Corona Dumb Charades with Oak Park Gang
After our Onam get together last year, it was time for us to regroup, virtually this time as the human species has entered the Corona era. Six families - Sudheer, Mahesh, Geo, Amal, Anil and Cinish had a fun three hour zoom meeting playing Dumb Charades. Last weekend, we had had a Karaoke session over zoom with my school friends.
Before the game started, we shared our Corona time stories. One of the highlights was Sudheer's collection of one hundred and twenty porottas. Geo shared his adventures of venturing out on the road, actually visiting a beach, unthinkable if you have bought yourself into the shelter-at-home instructions from the government. Mahesh had purchased ethnic kerala style fishes - kilimeen, mathi etc. At the other extreme, we were shying away from even doing online orders with the intent of getting our pantries emptied out of uninteresting stuff that would just lie there for ever.
Meanwhile, the kids who were forced to secondary sit with us were left free on their own zoom meeting.
Anil's question was - What is the game that can be practically played over zoom? While the initial ideas were towards "Anthakshari", Divya had good recent experience playing "Dumb Charades" with her friends. So we decided to try that out, given very recent success in a very similar setting.
The system is as follows, one family sends a private message to another family with the movie name. The second family does dumb charades to the camera, and the other four families try to guess the movie name. To enhance the system integrity, the family who provided the movie name and the family who is charading would mute their microphones.
We had good fun. All the movie names were reasonably challenging. One of the movie names we got was "Ee Ma Yu". Instead of charading that movie, I had tried to enact "Jallikattu" to get to the director "Lijo Jose Pellissery" and then his previous movie. That track was not working out.Instead Divya showed "Ima" (eye lid) which led to "Ee Ma Yu". Amal was to enact "Kouravar". As soon as Amal communicated that it is a 90s Mammootty movie, the die-hard Mammootty fan Sudheer had guessed the movie!
It was good fun all through, and the interest was pretty consistent all through the game. Hunger is what brought the game to an end. All of us being in the same time zone felt the pang of hunger around the same time at around 10:30 PM. We had a quick exit singing "Andhikadapurathu" song first stanza together.
Before the game started, we shared our Corona time stories. One of the highlights was Sudheer's collection of one hundred and twenty porottas. Geo shared his adventures of venturing out on the road, actually visiting a beach, unthinkable if you have bought yourself into the shelter-at-home instructions from the government. Mahesh had purchased ethnic kerala style fishes - kilimeen, mathi etc. At the other extreme, we were shying away from even doing online orders with the intent of getting our pantries emptied out of uninteresting stuff that would just lie there for ever.
Meanwhile, the kids who were forced to secondary sit with us were left free on their own zoom meeting.
Anil's question was - What is the game that can be practically played over zoom? While the initial ideas were towards "Anthakshari", Divya had good recent experience playing "Dumb Charades" with her friends. So we decided to try that out, given very recent success in a very similar setting.
The system is as follows, one family sends a private message to another family with the movie name. The second family does dumb charades to the camera, and the other four families try to guess the movie name. To enhance the system integrity, the family who provided the movie name and the family who is charading would mute their microphones.
We had good fun. All the movie names were reasonably challenging. One of the movie names we got was "Ee Ma Yu". Instead of charading that movie, I had tried to enact "Jallikattu" to get to the director "Lijo Jose Pellissery" and then his previous movie. That track was not working out.Instead Divya showed "Ima" (eye lid) which led to "Ee Ma Yu". Amal was to enact "Kouravar". As soon as Amal communicated that it is a 90s Mammootty movie, the die-hard Mammootty fan Sudheer had guessed the movie!
It was good fun all through, and the interest was pretty consistent all through the game. Hunger is what brought the game to an end. All of us being in the same time zone felt the pang of hunger around the same time at around 10:30 PM. We had a quick exit singing "Andhikadapurathu" song first stanza together.
Good idea
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