that this wasn’t even the first time someone posted such a find on Reddit!
Seven years ago someone made a similar discovery at a different home.
Pulled up the carpet at the house, and guess what I found! from funny
Lots of commenters have new #LifeGoals (me included, if I’m being honest), stating that they want to do this in their own homes some day.
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And forget Monopoly, this person wants to put Risk on their floor (speaking of games that last for ever and ever).
I’m pretty sure I went to college with this person.
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So what about the OP’s parents?
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I really hope they decide to clean it up and keep it visible, because what a weird fun thing to have.
What do you think? Keep it or cover it up? Let us know in the comments!
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The video game Stardew Valley was developed by a single person named Eric Barone. He spent 4 years working on the project, redoing it multiple times, and was the sole developer on the game, frequently spending 10 hours or more a day working on it. The game has sold over 10 million copies.
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Playing games with my family is like wandering into a snake pit. It’s every man or woman for themselves and things get UGLY…
And most of it seems to happen because people are constantly making up or revising the rules as the game progresses. It’s not a pretty scene, people…
But I guess I’m not alone, because all kinds of other people have extra rules for board games and card games.
Let’s see what folks on AskReddit had to say about this.
“In Monopoly, we have a rule that my sister can’t be the banker.
Otherwise, it’s like watching Oceans 11.”
“My grandmother was deaf/mute so when we played Uno instead of saying “Uno” we knocked on the table quickly twice.”
“Taboo.
You can play 3 player (cutthroat) Taboo. The rules don’t really change but the scoring does. There’s a Ref (watching for taboo words), Guesser (can’t see the card) & Talker (can see the card)
The guesser and talker will get 1 point each for each successful guessed word. Taboo words are scored 1 point to the Ref.
At the end of the round, roles rotate like normal (clockwise). After everyone has two turns “talking”, rotate the the other way (counterclockwise). This lets everyone get a turn guessing and talking with each person.
I prefer this way because you don’t get stuck on a winning, or losing team. Everyone plays with everyone. and there’s never a 4th person out.”
“We had a variation on Risk where everyone write down their moves and attacks and all the moves and attacks were carried out simultaneously.
First the troops were relocated (only able to move one country). Then attacks rolled (once again, you could only attack a neighboring country and if you won, you could occupy it. But you could not keep pressing the attack until the next turn.
If 2 or more countries were attacking each other, they all rolled the max number of dice. Ties were then rerolled.”
“In Scrabble, the person who can make the longest word goes first, highest points breaks a tie.
This makes the game more fun by ensuring there are lots of places to play your letters.”
“In every coop game (Pandemic, Castle Panic, whatever), there is usually someone who tries to tell everyone what to do.
I can accidentally be this person. So, I implemented the “right hand man” rule. IF the person whose turn it is want advice (IF), they can only get it from the person on their right.
Nobody else can say anything. Makes things way more enjoyable.”
“Rule for my kids with all board games.
Winner cleans up, loser or lowest score picks next game, tantrums/rage quitting gets you banned from the next game session all together.”
“Waddingtons Go (a game of traveling around the world).
Rule in the actual game was you had to roll exact to get into a place, but it ended up with too many dice rolls doing absolutely nothing. One player ended up just stuck in one place for literally half an hour, before then getting somewhere else and then being stuck for another half an hour. They did virtually nothing all game. (Really, that rule means the game should be called Waddingtons Stop.)
To combat this, we came up with a house rule that you have a “3 strikes and in” – if you fail to get the right number 3 times, you automatically get to your destination, to stop the game being dull.
We haven’t actually tried this yet because since playing it (when at the end of the game we came up with the rule) we’ve had a pandemic that has prevented me from going back to visit my parents who have the game…”
“One rule used for many board games: If someone takes too long with his/her move, anyone can fetch the 3-min hourglass from the shelf and set it on the table. once the time runs out, the move is over, regardless of.
Another rule for Scrabble: Any word is valid if you can find it in any book in our library within three minutes.”
“Trouble is a fun little game.
Unfortunately, with the wife and son, we only have three players. Four players makes it even more fun, so we have a fourth player we call “Bob.” Bob gets the last turn in the cycle. Someone rolls for Bob, and then the three of us agree on what Bob’s best move is.
It’s especially fun when you have to agree that Bob’s best move is to take out one of your own pieces.”
