The Alien Bachelor Dating Game

You win the lottery on the planet Murch. Go you! The prize... well, it's not quite what you expected. Seems the lottery on Murch isn't about money, cash or even anything of financial value exactly.

On the bright side... the men of Murch are fairly human looking and you do get your pick of them, as long as they're single and their third arm isn't broken. The third arm thing is a Murch wedding tradition, the groom must be able to lift his bride and all their gortkins (kind of like goats) over the wedding bed.

There are other interesting traditions but you don't have time for those now. You've got a groom to pick! They parade bachelors past you a dozen at a time. You get to ask each guy a question. You can't ask just one question over and over though. The Murch Ambassador suggests you get at least 10 questions prepared in advance. So, what are they...?

Your Friend Eats Flies

Your friend gets into voodoo. She says it's grey magic... but that doesn't do much for you when you visit and see chickens hanging from the rafters along with a lot of dried herbs. You really get suspicious when you catch her pulling stray hair from your brush and picking the garbage for your nail clippings. Suddenly her idea for a girl's night isn't just about hair styles and bra freezing.

Luckily... you've got a few tricks up your sleeves... Genie in a Can!

The Genie in a Bottle was too expensive but Genie in a Can promises to protect you from any murky magic of the un-white kind.

Unfortunately the Genie is both temperamental and bumbling. He turns your friend into a toad and considers that his job done. So now you've got a toad for a friend. What do you do with her?

It Will Take More than Zoo Poo

You've inherited a zoo from some relative you only remember hearing whispers about when you were a kid. They said he was eccentric when they were being kind. The zoo is a bit run down, the animals look a bit worse for wear too. Last time the zoo made money was 1968, the year before the local school caught fire and was later demolished. The town nearest to your zoo is all but a ghost town now. You can buy some groceries when you fill up your tank, in the same dingy little truck stop, that's about it.

You can't actually sell the zoo, as per the terms of the will. But, you can't just abandon it either. Those animals need someone to care for them. Most of them look underfed and all of them are underwashed.

Can you turn around this zoo? Can you find a way to bring people back, paying customers? It will take more than selling Zoo Poo (see Toronto Zoo) to get this zoo on it's feet again.

Your Naked Head

You're having a really bad hair day. So bad... your hair gets all ticked off and goes on strike, walking right off your head and off to... somewhere. You try to follow your hair, try to grab it back and plead with it to give you a chance to make things better up there on top of your head. But, your hair just keeps moving until it slips around a corner and you lose sight of it.

So now you're bald. Not so bad, not the end of the world.

What does your naked head look like? All your life (the parts you can remember) your hair has covered and concealed your head. What does it really look like under there? Think of it as your own first walk on the moon... what does your head really look like?

Soaping Up for the Little Green Men

The aliens have landed. They want you to create a new ad campaign for a new soap they invented. Supposedly it will make an Earth woman's skin very soft, remove unwanted body hair and it's anti-aging. The only drawback is that you have to spend a week completely naked in order for the first use of the soap to sink in. After that first week you just use as you usually would, like touch ups.

The aliens, being little green men after all, insist that every woman who uses their soap spends that week of being naked in a big compound they have set up where they can keep an eye on all the women, in case of any side effects... yeah, right. (What they really hope to get out of this is a lot of little green babies. Everyone knows aliens are easy and want to take over the world).

What kind of ad do you come up with to sell the alien soap? You can't skip over the whole week naked at the compound detail and showing pictures of the little green men won't help to sell it either. Green just isn't everyone's colour... and those weird scales and twitching eyes don't help much.

What's Your Name?

What would you change your name to if you could rename yourself? Think about it. This will be your name when you're 80 or older. It will be the name future generations will know you by when the only thing they still know about you is your name. It will be the name on your ID. That same ID you have to show to the nice officer at spot checks or worse if you get into trouble. It will be the name your child introduces you with, to their teacher and later to their future inlaws. A name has to cover a lot of ground and at the same time be very personal.

Of Course you Win

You made a deal with the devil (or something like it) and now you've got to play a card game, and win, to get your life/ soul back. What's your poison? What card game could you hope to win: euchre, poker, canasta, fish or maybe crazy eights?

Write about the card playing adventure and your great win at the end, cause of course you win. How else could you be writing the story?

Short, Readable and Eye Catching

You've won a raffle and have been granted a free block of ad space on the front page of Google for one week. If you wanted traffic, you found it!

So what do you use the ad for: your home business, your personal blog. a friend's online business or something you create on the spur of the moment?

Now write your ad. Make really efficient use of the word space you have. You only get 150 x 150, a bit bigger than an EntreCard ad. Your text or graphic has to be readable and eye catching.

Design Your Fancy Event

You're all dressed up, hair and make up done, the whole works. What event are you going to? Describe it, everything from the purpose of the event to the decorations, drinks and goodies served and your arm candy. Do you stay for the whole thing or sneak away to enjoy that arm candy in private awhile?

Fast Food Interview

Just for practice... go to your local burger joint. Interview someone. Aim for five questions, ask the waitress, a customer or the guy cleaning floors. You pick someone, as long as you don't already know them. Don't cheat and ask the waitress five questions about the menu. You may think you're clever but you're only out witting yourself.

What can you find out about someone in five questions? You might tap into something really interesting and need to start up a whole conversation, go for it!