Hello From The Magic Tavern - Bonus: Earth Games - Scattegories

Episode Date: March 10, 2020

To honor the 5th anniversary, enjoy this bonus episode from the Stitcher Premium series Earth Games! The Magic Tavern gang continues playing board games from Earth. This week: Scattegories and special guest Momo the Mouse.CreditsArnie: Arnie NiekampChunt: Adal RifaiUsidore: Matt YoungMomo the Mouse: Erin KeifCraig: Ryan DiGiorgiProducers: Arnie Niekamp, Matt Young, and Adal RifaiPost-Production Coordination: Garrett SchultzSpecial Assistance: Ryan DiGiorgiEditor: Stephen DrangerEarth Games Logo: Allard LabanRules Theme Song: Stephen DrangerYou can support the show directly and receive bonus episodes and rewards by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/magictavern for only $5 per month. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and now Patreon!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Almost like my disconnected consciousness has left my body. Wait. That's me down there. Being chased by the cops! That happened several premium series ago. This is impossible. Oh no, oh yeah, oh crap. I got the time flu.

Yeah, all that alien mucus in the bunker must have given me time flu. Now my mind's hopping through my own past. I can't believe I forgot to get my time flu shot this year. Well, as annoying as this is, it's a perfect opportunity to celebrate five years in FUNE. That's right, it's the fifth anniversary of hello from the Magic Tavern and its related media properties, so this week we're giving you all a taste of the Magic Tavern bonus shows you might be missing over on Stitcher Premium.

You're about to hear a full episode of Earth Games, our bonus series where Arnie, Usador and Shunt play games sent to them from Earth. Can a wizard understand clue? Why is the Bachelor so good at Scategories? Will Arnie ever win a game? You'll have to listen to find out. Remember if you want to hear the rest of this series plus our other series and all the other great Stitcher shows, sign up for Stitcher Premium at Stitcher Premium dot com slash magic, with the promo code Magic.

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me there, but I don't want to bother you with my problems. This week, we've got episode 2 of Earth Games, the hello from the Magic Tavern, spin-off where Arnie the Human, Chant the Shape Shifter, and Eucardor the Wizard played games from Earth. And this one, Momo the Mouse, joins the boys for a game of Scategories. And let me tell you, Hi, Chinksin' too. I'll just start it up now. Oh, and if I end up being arrested, can whoever finds this and the transmission for me? Thank you. Oh, AIMS!

It's time for another episode of Earth Games. I'm sitting in a magic tavern and I'm playing Earth Games with my buds, a wizard, a talking badger, and a tiny mouse who has human strength. How you doing, Mom? Hi, Mom, it's good. Yeah, Arnie, I hope it's okay. I brought Momo. It's just, seem like the games we play, like Clue is so much fun, I thought to involve other people. Yeah, Chuck, I think that's okay. I brought Momo. It's just seem like the games we play like clue is so much fun I thought to involve other people. Yeah, I think that was that was fine like last week

We at Momo last week we played a game called clue that got to say kind of got a little out of hand Although I will say and I told Momo this earth games are easy. That's true and Momo loves to be included Sort of Momo's thing. Yeah, well, you are included now, but not to clue. You are excluded from clue. Oh. What better way to find a murderer than to have a tiny mouse hiding inside of your house,

who sees everything that happens and the reports affect us? We shall surely win this week. That's true. This is a game where only one of us is gonna win. Oh well, but I assume it still has similar rules since it's an Earth game. There'll be some sort of murder that will have to find some solution for. Oh wait, I think I know what this game is. It's gotta be kind of like cat or doctor, but you're trying to decide if it's poop or viscera.

Does this game have dice? Because Mama doesn't want to throw them through the wall. Yeah, she's so strong. Oh, because so strong. Yeah, so strong throw the dice right through the wall. You know the way human So is throw dice through the wall. Yeah, I will sure. Yeah, you know human string. Yes. Arnie I was saying I think it's if it's scat or goris then then I think I've played Oh, I don't want to play scat or goris, but I am excited to play an Earth game I actually like. Scat or goris.

Oh, that's the same one I was looking at. Hooray! Yes, so what murder has transpired? There's no murder in this game. This is not a party game. Well, if you think about it, murder is probably happening anyway somewhere, right? It's a good voice, yes.

Yeah, I mean, statistically, there's probably a murder happens every Three seconds whoa three seconds. I mean in all of food. What the hell? But fear not but I still have the big gun from clue I've taken some of the gods from clue and I will play them whenever I wish and I took Something from clue to Tiny knife down doesn't really penetrate. I know all right, so how do we play scat or gurus? Okay, so here's. That's a little tiny knife down. That doesn't really penetrate. I know. All right, so how do we play scat orgarees? Okay, so here's how it's gonna work.

We each have a piece of paper that says categories, and we all have a quill, and we are going to have to write down. First of all, look how cute Mama looks. Holded this quill. Oh. It's telling a moment. Oh, no.