“My uncle told me stories about how whenever he played Monopoly at a friend’s house, he would always bring a few $500 bills from his own set and use them.
He never let them win.”
“In Clue, once the killer has been discovered, and it’s one of the pieces in play, the game becomes a chase.
The remaining player turns are rolls to get out of the mansion through the doors in the Hall. The killer tries to catch the remaining pieces and kill them. Secret passages only work if you roll even numbers in that room.
The killer rolls twice per turn and cannot use secret passages.
Edit: If the killer wasn’t one of the played pieces, then the game is over—they couldn’t defend themselves and surrendered after being discovered.
The killer kills other players by landing on the same space as them between rooms, or by rolling a higher number than them in the same room. If there are two players in a room with the killer, Killer must announce who they’re going after. After one attack, killer’s turn is over.
Players must escape by leaving the hall through the doors. Entering the hall is one move. Leaving the hall is another. You should try to have at least one more move upon entering the Hall to get out safely. If rolling a 3 would get you into the Hall, a 4+ would get you out.
If no players make it out alive, the killer wins, stacks the bodies in the cellar, locks it, and pretends that none of this has ever happened.
Extra fun: at the start of the game, before dealing to players, place an evidence card face down in each room. When you enter the room, you can look at the card and place it back face down. You’re sleuthing, after all. If all players have seen the card, you may turn it face-up.”
Did your family ever have any unusual rules for games?
If so, tell us about them in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear them!
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Have you ever seen the show Crossing Over with John Edward? It was really popular around the early 2000’s, though it probably shouldn’t have been.
In it, self-proclaimed psychic Edward would use a series of what are basically just parlor tricks to make it seem as though he was talking to the dead.
Boring.
I’d be much more interested in a show with this premise, called STARTING Over with Random Redditors.
You die and the first thing you see in the afterlife are three buttons: "Next level", "Spectate" and "Restart". Which one do you press and why? from AskReddit
Restart seems like the way to go for me, and a bunch of people agreed:
If I could re-start knowing what I knew then, then restart. If not, then Next Level.
– TheSurveyor-01
Restart. Hands down restart and not to avoid two divorces (the first one I wouldn’t be sitting here the dad of two awesome teenage boys.) Not to try again to make better choices or success. There is only one reason. A day at 19 still haunts me.
I was sitting around the house bored and broke and asked my mom if I could borrow $10 to go shoot some pool. She said why do t you call Ben y’all always have fun without spending money… I didn’t call Ben. Coroner determined he shot himself about 5 min after the convo I had with my mom. I should have called Ben.
It’s 20 years later almost. Ben was the warmest, nuttiest, most unique person I ever had the pleasure of calling friend. We grew up in boy scouts etc together. I miss Ben
Restart
– Goturnawrench
Restart seems like the safest since spectate could be forever and next level could be hell
– BT9154
Assuming that this were to play out like a video game and I as the player can recall everything I learned from my previous play through, I would restart.
There are so many moments that I would change, so many stupid decisions that I would avoid making, so many people I wouldn’t even consider associating with.
It would alter the outcome of the rest of my life but I like to think I’d end up a better, wiser person for it.
– KosherNate
I just thought to myself: Restart because I didn’t capitalize on life to the fullest extent like I should’ve
… then just realized wait a second, it’s not over I am here and 26, I need to capitalize to the fullest extent before it’s too late!
– Evil_Pizz
Restart. Invest in Bitcoin when it becomes a thing.
Then I’ll know to hold it until it hits 39K.
– TheGrayPerson
I’m restarting. I refuse to be reborn into this bleak *ss looking future.
I’d rather go back and be a kid again in the 90 where it was fun and while it had its problems, at least it wasn’t a sh*t show of social media mush brains.
It was better when knew to just keep sh*t to ourselves. I turned 18 in 00 and sh*t has sucked hard since 06.
– Ang3l1ckD3m1n
“Restart” but play the bad guy next go-round.
– One_Star_Waitress
Sounds corny, but restart.
So I can meet my wife and daughter again for the first time.
– NaltedPog
Probably restart. I wanna see my kids grow up again.
I’d never thought that I would love anything as much as I do them and yet here we are.
– JarodColdbreak
Restarting the level means you know to save the health jars for after the first boss and that there’s not much ammo in Ravenholm.
