Are You There, Moriarty?: Debrett's House Party Games and Amusements

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Wikipedia mentions a game, "Are You There, Moriarty," in which blindfolded players try to hit each other with rolled-up newspapers. I would assume the name comes from this song, but I've never heard of the game and the article never mentions the song. - RBW Ha! So that's why I had a copy of this song in a file! I'd forgottesn the thread, having gone to the trouble of copying it from the Burl Ives book. Here's his notes on same: Bullet Pudding was extremely popular in Regency-era Britain because it combined two of their favorite things: people humiliating themselves and live ammunition. In this game, the host of the party fetches a large serving dish—the size of dish you would serve turkey on at Thanksgiving. Then, a mountain of flour is assembled, roughly two feet high, and a bullet is placed at it’s summit, balanced precariously. Like a primitive version of the game Jenga, each player takes turns poking at the flour, causing minor flour avalanches that eventually lead to the bullet falling deep within the recesses of the flour mountain. Here’s where it gets fun! This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

But some debts last longer than others! HMRC debts, for example, don’t become statute-barred and any debt that already has a County Court Judgement (CCJ) attached to it will always be enforceable. MoneyNerd Limited is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pacific Financial Solutions Ltd who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Firm Reference Number 688034) and is classed as a debt counselling firm. According to Burl Ives, this song became popular "through the singer Gerard Crofts in the internment camps set up after the 1916 Rebellion."Doyle, Conan (1894). "The Adventure of the Final Problem". McClure's Magazine. Vol.2. Astor Place, New York: J.J. Little and Co. p.104 . Retrieved 11 October 2016.

Many parlour games involve logic or word-play. Others are more physical games, but not to the extent of a sport or exercise. Some also involve dramatic skill, such as in charades. Most do not require any equipment beyond what would be available in a typical parlour - i.e. the functioning mouths of the participants. Parlour games are usually competitive, but cumulative scores are not usually kept. The length and ending time of the game is typically not set; play continues until the players decide to end the game.

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Two people are blindfolded, and lie face down on the floor with their heads towards each other.They extend their left hands and clasp each other. In their right hands they hold a rolled up newspaer. Player A says"Are you there Moriarty?". Player B says "Yes", and simultaneously moves his head(or, as the case may be, doesnt move his head). Because Player A, as soon as he hears the "Yes" attempts to hit Player B on the head with the newspaper. This continues alternately for a while, with spectators shouting encouragemnt, and then two more become the players.

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: " The Adventure of the Empty House" (the immediate sequel to "The Final Problem"), " The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", " The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", " The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", and " His Last Bow" (the final adventure in Holmes's canon timeline, taking place years after he has officially retired). Holmes describes Moriarty's physical appearance to Watson, saying the professor is extremely tall and thin, clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking. He has a forehead that "domes out in a white curve", deeply sunken eyes, and shoulders that are "rounded from much study". His face protrudes forward and is always slowly oscillating from side to side "in a curiously reptilian fashion". [3] Holmes mentions that during their meeting, Moriarty remarked in surprise, "You have less frontal development than I should have expected," indicating the criminal believes in phrenology. [2] Doctor Watson, even when narrating, never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "The Final Problem") and relies upon Holmes to relate accounts of the detective's feud with the criminal. Doyle is inconsistent on Watson's familiarity with Moriarty. In "The Final Problem", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty, while in "The Valley of Fear", set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as "the famous scientific criminal." And while we're about it, has anyone got the words of a monologue "Moriarty's Christmas" or Moriarty's Homecoming" or something like that. I've asked before, but noone's come up with it so far. Daniel Jones; A.C. Gimson (1977). Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (14ed.). London, UK: J.M. Dent & Sons.

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Young couples would agree to get “married” during a game to help one another figure out their perfect match. Credit: Framing the Victorians

And a midi and information from Burl Ives is here (http://www.contemplator.com/folk6/moriarty.html).

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Nothing spices up a holiday party like a good murder mystery. To play this game, one participant acts as the “murderer,” while another plays the detective whose job it is to identify him or her. The murderer covertly winks at the other players in the circle, causing them to drop dead. Using his or her deductive reasoning skills the detective has three shots to guess which of the players left alive is the murderer. 12. ELEPHANT’S FOOT UMBRELLA STAND Blindfold each player. Theoretically, players could instead close their eyes, but that’s not recommended. When a newspaper gets shoved in your face, you’ll be glad to have the extra layer of protection. Three couples are each allotted to one of three squares drawn in a row on the floor. At the word “go,” the couple in the center square—referred to as “prison” or “Hell”—must try and catch one of the other two couples. All three couples must remain holding hands throughout the game, but the two couples being chased can split up and change partners at any time to avoid being caught. (Jacobean playwrights, incidentally, also liked to use barley-break as a euphemism for sex.) 5. BLOWPOINT (mid 1500s-1600s)