How do you play The Product T Game?
1. Introduction and needed items
This is a game in which I thought of while taking a shower around the 15th of December of 2004. This is more of a game where you search various products for "winning T's". It is best played inside your house with the various products you have or, better yet, inside a store.
Needed items:
Dozens of products with labels of any kind on them. Any kind of product in any variety works regardless of the brand (as long as it has a label or some text)
2. How to play
This game doesn't require setup, but at least make sure you have plenty of products to look at. This game is best played in a store, any store that sells various products like Menard's, Wal-mart, Target, computer stores, department stores, etc.. Restaurants usually won't work well (unless you work there and have various packages with labelling on them) as food doesn't have labels, at least of what you can see. It also works with books, instruction manuals, boxes, anything with text.
First, find a product that has a label. Practically every product has a label on it, though, in some cases, the label is peelable thus able to be removed. Scan the product's text and look carefully at the small t's.
As I've always mentioned often, the letter "T" in its lower case form often have "t-tails". The t-tail is easily distinguished. At the bottom of most any lower case t is a small little curve, sometimes big and long, other times very short. Here are some various fonts with t-tails to give you an idea on this so-called "t-tail":
This game requires you to search for a special kind of T, the kind that doesn't have any of these so-called t-tails. These T's resemble the plus sign (+) but with the bottom part of it stretched out a bit looking close to something like this: †. If you find one of these kinds of T's, you win a point. After finding, just advance to a different product with a different brand. If the product doesn't use any small T's at all, it's a draw and you win a half of a point. If the product has only t's with t-tails, you don't win anything. Just advance to another product.
3. One-player game
For a one-player game, set a time limit on how long you wish to run this, say, 15 or 30 minutes. For an easy game, you score a full point, on average, within 5 minutes (halves count if the product doesn't use small t's at all). For a medium difficulty game, you must score a full point, on average, within 3 minutes. For a hard game, you need to score a full point, on average, within just two minutes. For example, if you run this for 30 minutes, you need to win 6 points for the easy game and 10 for the medium game and 15 for the hard game. (half points caused from the product not using the small t counts in both difficulties).
4. Multiplayer
Multiplayer games are best with two to four players. For a multiplayer game, like the one-player game, set a time limit such as 20 minutes. In this game, the player with the most points wins. Since ties are likely, those who are tied go another round together but for 5 or 10 minutes. The best wins of the tie. If ties continue, either keep replaying the 5-minute rounds or just call the game a tie if the tied players agree with it.
Another way to play multiplayer is to be the first to find from a number products with a winning score (the players must agree on how many; 3 to 5 are good choices for an average-length game). Products scoring half points do count and help.
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