I don't care how fun your Snapchat story looks the next morning, I will put hard cash down on the fact that there were at least a few moments throughout your night in which you felt brutally alone and or filled with unbearable boredom. The first step is always acceptance, ladies and gentlemen. However, fear not, for I have compiled a list of games as old as the act of being bored that can help to alleviate some of those awful moments. Goodbye to the days of checking your emails past midnight as an escape.
1. Doppelgängers
OK, none of them are going to be spot on, but you can still have fun by squinting your eyes and passing the time searching for celebrity look-a-likes. Congrats to you if you happen to find the Gainesville Brad Pitt lookalike. However, more often than not, you will find yourself excited over the “tall Peter Dinklage doppelgänger” or the woman who is eerily reminiscent of Paula Dean for reasons that you can’t express, but that everyone just seems to understand.
2. Where’s Waldo
First, you pick an interestingly clad stranger to lock eyes with. Remember your person, this is your Waldo. Now, buy yourself a drink each time you spot your person again. Buy two if it’s a false alarm.
3. Guess Who
It's kind of like the board game, but also nothing like the board game. For this, you find and infiltrate a group of friends talking in a circle. Pretend to be a part of the group, act natural. Take a shot for every weird look that you get. Also, make sure that your actual friends are somewhere nearby for when things get weird. Things will get weird.
4. ESPN
For this game, you pull out your best Eric Reid impersonation and stand by judgmentally commentating the events unfolding around you. Narrate the highs, the lows, the scores, interceptions, and whatever other sports/socialization parallels your little hearts can draw.