I guess the wind is starting to take her away. Oh, no. Oh no! Oh, put a back there. She's flying around the room using the paper like a hang glider. Could that make me nervous, let's continue. Alright, so, and Momo, you are being mouse-sized. You're gonna be at slightly disadvantage because I'm guessing it takes you longer to write like a long list on a piece of paper.

And Momo spelling is garbage too. Oh, I see. You know what, as you can read it, right? Mm-hmm. I suppose that's true. list on a piece of paper. And Momma was spelling his garbage too. Oh I see. You know what? You can read it right? Mm-hmm. I suppose that's true. I mean you could cheat that way, but we'll use the honor system.

Can I ask how do you spell Momma? How do you spell Momma? Well that's a tricky question. Am I upside down or not? Uh, you're upside down. W. Oh, W. Oh.

Well I walked in and out one. Well well all this time is your name, oh. Well, I walked in and out one. Well, well, all this time is your name, whoa, whoa. Uh-huh, but, momo, momo, right down the mountain. Yeah, whoa, whoa is a family name. Oh, sure. Get everyone so surprised, momo, more born. Whoa, whoa! Oh, sure. Now that makes way more sense than momo.

It's very scary, huh? What even is momo? Okay, so we all have these papers that we're gonna use our quills to write down these lists of things. We also have a card that on the top of it, it says, Scategories. It's a list of 12 categories

that we're gonna have to write a thing for each of these categories. All right, easy enough. Here we go. So just pop pop pop pop. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, and this is this is one time. Ony is used the correct word for something. So let's not discourage that okay Yes, I wrote trivia on my world so sometimes I know things that are useless Oh almost exclusively, but this die is Letters has letters I was you're looking for you well no

I was trying to figure out if it was what how many size of hips he knows pips But he doesn't know the letters. It was 26, right? Well, I don't think there are 26 because this looks like a 20-sided die. I know there are 26 letters in my human English language. How many letters are there in Funeon? 27.

27. ABCDEFG. H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-N-Z. And then flurb. Don't give me a flurb. Okay, so we have our card and our list that we're going to do is musicians, musical groups for one, two is vegetables. So I can just start writing these dots.

No, no, no, no. I'm gonna roll this die, but instead of a pip or pips, we understand there are no pips. You're gonna get a letter. All right. And what do we do with that? Then you're gonna write the things on this list, but your answers have to start with the letter I roll in place of a pip. Now it's a game.

All right, so after vegetables, the third thing on your list is going to be reasons to have a party, that's pretty fun. Four is villain slash monsters. Ooh, villain slash monsters, so it's like a combat. A villain, I mean a slash can mean and or monster I guess can mean like a villain or a monster. Okay, it looks like a good monster. It looks like villains divided by monsters to me Oh,

villain is divided by monsters except after murder number five is things that weigh less than a pound Whoa, my ears burning. Yeah, they are. Let me out than a pound. Whoa. My ears burning. Yeah, they are. Let me. Ouch, ah, ah, that's it. That's right.

When you are flying around the room on that piece of paper, you got pretty close to some of those candles. Six excuses for being late. Seven items in this room. Ooh. And, you know, this is a good time for me to point out that these should be like real answers. Okay.

You know what I mean? And we will all be the judges of each other's answers. So if someone puts in some bullshit that doesn't fit the category, or you're just trying to squeeze in something that doesn't fit, then we can all say, no, that's not a thing in this room. Why would you have to explain that?

We tried to solve a real murder last week. And we succeeded. Are you ready, can I pull you aside here? Sure. I don't know if this is toly fare items in this room because you still work in conjure literally anything. Oh. So he could just put down anything.

Yeah, is that fair? That's not fair. How about we, hey everybody, Chant and I were just talking and for no reason- He's just throwing me under the fucking card, man. This doesn't, this doesn't, no look, not a box card kid. Don't worry about it, Reston Pius.

Yeah, I know it's been like eight or nine days soon. We were just saying, Channis, we're just talking, this isn't about anybody in particular, but for things in this room, we should say things in this room. No magic. Wow.

And that could be about anybody in this room we're talking about. We're telling everyone not to use magic. No, no, give me the instruction book. Does it say explicitly in the instruction book that you cannot use magic to conjure items? This is a great thing about this game. It's not an instruction book.

It's an instruction card. Oh, it will give me the card thing. Or maybe just lie, just read it in line. Mom, I didn't like it when people are passive aggressive. So someone has something to say to Momo. Go ahead. Yes, are you gonna conjure something into the room, Momo? I don't know how.

Your ears are on fire. How about this? We will all agree not to use magic while we play scatigores. Yeah, I won't do the thing where I make a candle light. Chant will use dark magic. Thank you. Momo won't accidentally discover that she knows

how to use magic and never realize it. I can't make that promise. And then you saw, I don't know if you know magic, but if that also pertains to you, then I guess that rule is about you, but not exclusively about you. This is about everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This isn't a usador rule. This just seems like a good idea for me. It's a weesidor rule. House rule for scat good idea. It's a weed. It's a weed or rule House rule for scatigories and people on earth feel free to add this to your rules that you use on earth Is why when you play scatigory? You know what? That's fine. Why'd you say it like that? No reason? You're saying all shitty am I yeah, well you say all shitty. Oh no reason. He's gonna use magic fuck this I don't know. Also, hey, house rule, this isn't for anyone in particular.

