so death offers to play for your soul...

[big teej]

lets say (hypothetically of course)

that you die (or are banished to hell for some reason)

and you talk Death himself into playing a game for your soul.

what game do you play?

starcraft? warcraft? dance dance revolution? monopoly? what?

why?

do you truly feel you could BEST DEATH HIMSELF at a game?


for me, I think I'd have to go with either Scrabble or a pvp Dnd wargame.

I'm having trouble of thinking of any one game that I feel so confidant in my abilities that I could best Death himself in.

though I'm sure something will come to me eventually.

perhaps a timed race to beat megaman X

what about you?
(granted, monopoly's a great answer since that will prolong your life by a few years)

[Gamerlord]

Challenge him to a game of chess, then cheat. :smalltongue:

[pffh]

Probably something like calvinball or a game of "Who can give the other person all their powers the fastest"

[Misery Esquire]

(granted, monopoly's a great answer since that will prolong your life by a few years)

...Err. A game of Monopoly only takes ~6 hours.

I'd challenge him to a game of Sburb. :smalltongue:

[Dienekes]

Challenge him to a game of chess, then cheat. :smalltongue:

If we're cheating let's go with the one easiest to do so.

That's right Death, we're playing Battleship!

[nerd-7i+42e]

D&D (http://xkcd.com/393/). I have a campaign planned out; if he can finish it, he wins. If he can't, I win. I might up the CR of a few monsters, though...:smallamused:

[Eadin]

Jumanji.
:smallcool:

[Eldan]

"Living your Life". It's a game I invented :smalltongue:

Alternatively, Mornington Crescent.

[Orzel]

*checks tv*

Yup. Bill and Ted' Bogus Journey.

I'll play "Hold the water in your hands".

[LaZodiac]

I'd play something I recently heard about. Jurrasic Park Challange, whoever can keep 12 shots of liqour down wins.

[Trog]

Hopscotch. *leaps over grim reaping equipment* P= cookie for the reference.

[GrlumpTheElder]

Alternatively, Mornington Crescent.

I was about to suggest this, it's what I would play him at.

[Tiger Duck]

Some highly luck based game.

That's how I tend to win games anyway. More with luck than with skill.

[PirateMonk]

Some version of Nim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim), with the order of play such that it is impossible for me to lose.

[CrazedMalarite]

High card.

I figure Death is probably dang good at most all games, certainly better than me. So the 50% of winning at a pure luck game is higher than anything I could get on a skill-related game.

[Project_Mayhem]

I'd challenge him to a 'not being Death' contest.

[Solaris]

D&D (http://xkcd.com/393/). I have a campaign planned out; if he can finish it, he wins. If he can't, I win. I might up the CR of a few monsters, though...:smallamused:

Durnit, I was gonna say that.
Plan, of course, being that there's no end to the campaign.

[Fluff & Napalm]

How bout a hot dog eating contest? Might not win but it'd be funny to watch.

[Nameless Ghost]

Second Life. :smallwink:

[Winthur]

We will have a duel of puns, since I'm pretty sure that my witticisms...
:smallcool:
...will fall on death ears.

[Elder Tsofu]

I'd go for chess, traditionalist as I am.
If Death doesn't have any other preference that is, I suppose it might get a bit old over the centuries.

[MoonCat]

Wet T-shirt contest! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0718.html) Or DnD (http://xkcd.com/393/)if I was good at it. And I happen to know he's bad at Bridge, so I could try that. (internet to anyone who get's all the references.)

[Mystic Muse]

First, I'd ask him what games I have a legitimate chance at winning at if any. Then I'd play him in whichever of those games I'm best at. If there isn't one, I'd just tell him not to waste his time.

[Icewalker]

...Err. A game of Monopoly only takes ~6 hours.

I'd challenge him to a game of Sburb. :smalltongue:

Um...this. Definitely this.

[zeratul]

Hopscotch. *leaps over grim reaping equipment* P= cookie for the reference.

But trog, you are not a girl and a s such have not been trained in the mystic ritual of hopscotch. That said I wouldn't be too surprised if death lets you go just for the refference. :smalltongue:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Alternatively, Mornington Crescent.

Awww, I was going to say thaaaat. :smallfrown:

[Blue Ghost]

Yu-Gi-Oh. Though I probably won't stand a chance, since Death runs the Seal of Orichalcos (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Seal_of_Orichalcos)...

[CarpeGuitarrem]

D&D (http://xkcd.com/393/). I have a campaign planned out; if he can finish it, he wins. If he can't, I win. I might up the CR of a few monsters, though...:smallamused:
Pretty much. I should've known that someone was gonna beat me to it.

I would challenge Death to The Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_%28mind_game%29).

[Mordokai]

Who can last drinking longer.

