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Monday, April 10, 2006

Cranium: International Edition

There is no such thing as Cranium: International Edition, but there needs to be. We finally got this game smuggled into Germany, but playing it turned out to be, um, a challenge.

According to the directions, it should take about an hour to play. We started at 10pm, and by 1:30am were SO exausted (and no longer the least bit drunk) we had to quit. Nobody had even made it into the “inner cranim” area by this time.

The problem is it’s just too culturally biased to play with anyone who didn’t grow up in the United States between maybe 1960 and the present. Since we were thee Americans, three Germans, one Georgian (the other georgia) and one Irish, it was a struggle to find knowledge common enough between us to finish the game.

Some things non-Americans may be unfamiliar with:

The theme song to “Star Wars”
George Washington and Martha Stewart
Football, or anything having to do with it (which here you have to specify “American Football” because football means soccer of course, and there are no soccer questions in Cranium)
A Tucan: if you’ve never seen a Fruit Loops commercial, you don’t know what one is.

Some surprising things that turned out to be international:

The Energizer Bunny (everyone knew who that is)
Alice in Wonderland (even if they only know the Russian name)
A Half-Pipe (and I'm not sure the Dad in the group knew what this was)
The Buddha

Oh, and if you're scary smart, you may even be able to spell "zoology" backwards, on the first try, even though english is not your first or even second language.

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