Here’s a morbid game to play with your friends!

Rules

• Game runs from Jan 1 to Dec 31
• Choose 10 celebrities. They have to be famous enough to have a Wikipedia page. You can’t pick somebody who lives across the street from you that you know is going to die.
• If you believe somebody is genuinely famous, but they don’t have a Wikipedia page, you can file an appeal with ‘a chosen judge’ to have them considered eligible. All decisions by judge are final, so being a whiny lil bitch will get you nowhere.
• When somebody on your list dies, you get points.
• Points are calculated like this: 100 minus the person’s age. So if a 92 year old celebrity dies, you only get 8 points. But if a 27 year old dies, you get 73 points.
• Whoever has the most points at midnight on New Year’s eve wins.

Strategy

• The smart money is on a balanced list.
• You want some old people who are probably going to keel over, so you make sure to get some points.
• But you also want a few young trainwrecks. Younger celebrities with drug problems, mafia connections, dangerous habits.
• The 2013 winner had Paul Walker. He was 40. That was 60 points. That’s a lot of points.

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