I will try to make this as short as possible.
After Thanksgiving, my extended family played a game where we all wrote christmas-related words, put them in a hat, picked them out randomly, then taped them to our forehead, where we asked yes or no questions to figure out what our thing was. For reference, I put down "The Nice List", and my uncle got it.
When I put a word on my head, my cousin said he didn’t know what it even was. So I told my brother, "I think I have your word." He loves obscure Christmas lore, and it made sense he would use it for this game.
So I asked, "Am I an object you can hold in your hands?" People said no with my uncle also saying "I don’t know what that is." So I was certain of the answer.
"Am I the Krampus?"
I won right as the game started; I was the second person to ask a question. My brother got upset that I ruined the fun of putting the Krampus as a word in the hat.
What do you think?
I think this is an insanely trivial thing for anyone to be fighting over lol
Op didn’t say they’re fighting, just that their brother is upset.
How dare you not validate your brothers obscure knowledge and overall superiority?! /s
NTA but you don’t say ages which may skew my answer. Ultimately your brother needs to learn that sometimes the obscure ones are the most obvious.
NTA. idk how you would be if you are playing the game and guess it correctly. your brother must’ve thought he was clever & got upset that you know him too well?
also, if you guessed it right does that mean the game is over? still NTA IMO
NTA sometimes kids have to learn that a game is a game – losing isn’t fun but everyone has to learn to deal with it at some point
NTA. You won a game. Simple.
NTA.
Your brother is the obnoxious one for putting a word in the hat that he *knew* many people wouldn’t be familiar with. It defeats the purpose of the game. It’s like playing 20 questions and choosing a person that you know guessing player isn’t familiar with. It’s an asshole move.
You, on the other hand, simply played the game as it should be played. You used clues to deduce the word.
Your brother sounds really, really annoying.
Krampus is hardly obscure.
Literally! They made a movie about it like a decade ago
My town celebrates Krampusknacht with a parade at night and lots of festivities.
Next year, your Christmas word is **Wassail**
NTA
NTA. Next year make sure your brother gets your entry of Tió de Nadal. That will keep him occupied.
Isn’t the point of the game to guess the word?