In memory of the late Ingmar Bergman: If you had to challenge death to a game what would that be?

[LynneSin]

My favorite Bergmann movie is "The Seventh Seal" where Max Von Sydow has to play chess with the grim reaper in order to save his soul.



So if you had to challenge death to a game in order to save your soul - what game would you choose?

[seemunkee]

1. Russian roulette?

[kay1864]

2. Trivial Pursuit--the kay1864 edition

"Geez, Death, you didn't know that one either? Loser. HAHAHAHAHA!"

[hfojvt]

39. what about the special "death" edition

the categories are 'death, death, death, sports, and death' (from an SNL skit)

[Orrex]

3. Major league baseball

Even a short game takes five hundred years to play, so I could probably rack up a few extra millennia of life before the 7th inning stretch.

Of course, an eternity of baseball is IMO largely indistinguishable from the worst of Hells, so it might not be a real victory for me.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Arctic Thunder

[datasuspect]

5. fencing match?

[MrCoffee]

6. Rock-Paper-Scissors

best of 3, winner takes all.

[LostinVA]

7. Red Baron

[meegbear]

8. Cribbage ...

I'd skunk his ass; and I play "muggings", so you know he'd be missing points.

[fizzgig]

26. that's the first thing i thought of, too

i was taught to play for blood and i'm all about 'muggings'

[blondeatlast]

9. Marco. Polo. nt

[Throwing Stones]

10. Obscure movie reference

or maybe not - there's a movie that does a spoof on the chess match scene, but death loses and starts grumbling in a Swedish accent "no, no, best 2 out 3" ...

anyone ?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. There's this one: Hilarious; the game is badminton.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062906/plotsummary

[LynneSin]

14. I know what movie that was found in!!!

"Bill & Ted's excellent adventure" - I think it was the second movie of the series

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Sounds like Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

They were playing Battleship. It think they also played Clue and maybe Connect Four, perhaps some other games.

Correction: No Connect Four, it was Twister and NFL Super Bowl Electric Football.

[Twillig]

28. "Best four out of seven...?"

Death: 'DAMN STRAIGHT!!'

[Throwing Stones]

37. Yes, that was it!

no wonder I forgot, given the, er, frame of mind I was probably in when I saw it.

Thanks!

:toast:

[ghostsofgiants]

40. It was a childhood favourite of mine, haha.

[Frank Cannon]

77. That's a great scene

I love the bit where Death's quarterback in the vibrating football game is just spinning around in circles.

[AllegroRondo]

12. Twister.

NOBODY beats me at twister. Im very bendy.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Cornhole.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/10/20/tem_monlede20.html

[PeaceNikki]

16. SEND US YOUR PHOTOS - We love cornhole, too.

:rofl:

and :puke:

[billyskank]

15. WipEout 3

Only my brother can beat me at that.

[LynneSin]

17. Perhaps your brother is the Grim Reaper

have you thought about that

:shrug:

[pagerbear]

18. Wheel! Of! Fortune!!!!!!!!!

[LynneSin]

19. See if we were going gameshow route I'd probably do Joker's Wild or Press Your Luck

I'm thinking that the Grim Reaper is getting big whammy!

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Guitar Hero.

[PVnRT]

78. "OK, Death, can you handle Jordan on Expert?"

muahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Alexander]

22. Tic-Tac-Toe, on the condition that I get to go first every time.

Death will have to start giving me other people's souls.

[LynneSin]

23. I could let you go first and we'd just end up in a draw everytime

So perhaps you might not win but you could extend your life for a few more decades or so - at least until you give up playing tic-tac-toe

[Alexander]

25. Well Death wants my soul at the end of the game, so I have nothing to lose...

By playing a game that could take decades or even centuries for him to finally win.

[Lyric]

24. Scrabble

And I would kick Death's ass.
:hi:

[Alexander]

27. What if you had the letters "KWYJIBO"?

[mikeytherat]

30. 72 points - 22 points + 50 for using all my letters!

