{"id":89650,"date":"2024-06-13T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=89650"},"modified":"2024-06-12T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:49:25","slug":"fun-new-family-game-whos-the-parliamentary-traitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/13\/fun-new-family-game-whos-the-parliamentary-traitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun new family game – Who’s the Parliamentary Traitor?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the National Post<\/em>, Tristin Hopper presents the rulebook for an exciting new family game literally “ripped from the headlines” – Who’s the Parliamentary Traitor?<\/em><\/p>\n

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“To simulate what it\u2019s like to go to work in a national parliament secretly housing foreign agents, the National Post<\/em> presents a tongue-in-cheek instruction manual to play this group game: Who\u2019s the Parliamentary Traitor?<\/em>
Photo by Brice Hall”<\/p><\/div>\n

WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • One large writing surface, such as a chalkboard, whiteboard or flip chart (THE ORDER PAPER<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
  • 20-70 note cards<\/li>\n
  • A timer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    SETTING UP PLAY<\/strong>:
    \nGather at least five of your closest friends and have them sit in a line facing the ORDER PAPER<\/strong>. They will be divided into two categories: The WITTING AGENTS<\/strong> and the CREDULOUS NAIFS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    To choose who among them will be the WITTING AGENTS<\/strong>, prepare a stack of IDENTITY CARDS<\/strong> equal to the number of players. On every fifth card, mark the symbol for the Chinese yuan (\u00a5). In the case of five players, mark a single card, for 10 players, mark two, etc.<\/p>\n

    Shuffle the IDENTITY CARDS<\/strong> and distribute them among the players. Anyone receiving a “\u00a5” is now a WITTING AGENT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Set aside another stack of note cards to serve as MANDATE LETTERS<\/strong>. The text for each card is below. Shuffle the MANDATE LETTERS<\/strong> and place them face down.<\/p>\n

    RULES OF THE GAME<\/strong>:
    \nEach round begins with a CANADA IS NOT BROKEN<\/strong> phase in which all players close their eyes, put their thumbs in their ears and bury their face for two minutes (the elapsed time to be marked with a timer). During this phase, the WITTING AGENTS<\/strong> open their eyes, stride over to the ORDER PAPER<\/strong> and write down a piece of binding public policy that damages Canada to the advantage of a hostile government (suggestions below).<\/p>\n

    Once this act of treachery is done, the WITTING AGENTS<\/strong> return to their seats will pretend to wake up alongside them as if nothing happened.<\/p>\n

    Now begins the CONCERNED FOLLOW-UP<\/strong> phase. First, players must pull a MANDATE LETTER<\/strong> card that will determine conditions of discussion. Now, the parliamentarians must decide who among them is the foreign cat’s paw who has defaced their ORDER PAPER<\/strong> with disloyal policy. Uncomfortable questions are asked, accusations are made, and at the end of the round the players vote on who among them will be ejected as a traitor.<\/p>\n

    Only after the accused traitor is exiled will they show their IDENTITY CARD<\/strong>, revealing whether the accusations have been true, or whether they have been unjustly maligned.<\/p>\n

    Ejected players are then exiled to THE SENATE<\/strong>, a separated area of chairs where they are served port, ginger ale and black liquorice. They continue to participate in the CANADA IS NOT BROKEN<\/strong> and the CONCERNED FOLLOW-UP<\/strong> phases, but they no longer have a vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the National Post, Tristin Hopper presents the rulebook for an exciting new family game literally “ripped from the headlines” – Who’s the Parliamentary Traitor? WHAT YOU NEED TO PLAY: One large writing surface, such as a chalkboard, whiteboard or flip chart (THE ORDER PAPER) 20-70 note cards A timer SETTING UP PLAY: Gather at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,84,57,53],"tags":[363,458,463,1352,553,862],"class_list":["post-89650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-gaming","category-government","category-humour","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-parliament","tag-parody","tag-roleplayinggames","tag-senate","tag-treason"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-njY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89652,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89650\/revisions\/89652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}