This past Tuesday I was introduced to a lovely little game called Credit Card Roulette.
It goes like this:
After finishing dinner at a restaurant with a group of friends, everyone pulls out their credit card and puts it in the little check folder. Only instead of splitting the check, you tell the waiter to pick one card at random and charge the entire bill to it.
Half excitement, half nerves, half regret, half of a larger whole.
Out of 7 of us on a $175 bill, only one person didn't play (because it was his birthday). So he took on the role of producer in this game and stepped up the excitement by handing back credit cards one at a time, until only the person who's card got charged was left standing/crying. The restaurant was really excited too because, according to Nielson, we boosted their ratings by 15 points, and they swept the Tuesday night 18-24 demographic.
Short story even shorter, I didn't lose. (It's not really a “winning” type of game.)