K-W-Y-J-I-B-O... Kwyjibo. 22 points... plus 50 points for using all my letters! Game's over, I'm outta here..

mikey_the_rat

[LynneSin]

32. Don't forget triple word score - that would be 66pts + 50pts for using all letters

:woohoo:

[mikeytherat]

33. Hey, its Bart Simpson's Scrabble arithmetic, not mine.

But I'll still take the extra points!

mikey_the_rat

[smitty]

29. Monopoly.

[mikeytherat]

31. RISK or Supremacy. And I would kick. his. ass.

If Death engages me in a game of RISK, let me know which choice parts of Purgatory you'd like, 'cuz I'm gonna own it!

mikey_the_rat

[hfojvt]

43. two person risk seems like a waste of time

of course, my brother and I never followed the rules when we played it. Which was typical of all the games we played. We'd play half a dozen games and then play one with dad. He'd say 'what happens when this happens'. and we'd say 'you do this'. Dad would say 'that can't be right, let me see the rule book'.

[LynneSin]

58. My mother has banned my brother and I from ever playing risk in her presense

We tended to get a bit violent from time.

[hfojvt]

60. my brother cheats though

he's the frigging dice man. In "Can't stop", for example, he can get halfway up the board with only two of three pilons placed. One time in Risk he rolled double ones on defense. I thought I had won two armies. Then I rolled triple ones on my roll. What are the odds of that? Once we were playing triple Yahtzee. We had three turns left and we both needed two yahtzees. He gets both of them. I get none. I think I got four of a kind on my first turn and then failed on the next two rolls. So I went out the front door and threw the dice into my neighbor's yard. My siblings claim I have a temper, but I think Jesus would have done the same thing. That dice had it coming. There's only so much a person can take. We never found the dice that day. I think it got caught in a tree, but later my neighbor brought it to us after his lawnmower had chewed it up.

[northzax]

34. definately a little game called

"who can go longest without taking someone's life.'

or a drinking contest. how good you figure death is at flip cup?

[LynneSin]

38. I could do just about any drinking game but quarters

I'd be in hell in 5 minutes if I had to play quarters against the Grim Reaper

[northzax]

44. i figure that Death doesn't have a functioning liver

therefore can't metabolize alcohol.

wait, maybe Death is a skeleton? in that case, we are going to have a contest to see who can pee higher on a wall. I can certainly beat a skeleton in that fight.

[LynneSin]

45. Is this some sort of contest you men have with each other

:scared:

[ashling]

35. There's something slightly weird

about someone who has a favorite Ingmar Berman movie LOL

[LynneSin]

42. What you don't have one?

Seriously!

[KamaAina]

36. '52 Pickup

while Death is busy picking up all those cards, I'm hightailing it outta there!

[quiet.american]

41. UNO. n/t

[Aristus]

46. "Jeopardy!" I lost the game when it counted most. But Death?

I think I could take him! B-)

[hfojvt]

47. it depends if death has a FIDE rating

If death is not over 1800 in chess rating, I could probably beat him in chess. Otherwise I might take my chances in stratego. I still think the ultimate game is the one with 69 rings and 3 pegs. The rings are stacked from largest to smallest and must be moved from one peg to another, without ever putting a larger ring over a smaller ring. Thing is, it takes several trillion moves to finish that 'game'. Actually, to be precise, it takes 590,295,810,358,705,651,711 moves. There's no way to win it, but you could hope that death would get bored after about five years of playing and just concede. This was the 'game' picked in a short story where some alien culture had a tradition that a condemned person got to pick a 'last game'.

[SarahB]

48. Roller Derby

I can roller skate well and have a high pain tolerance. It was Plan B if I failed out of nursing school.

[The Straight Story]

49. Electric football - like Bill and Ted did :) (nt)

[Deep13]

50. Calvinball

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/2990/cb_rules.htm

[Deep13]

51. Hungry, Hungry Hippos. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

84. GMTA

:-)

[Seashell Eyes]

52. a painting contest

Maybe we'd paint each other's portraits. :)

[gizmonic]

53. Gnip Gnop n/t

[gizmonic]

54. Kerplunk n/t

[Deja Q]

55. Spin the Bottle

[Deja Q]

56. Check that, these games look better:

:hide:

[LynneSin]

57. So you're saying you'd want to play sex games with Death

I knew you were a sick pup - but not that sick!!

