HEY, WHO'S IN THE BATHROOM? : A Themed Card Game

( seems like people are posting their ideas both here AND In GJ.. so I shall do so as well. :) )

This is my 2nd of 7 card games in development.. currently pitching to Artists

Clue is fun, but Isn't finding the answer to a murder kind of morbid??
Coda and Mastermind are ingenious, but does figuring out someone's number code or peg colors really mean that much to you??
Wouldn't you rather play a game that answers a much more fundamental question that is on everyone's minds and bladders?????

Then this is the game for you!!!
Welcome to the hilarious card game of memory logic,and deduction that answers the probing question....

HEY!!! WHO'S IN THE BATHROOM?????????????????"

A THEMED Card Game: " HEY!!!, WHO'S IN THE BATHROOM????????" by P. Kellach Waddle

--- NUMBER OF PLAYERS : 2 or 3
--- OBJECT : To deduce the answer of " HEY WHO"S IN THE BATHROOM" correctly by naming the secret cards in each of the five categories hidden inside the TOILET OF SECRECY envelope.

COMPONENTS :

--- 106 Cards in three decks ::41 Bathroom Cards, 25 Waiting Outside The Door Cards , 42 Will E. Makeit Really Has To Urinate!! Cards

-- 6 score keeping cards marked 2 4 6 8 10 and 12
---Pad of ""Keep Track of Bathroom Brouhaha" Sheets
---"TOILET OF SECRECY " envelope

SETUP :

To start the game divide the 41 bathroom cards into their five categories :

( CATEGORY & NUMBER OF EACH )
--CHARACTERS WHO MIGHT BE IN THE BATHROOM ( 14)

-For space's sake in this current draft , I won't give all 14 characters' names here, but three of these silly punfest folk that will be featured on the cards are Eye P. Freeley, Suzy Soakedsheets , Ursula Undergarment and John. ( One word. Like Cher. Get it? John!! HA!)

STYLE/COLOR OF TOWEL ( 10)

red, purple, orange, white, black, polka-dotted, striped , blue, towel with a picture of Beethoven, towel with a picture of Mozart

BRAND OF SOAP (7)

1 Spit In The Ocean Breeze -- The soap that washes off your shame from losing your rent $ at Poker!!
2 Danish Summer -- The soap that smells like a pastry left outside in August !!
3 Ivory Coast -- Wash off the shame from being thankful you don't live in Third World Africa !!
4 Ivory Tusk -- Wash off the evidence that you have been poaching elephants !!!
5 Dial up Your Mother -- The soap that washes off your guilt from never calling your Mom !!!
6 Cam-Hey -- The soap that washes off everything your clumsy friend Cam spills on you!!
7 You pulled The Lever 2000 times -- Wash off your shame for losing your kids' food money at the slots !!

COLOR OF WASH CLOTH (6) red, green, blue , psychedelic, stained with coffee

BATHROOM ACTION ( 4)
1 Taking a shower
2 Taking a bath
3 Taking a combo of shower and bath
4 Reading a Book

--Shuffle each category's cards and then secretly put one card from each category into the TOILET OF SECRECY envelope. Players must correctly deduce what these 5 cards are to win the round.
-- Deal 8 of the remaining 36 cards to each player if a 2 player game, 6 to each player if a three player game. The remaining cards after players have been dealt their hands go face down in a pile.

-- Take the 25 Waiting for the Bathroom cards and set them up next to the TOILET OF SECRECY in a "board" of 5 rows of 5. This will be a board where sometimes players will use part of their turn playing "WATER CLOSET CONCENTRATION" trying to find two cards that match in order to look at another BATHROOM card to narrow down their deduction of what the five cards in the TOILET OF SECRECY are.

-- Take the 42 " WILL E. MAKEIT REALLY HAS TO URINATE !!" Cards, shuffle them and set them face down in a pile next to the Toilet of Secrecy. These will serve as a TIMER at the end of every round of play.

-- Take the score keeping cards and put them in a pile in ascending order with the 12 sitting on top, then the 10 under it, etc. next to the TOILET OF SECRECY These cards denote how much guessing the cards in the TOILET OF SECRECY is worth.

GAME PLAY

--- Each player looks at the cards in their hand and marks off the cards they have on their " Keep Track of Bathroom Brouhaha Sheets". ( Just like how you mark the cards you are dealt in Clue in on your Detective Notebook sheet.) Then the first player takes their turn.

===( The player who gets to go first is the one who has been to the bathroom the most recently before game play begins. Yes, this is another joke to see who is paying attention. Or is it?)

---On a turn a player first " KNOCKS ON THE BATHROOM DOOR" of their opponent ( Player must declare player whose bathroom door to knock on if in a three player game.) and names 5 cards---one in each category phrasing it in the form of ......... " Hey ( PLAYER"S NAME) , Is ( CHARACTER CARD NAME) using a ( COLOR/STYLE OF TOWEL) washing with ( BRAND OF SOAP ) and using a ( COLOR OF WASHCLOTH) while ( BATHROOM ACTION) in your Bathroom???

( EXAMPLE : " Hey Myrtle, Is Pretty Polly PottyMouth using a Purple Towel washing with Ivory Coast Soap and using a Blue Washcloth while taking a Bath/Shower Combo in your Bathroom??.)