It would be pretty moot, since we would both be dead and thus pretty much immune to alcohol, but that means I get to booze myself for eternity. And that is good enough for me.

I'm sure Death has hell a lot of cool stories to be told over a pint or ten... thousand.

[LaZodiac]

Mordokai, it's not a matter of who can last the longest drinking, but who can keep the most in him. Death is bones, I doubt he can actually consume liquids. One glass, you win.

Either way, Death WOULD make a good drinking buddy. The stories he could tell.

[Gaelbert]

I'd challenge him to a fiddle competition. (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg)
Either that or Russian Roulette.

[Moff Chumley]

Contemporary music trivia, probably. Contemporary, because otherwise he'd have an unfair advantage. :smalltongue:

[Anxe]

I'd challenge him to play The Game.

[Zain]

I'd challenge him to a game of Minecraft.

hey, I'd be playing minecraft for a eternity! It would be EPIC!

[John Cribati]

Hmm...

Super smash Bros. 64. 3 stock, 50% Damage ratio. I'll even put myself on Handicap level 1.

Then I can chain-grab him to death (:smallcool:) with Falcon.

[Lord Raziere]

D&D (http://xkcd.com/393/). I have a campaign planned out; if he can finish it, he wins. If he can't, I win. I might up the CR of a few monsters, though...:smallamused:

or you could just run tomb of horrors.

Personally, I would just run a dungeon my own creation, far worse than tomb of horrors.

[Traab]

"Who can pick up the most chicks in an hour."

Thats right, id challenge death to go bar hopping and whoever walks away with the most real phone numbers wins!

[Mystic Muse]

"Who can pick up the most chicks in an hour."

Thats right, id challenge death to go bar hopping and whoever walks away with the most real phone numbers wins!

Death. Definitely death.

[Gadora]

Is rock-paper-scissors an option? I'm pretty sure I could beat him there, just by thinking things through.

You see, Death carries a scythe, which means he likes cutting things, so he'll throw scissors but I've got a feeling that he'll have anticipated this reasoning, and go with paper to counter my oh-so-obvious rock. But I won't be throwing rock, because I've not only anticipated this counter, but his anticipation of my anticipating this, so I should clearly throw paper. Why don't we have a paranoid babbling smilie?

You know, maybe I should challenge him to a pie eating contest instead, because, well, pie.

[Mina Kobold]

Wet T-shirt contest! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0718.html) Or DnD (http://xkcd.com/393/)if I was good at it. And I happen to know he's bad at Bridge, so I could try that. (internet to anyone who get's all the references.)

Discworld?

I would challenge Death to a hugging contest because I'd be so happy I didn't disappear when I died and that soemthing is there for me.

Then I'd be too scared to see what comes after Death alone and hold on to Death in adorable and silly hugginess.

That, or a game of whatever Death wants to play. Would be mean to a being with that big a workload to go around demanding specific games that are not super-silly hugging games. :smallsmile:

[Nerocite]

Limbo. With obvious results.

[Dvandemon]

I'm guessing you were watching Comedy Central too? I wouldn't mind a musical duel, just to see what kind of music he plays
If we're cheating let's go with the one easiest to do so.

That's right Death, we're playing Battleship!

And then Clue, electric football and finally Twister.

[ragingrage]

Been mentioned before, but definitely Mornington crescent. Wouldn't be that hard to beat him; if he can't counter Fubar's blasphemy, I win. :smalltongue:

[Dire Moose]

I'd have to go with this one (http://raxdakkar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/smbc.gif).

[Iruka]

I'd go with a classic and challenge him to a game of Yahtzee

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PgfRBZetNGE/S4kuOh3mudI/AAAAAAAABKo/9NtZDPFQ3-8/s400/gustav+dore+ancient+mariner.jpg

or maybe a karaoke contest with our favourite songs, just to see what he chooses and to hear him sing.

[SaintRidley]

A drowning contest might be interesting. If Death were to win, would that mean you can escape alive?

[Dire Moose]

You know, maybe I should challenge him to a pie eating contest instead, because, well, pie.

That would be a mistake, because the pies would just fall through his ribcage and he'd never be full.

[Ravens_cry]

I challenge him to who can say completely the fastest a number under 10 of my choosing, he can decide who goes first. It's a little irrational I know, but whoever goes first, I get to live forever.

[ZombyWoof]

Hmm...

Super smash Bros. 64. 3 stock, 50% Damage ratio. I'll even put myself on Handicap level 1.

Then I can chain-grab him to death (:smallcool:) with Falcon.
If you were as pro as Isai you could just challenge him to your typical 5-stock no-time game of SSB64. Then laugh as you 5-0 him. Maaaaybe 5-1 if he gets lucky :smallwink:

Me? I'd challenge him to a game of Spades and grab my ex gf as my partner. He can pick anyone he wants.

