Birthday dinner game

Here’s a fun game: On any given day, look at all the personages in history who were born on that day of the year. You can go as far back in time as you want, and you can consider candidates from all cultures and backgrounds.

Then you get to choose one that you would like to have dinner with.

Now here’s another game. Suppose that, for every person you know, you were shown a list of who that person would choose each day as their birthday dinner companion. But all of the lists are anonymous — you are not told which list belongs to which person.

The goal of the game is to see whether you can figure out, just from looking at those lists, which list goes with which person.

By the way, of all the notable personages born on this day in history — January 17 — the one that I would most like to have dinner with is Benjamin Franklin. Who would you choose?

2 thoughts on “Birthday dinner game”

  1. My first impulse was: what would I ask all these great people? Could I come up with all the best questions in advance, so I wouldn’t regret not having asked something? How much time would I get? Or … Would it be best to be Momo-like and just listen?

    New game idea: would you be able to recognize people by their no.1 question they would ask all these great minds each day?

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