Can we all just agree during this game none of us are gonna fucking animal? Ah. Ah. Like, just during the game. That feels pointless. Why was Momo start today? I mean, two of the four of us are animals. Yeah.

So it's a little unfair. I don't think sex was going to come up in the course of this game, unless there's another rule I don't know about. Yeah, how about this? Let's not make it, it's not animal related, no f-ing during the game. And in fact, my f that I took from Clue, I will. What if we roll an f? Oh, shit. All right, well, if we roll an f, then we can fucking... Then the game is over. Yes. Oh, damn it. Okay. Oh Do we get through the list? No, stop the things in this room. What else we have house decorations? It's weird to have items in this room and then house decorations things that are round

No, no Ways to say yes Snacks and things that have numbers. Oh Not that dice. Yeah, I know. This has Pips. Yeah, this, no, no, no, no. This has letters. Yeah, what's the difference between Pips and letters?

Pips are dots that represent numbers. Pips is also the name of my sister. Your sister's name is Pips. She goes by Pip Pip. She doesn't go by dip. But can I ask something, yeah, if she's upside down and says, is it Bid? How'd you know?

Deductive reasoning, maybe. Oh, all right. You know the phrase deductive reasoning, and you can't spell your own name. Go jump, go jump away from me, please. Yep. All right. I have the non-pip die. Are we all ready?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. After I roll it, and I announce the letter that all of our answers begin with, I will turn this tiny timer over. Oh, and by the time the sands go all the way down. But they're already all the way down. Well, I- Game over.

I will flip it over, and this, well, I mean, you have, you have these kind of time pieces, I guess. It's like a small crappy hour glass. Yes, but we will not have an hour. These are the days of our lives. Yeah, I mean, every day is the day you're like today. I know, I just really say. All right.

Did I remind you? Okay, are we ready? I'm rolling the die. The later one, the. Yes! The letter is S. Shhh, I am turning over the timer. All right, and we just we just yell them out loud. No, no, no, you write them down Oh, I almost forgot the most important rules. Sorry

If you put down an answer that someone else puts down for that part of the list no one gets points We're neither of you get point. We'll see. Okay, all right, uh, letter S. Okay. It's important to note if you can't think of one. You aspire to do all of them? Yeah, but you can't. I've just been looking off your sheet. No, no, you're, first of all, Chuck, that's literally the worst thing you can do in this game because if you answer the same thing as me, the neither of us get points for this.

So you... Ooh, so I can take you out of the game. You put, which... What's this inatra? Uh... Uh... Uh... Uh...

Uh... Uh... Done I win. No, it's not a real... Although I actually am not looking at the timer. Oh, the timer... Time is almost up. There's a few grains of sand Time is up quills down

No, I think they, I think they're, I think they're a bird for this. I mean, down is more like a goose. Oh, you're right. You're right. Quills, goose. Quills, goose. Thank you. I'll go first.

Oh, okay. Do I just go all the way down the list or do we? Oh, I guess we should actually all do each one. Okay. Here we go. For musicians, musical groups, I have the sex slingshots. The what? The sex slingshots. I what? The sex slingshots.

I can't, I just realize, I'm like, necessarily know what, if your guys' answers are real or made up. They're not. Yes, of course, we'll tell you if they're made up, but we wouldn't do that, would we? No way. What, you wouldn't tell me if they were made up? No.

Yeah, Momo cheats on accident all the time, but never unpacked it. There you go. Look, here's the thing, you don't have to tell me if he's cheating for me. You should declare that he's cheating for yourselves. You shouldn't let him cheat because you're competing against him. I understand that. The sex thing shots a very good musical group.

What are some of their songs? Bounin. Yeah. I gotta check out the sex thing, Charles. Whatever, what are your balesket? Well, I put down Frank Sinatra. Thank you for... What's that?

What's a Sinatra? Sinatra is like a... He's old blue eyes. Why is he so honest? What's that? He's Frank Sinatra. He's very frank with people. Well, I can see.

Isn't it also supposed to start with an S? Wasn't that the whole point? Well, his last name starts with an S. But not his first name and you said Frank Sinatra, which sounds like an F to me. And I remember as we said before, an F to C. No S.

Oh shit. All right, fine. Fine. Mama, what do you have down for musician? The shines. The shines. They're like a bunch of stars and they seem to sound like, hello.

And honestly, if you listen to them change your life. Wow. Well, that's what that's what boys say on first dates, but Mama doesn't know about that. Okay. I had Succo. Oh, that reminds me. I'm so sorry, Mama.

How did that date you had with Brafco? Mama doesn't want to speak. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. You said you said you had. What did you have?