When the final score is MenB 540, DeathnBuddy -200 9 bags? Yeah :smallamused: That just happened Death.

[Dumbledore lives]

Tic-Tac-Toe, no winner, no loser. Both of us play a perfect game till I get tired, then I die. You can't actually win, I think he has rule -1 in D&D, and any other game he will win, no matter how impossible. At least this way I get to choose when I truly die.

[Gadora]

That would be a mistake, because the pies would just fall through his ribcage and he'd never be full.

You raise a good point, but, on the other hand, pie.

[Copacetic]

A musical competition if I wanted to at least enjoy myself a little before, you know. Ditto for chess.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Tell him that the llama already has it.:smalltongue:

But no, seriously, I'd probably ask him ''Say....Screw this, when was the last time you went a night out anyway? Must be busy, reaping all that the time.'

Failing that, I'd most likely challenge him to a beard-growing contest.

[GrlumpTheElder]

Twister could work actually, I doubt the personification of the end of life is particularly flexible, what with Riga-Mortis and what-not.

[Telonius]

Do I have to beat Death, or does he have to beat me?

If the latter, then Tic Tac Toe.

[myancey]

Play Liar's Dice!!! I've been crazy in to that game lately. My d&d group plays it now and we're gonna use it for in-game gambling.

But yeah, its the game you can play in Red Dead Redemption, and also referenced in the 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean movie. The betting the soul part.

Awesome game.

[littlebottom]

I'd go with a classic and challenge him to a game of Yahtzee

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PgfRBZetNGE/S4kuOh3mudI/AAAAAAAABKo/9NtZDPFQ3-8/s400/gustav+dore+ancient+mariner.jpg

or maybe a karaoke contest with our favourite songs, just to see what he chooses and to hear him sing.

Death actually has a nice singing voice, and i think this is the song he would sing

That's Death! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3FeV6dkt4)
(ignore the weird intro someone has put on it)

by the end of it, you would be blown away, and convinced to just die, its clearly the better option:smallbiggrin:

[Sneak]

Tic-tac-toe.

And then we'd tie every game (unless either Death or I make a stupid mistake), and Death would just get frustrated and let me go.

Well. Hopefully. That's the plan, anyway.

[Dire Moose]

Twister could work actually, I doubt the personification of the end of life is particularly flexible, what with Riga-Mortis and what-not.

Dude's a skeleton. He's more flexible than you.

[Zocelot]

I wouldn't choose anything based on bluffing, since Death is probably the best bluffer around. Anything based on dexterity is likewise out, since he is magical and therefore of an unknown, probably high, dexterity. And he's as old as life itself, so I don't think I'm going to be smarter than him. So, choose a game based entirely on luck. If you can manipulate the rules so that it favors you, then go ahead.

[Lycan 01]

Wet t-shirt contest.

Or a massage contest. Doesn't matter if I'm good at giving them or not (actually, I've been told I give really good massages...), I'm automatically gonna be better than the guy jabbing the somebody with cold, bony fingers. :smallbiggrin:

[Trekkin]

I'd play a guessing game regarding the state of a photon in an interaction-free environment.Then the last two panels of this happen. (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1014)

[druid91]

I'd challenge death... to a freindly arguement.

If he can convince me it's best I die? Well he wins.

If I can convince me it's best I live? I win.

I doubt he's that persuasive.

[littlebottom]

death is a tricky character, i would imagine that anything like a "hold water in your hands" contest would be refused, or if he couldnt refuse, he would just turn his hands into buckets or somesuch, why? because death is not going to be outsmarted like that, the point is, you cant beat death, and you certainly cant cheat him. but, you can have fun trying :smalltongue:

he may be all knowing, if so, then any games that require bluffing are out, he is likely more flexable, in that he could just detach every part of his body and roll under a limbo bar. games of luck, with death there, i feel somehow are not games of luck, due to the fact that you could pull a pack of cards out, and draw a 2, a 5, an 8, a 9 and a death card from a tarot set, just cus death decided to mess with you.

the only way i can possibly think to out do him is by accepting death, cheat him of his fun and glory that you grasped at a fading hope, that you could never win.

but if i REAALLLY had to choose, i would either go for a game of THUD for style points. or something like Tekken :smalltongue: that way you could play a character thats good at counter attacks, and let death try to attack you and only succeed in hurting himself. im sure he would find a way around it though. or perhaps someone like eddy and just hit random buttons so he cant predict anything. it would be funny to see death get frustrated and throw a controller about shouting "STOP THAT YOU BUTTON BASHER!":smallbiggrin:


I'd challenge death... to a freindly arguement.

If he can convince me it's best I die? Well he wins.

If I can convince me it's best I live? I win.