--The player whose bathroom door was knocked on, then checks his/her cards to see if he has any of the five called out in the knock by their opponent. If he has one, he shows that card to the knocker, the knocker marks it down on their sheet, and his turn ends. However, if the player knocked upon doesn't have any of the five, he or she says " Go the public toilet !" and sends the knocking player to play the WATER CLOSET CONCENTRATION board.

-- In this section of the game, the player's whose knock revealed no cards from the opponent's hand chooses two cards trying to make a match from the 25-card " board". ( This deck consists of 12 pairs of funny bathroom scenes and one wild card.)

-- If he makes a match, he gets to take the top card off the Bathroom Pile, look at it, mark it on his sheet, and then put it face down into the used pile. IF he doesn't make a match his turn ends,. He and his opponent(s) should pay close attention to the cards turned over, because they are turned back over again and left in their same position just like in Concentration. The only exception to this is the automatic match WILD card.If this card is chosen, then afterwards the whole 25 set of cards is shuffled and repositioned into the 5 rows of 5. If the cards match they are removed and set aside.

The next player's turn continues in the same fashion.

-After a complete set of turns ( after both people have a turn in the 2 player game, after everyone has a turn in the three player game. ) ,the top card from the "WILL E. MAKEIT REALLY HAS TO URINATE!! " card pack of 48 is turned over. If it is one of the 7 silly sayings ( seven sets of 6 ) of white lettering on red background, nothing happens . ( Except that " Will E. Makeit" gets closer and closer to um...an accident. )

-But if the card is one of the 6 that says " I THINK I"M GOING TO WET MYSELF !!!! --- MINUS TWO POINTS !!!" in bold black lettering on a bright yellow background, the value of guessing the cards in the TOILET OF SECRECY drops two points.. ( The value of guessing the correct 5 cards begins at 12 points and drops 2 for everyone one of these cards that is turned over. )

-- If and when the 6th Minus 2 card is turned over in the course of the round, this is considered " WILLIE GETS RELIEF" (( Presumably by going to a neighbor's bathroom or the bushes, or heaven forbid Willie DOESN"T make it, he has an accident and goes home to take a shower and change clothes and obtains relief that way.)) . But then he drinks a huge amount of water and beer, and he starts over again as the pile is shuffled and cards are tuned over one by one after everyone's turn as before.

---. However, the lowest a correct guess can get to is 2. (((A correct guess being worth zero for all this trouble would sure make this game broken, no? :) )) After the 6th -2 card is turned over, relieving Will E. , the score keeping pile marking the point value for a correct guess of all 5 cards in the T.O.S. is RESET to 12.

((This adds to strategy, if 5 minus 2s have been turned over already, a player might start purposely continuing to take turns even if he has a guess and/or purposely make stalling guesses on his turn to get to the last -2 card so the score can reset back to 12. ))

SCORING/END OF ROUND/END OF GAME

-- When a player thinks he knows the contents of the TOILET OF SECRECY on his turn he loudly proclaims " I am going to knock on the door OF THE BATHROOM THAT CONTAINS THE TOILET OF SECRECY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"" He then states the knocking sentence with his guess in the same fashion as he did when he knocked on the bathroom door of his opponent(s).

-- And then the reveal... the knocker on the T.O.S. Bathroom and all of the other players in the game scream as he picks up the TOILET OF SECRECY ENVELOPE "... HEY!!!!! WHO'S IN THE BATHROOM?????????????????????""

---Then the 5 cards are revealed face up for both players to see. If the guesser/knocker is correct, he wins current point value of the T.O.S.
--- If he is however INCORRECT he is said to have " FOULED HIS BATHROOM WITH A FOUNTAIN OF FILTH" and loses 8 points. ( Perhaps even giving him a negative score.)

--- But all is not lost for the incorrect guesser. In an attempt to not go so far down in points, the incorrect knocker who has fouled his bathroom gets to play the " CLEAN THE BATHROOM WATER CLOSET CONCENTRATION CONSOLATION FOR LOSERS WITH DIRTY TOILETS" round.
--- For this the player reshuffles and resets once again the 25 cards making up the WAITING FOR THE BATHROOM WATER CLOSET CONCENTRATION deck and gets 5 turns to make as many matches as he can. For each successful match he receives one point , in best case scenario decreasing his penalty for his wrong guess of 8 points down to three.

( NOTE :In a 3-player game, the reveal is NOT face up for all to see after someone knocks and guesses, ONLY the guesser views the envelope so that if he is indeed incorrect, the game will progress with the two remaining players. After they complete the round with one more person guessing eventually and turns progressing as normal, he then as well as another player if his/her remaining opponent guesses wrong then proceed to play the CLEAN THE BATHROOM WATER CLOSET CONCENTRATION CONSOLATION FOR LOSERS WITH DIRTY TOILETS" round. ))

Rounds continue until someone reaches 16 points and thereby is pronounced " King/Queen of the Throne Room !!!" In case of a tie another round is played until the tie is broken at the end of a round. ( In a three player game only the two players who tied play again.)

The winner then loudly celebrates by going into the bathroom of the home the game is being played in and takes a big fat....

.....Drink of Water. Enough that later he/she will have to urinate soon and hopefully the loo will be free. If not.. the winner will be stuck knocking on the door and saying....

HEY!!! WHO'S IN THE BATHROOM?????????????????"