Game Night at Holiday House Turns Sour

By Brian Englesma

Family game night, an American tradition–nothing defines the American Dream quite like a good old fashioned family game night, right?. That was the attitude that many members of the Holiday House, a theme house in the Tudor Apartments, took with them lasy Sunday evening as they convened in the family room for the weekly tradition.

Controversy quickly erupted as house mates bickered over what game to play. Tyler Geer argued that Cranium would bring the most fun to all participants, and doesn’t take all night like some other games. Carolyn Buschel was quick to point that Cranium was played last week, and that instead a friendly game of Apples to Apples would make more sense. Tyler quickly wrote off this idea, declaring Apples to Apples a “boring, silly game.”

After Carolyn threatened to return to her room because everyone was “being really mean” to her, House Leader Dick stepped in to restore order. Attempting to find a solution that everyone could agree with, Dick ssuggested that Liz choose the game, as her birthday was closest. With that Liz quickly chose her preferred game, Twilight Scene It. Several members of the house complained that they had never seen Twilight, so they were at a distinct disadvantage. Dick reasoned that then teams may be in order, with each team having a Twilight enthusiast and a Twilight beginner.

All house members agreed that this made the most sense, and the game was started. Thankfully no dispute emerged over which teams controlled which game pieces, and after rolling for the highest number the team of Liz and Tyler were allowed to go first. Rolling a five and getting a fate card, Liz exclaimed, “Aww man, a fate card.” The fate card allowed them to move forward an additional space.

Next up was the team of Carolyn and Caleb. Everyone was curious how this team would perform, their chemistry was called “questionable,” by Tyler, which prompted Carolyn to tell him to “shutup,” and “act his age, not his shoe size.” After picking up the die, Tyler rolled a three and got a video question. The question was open to all members of the house to answer. The players quickly learned that they would need to identify who said the quote in question. The screen flashed the quote, a question asking Bella how the new kids at school were treating her. Several teams seemed quite flustered, shouting out any answer that came to mind. “Edward!,” “Charlie,” “Mike,” exclaimed different members of the house, before Liz had a brain surge, yelling that “It was Bella’s mom!” Prompting to Caleb to say “Renee.”

The screen flashed the answer, and the answer was in fact Renee Swan, the mother of Bella. Both Liz and Caleb claimed that they had gotten it correct first, Caleb relying on the fact that he got the name right, while Liz pointed out that she had the character right, and that he never would of gotten it right if she had not answered. The argument raged back and forth, and no end seemed to be in sight, so Dick stepped in to cool the tension.

“Guys, it’s getting kind of late, maybe we should just call the game until another time,” Dick proposed, “and besides, I need to use the restroom.” Upon hearing this Carolyn realized that she too needed to use the restroom, and Tyler remarked that he had not eaten yet, and was getting kind of hungry. With that the whole house agreed to call this game night a little bit early.