Equinox Party: The Early Years

A paper-pencil puzzle by Dwight Freund (Dandr) from Equinox 50: Equinox Party, The Early Years

What the L Is That Word?

A wall game by Jim Propp (Aesop) from Equinox 50: What the L is that word?

The answers (encoded in a somewhat cryptic fashion, so that peeking at the answer to one of the 21 clues won't cause you to inadvertently read the answer to one of the others).

The answers (given more straightforwardly.)

Game Togs

A name tags theme for Equinox 50, by Martin Eiger (Wrybosh): Game Togs.

StrangLers on a Train

From Equinox Party 39 (Hitchcock), revived for Equinox Party L, a wall game by Henri Picciotto: StrangLers on a Train. It was nearly entirely solved by the end of the evening.

Opposites Attract

You are given a word that doesn't have an obvious opposite, and write down what you deem its best opposite. Your score is the number of people who had the same answer, with a maximum of 10. Highest total score wins. In other words you don't strive for originality! you want to guess what the most popular answer will be.

The game was created for Equinox 11 by Scott Marley (Hudu), and reprised at Equinox 50 by Ann and Jon (Iolanthe and Plaid).

It turns out the game works best with maybe 30 people max.  Scoring gets too slow with, say, 70. In that situation, it's best to play it by tables, and quickly share the best ideas at the end.

Equinox 50

The 50th Semi-Annual Equinox Word Games Party took place on Saturday, March 20, 2010. 

As usual on multiple-of-ten parties, the theme was "best of".

Wall Games :
Jim Propp (Aesop) "What the L?"
Henri Picciotto (Hot) "StrangLers on a Train" (from Equinox 39)
Name Tags: Martin Eiger (Wrybosh) "Game Togs"
Mixer: Doug
Pencil-Paper Game: Ann and Jon (Iolanthe/Plaid) presented Scott Marley's "Opposites Attract"
Paper-Pencil Puzzle: Dwight Freund (Dandr) "Equinox: The Early Years".
Creative Game: Neil Picciotto (Renfield) "Unagrams"
Megagame: Joshua Kosman (Trazom) and Rick Rubenstein (Rubrick) "Cold War"