Incision
by Jeff
Image text: At one point, by force of childhood habit, the doctor accidentally removed three or four organs.
Operation is a "board" game in which the player attempts to remove body parts from holes in the board without touching the metal sides of each hole. Operation is hooked up to a buzzer which emits the familiar "Bzzzzt!" sound whenever the removal instrument touches the sides.
Sex Dice
by Jeff
Image text: You roll for initiative, and ... [roll] ... wow, do you ever take it.
In this comic, there are two different groups playing two different dice games. However, the dice got mixed up. Instead of numbers, the first two are supposed to have another die with actions on them, as seen in the last panel. The "sex" die got mixed in with the kids Dungeons and Dragons set because they did not organize the game cupboard. The four people in the last panel are completely different than the two in the first 3.
The joke in the image text is a play on the word "initiative". In Dungeons and Dragons you roll for initiative for an extra modifier to your roll of the dice. In the image text, they are suggesting that someone accidentally rolled a sex die for initiative. And "take initiative" means to take charge to take command outside of Dungeons and Dragons.
Strip Games
by Jeff
Image text: HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF STRIP GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR?
Agricola is a board game in which you start out as a farmer with a spouse. It is a turn-based game in which you have two possible movements for each character you possess. Sounds enthralling...
Jumanji is the game played in the movie by the same name.
Poohsticks is a game played in the Winnie the Pooh books in which two "players" each drop sticks from a bridge and the first stick to make it to the end wins. Sounds enthralling as a strip competition...
Podracing is the type of racing featured in Star Wars Episode I.
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma is a problem in game theory. It is the case that if two prisoners are taken into jail, but kept separate. If both choose to remain silent, they are given 6 months jail time. If they both accuses the other, they both will do 5 years in prison. If one accuses the other while the other stays silent, one goes to jail for 10 years and the other gets away scot free. When it is iterated, it is played over and over again.
Chess by Mail is just what it sounds like... and very slow.
Conway's Game of Life is a zero-player game and played by cells and here are the rules from Wikipedia:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell.