Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Wheel Of Portion!


Introducing the “Wheel Of Portion”


Getting together with some friends of the legal drinking age? Don’t forget to pack the “Wheel of Portion!”. Spin the wheel and deal your friends out drinks. Practice your drunk talk with engaging games that have you make rhymes and coherent questions. and eventually, at least once, someone's going to have to drink that whole “Wheel of Portion” game cup, and that’s when things get interesting! Fun for adults, college students, moms, dads, grandma and grandpa, your boss, your teachers, your aunts and uncles, kids breaking the law to drink illegally, that guy who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and even Bruce Willis. Get your “Wheel of Portion” Today!


Who is it Fun For?:


The Wheel Of Portions target audience is people above the legal drinking age. It uses simple enough mechanics to be operated by anyone and the rules are simple enough that its playable by people of all levels of intellect. It would mostly be played by people at parties and social gatherings opening it up to a wider demographic.


User Testing:


I played Wheel of Portion with my room mate and her friend. It started off fast. It wasn’t long before we were all pretty drunk. Since the rules are adopted from the card game “Kings” there were some differences. The “Wheel of Portion” game cup was so much more unbearable in this version. Also, with more than four chances to get some of the spaces (As opposed to a deck of cards that has only 4 of each number), there was much more rules, questions, waterfalls, and more booze going in the game cup than if it was played with cards. We made it through about 2 and a half games before we decided it was unwise to go on. 


Why is it fun?:


Wheel of Portion is fun because drinking is fun. Wheel of portion is a fun way to power drink with your friends. instead of the excitement of spinning the wheel to get drinks you have the excitement of spinning the wheel to give drinks. Some people could have fun ganging up on one person giving them all their drinks and also you can be creative with games like “Rhyme” “Categories” and “Questions”.


How is it Fun?:


The mere action of spinning the wheel and stopping it with a rubber stopper is fun (especially when your drunk). Giving out drinks and playing games makes it more multifaceted  than just drinking a spinning wheels.






By Che Hernandez

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