Succo. Succo. What doesn't want to speak? Oh, okay, sorry, sorry. I'm sorry, you said you had, what did you have? Soko? Soko. It's the young lady who sits out in the town square and just slaps her knees and makes percussion that way. You know, Soko. Soko? She seems like a crazy lady, I don't think she's a... Oh, whoa!

Who makes music? Who makes music? You don't have to make music on purpose to be a musician. That's right. Well, okay fine. So everyone gets a point, but me. Number two, we had vegetables. I put sometimes, because you know,

I'm not always in the mood for them, but sometimes. You're supposed to put down the name of vegetable. Okay, I'm gonna give myself two points because sometimes it begins and ends with an S. I wrote, summer is a good time for them. Mm-hmm. Very good. You know what, you both had time in your answer.

Oh, I think. I mean, cancel out. Yeah, you're cancel out. Yeah, yours are both basically measurements of time. So I think no points for both of you for that one. Mom, what did you have? Silly carrots. Silly carrots.

I'm not sure if we should accept adjectives, but I'm gonna be honest, I don't think Mom's gonna win. Well, give this a go to her. Garnie, I brought a guest. I'm so rude. Don't be rude. No, I wasn't making eye contact with the list.

He's absolutely not wrong, so. Hold on, look, okay, fine. Let me, Momo wins, I'll apologize. Hold on, I'm gonna run, let me run to the kitchen. Right, here we go, look at this. Yeah. Oh, I'm a good source of fun, I've been seeing. That is a, that is a, that we go, look at this. Yeah. Oh, I'm a good source of fun, I've been seeing! That is a silly character.

That is a silly character. Yeah. Like I said, Momo gets a point. Momo, you have two points now. Interesting. I put nothing down for vegetables because it couldn't think of a single vegetable, regardless of letter.

That tracks. Well, you're squashed for that round. Well, I'll go first for the next round We grab some strawberries. Well, we're reasons to have a posh strawberries is not a vegetable excuse me I don't think no definitely not wait. What if I been eating? Oh Anyway next round reasons to have a party I wrote sunken ship

Hmm, if you're a ship sinks. Why don't have a potty damn good one Arnie would you put I put sadness? Oh To cheer yourself up my pretty similar. Oh, oh My all-cancelate other I wrote self-esteem boost. Yeah, same thing and also depending on what type of boat it is It might have been a steamboat. So you're you're also out. I wrote down it might have been a steamboat, so you're also out. I wrote down surprise, so that's seven points. No, because it's not the number six S's in front of it. No, no, it's not.

You said if you have more than one S, it's a nice point, so. Look, I don't need to know the secret of your six S's. All right, so what do we chunk its points for round three? Round four, I'll go first again. Villains slash monsters, I wrote, Skogledeth! Ooh. Who? Who?

That seems like that's just sounds, but it's not. It's definitely not. Who's Skogledeth? It's the oldest story of all time. Yes, oh yes. I'm up to here right now, from beginning to end. In centuries long before time was even measured. Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Is that bullshit? Is that centuries with an S? No, it's a C, I believe, I'm sorry. I try to help you get more points. I know, but I don't want to lie. Also, centuries before time was a concept. Yeah, how do you even know? This might have been like five minutes before time.

Okay, a few minutes before time was a concept. Scarleteth went through the countryside, causing not but famine and death. Oh, it's so hungry. It's so sad. Yes, exactly. And everywhere he went, all he had to do was look down upon your village or your home with his eyes. Look down, look down, don't look in the eye.

His eyes of pure burning fire, and no fire did emanate from them. Nay, he did not breathe fire like a dragon or shoot lasers out of his eyes like the goddesses. But Nay, he did not look upon me. Oh, I thought you meant that he'd need. He did, well, yeah, he did that too. He would need, rRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Slowly die and it was so terrible and sad and then seven angels appeared sent by the goddesses Each with swords of a different color fire blue red yellow green amber

I don't remember them all right now, but any of these struck him directly through the eyes killing him on the spot Wow, yes, I put down snake man. What's the story of snake man, John? Many years ago, there was a guy who used to hold snakes. He died because snakes have

poison. Poison? Oh, are you villainous in any way? He's got him a brick. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't care for him. Did you have already? I put Sennastro.

So. Frank Sennastro? Because that starts with an F. No, not Frank Sennastro. Look, decades ago when Hal Jordan first became the Green Lantern, he got assistance about learning what it was to be a Green Lantern from another green, and from another member of the green lantern corp I don't need to go into all the details about how the green lantern corpse works, but it's just like a large or

How does a corpse work? It's dead. It's a large organ. It's a corp. It's like a corporation. It's not a corporation I don't really know what it corp stands for. Are you trying to say core? Oh? Well, the green lantern or well, maybe I was reading it upside down. Oh, that could be Anyway, he was learning the ropes from like he was a rookie green lantern. He was a popular story on earth Or is this considered pretty media? It's a pretty popular. It's way up there This is this is like the cool the cool kids love green lanterns or is it like guys who say the cool kids love Green Lantern. Or is it like guys who say the shines are good and then it really it's just not for everyone.

