Please read Games 1 and 2 for the rules of this game called Twistominoes. There is no big rule change in this game, only a change to their game strategy. If you're ready for a little more accidental contact, read on dear reader, read on.
Twistominoes Game 3
Another five minutes have passed since the second game, and our group of college students are getting more worked up. Alan is still looking forward to a more involved game having been poorly placed in the first two games. Simon got fresh with Mandy and Trisha in the first game, but had an uneventful second game. The last game was all about Jake and Gina, or at least Gina hoped no one had noticed. Jake had been literally pushed past the borderline and had momentarily gotten Gina's clothed breast into his mouth.
"Gina, are you alright?" Mandy asked her through the closed washroom door. "Just fine," came the reply. "You've been in there a while."
Gina stood before the mirror, staring at her flushed reflection. "Stay calm, Gina, be cool." After psyching herself up and making sure the wet spot at her left nipple had faded, she exited the washroom to find the other five hanging around the couch area talking. Was it her, or was there a nervous tension in the air?
"Are you feeling alright Gina?" Jake asked. She felt a flutter in her tummy and wondered what was behind his smile. "Yes, much better. So what are we doing now?"
"I think we should play it again," volunteered Simon. He wanted to get back into the game. All this stalling for time was not helping his game plan.
"I'm up for another round," quipped Mandy. "Though I think we should mix it up a bit more. I think Alan's bored of starting us out."
Alan made a big show of rolling his eyes to express his boredom and Trisha giggled. Alan always got into lousy positions because he started first and couldn't reach Trisha afterward. Perhaps a chance would be nice. Trisha's gaze flittered from Alan to Jake and then to Simon. Simon was the shortest guy, maybe half a foot shorter than Alan, but still half a foot taller than her. She could blame her mother's Asian genes for being so predominant. Not that she could really complain.
Trisha had a really good mix of genes. She received her mother's dark hair, fair skin and small stature, but her father's bright grey eyes and nose. She was glad not to get her mother's thin lips too. She kept fit with volleyball and was in the college team. She got her mother's temper and her father's demand for perfection. That drove her and she made no excuses for them
"I liked the mass chaos at the end of the last game. We should do that after each of us have taken our turn, before the next round." Everyone agreed that Trisha's idea was great. "We'll all go once, and then we'll all do the group play."
"How about we score no points for the group play, but we can connect with anyone we like? This way, it'll make more connections between multiple people rather than just a circle." Mandy offered.
They threw out a few more ideas before deciding that talking about the game wasn't as fun as actually playing it.
The new changes they decided on were:
1. They would each pick a tile to decide the order in which the play would go. The player with the largest number would go first, followed by the next largest, etc.
2. They would put all the tiles back into the bag after each round, i.e. after all players and before the group play. This was decided so that they wouldn't pick the same tile in a single round, though it may show up again in group play, but the game could continue on for longer because they wouldn't run out of tiles. No one wanted to limit the number of rounds they were going to play.
3. The group play would not be scored, as per Mandy's suggestion. The simple purpose of the group play was to further compound the connections. They would work as a group to make sure that everyone got connected.
4. A player could opt to lose 10 points to break an existing connection. If a connection was inadvertently broken, it would be a penalty of 5 points if it were reconnected. If it was left broken, it would be the full 10 points.
They kept the same number arrangement and scoring:
1 & 2 - Left & Right arm, worth 1 point.
3 & 4 - Left & Right leg, worth 2 points.
5 & 6 - Head & Body, worth 3 points.
After randomly picking out tiles, their new order was Simon, Mandy, Alan, Trisha, Jake, Gina.
"Okay Simon, start us off!"