Weird Dinners is a social game invented by Raphaël Fleury to get people together and put them in strange communication's situations, making them to create strategies and think twice before acting with other players.

The rules

The organizer choose a restriction (interdiction, obligation, constraint), expressed in a simple sentence which forces members to invent a new way to communicate. At the beginning of the dinner, the organizer uses to explain once again the exact constraint and rules; the players can do some questions.
When a player received his 10 tokens (chits) the game begins for him. Each time someone does a mistake, he has to toss out a token in a metal glass (the metal is important if we want to hear when someone did an error).
Each player is a judge for himself as for the others: he can denounce and should tell when himslef did a mistake (in him we trust). In case of doubt or conflict, the organizer has the final decision.
The game goes until a member has lost all his chits. In this case, he is the looser and will have to host (or organize) the next Weird Dinner; if he can't (for tecnical or personal reasons), he will have to clean the dishes.
Each player has to play the game as well as possible and until the end.

How, who, where and when?

Before the dinner takes place, the menu will be announced. The components of the menu (such as ingredients or drinks) will be divided between all the participants, as options to select when the player confirms his participation on the dinner. The same confirmation has to be done at least 24 hours before the date of the dinner. If a person forgott to bring his part, he will have to pay in cash the tantamount to the average of what the other persons had to pay for their parts. But it never should happen, because his part is important in the menu, and if he didn't bring it, what do will we eat then, mmh?
The dinners can be organized by any active member of the Weird Dinners Community. They take place in the house of the organizer or the house of the host (another member). The rules are always the same, just the constraint changes.
We advice doing a dinner each 5 weeks or more, just to avoid using the members to it.

Strategies

Everything which is not prohibed is allowed. Every strategies already approved and new ones are accepted, especially if it's subtle, clever and ingenious.

Informations

In general the guests are personnally warned per email. But anyway the website www.weirddinners.com shows all the actual and past dinners and warns you if you're invited to a dinner.
Other informations and news are also in the website.

Some examples of restrictions

- You'll look at the neighbour of the person you're talking to.
- You won't express any questions.
- You won't use the negation form.
- You won't speak about yourself and won't do any references to it.
- You'll only use the present form.
- You'll do everything with your partner without being allowed to talk to him and won't contradict his conversations.
- You'll send someone else which doesn't know Weird Dinners yet.

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