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RE: Games

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) 

q'taq:
>Any list of Klingon games? Or sites with instructions?


A quick search of my notes comes up with...

KLINGON GAMES:

*{DIS Qujmey}  THE YEAR GAMES GP (cf. TFR) [Cf. http://www.yeargames.com for more information and pictures.]

{ghInaq}  grinnak ["A game that involves tokens and wagers." (KEBH) First referenced in Keith R.A. DeCandido's Honor Bound.]

{qa'vaQ}  qa'vak (traditional game) KGT [involving rolling a half-meter hoop and a ghIntaq spear that hones the skills of the hunt (TKW). The expression vIHtaH gho "The hoop is moving"] "comes from a maneuver used for hunting practice known as the qa'vaQ in which a hoop (gho) is rolled and one tries to throw a stick through it while it is moving." (KGT 112) Seen in TNG "Birthright II".]  

{qeylIS mInDu'}  Eyes of Kahless (a guessing game with dice where the winner receives a punch) KCD ["You roll two dice (I think they have more than six sides), and the other person snatches one in each hand before you can see how they came up. Then you slap the hand that you think has the die with the higher number on top, and if you're right, you win. There can be some additions for extra flavor, such as spitting into the hand with which you're rolling, or taking a Daqtagh and striking it down on the table between the two hands." (qoror) "And IIRC one of them gets punched in the face...of course." (DloraH)

{tlhInja}  klin zha (KRAD: Enemy Territory et al.) [the game from TFR: "Klin zha is a board game with similarities to a combination of chess and capture-the-flag, but in that novel it's also used on many levels as a metaphor for life... a literal translation of klin zha might be "the game of honor-ethics". The game itself is described somewhat sketchily in the book. Fans of Ford's version of Klindom extrapolated a playable set of rules, and it's now a popular real-world game. The Authorized Klin Zha Homepage (http://www.tasigh.org/takzh/) has details." (ghunchu'wI')

"A Klingon sark (Sargh) is an animal somewhat resembling a Terran horse, both in appearance and in that Klingons (generally individually) often ride on the animal's back. A forest sark" (ngem Sargh) is a sark found in the forest (ngem)--that is, in the wild, usually one that has never carried a Klingon around. A Klingon game played on sarkback involves one rider and sark executing a particular maneuver, and then the other players copying this maneuver. The idea is to make the movement somewhat erratic--in the manner of a wild, not a domesticated animal--so that it is difficult to duplicate. In other words, the players all follow or chase (tlha') the lead rider on his or her wild sark. The phrase (often in the form ngem Sarghmey tlha'laH [be able to chase forest sarks]) is now used to indicate that one is capable of following anyone or anything--that is, that one is capable of understanding even the most complex of discussions or of solving the most intricate of problems." (KGT 111)


HUMAN GAMES:

*{boghel}  Boggle

{ghew}  cricket 
 - DaH ghew yIQuj  Cricket, please. RTb

*{Huchmay' Quj}  Monopoly (game) ML

*{pachmu'}  ClawWord (Sqr'bl, a Klingon crossword board game) (GP)

*{poQ'ar}  poker


GAMES PLAYED AT KLINGON LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (KLI) qep'a'mey:

*{DIjchu'}

*{mu'reHwI'}  word-game/puzzle

*{nuq 'oH}  "What is it?"

*{pegh mu'}  password [requiring 6-8 participants and a set of vocabulary cards]

*{qaDHom cha'}  "participants are presented with a short [Klingon] phrase and must then tell a short story that uses (and often ends with) the target phrase." The phrase is often unusual or nonsensical.

*{'Iv jIH}  "Who am I?" 


SOME GAME-RELATED VOCABULARY:

{Quj}  game (n.)

{Quj}  play a game, play X (v.)

{luj}  fail (also used to mean lose, as in "lose at a game"

{qaD}  challenge

{SuD}  gamble, take a chance

{'ov}  compete


"This is war, a game we Klingons play to win."
 - (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")

 
-- 
Voragh                          
Canon Master of the Klingons

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