Murder in the Dark: Halloween Edition

As you may have noticed, this Saturday is Halloween! In honor of the holiday, we will be playing Murder in the Dark this week at DAGGER! Never played Murder in the Dark before? That's okay! We'll explain the rules on Thursday night. If you're ever played Mafia, it's kind of like live-action Mafia. If you've never played Mafia, no worries!

And just think: if you come play this week, you'll never again be able to say that you've never played Murder in the Dark!

We'll be in Soc Psych 126 at 8PM. Note the location change.

W-O-R-D-S

Do you like trying to decide which noun your friends will pick as best for an adjective? Do you like picking ridiculous nouns? Do you like screaming out words as your friends try to give you clues? How about hitting a buzzer as the other team tries to do this? Are you a budding artist, master speller, burgeoning actor, or trivia queen?

Did you answer to yes to any of these questions, but miss out on DAGGER last week? If you answered yes to this question, I feel bad for you. If you answered no, then hopefully you had a great time at DAGGER. Or you don't like words, but you're reading the blog, and therefore you confuse me.

Also, for some reason, the word of the night was pancreas.

Word Games!

This week's DAGGER theme is word games! Games will include Apples to Apples, Balderdash, Catch Phrase, Cranium, Guesstures, Outburst, Pictionary, Scattegories, Scrabble, Taboo, and anything you might bring! Thursday at 8pm in SocSci 105.

This will be a family-friendly night - if your parents get in Thursday night, feel free to bring them by. We can bring some other games and cards for parents and siblings.

Heads up: Next week is Murder in the Dark. Just thought you should know.

Puzzlehunt!

Registration for Puzzlehunt is now open!

Puzzlehunt is an annual event run by DAGGER. Teams of four compete, solving puzzles across Duke's campus. It's a fun Saturday afternoon event, taking place on November 21, 2009. It starts at 1pm at the field outside of Old Chem. For more information, or to register, go to the Puzzlehunt website.

"I WILL KICK YOU!"

Congratulations to the winners of the XBox-360 game raffle last night! Danny won Viva Piñata and I won Halo Wars.* Thanks to Microsoft rep Willie for the games! It was a great night overall, with the great theme for the night:

Violence is great! Chasing your friends around with flaming bats, shooting them in a spaghetti western show-down, fighting your way through the necropalypse, battling monsters with your Kung Fu skills...

And then there's destruction! Take over the world and put the citizens of all countries at your mercy! Or stop the destruction by saving those same citizens from death at the hands of deadly diseases!

Of course, for some, DAGGER is also a place to do homework while still being social. And don't forget that you can always bring food with you if you haven't had dinner yet! (Just please don't get food and/or drink on the games or Lisa will hurt you!) We also like to go out as a group after DAGGER to get food, generally at McDonald's/The Dillo.

*That's right. I just congratulated myself. Also, hi, I'm Megan *waves*

Violence and Destruction: October 15th

This week's meeting will be games with potential for Violence and Destruction! There will be car explosions in Formula Motor Racing, shotgunning zombies in Zombie Fluxx, world domination in Risk, beheading of French nobility in Guillotine, and whatever real-life...I mean, whatever other games we decide have enough violence. We're back in Soc Sci 105 this week, and every week for the rest of the semester! Hope to see you tonight!

We will also have a raffle for X-Box games!

General Games Recap

Last week, after commandeering two rooms, we had so many games going I know I didn't manage to keep track of all of them. Here's what I do know though: if you weren't there, you missed out on turning against your friends in a creepy house, shooting them for money, throwing green shells at them, banging them, saving the world from disease, and spelling out words. There was also Dominion and Warhammer.

October 8th: General Games Night

Tonight! 8PM! Soc Sci 107! Join us to recover from the first two days back from fall break with a general games night.

Anything but video games tonight. Email Tina (christina.delcarpio@duke.edu) if you have any specific requests, and feel free to bring your own games! Hope to see you there!

The Last Two Weeks

Midterms. They happen. Here's a recap of the past two weeks at DAGGER!

September 24th - One-Shot RPGs: 9 people played Chris's game of Feng Shui. Other people watched and enjoyed the fun. A Russian accent, action movie plot, and propositioning someone at a bar. All in the first 10 minutes!

October 1st - Card Games: We played Killer Bunnies, Bang!, Dominion, Bridge, Guillotine, Formula Motor Racing, and Masquerade.
And I forgot my camera and was sad and picture-less.