"The Game"

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I started this game with my friend G-Man 20 years ago. If either of us showed up without a knife we had to pay the other fellow a dollar. I moved to Portland, OR and ended up hanging out with a group of six or seven guys at the pub on Thursdays and introduced the game to them.

The way it usually starts is with a gleam in the eye and someone pulls out their knife. Usually it's the same-old EDC we've all seen a zillion times. Then everyone, except that guy,you know the person who knows the forgot to bring a knife, puts their knife on the table. Mostly these are all folders, but once in a blue moon someone has a little fixed blade. Then the one guy sheepishly admits that, oops, I forgot! (It has happened that more than one person doesn't have a knife, on rare occasions)

He owes each person with a knife $1. Usually we throw it in for the tip pot or something. We have made a small exception for people arriving directly from the airport to the bar.

Once you are in the game you are in for life, and seeing as the rule is "always" you can have it pulled on you at breakfast, lunch or dinner. Women don't seem to understand the game, attempts to include some have resulted in failure.

I thought a few people here might enjoy 'the game' and take it up among like minded friends.
 
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I would play, but i don't hang out with enough people that carry knives. If they've got one chances are it was a gift from me. Very cool idea.
 
Very cool idea. I share the sentiment that the only peeps I know who tote are those I gifted knives to, and I've never been able to convince all of them except two to edc. However, perhaps we should all endeavor to change that.

Prof.
 
I've heard of that game before. Pull that on ME outside of my house and you're going to always lose, and frequently I'm carrying more than one. The only time I am away from my house without a knife is when I take a one-day business trip by airplane and can't take checked baggage. (This almost never happens with my current job though.)

I'm ashamed to say though that sometimes INSIDE of my house I'm not carrying a knife, but I'm getting better in that regards. Right now I'm sitting on the sofa with my Benchmade 581 clipped to my pocket.

I've heard about the game before, but it might have been with respect to carry guns. And I think I've heard of a similar game among uniformed law enforcement with respect to their backup guns.
 
I love this! It's an awesome idea! No one I know caries knives though.... I'll just have to fix that.
 
Interesting, it seems that this game could serve as a sort of peer pressure, to get your non knife friends into the whole EDC preparedness craze.
 
Sounds a lot like an old SF tradition of "coining" except if you don't have a coin you buy the next round AND if the other person does have their coin and you challenge them then you buy them a drink. "Challenge coins" have been hijacked by the leg Army now and they are often given as tokens of appreciation to soldiers by the SGM or BN Commander. Back in the day however, you had a coin presented to you after finishing the Q course and being assigned to a Team. This tradition, like many others in the military, was taken to the extreme and you were not even safe in the shower as someone might toss one in if they wanted to mess with you. I had a buddy who would always keep one in his soap box (cheap bastard). I won't tell you about a certain Rigger I knew who had a special hiding place for his :barf:
 
JWRobinson said:
Sounds a lot like an old SF tradition of "coining" except if you don't have a coin you buy the next round AND if the other person does have their coin and you challenge them then you buy them a drink. "Challenge coins" have been hijacked by the leg Army now and they are often given as tokens of appreciation to soldiers by the SGM or BN Commander. Back in the day however, you had a coin presented to you after finishing the Q course and being assigned to a Team. This tradition, like many others in the military, was taken to the extreme and you were not even safe in the shower as someone might toss one in if they wanted to mess with you. I had a buddy who would always keep one in his soap box (cheap bastard). I won't tell you about a certain Rigger I knew who had a special hiding place for his :barf:
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yea, sounds like a copy of the coin game...
Sounds cool but like lots of people here, I don't hang out with people like that around me.
 
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