The following is a contributed messy gameshow idea : If this were a segment on a show it would have 2 contestants who would be the movers of the human pieces, 16 friends or relatives would be the pieces (pawns, knights, etc.) of contestant number 1 and 16 more would be contestant 2's pieces. One contestant would begin by moving a human piece, for example he would call king's pawn to king's pawn 4 and Earl, who is the contestant's brother, would move 2 spaces forward and be at king's pawn 4. The next contestant would then move and it would play like a regular human chess match until one side takes another side's piece, lets say contestant 1's knight takes contestant 2's pawn, then contestant 1's knight would move to the same square as the pawn, a pie or bucket of gunge would then be provided and the knight would inflict WAM upon the pawn. The pawn would then be removed after enough aftermath had been filmed and play would resume until such time as one side had triumphed. at that time the contestent who has lost will be multiply WAM'ed by his own losing pieces, many of whom have been WAM'ed because of his/her bad play, incompitence, or even worse intentionaly sacrificed. Alternately you could run it as above but vary the type of WAM'ing according to which piece is either taking or being taken. An example would be to have pawns take by pieing, knights take by pouring a bucket of gunge, bishops by super soaker's, etc... the opposite would be all pawns are hit by pies to be removed, knights have a bucket of gunge poured on them, bishops get soaked etc... If this is too large of a scale you could just have 2 people play a regular board chess game and whenever one side took another sides piece the player that did the taking would then get to inflict WAM upon the other player, giving the opportunty for 16 WAM events per side. Again you can vary the type of WAM event according to the pieces as stated above. -------------------------------------- Back to Shokolada's Messy Stories archive (http://chocmess.com/splosh/messyarc.htm)