Problems? Solutions.

**[SomeGuy]** · 06-09-2009 01:58 AM

As heard from this thread...Elis D. wanted it, so did I. I set it up.

Don't want to be a copy-pasta, but oh well.

Originally Posted by Odd_Nonposter

I haven't read through the whole thread, but there was a game that was played on one of the other fora I regularly read, and it had well over 3k posts before being locked. It was simply called the "Problem Solving Game."

(Please excuse the copy-pasta.)

We start by proposing a single problem. Then, someone proposes a single solution. The next person posts a problem created by the prior solution. Someone proposes a solution for the new problem. We continue until we are stumped, with a problem that can't be solved or a flawless solution. The only real rule here is that the solution and the problem it creates have to play off one another. If the problem is "I'm hungry", then "cut out your stomach" is just as valid a solution as "eat something". Just as long as the problems and solutions have something to do with each other, it all works.

So here's an example...

Problem: I failed my math test.

Solution: Call up the ghost of Sir Isaac Newton to tutor me.

Problem: The ghost tries to posses me.

Solution: Call the Ghostbusters.

Problem: The phone goes out.

Solution: Use smoke signals.

Problem: The Ghostbusters can't read smoke signals.

Solution: Just let the ghost possess you, they'll probably come.

Problem: They don't come.

Solution: Kill yourself.

Problem: Now I'm a ghost.

And so on and so on. The more twisted and lulzy the problems and solutions, the better.

Bold up your problems in black, solutions in blue. Regular comments are not bolded and such on.

Starting with:

I need to blow up a building in my backyard.

**kingofclutch** · 06-09-2009 02:03 AM

Call up some terrorists. (if you need some, I'll give you their number.)

**[SomeGuy]** · 06-09-2009 02:04 AM

I'll get caught by the CIA. DO NOT WANT.

**Catbus** · 06-09-2009 02:09 AM

Whip up some Ammonium Nitrate.

**blackjack** · 06-09-2009 02:30 AM

ammonium nitrate blows up in your face

**Catbus** · 06-09-2009 02:33 AM

Call 911.

**Keresztanya** · 06-09-2009 02:34 AM

You don't know the number for 911.

**kingofclutch** · 06-09-2009 02:35 AM

You look it up in a phone book.

**Keresztanya** · 06-09-2009 02:37 AM

Someone spilled nuclear waste on the phone book, you can't read it.

**Black_Eagle** · 06-09-2009 02:39 AM

You kill yourself for your incompetence.

**blackjack** · 06-09-2009 02:50 AM

you can't because you've become quadriplegic

**Bearsy** · 06-09-2009 03:14 AM

Wear a mechaskeleton to allow for mobility

**guitarboy** · 06-09-2009 03:16 AM

It needs batteries.

**Bearsy** · 06-09-2009 04:16 AM

Buy some online

**The Invisible Man** · 06-09-2009 04:42 AM

Skynet is taking over.

**grasshoppa** · 06-09-2009 05:10 AM

Do what tyler durden would do

**guitarboy** · 06-09-2009 05:12 AM

tyler durden just killed himself.

**grasshoppa** · 06-09-2009 05:18 AM

tyler durden wouldn't do that.

**Bearsy** · 06-09-2009 05:27 AM

Problem solved! The game is over!

**guitarboy** · 06-09-2009 05:28 AM

Hah, SomGuy begins game again.

**blackjack** · 06-09-2009 10:10 AM

somguy gets run over

**Bearsy** · 06-09-2009 10:20 AM

The ambulance is called.

**blackjack** · 06-09-2009 10:29 AM

they runover him too

**Licity** · 06-09-2009 04:49 PM

Call for an emergency helicopter to airlift him

**Odd_Nonposter** · 06-09-2009 05:01 PM

Helicopter crashes en route.

(Edit: I had originally intended for players to preface their posts with "problem:" or "solution:" but it doesn't really matter.)

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