Game 1 – Have I Got Bad News For You
Story 1 – Study Shows Dogs Can Learn Words Simply By Eavesdropping https://www.npr.org/2026/01/08/nx-s1-5667604/genius-dogs-learn-new-words-eavesdropping
Story 2 – Japanese Railway Station Hires Cat To Be Station Master – For The Third Time https://www.jalopnik.com/2071409/japanese-train-station-third-cat-stationmaster/
Story 3 – Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom” https://futurism.com/future-society/rats-trained-shoot-demons-doom
Game 2 – Pitch Me Baby One More Time
Inspired by Game 1 and by films like Milo and Otis and Air Bud (and the state of America inducing daily despair), I want you to pitch me a feel-good story about an animal doing something amazing.
This can be a book, TV show, movie, or video game, and the only limitation is that it can’t have been done before. So no Air Bud 2, but if you want a dog playing hockey, Ice Bud is on the table. (Weirdly, the people who did Air Bud did a hockey movie called MVP: Most Valuable Primate instead starring a chimp.)
Best pitch wins the game and gets two episode points.
Game 3 – Just Correlate
Our favorite game of finding hidden connections is back! Our players will choose keyboard keys, CTRL, ALT, DEL, INSERT, HOME, and END – behind each one is a set of four clues, each has something in common.
If they figure it out after one clue, 5 points, after two clues, 3 points, after three, 2 points, and if they need all four, 1 point. The player with the most points after all six keys have been chosen wins the game and gets three episode points.
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