I doubt he's that persuasive.

see my previous posts link, he is pretty persuasive:smallamused:

[druid91]

see my previous posts link, he is pretty persuasive:smallamused:

I did, amusing, but not persuasive.:smallwink:

[littlebottom]

I did, amusing, but not persuasive.:smallwink:

awwww:smallfrown: :smalltongue:

[thubby]

blackjack, first to 10 wins, wins, and im the house.

its the simplest game of pure chance i can think of that will favor me. i dont expect to beat death at any actual contest of skill.

[The Gaunt Man]

Simon says and you be Simon. First command Simon says "Let me win."

If he does it you win. If he refuses then you win Simon says and also win.:smallbiggrin:

[Tiniere]

We can't just play the pretend we're harry potter characters and give me a choice of one of the deathly hallows game? In that case, I pick the cloak and after living the rest of my life welcome the reaper like an old friend and leave the cloak to my children and go to the afterlife with a smile. If that doesn't work out...

I will form an EXCLAMATION POINT over my head. And challenge him to a pokemon monotype battle. (Hopefully climactic battles with death involve real pocket monsters, that would be pretty fun...)

[Remmirath]

'Who can DM the longest running game of D&D?'. It should, at least, be fun and buy some time. I wouldn't expect to win no matter what, so I might as well have a good time about it.

[GrlumpTheElder]

What about truth or dare.

You keep choosing truth until Death chooses dare, then you dare him to grant you back your life.

[onthetown]

A normal D&D session, because it's not about winning and so I would have an eternal, awesome campaign with the Reaper.

[smellie_hippie]

I believe I would play the "weekend killer" of the OOTS Advenure game. Sure to go on for days, plenty of opportunity to play "screw this" cards on him, and all I have to do get beat Xykon and get out of the dungeon first! :smalltongue:

[Kris Strife]

Best of three giant robot battle where we get to choose our robots with out informing the other. I'd take Megas, TTGL, and either Burning Gundam or Big O, depending on if I have to be physically capable of operating it to pilot it. Best case scenario, I win, and get to have three giant robot battles. Worst case scenario, I lose, but he's going to be busy from the aftermath. Runner up scenario, he has to go reap someone who gets caught in the crossfire, and I cheap shot him. :smallbiggrin:

[Vulaas]

Sex contest. With the mortal of our choosing.


I don't need a favorable rule-set with a game like that because hey, if it's the last thing I'm doing before being condemned...

[Eldan]

Of course, if it was this (http://www.google.ch/search?um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1331&bih=888&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=death+of+the+endless&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=) Death instead of the scythe-and-hood guy, half of those games wouldn't work anymore :smallwink:

[Fan]

Best of three giant robot battle where we get to choose our robots with out informing the other. I'd take Megas, TTGL, and either Burning Gundam or Big O, depending on if I have to be physically capable of operating it to pilot it. Best case scenario, I win, and get to have three giant robot battles. Worst case scenario, I lose, but he's going to be busy from the aftermath. Runner up scenario, he has to go reap someone who gets caught in the crossfire, and I cheap shot him. :smallbiggrin:

He chooses Elder God Demonbane.

You lose.

Though honestly, I'd go with something along the lines of a happiness contest. I win because I have the ability to feel those emotions.

[rayne_dragon]

Hmm...

If I want to delay loosing as long as possible:

D&D... of course, we'd need to get some other players - maybe we could see about rounding up some cool famous dead people and teaching them how to play. Wouldn't it be awesome to have Sun Tzu, Socrates, and Cleopatra (or whoever else you might want) all sit down at the table with you?

If I want to play fair:

Polearm duel. Even if I lost I'd get to go into the afterlife grinning about how I got to fight with Death and it was awesome.

If I wanted to win... Paranoia. :smallbiggrin:

Or for her/him to run a game of FATAL, by the book, in such a way that I don't want to quit before the session is over.

[Eldan]

Or for her/him to run a game of FATAL, by the book, in such a way that I don't want to quit before the session is over.

This, of course, becomes a game of "how many houserules can you introduce before it's no longer FATAL?" :smallwink:

[Gadora]

This, of course, becomes a game of "how many houserules can you introduce before it's no longer FATAL?" :smallwink:

Also, how long must it be to count as a session. Otherwise, wrapping it up before it even starts would be a viable way to win.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Of course, if it was this (http://www.google.ch/search?um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1331&bih=888&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=death+of+the+endless&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=) Death instead of the scythe-and-hood guy, half of those games wouldn't work anymore :smallwink:

Both of mine would still work, heck, the first one would even be better.:smalltongue:

[AtlanteanTroll]

Limbo of course. We all know that Grimm loves Limbo. ;)

[Anarion]

4x4 tic tac toe, on the condition that I get to go first. Sure, regular tic tac toe is a guaranteed draw, but games like that can be expanded to nxn to always have a guaranteed winner, and it just so happens that whoever goes first in 4x4 tic tac toe always wins.