Though all the dialogue options are the same
– TSM-
Why would you possibly think you’d have no memory of it?
This is clearly being made as an analogy to video games, and in video games the entire reason why you’d restart a level is BECAUSE you know and remember what’s gonna happen.
There’s no logical way to conclude you wouldn’t your memories in this scenario.
– theinsanepotato
Restart baby
– Catacomb82
“Restart” strikes me as the worst option of the bunch. Given that I just completed the first level, pushing “restart” would almost certainly wipe my save clean, and start the whole thing over, erasing any memory I might want to save for future use.
Especially considering just how much of the game’s enjoyability depends on where you spawn, it seems like a bad idea to just start over from the beginning, because a bad spawn could severely limit what you can do.
– maleorderbride
Sh*t, no button to send me back to the main menu and switch some settings around?
– ImaginexMovies
In all likelihood, we won’t get a chance to start over, so we better make the best of things now.
What option would you pick, and why?
Tell us in the comments.
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Since when are you allowed to run another player’s car off the road in the game of Life? Calm down, calm down, I’m talking about Life, the board game.
But still, I don’t remember that specific rule being in the directions, do you?
What I’m trying to hint at here is that people create new rules for games all the time…and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing…
AskReddit users shared the funny and strange extra rules their families made up for board games and card games.
Let’s take a look.
“When my mother-in-law was suffering from dementia we would play Uno with her and just let her play any card she wanted to play.
She was at a point where she couldn’t follow the rules of the game but she did understand that she should put down a card when it was her turn.
So we just let her play whatever she wanted, it introduced a fun chaotic element to the game and she got to enjoy participating and spending time with us.”
“”The Mugging Rule” in Monopoly.
If I land on a space that you are currently occupying, I can choose to mug you.
We take turns rolling the dice, if I roll higher, I steal $100, if you roll higher I go to jail.”
“In Trivial Pursuit, we have a rule – if the player being asked doesn’t know the answer, they can ask the room.
The room doesn’t actually answer, but they say whether they know the answer or not. If nobody knows the answer, it’s considered an invalid question, and another card gets drawn instead. (if someone in the room does know, but the player being asked doesn’t, then it’s just a plain old “pass”)
My Dad knows a lot of stuff … I mean, a LOT. When he was a kid he read the Encyclopedia Britannica for fun. Basically, the rule was born from, “If even Dad doesn’t know the answer, then nobody does and it’s a terrible question.”
“At the end of Scrabble you make up a story with all the words on the board.
We never looked at the tiles for scores, we just played to get the best words on the board.”
“Literally ANYTHING goes in Monopoly.
Whatever business deals you make in Monopoly are valid, like paying some insurance each round so that if you land on their rent properties you are immune.”
“Nukes in Risk.
If you roll three sixes when attacking you defeat every army on the territory you’re attacking into.
If you roll three ones, you nuke yourself and lose every army in the territory you’re attacking from.”
“If you say sorry while playing Uno, you pick up 2 cards!
Slap that +4 down with authority!
Also, if you have exactly the same card as the one that has just been played, you can jump in and play your duplicate regardless of if it’s your turn or not.”
“In Catan, when you roll a 7 or play a knight, you have to move the robber.
but you can move it back to the desert and claim any resource you want from the “bank”.”
“Phase 10.
After a person has laid down, if their set has any wilds, other members are allowed to take the wilds as long as they provide the card the wild was representing.
You’re only allowed to do this if you can lay down in the same turn.”
“In high school, my group of friends loved to play Clue.
Unfortunately we found the game got a bit stale after a few nights of playing.
So, we actually designed our own board “extension”, containing additional rooms, and created new cards for extra weapons and characters so it was more challenging to determine who the killer was.”
“My sister and i play “Life Sucks”.
It’s Life but you only get paid if you land on payday, not if you just pass it.
Basically you end up with a pile of loans and it’s a struggle to get out of debt.”
“We have a generic version of Jenga that has the company name printed on one of the logs.
When someone pulls that log, they have to yell “kielbasa” in Fozzie Bear’s voice (keel-BA-sa).
It never gets old.”
“The phantom.
When playing Cards Against Humanity, a random card is added by the phantom each round.
