strip poker

Contestants were chosen for their overall good looks and utter lack of any intelligence whatsoever. I'm not sure whether this is because stupid people generally had to take more clothes off or because only complete idiots would try to be on the show in the first place. Most of the questions were things you would find out of Trivial Pursuit: Junior Edition, like "What is the force that pulls objects towards the ground?" and "Who delivered the Gettysburg address?" As you can easily imagine, the contestants were regularly stumped by the mind-boggling complexity of these questions.

Most contestants, especially the women, also tended to have no knowledge of poker, either. They were given the choice to keep the card they received for each correctly answered question or give it to their opponents, and you could regularly see people losing the game because they gave away cards that were useless to them but extremely useful to their opponents.

The only reason to watch this show was to see the look on the host's face whenever he came across a particularly dense contestant. This was THE show to go to if you wanted to learn how to plead for death without uttering a single word.

However, the worst thing about it is that the USA Network can actually justify, by viewership, having this show on TV in the 11/10PM Eastern/Central timeslot Tuesday through Saturday. Of course, because this is American cable TV, viewers never actually see any nudity, which is actually good, since I don't want to be blinded while channel-surfing.

Next month they'll probably come out with something worse. I'm thinking maybe a knock-off of MTV's Undressed show, which is itself pretty bad. Perhaps USA Network's "Minds Unplugged: Low Mental Wattage."

I looked at this and was dismayed to find two writeups on an American TV show and none on the classic party game.

This game is played over several beers and the basic objective is to get the members of the opposite, or indeed the same sex naked.

But of course you knew that, but do you know how to play, or at least play properly? Having consulted many people and many different versions I have put together the ultimate strip poker game.

Rules

1. Decide how far you are prepared to go. Until you are naked is probably best, you need the tension to play well, also it does get boring and people start to do other things because they know there is nothing to look forward to.
2. Decide when you get your clothes back, at the end of the game? The night? The Party? The Year?
3. Decide what you do once you are naked, i.e. can you keep playing, using forfeits or do you leave the game? If so where do you go?
4. Give everyone five chips each.
5. Ante up, one chip or alternatively, one item of clothing.
6. Play a standard game of five card stud.
7. Show your cards, the winner gets the pot, the clothes in the pot go to the "clothes bank" where you can buy them back for seven chips each. The loser must also give one additional item of clothing to the bank.
8. If you run out of chips you buy five more for one item of clothing.
9. The game ends when either one, half or all but one of the people present is naked.

This node was written nearly six years ago when I was only just 16. I am planning to rewrite it. Watch this space.

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