[rayne_dragon]

This, of course, becomes a game of "how many houserules can you introduce before it's no longer FATAL?" :smallwink:

Hence why I said by the book. There's no way anyone could run a game of FATAL for me and not have me hate it somewhere around the character creation phase. :smalltongue:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I keep misreading this as "so death offers to play with your soul". It conjures a hilarious image, yet fully laden with slightly... weird homo-erotic sexual tones, with a slight whiff of necrophilia.

My imagination is very... special. :smallredface:

[Alaris]

I'd pose the challenge that I can play a game without dying. Then I put in BRAID, a game where you literally CAN'T die.

And then I watch him explode from the paradox.

[Partof1]

I'm pretty lame at most games. I'd probably be a smart aleck and pick Breathing Contest, or "First person to have skin wins", but assuming something legitimate, I suppose I'm best at Super Smash Bros, or quick battle on pokemon stadium.

[Creed]

Probably a game that I knew Death was either a) bad at or b) didn't know the rules.
Hmm...
either Life (someone probably already made that joke...) or Tekken. I've spent alot of time at a Tekken terminal in my day.:smalltongue:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

What about a game where it's non-competitive? Like a jigsaw puzzle! Then you both go your separate ways as buddies!

[Partof1]

"Death! I challenge you to a jigsaw puzzle!"

I'm sure that'd go over well.

[Dire Moose]

Of course, if it was this (http://www.google.ch/search?um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1331&bih=888&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=death+of+the+endless&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=) Death instead of the scythe-and-hood guy, half of those games wouldn't work anymore :smallwink:

And you could also forget "Wet T-Shirt Contest" being an automatic win.

[AsteriskAmp]

Touhou if this particular death isn't Japanese, at the very least I could laugh at death loosing to a bunch of small female children.

If this death IS Japanese than a contest to see who can stare at a screen of flashing blue and red colours the longest without having a seizure.

[Moonshadow]

Best of three giant robot battle where we get to choose our robots with out informing the other. I'd take Megas, TTGL, and either Burning Gundam or Big O, depending on if I have to be physically capable of operating it to pilot it. Best case scenario, I win, and get to have three giant robot battles. Worst case scenario, I lose, but he's going to be busy from the aftermath. Runner up scenario, he has to go reap someone who gets caught in the crossfire, and I cheap shot him. :smallbiggrin:

Needs more Zeorymer, Ideon or Godmars.

That said though, I'd challenge him (or her!) to that game where you have to go from 1 to 30 in increments onf 1, 2 or 3, and whoever gets 3 loses.

As long as you go second, you can always win that :P

[DeadManSleeping]

Tic-tac-toe. Then just wait until Death proclaims "this ****" to not be worth it. :smallwink:

[KuReshtin]

My version of Death is not the bony skeleton of a guy from the likes of Discworld, but rather the normal-looking, albeit pretty pale, person as portrayed in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

My game of choice would be 'nut-shot', where I'd go first, and then proclaim Death the winner before it was his go.
Sure, he'd get my soul, but I would go knowing that I'd just kicked Death in the nuts. :smallbiggrin:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Of course, if it was this (http://www.google.ch/search?um=1&hl=de&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Ade%3Aofficial&biw=1331&bih=888&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=death+of+the+endless&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=) Death instead of the scythe-and-hood guy, half of those games wouldn't work anymore :smallwink:

Best Death.

Beeeest Death.

[aart lover]

i would challenge him to a sight-reading contest on the saxophone. why?

1) i have mad skillz on the tenor sax
2) Death has no lungs and as such cannot blow into the instrument so therefore cannot make any sound and as such i win:cool:

[SilentNight]

i would challenge him to a sight-reading contest on the saxophone. why?

1) i have mad skillz on the tenor sax
2) Death has no lungs and as such cannot blow into the instrument so therefore cannot make any sound and as such i win:cool:

This but on trombone.

Alternatively, Clue, the board game that's more about who's the best cheater than who's the best player. :smallamused:

[Lither]

Who can last the longest in a game of FATAL.

If I win, I live. If I die, well, I didn't want to keep those memories anyway.

[EndlessWrath]

We're all assuming that Death has the time to actually play and develop the skill to play all these games.. and we're all also assuming that he's restricted to skeleton form (no lungs, no stomach, etc).. I figure that if I cheat he'd know automatically (cause he's death) and I figure that he could cheat magically anyways.. I could also go under the assumption he's magical and can change his body at will (so.. bones don't matter. as much.) but that just restricts more games. How does one find a game Death cannot cheat at, that you would actually stand a chance against him for.

I dunno. I figure DnD would be out because I try not to make it competitive. Why? "I'm DM. DM rule 0, whatever DM says goes. Rocks fall, you die. Done. Would you like another try? How about double or nothing?"

