Well Phooey.

I just stopped into my house after the Puzzle Party, intending to get directions to my aunt's apartment, but I'm suddenly crashing. It's probably for the best. I spent almost all of yesterday preparing the game and still went over to my parents' house for dinner with a cousin and aunt. That kind of counts for a Freedom Friday, I guess, a sedate one, at least.

The game went over relatively well. I presented clips of various mashups and asked players to identify the artists. This was originally conceived as a response to the games of Music Man, who likes bringing in music games, but about music before 1960, and usually pre rock-and-roll. Every time he divides teams, he asks if there's someone who is good at identifying music, and I always raise my hand, hoping that our definitions of music will collide.

Lots of people liked the game, and it moved quickly. Several of the older attendees weren't into the game, which I expected, but I still overestimated the pop-music knowledge of the group. I'll try to put the game online soon, so you can compare, or perhaps cramerica or perhaps tinhorn2 can comment, but there were a lot of people either not recognizing common songs or artists. For example, I was surprised that some people weren't able to identify Eminem, who has a distinctive voice, and who appeared several times in the game.

I know I haven't been to the parties in a while, but it seemed like a really good group. Marc seemed to have invited his own subparty form out of town, which was great. I'll write more about what happened later, but right now I just think I'm going to curl up in bed with a book.