TOP 3: SHINBUNSHI

'MOST SIMPLE BUT FUN GAME AWARD'

I always love it when a dress is what I can call, simple but elegant.

Normally, the simplicity would imply that the thing is boring. Apparently, Shinbunshi overthrew that context. It’s merely a combination of some sort of newspaper stop dance (without the music) and jack en poy, and yet all of us were enthusiastic with the game.

I, for one, really wanted to congratulate the winner, the last one standing, the survivor of the game, who so happened to be my MVP. For the original game, it’s Daniel. And for the one with variations, it’s Angel from our team.  She really is blessed with talent in jack en poy LOL. She brought our team to championship!

In the original game, I heard my classmates yelling their victories every time they won in jack en poy. Funny, I’ve never seen people so competitive in playing the common game.

For the variation, I especially remember Arcel because he kept urging the other team to add more people to make fit in their newspaper. His excitement stood out the crowd. In fact we were getting more hyped up because of his encouragement.

I think a good variation would involve the same mechanics as the one played, but this time, the winning team (the one who wins in the jack en poy – thus this can keep changing) gets to demand the number of feet that the losing team can make step in their newspaper. Thus, it’s possible they would have no choice but to piggy back or carry some of their teammates to fit in the newspaper.