L.C.I. # 22 - Five Card Peek-A-Boo

Merry Christmas! Two Les Cakewalk strips in one month!

I made up the name "Five Card Peek-a-Boo" for this strip but afterwards I thought it could be a cool rules mechanic you could tack onto a normal game of poker. After any player folds, a player who is still in could re-ante (or blind) etc... to "peek" at their cards. The whole table would get a look at what he folded on before the cards were flipped over again and hidden for the rest of the hand. The next player who wished to "peek" at a folded hand would have to pay double ante, the third, quadruple, etc...

I dunno. Could be cool

L.C.I. #21: Quing Qube

So I guess the point that Quing Qube started to diverge from Pat's King of Cubes in my mind was after attempting to play a game of the poorly thought out scrabble spin off "Quip Qubes".

A friend found it in her attic or at a yard sale or something and being the enthusiastic board game nerds we are we decided to give it a shot. Instead of forming words with letter tiles you roll word dice and make a sentence with the ensuing gibberish over a scrabble type board. Since you can make a meaningless yet structurally correct sentence with virtually any combination of words you'd use all the dice on your first roll every time. The sentences thus formed were inevitably so long and nonsensical they weren't even interesting in a offbeat Exquisite Corpse style. They were just dull.

Take that Dada theory.

So that's where the name and the obnoxiousness came in. I've based characters around worse premises.