Yes, how popular is it? Would your mom know about this? My mom would not know about this. Was there a movie? She's more of a Marvel fan. What's that? Was there a movie made about it? You know, I think there was a movie made about it.

And I think maybe Sinestro is in it, but Sinestro didn't get a chance to really like. Oh. Yeah, because here's a thing, Sinestro, you think. He doesn't seem like a monster yet to me. He's just another space cop, but then you come to learn that his methods are a little too fascist. And he's kind of like space hitler.

But he's also a space cop. Why didn't you just write down space hitler? Yeah, a spiller. Shit. Just put spiller. Anyway, Sinestra, how about I do this? Sinestra slash space hitler. I get a point.

Mom will vote scare pros. They scare away if I'm scarecrows. They scare away. If I'm more than close. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, let's give that one. I'll just give that one. She's about to play games. Yeah, they should be called scareballs. Because they scare everything. Who's not afraid of a scareball?

I don't think you get a point for Sinestro, because his first name is Thal. Anyway, moving on. Okay, things that weigh less than a pound. I had Spice Potato. I had Sand. I had Socks. I had spice potato I'd sand I had socks Snail oh, Arnie can I argue against your answer? I mean I would expect no less if they if you have a pound of sand

We's a pound you have pound it out. Yeah, I'm half a sand. Yeah same thing goes with socks Shingos with spice potatoes. Oh shit. Did you write down spice potato or spice potato? Seconds? I bet you put the spice potatoes at the end because you're fucking trying to get another S. Alright, no points for anyone on that round. What? Wait, do you get two points if it starts to end with the same letter?

No, you don't. Trump thinks you do. Also, let's just look. You're giving it. Yeah, let's just give it. Oh, how did I not write down Starling from Onster? Now you don't jump things you do also let's just look you're giving if yeah, let's just give it How did I not write down Starling from monster excuses for being late? Sorry, I put sadness again. Oh already

Do you want to stop playing again? I mean? I'm playing the game to fight off sadness. Okay, the point of all game this game's a party. Yeah, oh What did you have? No, though I wrote slept It's a good reason to be late. I just wrote down the number one reason I'm late to anything. Oh, yeah Oh, also speaking of we were supposed to start the work-game the half-hour ago. What where were you at? Oh sad What I was used to add to show up I'm going I had stalling. That's a good one.

It makes a lot of sense. Because if I was creating a diversion, stalling. Yeah, okay. Okay, so. Items in this room. I had scatigories. Ah, fuck. Good one.

I had sound equipment. That's how we're recording this podcast. Oh, really good. Momma. I wrote scarecrow because check out the man in the corner. Right over there. Oh, really good. Momma. I wrote scarecrow because check out that man in the corner. Oh, good over there. Oh, over there. Yes.

Was that, I swear that wasn't over there when we started. I just swear I decided I'd order a drink, but I'm not here to allow. I'm everyone. And I, of course, had this stock of celery that has been in my robe this entire time. I already, I think he used magic. I think I'm not gonna lie. I want to call bossy, but I don't want to make him upset. Didn't Sellerie begin with a C?

Stalk of Sellerie does not. Oh. Why would you stalk Sellerie? Will you fucking in love with it? Why don't you marry it to find out what it's doing? I already am terrified. Guys, don't freak out. But is it just me or every time we look away from that scarecrow and look back?

Does it get a little bit closer? Absolutely, maybe we should stop looking at it. Don't worry, I have this gun from Clue. It's just a little piece of foam. Alright, the next category is house decorations, of which I, of course, put down steeples. Steeples? Yes. Like decorations on the outside of a house?

If you live inside of a house that has a steeple, yeah, perhaps you're a person of a nocturnal nature who hides there in the daytime to go out at night destroying criminals. OK. Which criminal? Also, that's scarecrow. I mean, I guess it's a scarecrow, to go out at night destroying criminals. Okay. Works for Momo. Also, that's scarecrow. I mean, I guess it's a scarecrow, but it mortgess has like a bag on its head.

Don't make this worse than it needs to be. New surrounded snack. Here's what I put. House decorations. Sure. I'm open to them. Oh, I like that. Come on. No. Oh wait, wait. I'm sorry. I had written down.

Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, category? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're gonna decorate a house with shoes? Well, on my world, it's pretty common for people to decorate their homes with shoes. I know, I know I'm from a different world than you guys are. There's no one to verify this. It's not a thing where I saw that we were almost at a time and literally the only yes word I could think of was shoes. Is it like a thing where rich people have a lot of them?

And then they like do it like have a closet where they showcase them? Yeah, if you go into a rich person's house, they say, please take off your shoes so they don't clash with my decorations. Oh. Next round, number nine, things that are around. I wrote schools.

Schools? Yes. Around? Yeah, they're around. Things that are around I wrote schools schools. Yes Around yeah, they're around not there's one over there one over here. They're around. Hmm. I had son S. Oh, and so sometimes kids be fat. Oh sure. Yeah, especially they've got a dad Sun I'm not even going to try to dissect that logic. Momo, what'd you have? It's fear. Oh, that's the right answer. Oh my gosh. I don't know. Yeah, I don't worry though. Momo's probably going to lose. Oh my god. That was like an old Henry short story.

