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    New Drinking Board Game Uses Memes as Spaces

    By Brian Anthony Hernandez | Mashable – Thu, Feb 23, 2012

    For a larger version, click here. For meme playing pieces, click here. For a playable online version, click here.

    If you like memes and alcohol, you'll love this new drinking game that uses 24 memes as spaces of a board game. Cheers to that! Reddit's kc_sharky unveiled the game Thursday on the popular news aggregation site.

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    "Meme Drinking Board Game" starts with the Rent Is Too Damn High meme and ends with the Success Baby meme. Sandwiched in between are memes such as Lazy College Senior, Annoying Facebook Girl, Scumbag Steve, Philosoraptor, Angry Ass Wolf and more. To play, roll dice and follow the instructions on each meme.

    In less than day, a fan of the game has already created a playable online version of it after seeing the original.

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    "I am probably going to be partly responsible for some battered livers and heavy headaches."

    "I'm genuinely overwhelmed at the response it's gotten online," game creator Marc Sloan (a.k.a. kc_sharky on Reddit) told Mashable. "As my flatmate pointed out, I am probably going to be partly responsible for some battered livers and heavy headaches this weekend."

    The eight playing pieces for the game are memes, too, including Nyan Cat, Nigel Thornberry and Snowy Owl.

    Sloan and six friends tested the board game Tuesday while drinking Peroni beer at the University of London before unleashing it to the world Thursday. The session prompted Sloan to tweak a few things.

    "Play testing was the best part," Sloan said. "There was actually about four iterations of it. A group of us played it on Valentine's Day -- forever alone indeed -- while it was very rough, and I found a whole load of problems."

    From that point to now, Sloan fixed the pace of the game, made some text funnier and made the game less "brutal" so players could last longer.

    The Rage Face Drinking Game inspired Sloan to whip up Meme Drinking Board Game. Sloan and his buddy John Angelcurse used to bring a laminated copy of Rage Face Drinking Game to pubs.

    "After the game, and in a rather inebriated state, we couldn't help but think of drinking challenges for other memes and we eventually thought of enough to warrant trying to make a game ourselves," Sloan said.

    Earlier this year, an unrelated meme-based board game was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Another Kickstarter project for Internet meme playing cards fell short of its funding goal. The cards would have featured 52 memes, including Y U NO Guy, Sad Keanu, Hipster Ariel, Futurama Fry and Pepper-Spray Cop.

    BONUS: Guy in 'College Freshman' Meme Stars in a New 'College Senior' Meme

    The board game above features the Lazy College Senior meme, but just this week the Successful College Senior meme emerged. Flip through this gallery for a glimpse of the new meme.

    "Successful College Senior" Meme

    He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has made an unexpected and triumphant return to web stardom as a senior this week.

    The new image immediately caught the attention of Reddit users, who cleverly wasted no time turning it into a "Successful College Senior" meme. A "Lazy College Senior" meme already exists.

    Click here to view this gallery.

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    This story originally published on Mashable here.

     

    3 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 mths ago
      The word "meme" is the most tired, overused, non-understood, meme in the world.
    • nematoad
      nematoad  •  Saginaw, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      I don't need a game to help motivate me to drink. I just need a good reason and a six pack or two.
    • -
      -  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$ is a memes.
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