I'm not sure what game I'd challenge him at..since usually I'm more support in games anyways. I might play Marvel vs Capcom to show him some Final Justice! That or League of Legends (though I'd lose horridly).
-Wrath

[Kageru]

If I just wanted more time I would challenge him to a journey to alpha centauri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_Alpha_Centauri_(In_Real_Time)) speedrun the first one who finishes the game wins (no time magic allowed).
Hmm otherwise maybe a storytelling contest, I would lose horrible but I'm sure death knows a few cool stories.
But a contest I could win? I wouldn't trust chance when death is involved. But I don't think I could beat in a fair skill based contest. Maybe a longtime contest which plays in the world of the living, but death probably wouldn't accept a thing like that.

[KuReshtin]

We're all assuming that Death has the time to actually play and develop the skill to play all these games.. and we're all also assuming that he's restricted to skeleton form (no lungs, no stomach, etc)..

I quite specifically stated that I my version of deat is not a pile of walking bones, but rather just a really pale guy that likes to walk around in a black, hooded robe with a scythe.

And I'm counting on him being anatomically correct in my game of 'nut-shot'. :smallbiggrin:

[Archonic Energy]

And I'm counting on him being anatomically correct in my game of 'nut-shot'. :smallbiggrin:

doesn't Death go first?
:smalleek:

[KuReshtin]

doesn't Death go first?
:smalleek:

I go first, and then give up. So he'll get my soul (or one of the spares that I've collected over the past few years) but I get to kick him in the nuts.

[Vorthon]

Probably something like calvinball or a game of "Who can give the other person all their powers the fastest"
This, most definitely this.

[Lhurgyof]

Left 4 Dead 2 on versus mode if I could play with my friends. :smalltongue:

Also, risk. That game takes forever.

[Mauve Shirt]

I would play a tournament of 3 games. Scrabble, Spite and Malice, and Cribbage. Best 2 out of 3.

[Klose_the_Sith]

I challenge him to a custom battle on Napoleon Total War where the rules and armies have all been set by me.

Problem, Reaper? :smallamused:

[big teej]

a 10,000 point (per army) game of warhammer 40,000

Orks
vs
imperial guard
vs
tyranids
vs
uhm......
moar imperial guard?
I've suddenly drawn a blank on the different armies (cut me some slack, I got woken up about 2 hours before I expected to be. and that was only half an hour ago)

but, in the event that I HAVEN'T forgotten a 'swarm' type army.
space marines maybe?
perhaps chaos or the tau?
or do necrons have large enough squads to make it into the top slot for 'fourth' army.

you stand a fair chance of winning (get everyone to gang up on death) and you're life shall be prolonged by quite a bit, certainly long enough to come up with a better plan of beating death.

I mean
think about it.
10,000 points.....
the Ork movement phase could take half a day alone!
and this isn't even accounting for the various rules arguments YOU KNOW are going to crop up.
truly you are blessed if you can get the game going just as the rules are updated.

[Misery Esquire]

"Who can give the other person all their powers the fastest"

Death gives you the ability to collect souls.

You give Death the ability of "being alive."

:smalltongue:

[Morph Bark]

Challenge him to The Game?

I dunno, that might be too dull for my tastes. There should be a never-ending or unwinnable (or rather, unloseable) game somewhere.

[Eldariel]

Scaling Mental Magic (Magic: the Gathering format) without decks. No luck. All skill.

[littlebottom]

Death gives you the ability to collect souls.

You give Death the ability of "being alive."

:smalltongue:

you know, death might roll with that. and when he dies from his mortal state, you play the same game, and you come back to life, he becomes death again, and you swap every life time.

[Cespenar]

I'd pick Global Thermonuclear War.

[Archonic Energy]

Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares

that's a game i could win!

[JabberwockySupafly]

Dominion. Base set with Intrigue thrown in for extra fun. Even if I lose, at least I'll enjoy the heck out of it.

[Hazzardevil]

I'd challenge him that I could with a level 5 charecter finish the hardest written campaign for 3.5.

I would use Pun-pun or an itme of infinite wishes to solve any problem.

Or I would challenge him to see who could destroy the others body first, any melee wepaon except Death's Scythe.

I reckon I could win with a big enough hammer.

[Archonic Energy]

I'd challenge him that I could with a level 5 charecter finish the hardest written campaign for 3.5.

I would use Pun-pun or an itme of infinite wishes to solve any problem.

Or I would challenge him to see who could destroy the others body first, any melee wepaon except Death's Scythe.

I reckon I could win with a big enough hammer demolishion ball.

fixed that... though you'll have to forgive my poor spelling

[Andre]

If Death is also The Computer, what then?

[golentan]

I'm sure others have said the same but I can't check now. Dice, high roll wins best 2 of 3. I don't have the ego to believe I can outwit entropy, and random chance is better than no chance.