And I have sausage. Okay, moving on. Number 10. Ways to say yes. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? On earth are sausages round? Yeah. On my... wait. wait what shape or sausages here on Foon they look like weeners look like big old winners. Oh, oh, yeah, that's weird. You eat them. Yeah Yeah, that's weird in my world. They're shaped round the shape round Yeah, and that was not just the thing where I couldn't think of any other word besides shoes All right, so you give it to Number 10, ways to say yes.

I had say yes. Pretty good. You can't technically argue with that one. That's true. I had. Sorry. That's great. It's alright.

S-a-possibly-al-r-i-g-h-t. It's alright. It's alright. It's alright. It's alright. It's alright. It's alright with you. Like, mama, there's no more room in the sleepover.

You can't come in. It's alright. Oh. Oh, alright. Alright with you? Like, mama, there's no more room in the sleepover. You can't come in. It's alright. Oh. Oh, mama. I'm fine. Is that why you were late? Because that was the sadness causing event?

Yeah, also, I flipped. Well, I put down C. What does that mean? It's a Spanish word on my world. It means yes. But also, I spelled it wrong. How'd you spell it? S-E-E.

I was in a hurry. I wrote same. Same. Like same. Yeah, we'll give it to you. All right, it's you. I'm almost not gonna win. Snacks.

I had spin-tax because he's a fucking snack. What, do you have a thing for spin-tax? Everyone here has a thing for spin-tax. I have a thing for you. No, I don't know. Oh, you sure you do have a thing for spin-tax? I said I don't know about that. Oh, so you're confused.

Mom, do you have a thing for Span? Almost always. Almost always. When don't you? When Mayor Manana distracts me. Oh, well, how is Mayor Manana? Still a banana who doesn't talk. Great.

Astrid answered. Ernie, what'd you have? I put salt teams. That's pretty good. Yeah. And I, of course, had stock of celery. That's been in my robe this entire time. Ernie, he pulled out a different stock as I was.

He's got to be making those. How many stocks of celery can you fit in a robe? I have plenty in here. I don't worry about it. He's doing magic. Mama wrote soup. But, but soup? That starts with a beat. Oh, well, then regular soup then. I don't worry about he's doing magic Mama wrote soup But but soup that starts with a beat. Oh well then regular soup then that starts with an R

R regular soup? Oh soup Oh soup starts with a bell hold on hold on Let me show you my oh soup soup okay yeah yeah no it checks out there you go we'll give it to you Fine she's not gonna win and last last but not least, things that have numbers, I put Pips, but I spelled it backwards. Well, you know what? I put some dice. Cross it off. I had some dice. Oh. I wrote stories like chapter one.

Hmm, pretty good. Don't worry, I'm not gonna win. I should have put score. Some of our scores have numbers. Also, I'm really, it's not so much that I didn't get any points that last round. It's that I thought of the same thing as Yusador. Who are you talking to?

I'm thinking. Oh, that's right. You weren't here last episode. We discovered that Aani often just says things out loud, which are just thoughts he should keep in his brain. And if he's not talking, he's not thinking. Maybe like, Momos probably gonna lose. I thought like that.

Things like that exactly. Excellent. Let's tally up our scores. Sure. I don't have to count. Luckily, I got almost no points. Oh, shoot. Okay, did we all tally up our scores? Yep, I got mine. You want to hear it? Yeah?

700 starts with an S so it's 701. That starts with an S so it's 702 that starts with an S 703 I have like five or so. I have eight 11 Guys I lied I Well at least momomma didn't win. No, Momma. No, so everyone was comfortable. No, hold on, Momma, you won.

You're the guy lost by a lot of men. No, you know, you won. All right, well time for another round. Can't wait to lose again. Let's get this started. Momma, you won. You won. What?

You know, I don't like when people are passive aggressive. You won. What? That's the reason I throw a party. Yeah, Smomo's win. Oh, look, the scare pro is getting close to everyone. You won. What? That's a reason to throw a party. Yeah, Smomo Swings. Oh, look, the scarecrows getting close to everyone. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is there any way to stop evil moving scare? Oh, it's releasing a gas. Yeah, there are some ways to stop evil scarecrows. But it's best to wait until they get much closer to you and stop pointing. Oh, okay. Oh, I know what to do Use it or I'm gonna allow you to use your magic. Is everybody okay with that? I haven't used my magic once I'm just enjoying a

Third stock of celery. Why do you keep winking? Use your magic and I want you to make a scare scare crow. Oh, it's the one thing that scare crows are afraid of I was gonna get so scared. I'm almost gonna jump so high Latch on to the ceiling. That's really far for you because you're a mouse. I'm out. Let's all those who are filled with straw now beware For a scarecrow is doubled and it's scare scare Oh shit, it's on the other side of the puss Shit Oh Shit, it's on the other side of the puss shit You saw quick make a scare scare crow crow. Okay, it's about to get busy in here the roof made Well, that's what he says you sir. We're not your bedroom

That's what he says before he has let me cast my damsel. It's about to get busy in here the roof may blow Now you look upon Triple Scarecrow! Oh, my dear, how did you do that? Oh, the Scarecrow Cruffo is even more terrifying. No, no, Scarecrow Cruffo. Wait, wait, I think I know what to do. Magic them away. All three of them?

