The Gas Van Game
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
THE GAS VAN GAME
I was wondering about the power of the web and here is my own social experiment. For reasons, as yet unknow, my family invented a game in some unspecified moment of boredom. It goes like this:
Object of the game:
Whenever a member of the family sees a British Gas service vehicle the player must say aloud "Gas Van!"
Rules:
1 This must be done EVERYTIME a gas van is seen, whether alone, in public, with someone else, it's on TV: EVERYTIME Once a player, always a player
2 If the player is with someone else who knows the rules and that person (also a player) also sees it then the player saying "gas van" is a point up, the point not being cancelled out until the second player sees a new gas van.
3 The same gas van cannot be knowingly counted twice
This is a very addictive game and players have been know to recruite other players just by playing (like my fiancee, my best friend, my sister's husband).
My social experiment is to see how many people I hear say "Gas Van!" aloud in the street due to the power of the web.
I will keep you posted.
Nobby
I was wondering about the power of the web and here is my own social experiment. For reasons, as yet unknow, my family invented a game in some unspecified moment of boredom. It goes like this:
Object of the game:
Whenever a member of the family sees a British Gas service vehicle the player must say aloud "Gas Van!"
Rules:
1 This must be done EVERYTIME a gas van is seen, whether alone, in public, with someone else, it's on TV: EVERYTIME Once a player, always a player
2 If the player is with someone else who knows the rules and that person (also a player) also sees it then the player saying "gas van" is a point up, the point not being cancelled out until the second player sees a new gas van.
3 The same gas van cannot be knowingly counted twice
This is a very addictive game and players have been know to recruite other players just by playing (like my fiancee, my best friend, my sister's husband).
My social experiment is to see how many people I hear say "Gas Van!" aloud in the street due to the power of the web.
I will keep you posted.
Nobby