Assuming we play by common narrative convention rather than real world rules. My entire purpose in existing these past millennia has been to kick entropy in the face repeatedly, so... But I don't think I can win that either.:smallfrown:

[Fuzzie Fuzz]

I'm assuming that Death cheats. I'm also assuming that he's magic. I don't even try to win. I challenge him to some sort of trivia contest. First one to get some number of questions wrong loses. Sure, I lose miserably, but I get to know the answers to all my questions about the universe first before I die.

[Lateral]

Mao, and Death's the sucker. :smallwink:

[EndlessWrath]

I've decided to change my answer. I'd rather play ... "Who's name doesnt start with a D, R, or G :smallbiggrin:

[Gadora]

I've decided to change my answer. I'd rather play ... "Who's name doesnt start with a D, R, or G :smallbiggrin:

That doesn't seem like a good game to play with Thanatos.

[EndlessWrath]

That doesn't seem like a good game to play with Thanatos.

I'll add T to the list. :D

[ThirdEmperor]

Hmm... I can see two routes here. The first is to force Death to play a game that he cannot possibly win, but will cause him great suffering even if he does somehow win. The other is to choose a game so awesome, that it doesn't matter if I lose, cause I'll die happy.

Option 1: The My Immortal drinking game, first one to spill their drink or fall unconscious wins. Cause I want to go down in legend as the man who gave Death liver poisoning and broke his mind into little tiny pieces. Plus, all the booze would fall through Death's ribcage, disqualifying him.

Option 2: Sburb. Because, well, Sburb. Heck, if I can get to a Quest Bed fast enough, Death won't be able to claim my soul anyway, as the moment I die I will enter God Tier and become immune to death, except under certain conditions.

[Gadora]

I'll add T to the list. :D

I still wouldn't want to play that game with Azrael or Mors. Heck, since my first name starts with a D and my surname with a G, I wouldn't want to play that game at all.

[VanBuren]

I would play an ineffable game of my own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

[Mystic Muse]

I still wouldn't want to play that game with Azrael or Mors. Heck, since my first name starts with a D and my surname with a G, I wouldn't want to play that game at all.

As long as one of his names doesn't begin with a C I'd be safe.

One probably does, but I have a decent shot anyway.

[golentan]

I would play an ineffable game of my own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

I sincerely doubt you are who you seem to be claiming you are. And if you are, shame on you for stealing Gaiman/Pratchett quotes. I expect both better and more original work from you.

[VanBuren]

I sincerely doubt you are who you seem to be claiming you are. And if you are, shame on you for stealing Gaiman/Pratchett quotes. I expect both better and more original work from you.

Of course not, I lower cased everything. Besides, Death has to agree to my version. You're not given an option with His.

[EndlessWrath]

I still wouldn't want to play that game with Azrael or Mors. Heck, since my first name starts with a D and my surname with a G, I wouldn't want to play that game at all.

fiiine. I'll play "who's name begins with a J?" and win.:smallbiggrin:

[The Succubus]

I keep misreading this as "so death offers to play with your soul". It conjures a hilarious image, yet fully laden with slightly... weird homo-erotic sexual tones, with a slight whiff of necrophilia.

My imagination is very... special. :smallredface:

Oh thank you. I was feeling fine right up until I read this and now I feel nauseous and creeped out. You truly have a way with words. :smallyuk:

[Mina Kobold]

Oh thank you. I was feeling fine right up until I read this and now I feel nauseous and creeped out. You truly have a way with words. :smallyuk:

I read that post as misreading it as Death litterally playing with youyr soul at first.

By litterally I mean dolly tea party.

Which would be hilarious.

[Lonely Tylenol]

I'd play the following game, with one stipulation:

Begin play with a set of coins, of any number. The players then take turns removing either one or two coins from the set of coins, until no coins are left. The person who takes the last coin on their turn wins.

The stipulation?

I decide who goes first.

[shadow_archmagi]

Oh thank you. I was feeling fine right up until I read this and now I feel nauseous and creeped out. You truly have a way with words. :smallyuk:

I'm amused by the incongruity between this post and this poster's avatar

[IronWilliam]

I would play Calvinball:smallbiggrin: The only rule is that you can't play the same way twice.

[Dr.Epic]

I'd suggest the game if-your-screen-name-is-Dr.Epic-on-giantitp-forums-you-win. I always win that game.

[TheSummoner]

Drinking contest. Rules: No magic, If you spill even one drop you lose, first one to pass out or yeild is the loser.

I don't drink... but he CAN'T drink. If magic is forbidden, he can't change his body to avoid spilling.

[The Succubus]

I'm amused by the incongruity between this post and this poster's avatar

Yes yes, I altered my avvie as part of an avvie week and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet >.>

[DraPrime]

Drinking contest. Rules: No magic, If you spill even one drop you lose, first one to pass out or yeild is the loser.

