Loup-Garou, a card game! As well as a new song...

Today, Friday, March 3, 2006, I went to Jeunesse lambda, and learned an interesting card game. It's called Loup-Garou. (English translation, werewolf). This card game consists of a bunch of cards that are distributed to the players. Most of the people will be citizens in a village. Some of them will be werewolves, one of them is the little girl (who can peek whenever she wants to see who the special players are), one of them is the clairvoyant (who can, as long as he/she lives, ask to see a card that another player is holding), one of them is the sorceror/sorceress/witch (who has the power to kill an extra person per turn, and I believe who can also preserve the life of the person who was killed by the werewolf) and a hunter (who, once killed can resurrect himself/herself and kill one extra person in the village).

The game goes as follows, everyone closes their eyes, and then the the clairvoyant opens his/her eyes and asks to see a card. Then he/she closes his eyes. Next, the werewolf or werewolves choose someone to kill. Then, the sorceror/sorceress/witch can choose to kill an extra person, or no. This process continues until either all the werewolves are killed, or the only person (or people left) are werewolves. A variation of the game is that you throw in a pair of lovers, and they only know themselves who they are... The bad thing is, if one of the lovers die, the other one dies with him/her.

There's also a captain card. The captain is elected by the townspeople, and he has the final say who the village brings to the chopping block. The downside is... If you elect a captain who is a werewolve, then you've basically lost the game, unless someone decides to question the captain. Of course, if the captain gets killed (i.e. if he gets killed by the werewolves, or the sorceror or the hunter), then he gets to name his successor.

On another note... There has been this song that I hear everywhere, on the radio or in restaurants... It sounded like a Gwen Stefani song. However, I found out today that the song is actually by Madonna, and it's called Sorry. Wow, how wrong was I? I am usually not a fan of Madonna, but Sorry is good.