Surprisingly, the phantom frequently keeps up with us. It’s a lot of fun when everyone says “oh, that was the obvious best one” then realizes no one is claiming it.”
“Boggle: youngest child is allowed one and two letter words since she’s learning to read, and she’s allowed to have her sight-words list available for reference to help her practice them.
So far it’s working because she’s finding three and four letter words on her own!
Uno: stack draw 2s or draw 4s until you can’t no mo. Unfortunate soul that can’t stack draws all.
Beer pong: Gentleman’s rule. If the ball rolls back you fight to retrieve it. Winner gets a free shot. Trick shots must be very specific in nature because all loop holes are fair game.
Canasta: The Unicorn. All wilds canasta worth 2000 points. This causes table flips.”
Did your family have extra rules for board or card games?
If so, tell us about them in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear what you came up with!
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There are a lot of great mental benefits to playing games. They increase your reflexes, enhance your strategic thinking, engage your memory, encourage cooperation, etc. At least that’s what I kept telling my mom when she would come into my room all “concerned” that I “hadn’t left it” in “several weeks.”
Playing games is a big part of our lives. And unsurprisingly, it’s also a big part of meme culture.
Let’s check out ten memes for the game addicted right now.
But I was so young and foolish back then, you can’t hold that against me.
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Aw come on man, that was half the reason I was even playing this thing.
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Sleep is for the weak, I answer to a higher calling.
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This is gonna be bricked pretty soon.
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When you gotta gamify everything, including your snacks.
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Some god you turned out to be.
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Well, you’ve got a vivid imagination, I’ll give you that.
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I don’t like this test.
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Oh the sheer indignity of it all.
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But how am I to check in on my various leagues?
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And now that that’s done, I gotta get back to Hyrule. This Kingdom ain’t gonna save itself.
What’s your favorite game pastime?
Tell us in the comments.
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Do you remember the good old days of Truth or Dare from when you were a youngster?
Or hell, maybe adults still play it, too? They probably do, knowing what society is like these days…
Anyway, the point of the game was to really push the limits and see how insane things could get…
AskReddit users talked about how far they went in games of Truth or Dare. Let’s take a look.
“I was dared to grab a girl’s bo*bs and let her grab mine too.
I was a fat kid, but also girl bo*bs are great so it evens out.”
“In grade 6 I was dared to lick a fence in the playground.
The day after I had this pleasant little disease called ‘Thrush’.”
“I almost drowned in my friend’s duck pond because they dared me to swim with the ducks.”
“A female friend and I chose dare together.
Our friends said take off all your clothes and run across a recently frozen pond.
We did it but man was that ice cracking.”
“Rowed across a lake naked at night.
During the expedition some random campers saw a “white thing” floating across the lake and shined a flashlight on me.
They busted up laughing. I hid at the bottom of the canoe until they turned their light off.”
“Hanging out of a window with only my legs still in the room, in order to touch the outer wall with my forehead.
Really drunk and being held by drunk friends.
13 floors off the ground…”
“Two extreme opposites that stand out are:
Full s*x.
Roly-poly down some stairs.”
“After a looooooong night of drinking, a small (five-ish?) group of us decided to play truth or dare as the sun was coming up.
At some point, I was dared to streak down two city blocks. I did so, in cowboy boots and covered in mustard from an earlier dare. It was cold, I was bad at running due to drinking and smoking cigarettes all night, and I was pretty sure I was going to die.
Alas, I lived and ended up with a brutal hangover later that morning.”
“I jumped over a snowball and broke my nose.”
“We were a group of 8 friends, in a friend’s house. 3 males and 5 females.
All of us were pretty conservative when it came to nudity and anything s*xual, because all of us were raised in a conservative environment.
We decided to play truth or dare, and at some point all of us were in just our underwear, and later completely naked.”
“Put my d*ck in a cantaloupe in front of girls.
Should’ve microwaved it for warmth first.”
“We, a group of good friends of 5 – consisting of three females and us two males – had a game night with classic quiz and card games plus drinks of course.
It was a light affair with reasonable alcohol consumption since we are in our mid- 20s.
Then suddenly my buddy pulled out some Vodka and made all of us drink shots in “quick fire mode“. One of the girls insisted on playing Truth& Dare.
It ended up in us stripping our clothes, giving lap dances to each other, *ss spanking and some making out.