I don't drink... but he CAN'T drink. If magic is forbidden, he can't change his body to avoid spilling.

Assuming that Death must use magic to avoid spilling. It could simply be part of his nature that he can non-magically shift his form.

Now then, what would I play with Death? Pool. I am a beast when I play pool. On a more realistic level, I would simply surrender. Death is Death. He is implacable. He will eventually get me, and immortality will eventually get dull.

[Yirrixees]

a game of limp catfish fighting... cage match style. i may not win, but he will NEVER forget me :smallwink:

[Felixaar]

Philosophical Debate. I would argue that I refuse to participate in any game, because the allowance of a possibility he could win suggests he has some rightful claim to my soul.

[Trazoi]

Spitting contest.

[Fiery Diamond]

I'd play the following game, with one stipulation:

Begin play with a set of coins, of any number. The players then take turns removing either one or two coins from the set of coins, until no coins are left. The person who takes the last coin on their turn wins.

The stipulation?

I decide who goes first.

I was going to say this, but I've always been exposed to the game with the players removing either one, two, or three coins. This game has an actual name, but I can't remember it.

[Trazoi]

I was going to say this, but I've always been exposed to the game with the players removing either one, two, or three coins. This game has an actual name, but I can't remember it.
The family of these mathematical strategy games are called Nim. There's a bunch of variants (how many you can choose, how many piles, whether making the last move wins or loses, etc.)

I think Death is savvy enough not to take the bait. :smallwink:

[Lonely Tylenol]

I was going to say this, but I've always been exposed to the game with the players removing either one, two, or three coins. This game has an actual name, but I can't remember it.

It can be played such that players can remove one to three coins as opposed to just one or two. Mechanically, the game is the same--and so is the winning strategy.

If Death lets me decide who goes first, however, I cannot lose either way.

[Copacetic]

i may not win, but he will NEVER forget me :smallwink:

Death never forgets.
Ever. Even then.

[Yirrixees]

Death never forgets.
Ever. Even then.

and the thought that he will never forget a slimy catfish being slapped across his bony head will fill me with joy until the end of time. :smallbiggrin:

[Necro_EX]

I have to wonder where the idea that death is great at games came from...I mean, it's not exactly implied by his position or anything.

However, I would certainly be tempted to play him in a game of Qwirkle Cubes. It's all about figuring out the probability of getting a needed set of figures and I'm not half bad at it. Honestly, it's probably what I'm best at that I could possibly talk him into. I'm horrible at chess, don't know many card games (plenty of ccgs, though)...
http://www.gamedaze.com/images/products/qwirkle%20cubes%20content%20med.jpg

The idea of challenging him to complete a campaign would be pretty great, though. Armed with the optimizations I've seen here, I'm confident he wouldn't make it out.

[Atcote]

Staring contest.

He forfeits by not initially holding eye contact.

Unless those little blue lights he has in Discworld counts. Then I'm buggered.

[VanBuren]

I have to wonder where the idea that death is great at games came from...I mean, it's not exactly implied by his position or anything.

However, I would certainly be tempted to play him in a game of Qwirkle Cubes. It's all about figuring out the probability of getting a needed set of figures and I'm not half bad at it. Honestly, it's probably what I'm best at that I could possibly talk him into. I'm horrible at chess, don't know many card games (plenty of ccgs, though)...
http://www.gamedaze.com/images/products/qwirkle%20cubes%20content%20med.jpg

The idea of challenging him to complete a campaign would be pretty great, though. Armed with the optimizations I've seen here, I'm confident he wouldn't make it out.

It probably stems from the same source that gave us Faustian deals with demonic entities, or trickster heroes in The Devil Went Down to Georgia style who manage to pull a kind of fast one on supernatural entities way above their station.

[thubby]

its not that death is good at games, its that death always wins (as it does in real life) any skill simply arises from that truth.

[Gorgondantess]

I'd challenge him to a game of Sburb. :smalltongue:

Normally I don't quote things from 5 pages back, but... damn. That's perfect.:smallcool:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

its not that death is good at games, its that death always wins (as it does in real life) any skill simply arises from that truth.

This man has the truth.

[Mina Kobold]

its not that death is good at games, its that death always wins (as it does in real life) any skill simply arises from that truth.

Ah yes, Death always wins in the end. But what's important is when that fateful day comes.

Another fifty years of living does not mean you have won, but it does mmean that the struggle can be kept up just a little bit longer. :smallwink:

[Zejety]

Is your name Butters Death?

[ben-zayb]

Meh. I would challenge him in a traditional Ditto vs. Ditto match. :smallamused:
EDIT: with the slower ditto being mine, just in case. :smallwink: