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Supermarket Guessing Game
Supermarket Guessing Game
The next time you are in a supermarket and are perhaps beginning to feel a bit bored with the whole thing then maybe you could play this supermarket guessing game. Maybe you even play it already without even realising it.
This is a cheap and cheerful game for people of all ages. It can played by one person and it could be played by several. You could play this game while walking about the store, but usually i would play it when i am waiting in the queue to pay for my goods and there might be a few others in the queue.
Now, you probably don't want to make this too obvious but the aim is now to look into someone's basket as they are putting their goods on the conveyor belt to pay for them. It probably works best when there aren't too many items-so between about 5 and 10 will be good to begin with. The purpose now is to take these items and imagine the person using them all in one situation. So, for instance, somebody might be buying a few things which do not seem to have any connection to each other but your job is to make them fit. In this example if someone was to buy these items- bread, chocolate, a bottle of whisky, a newspaper and some bandages. To the outsider it just looks like a variety of different things that they will use over time, but the guesser has to fit them all together. Therefore i feel that the person will be having a marvellous dinner that night of chocolate sandwiches. They could wash it down with some of the whisky. Good job they were prepared with the bandages because after a few drinks they fell and cut their head and needed to fix themself with them. Because they had fallen they now just wanted to sit down,relax, and read the newspaper. So from a few items you have given someone a whole imagined life just from what you see them buying.
That, then is the basic idea of the supermarket guessing game.