Yeah I know, you also got brain drained because of the title.  But I promise you’ll like this post.

Our driver/utility staff Peter celebrated his 30th birthday last Monday (July 2).  The Brain Train gang was in attendance of course.  For the first time ever, our post-eating bonding was not the usual BRAIN TRAIN concert (aka, videoke, bey-beh!), much to the delight and serenity of our neighborhood (I’m sure!).  Instead, we played Scattergories!  See, Randy and I bought a Taboo Philippine Edition last week, and it came with a free travel edition of Scattergories.

Image courtesy of losethatgirl.com

If you’re not familiar with how to play Scattergories, here are the mechanics, as explained by Wikipedia:

The objective of the 2-to-6-player game is to score points by uniquely naming objects within a set of categories, given an initial letter, within a time limit.

1. One player rolls a 20-sided letter die to determine the first letter used. The timer is set for up to three minutes.
2. One player starts the timer. In the time allotted, each player must attempt to think of and write down, in the first column on the pad, a word or term that fits each of the 12 categories and starts with the rolled letter.  Any number of words in the answer is allowed, as long as the first word starts with the correct letter. For example, with a category of “vegetable” and a letter of “C”, words such as “cauliflower“, “carrot” and “collard greens” are acceptable, but “broccoli” is not (wrong initial letter), nor is “citrus” (wrong category).  [Read more...]