A real passionate night between friends. Our little secret.”
“Was in the Marines, at a party and was dared to run outside and dance a jig in the middle of a generally suburban street…
Wearing a sombrero and naked except for my white socks. I did a little river dance while they completely lost it from the balcony.
Ahhh, good times.”
How about you?
Do you remember the farthest you went during a game of Truth or Dare?
Confess your sins to us in the comments!
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Truth or Dare is part of growing up.
Yes, it is a terrifying staple that caused me great anxiety and emotional scars, but it’s still something that most people play at some point in their lives.
And things definitely got weird…
What’s the farthest you’ve gone in a game of Truth or Dare?
It’s time to get wild with some folks on AskReddit.
“Got dared to run around the block naked, it wasn’t NYE’s but might have been close. I’m running I took the half block option because well I’m chubby and therefore less running.
So I do the main street portion of the run few honks all is well. The back stretch runs along a park on one side church on the other. There’s a guy running from the park and at first I think awww, poor little white guy running from the big black naked guy what a f*cked up evening for him.
Then I glanced over at the church and see fire in the windows and realize ohh he’s running from the fire he started and give chase. My friends waiting outside our apartment complex with a robe and a shot see random stranger run by, then me in full on naked chase mode yelling call the cops and the fire department.
So I gained a bit on that guy, but like a block down I realized we just called the cops and the fire department the fire department is an alley away from us and I’m naked black guy running through the neighborhood I need some clothes. Turn back and make it to my friends and a robe just in time for the cops to roll up. Fire department showed came over a few minutes later.
Fire was an xmas tree in the park, my drunk *ss saw the reflection in the church windows. Cops had also got a call about streakers but didn’t mention it till they left. So the furthest I’ve gone is about a half mile balls out.”
“Once when I was a teenager I was dare to urinate in the middle of the road.
It was the middle of winter and there was about 4″ of snow And of course, Of Course my bladder decided to be shy. I thought my lady bits would freeze off.
But, a dares a dare.”
“Thought that it was a good idea to take a dare of streaking across the school football field, without taking notice of the security cameras.
Long story short I got suspended for a week.”
“A girl dared me to take my clothes off, so I did.
I dared her to take her clothes off, so she did.
My friend dared us to kiss which just led to us having s*x on the floor of the host’s bedroom.”
“Got dared to kiss this guy [repeatedly] at a birthday party.
He was one of two single guys, I was the only single girl.
10 years later, we’re still together and have a 16 month old.”
“Someone once dared me to stab them with a pencil, no hesitation. So I stabbed him with my pencil. No hesitation.
Broke skin, but didn’t cause much damage, luckily”
“Ended up giving a bl*wjob in front of our friends to a one handed guy named Lefty off of a dare.
I get overly competitive!!”
“Was dared to kiss my best friend, also a guy.
We did, and the crowd went wild. They wanted us to strip each other naked.
Jokes on them though, we’d been friends so long I had seen him naked more times than I could count (in the locker rooms and during group s*x).”
“Some chick dared me to suck some dudes toes and I obliged.
Later I had her gagging on mine.
Overall it was an alright night.”
“Lost my virginity to my neighbor on a dare.
I’d say that’s pretty far into crazy territory. Her name was Tara, and I was so smitten by her. If you must know, I have zero regrets.
She grew up to be a beautiful woman and has a loving husband and three children. Life is beautiful.”
“Anal s*x with a really cute and really crazy redhead
No regrets.”
“In middle school my brother and I were dared to jump down a flight of stairs.
It was about 9 or 10 steps and we had seen it done before and thought it wasn’t a big deal. I went first and landed pretty hard but nothing serious. When my brother jumped he landed wrong and dislocated his ankle and messed up his arm pretty badly.
To this day he can actually pop his ankle in and out of its socket without feeling pain. It looks disgusting and freaks people out though.
I cringe when people ask him if he can do any cool party tricks…”
“I was dared to swap underwear with a girl and come out wearing them to prove it.
I was a virgin at the time.
I won.”
“I once dangled from a 50 foot bridge.
I’m my defense I was suffering from a dissociative disorder at the time so nothing felt “real”.
I did a lot of stupid sh*t that year.”
How about you?
What’s the farthest you’ve ever gone in a game of Truth or Dare?
Spill your guts in the comments!
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