Girls 2 - Boys 1

Well it's official, the girls ROCK at Cranium and the guys...not so much. One thing has been proven, another one is showing a high correlation but has yet to be proven. What has been proven is that, even without Poliana's lucky dice throwing, we can win the race on sheer talent. However, we did try to invoke Poliana's dice throwing soul to come and possess us a few times throughout the game, although to no avail. By the way it was also proven that I suck at dice throwing which is why I will never win the lotto or win at the casino or anything of the sort. What has yet to be proven is, Tariq is the men's cranium for Cranium. Yes, the correlation so far is 0.99, when he's there they've won when he's been absent they've lost. But we need to have one more game where Tariq is actually participating to see if the guys can manage to win again. Also, we were one "woman" down, as the fact that Gigi's preggers is causing her cranium to be split between her own body and her baby's. And yes the only reason I can say this and not offend Gigi is because I've been there myself. Anyway, here are some great video clips. One of the guys trying to guess the clue "chocolate mousse". And the next one is of the girls gloating in their victory, which of course annoys the hell out of the guys and is basically the only reason we do it. :)

The videos are a little dark but they are still pretty funny.



The best part is Elika trying to help the guys out after their time is up on how else they could've gotten the right answer.



The golf references (in case you're wondering) that the crazy guy Jero is alluding to is about the fact that we said that if the guys won they'd get 36 holes of golf AND a trip to Formula One, but that if the girls won they've have to send us to a nice spa in Chicago. Let's see what actually ends up happening.

And those of my friends who don't live in Cincinnati are probably thinking, what a GREAT way to spend a Thursday evening. I'd much rather play Cranium than hang out in Old San Juan! Well, this life can be yours too, if you move to Cin City, Porkopolis, Cinci-nasty, whatever you want to call it...it's still rock and roll to me.

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