Yeah. I was gonna conjure a cat that could catch them, and attract them all down, and conjureure a dog that could catch that cat. But I like your idea better. Ah! Yeah! Yeah! There's almost anything coming down.

Come on down. Come on down. I didn't get it. How did that tip tip tip tip? Ooh. All right, are you, should we play it on the round? Yeah, let's do another round. That was good. Let's see, but here tap. Whew. All right, Arnie, should we play another round? Yeah, let's do another round. That was good.

Let's see, but here's the thing. You know your cards? Turn it over. Well, now it's upside down. No, no, no, no. Flip it over the other way. I flipped it and it landed back on list one. Well, list two is on the back.

Oh, why don't you say that? It's a pips all over again. So we're going to do things you can't see. Countries, things with windows, five letter words. Artists found in the backyard, leisure activities found in a dorm, ingredients, things that are cold, some thing you look forward to,

and things you can collect. And the letter, no F, no F, no F, no F. What is it? It's... Oh, the letter... Oh, oh, oh, ohills down. Now, here we go. Again, Arnie, quills are usually from a bird.

Oh, down the head. That's true. that's true. Sorry. So Quills bird. Okay. Uh, quick, before all these, uh, scarecrows get us. You sure you didn't magic them away? I thought I did. Arnie, do you still see scarecrows?

I do, all the time, everywhere. Oh, is it? The only one that sees these scarecrows? Yes. Oh, I wonder if I'm, wonder if that's magic or if I'm really just like, if I can lose it. We're trying to play a game.

Okay, fair enough. Alright, but just in case I am losing my mind or about to be killed by invisible scarecrow, let's do this round a little bit faster. What do we think? Sure. Things you can't see. Olga the Ghost. The ocean from right here.

Oh, yeah. I put over there. Well, no, see, I can see over there. Damn it. Yeah, cross that out. I put owls. Oh yeah. I put over there. Well no see I can see over there. Damn it. Yeah, cross that out. I put owls. Fair enough. Number two, countries. I put, okay, is that a country? Yeah, I'm just agreeing with the statement. That's one point. I put Ohio. Oh, we told Momma where you're from, the country of Ohio. It's not, okay, fair. I put Ontario, which is a country, just in a Canadian world. I put Ola-Thank. Ola-Thank?

Yes, it's just south of Migos. Oh, okay. Things with windows. I had ovaries. What? Overs are the window to the soul. No. You never heard that expression?

No. Either by. Till now. But I have heard people say, hey, my ovaries are down I had I had autos because they build beautiful little houses with windows I wrote orphanages with a question mark because mom is not even sure Oh, I hope they do I hope they do they deserve what's good or she's gonna They usually get one. Yeah, I put our house Five letter words I put quill paper stamp envelope and ink

But it's five letter words yes, but they have to start with oh, but it's words that has to do with letter five of them Yes, but it has to start with the letter. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh Quill. Oh paper. Oh stamp. Oh envelope. Oh, we gotta give it to him I had auto I had otter. I had otters, so. I had Orion. Otters is, but it's not a five-letter word. Still knocks you out. No.

Wait, we're just gonna give Momo Orion? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. That's fine, she's gonna win. Number five, artists. I had otters. I had octopus.

I had O-keyf. Cause Arnie, you're always talking about that. Will Mnoo paints vaginas? Uh, yeah. You do talk about that a lot. And every time you start to talk about it, you go, I'm going to edit this out. I know every episode I go on and on a little bit about Georgia okeyf.

You know, it's a little, I don't just say she paints vaginas. And there's a certain, like, vaginal quality to her paintings. But I mean, she paints flowers. It's not like, look. Hey, her ovaries are over here. Did you also write Oak Eve? No, I put Orville Reddenbacher. Okay.

Oh, what is some of his art? Oh, it's so light and salty. I guess we gotta give it to you. Found in the backyard. Ocean. Sometimes you might find that in the backyard. Owls. Otters.

Only grass. Okay, leisure activities. I had oaky noodling. That's when you put your finger in a body of water and wiggle them around and fish think they're worms. Oh, that's what oaky noodling is? That's what oaky noodling is. I don't know what oaky noodling is.

Sorry, I was worried that I was gonna do the same thing. I put orgasm. That's your leisure activity? I mean, I'm not that I was gonna The same thing, I put orgasm That's your leisure activity? I mean, I'm not doing it at work He's got you there We gotta try it What?

Never mind What did you have, Momo? Open relationships Cool I had otterin' around Okay What? What is that entail?

