Tall & Stout

I have had several friends comment that Party Pal is similar to the boardgame ImaginIff.  I’m never sure what to say as I’ve never played the game.  The basis for Party Pal is a game I used to play called the Made Up Game.   The name came from the process of making up 5-10 questions each before starting to play.   Party Pal is the same game, but with pre-canned questions.

In talking with friends more, it sounds like the ImaginIff questions all take the form “ImaginIff <blank> was a type of candy.”  While Party Pal does contain a lot of those kinds of questions, it also has many that take the form “Who would make the best car salesperson?”  This works in Party Pal because it is electronic and all the players names can be entered before playing.

In the end, both games are only as good as their questions, though some good funny friends can make any slightly embarassing question hilarious.

Party Pal does not have an end game.  Questions will continue to be semi-randomly chosen until the group is done playing.  Here at Tall & Stout we generally play until we get bored, and really don’t care about the score.    For us it’s all about what answers people give and telling stories to support our answers.  However, it would not be hard to end the game when one person gets to 20 points.  They would be declared the “winner” and the game would go back to the home screen.  This changes the game a bit as competition encourages people to choose what they think will be the winnning answer.  Maybe it would be best to include an option to select “competitive” or “friendly” game types.  What do you think?  Leave us feedback.