[Deja Q]

66. No no no! Not necrophilia!

I don't do it with dead bodies... but Death certainly needs a good time once in a while... or does Death get off on killing? :scared:

[LynneSin]

69. I didn't say with dead bodies - I said with Death.....

You'd be playing with this guy



He may be death but he doesn't look that dead

Enjoy your sex games!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

59. xBox 360: crackdown or rainbow six: vegas

I kick ass at both... that would be fun to see Death beaten by a girl.

[Wetzelbill]

61. An MMA fight

depending on my physical condition at the time. If not, I'd roll with Rock, scissors, paper.

[Midlodemocrat]

62. Cat stacking.

I rule at cat stacking.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. ...

:spray:

[Midlodemocrat]

81. LOL. Series. It is a really fun game.

Here's the link.

http://www.thefrown.com/?/games/-2/384

[GoddessOfGuinness]

86. OMG!

That's a blast!

[Myrina]

63. An Iron chef throwdown

:) secret ingredient: spinach.

[LynneSin]

65. Can I be a judge of that - I love spinach

:woohoo:

[Kutjara]

67. Tic-Tac-Toe

Anyone with half a brain can always play for a draw, so death would never be able to beat me. I'd be immortal! ;)

[Critters2]

68. Space Invaders!!!

Die, little purple guys!! And you too, Death!!

[pitohui]

70. blackjack and he has to be the dealer

poor devil doesn't stand a chance (former card counter)

but

somehow i suspect that if you already have a game or a sport where you excel, the devil wouldn't let you pick that one

like would he let tiger woods choose golf?

[sarge43]

71. Calvin Ball n/t

[u4ic]

72. Time's Up!

[LostInAnomie]

73. I'd challenge him to a game of "Who can live the longest".

The only rule is: No killing me.

[Clintonista2]

89. And he's already dead, so you win by default!

[mitchum]

74. The "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" drinking game

[Danger Mouse]

75. Roshambo.

Presuming death has nuts, I can't lose!

[MilesColtrane]

76. "Name that Tune"

I figure Death is too busy to listen to music much, and when he does he can't hear it above the screaming/crying/pleading/praying.

[JVS]

79. chubby bunny

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubby_bunny

[LynneSin]

80. Hell from what I read you don't have to worry about losing to Death

you could probably just end up choking on a damn marshmellow

[JVS]

88. I played that game as a kid and nobody cacked

[SteppingRazor]

82. Fight Night: Round 2 for the PlayStation 2

I'd beat death like a stubborn mule.

[Blue_Tires]

83. Cribbage for starters

then Tonk

FIFA 03 or 07
NBA Live 07
MVP Baseball 05
Gran Turismo 4
Madden 07 (I'd play some madden cards when death wasn't looking)

a bunch of old arcade games (pole position, arch rivals, roadblasters, ect.)

H.O.R.S.E.

and as others have mentioned, trivial pursuit (80s edition for me, please)

[Evoman]

85. Clue. I never lose Clue.

By the end, I usually can tell everybody exactly what cards they are holding. Death wouldn't have a chance.

Oh, and Settlers of Catan. I've played it twice, and KILLED at it twice.

[Burma Jones]

87. Solitare

[stuntcat]

90. Scrabble

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[Blue_Tires]

91. wait..how could i forget?

Goldeneye for the N64 -- deathmatch mode (special weapon: proximity mines!)

I'm a little out-of-practice, but once I got back up to speed, I'd fuck death's ass up

[NewJeffCT]

92. Dungeons & Dragons - and I'm the DM

TPK outta the box - I win.

(Total Party Kill, for those who don't know)

[ThingsGottaChange]

93. Nertz!