Game cards do not actually talk.

The childhood game that I miss the most: Guess Who? My sister and I never owned a set and only got to know the game at friends' and relatives' houses.

I have a slight craving to play the game again, but of course as an adult I would prefer to alter the rules. Instead of objective questions (e.g. 'is your person a man?'), it would become a game of subjective questions. Something along the lines of: "would you sleep with that person?" or "would you trust that person with a large sum of money?" or "has your person ever tried heroin?"

Rather than reinforcing an agreed-upon reality, you test how well you know your opponent, and get to know them better in the process. At the same time, you might learn more about your own preferences and prejudices of the characters based solely on their appearance. There would be an element of satire in the realization that you're actually passing judgments on 2 x 3 inch cartoon caricatures.

Is life so much like this game? Each day our relationships, tastes, and insticts about other people change. When we meet someone new, we may notice their gender, hair colour, etc... but what we're really thinking is: 'would I sleep with him?' or 'can i trust her?'

Then again, it may be a sad state if you could claim: 'everything I need to know in life I learned by playing Guess Who?'.