Do you know any words besides otter that start with O? Number 8, found in a dorm. I wrote otters. I wrote open relationships. I wrote otters as well. I wrote orgasms. Alright, so those are all knit cross-out. Number 9, ingredients.

Of course otters. Oysters. I put down orgasms. A little dabble to you. Are you going to be very good? of course otters. Oysters. I put down orgasms. A little dabble do you? Are you gonna very good? Uh, ten. Things that are cold.

Otters. October. I put oslots, because sometimes they can be real staying off-ish. I put Olaf. What's Olaf? Olaf is cold.

Eleven. Something you look forward to. Otters. Opening night. Oranges! Orgasms. Number 12, things you can collect. Otters.

Other people's hair. I put orgasms. You can collect them? Gotta catch them all. Omega's? Omega's. Momma couldn't give any more oward. Let's give it to her, she's gonna win.

I mean technically it's the last thing she wrote down. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah Let's tell you first go What was I thinking? I have 14 I have like five or something. Oh, how about a day? You guys stop playing with that thing when you're talking about We're gonna them so I'm so dehydrated You you made mo mo sick When you're talking about organum cell? I'm so dehydrated. You made memosick. Mamos back. I had 10. So, added up from the last round. That's a total of 18.

Mamo has 23 altogether. Oh, we added up from the last round too? Yeah. We have 700. Yeah, I lied earlier. Oh, I had like three. Oh, yeah. We don't need to pay attention to that. Mom

most of it. She's not gonna win. Who has the highest number on their sheet? I said 18. F3. Total. Yeah. Well, Momo is embarrassed that Momo lost so bad. So Mom was gonna slowly back out the room. Hold on. Let's look at Momo's sheet. Well, there's no point in looking on there. I accidentally did Well, I thought there was no first number is a two two three low Toe is low. Is that what's the other number three three? Spreel low and I don't see that it's five No, she won but she doesn't want to be a rude guest Momos no, at least Mama knows. Good job, Mama. Now Mama's doing it.

Mama. Now Mama's speaking her thoughts. Am I? It's not easy. Mama, you won. What is Mama's prize? Uh-oh, there's no. I already used to have this trick.

What did Mama win today? Last week you promised us a sticker. Well, by the time we get to the bottom of this big, gold box of games, there will be a sticker. Can I ask for a different price for the next game? You give me an orgasm? Oh. Can Momo have the hourglass?

If we're all stealing from these things. We're all thieves. Well, I was gonna give you this Miss Scarlet card, but I guess I'll keep this one for myself. Here's the hourglass. Yay! Oh, wonderful. Now's the hourglass. Yay! Oh, wonderful. Now it's her glass.

Yes, it was ours before, now it is mine. What a wonderful gift. What a wonderful game. Yeah, Arnie, I really like this game. Is this one that you like as well or do you hate it like clue? No, I love this game. I used to play this game all the time on Earth a few decades ago. Oh my god, I just saw something on the box. What Arnie?

Oh, but it says has bro. That means that this is clue's brother Do you know what that means? What the otters are the murderer? You are so good. They were something to look forward to just a second ago. Yes, but now that I know that they've committed a murder I know there's something to look out for. Just like this. Stock of Celery. That's gotta be a different one. Yes, it's huge.

They look fresh. I mean, I hope it's magic, because if you just keep an eye on them in the robes. I mean, they look fresh, but when he bites into them, it's a squish sound. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Oh, Limpass, sorry. Limpass, Celery. Oh, that's what squish sound. Oh, limpass celery.

Oh, limpass celery. Oh, that's what I was going to put down for musician. Is that a band on Earth, limpass celery? Mm-hmm. What are some of their songs? Um, you're the dursed. Ah, hey! Wow, the otters were the murderers the whole time, I guess. I was kind of in and out on this one, what was being chased by the space police.

Oh, funny story about that. It turns out they weren't after me for escaping from prison at all. See, a few parts that I've got back, I met this guy at Truckstop who offered to pay me to deliver some totally legal cargo for him. I said, sure. And long story short, I think I'm a bootleger now. I haven't actually looked in the cargo hold, but it must be something explosive because when I ejected one of the crates, the cops turned sail pretty quick.

So problem solved. User of the Wizard was played by Matt Young. Chant the Talking Badger was played by Adel Refein. Mom of the Mouse with Human Strength was played by special guest Aaron Keith. Check out Aaron's podcast Hey Rittle Rittle, where she, Adel Refi, and John Patrick Cohen try to solve terrible riddles, but mostly just make jokes instead. Earth Games is produced by Arnie Neacamp, Matt Young, and Adel Refi, both production coordination by Garrett Schultz, special assistance by Ryan D. Georgie, this episode edited by Stephen

Drainjer. Earth Games logo by Allard Lebon. The rules theme song by Stephen D. Georgie, this episode edited by Stephen Dranger. Earth Games logo by Aller Glabon. The rules theme song by Stephen Dranger. Well, I'll see you next week for the Game of Life. Are we all playing the Game of Life when you think about it? Man, I am totally becoming a highway philosopher. you