Pieces

We made up our own board game to play during a trip in the Poconos a few years back.

The idea came from some Japanese variety shows I'd seen, where they played batsu (penalty) games. You rolled a dice and whatever you landed on, you had to do. It was usually a mixture of penalties and prizes, but our game was pretty much all penalties.

These included "Cupcake Roulette", where you had to bite into a cupcake, in many of which lurked surprise fillings such as breakfast sausage, octopus (yes, we had octopus) mustard, mayonnaise, black pepper and any other condiments on hand. Similarly, there was the "Danger! Gelatin" penalty, where (without looking) you took a jello shot, which might be filled with ground beef, green peas, or horrifyingly enough, raw garlic. And then there was my personal favorite, "Jello Shoes", which required you to spend the rest of the game with your feet in baggies of gelatin.

Anyway, I made little game pieces for each of us with my button machine!

Top: Me, Jess, Kat
Bottom: Niki, Ren, Vic