game time!

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

hey all! i noticed we haven't had a game in a really long time, so i procrastinated made one up :]

for some unknown reason, you are about to have six kids, three of each gender. great! you think, and sit down to make a list of your top names. but there's a catch: you're hypothetical significant other's family has a lot of weird naming rules that date back for centuries and (for the purposes of the game) you're not one to step on those rules' toes!

FIRST make a list of the top five names for each gender.

THEN click through to see the rules.

now that you have your lists, you sit down and try to figure out how these rules work. (okay some of the rules are ridiculous because i made them up before i decided to use a story, lol)

for girls:
you can't use names 1, 3 or 5, but you must use 2 and 4
all three combos must have either mythological or botanical first names beginning with the first initial in either the first or fifth name on your list
one name from the last movie you saw

for boys:
you can't use names 2, 3 or 4, but you must use 1 and 5
all must have the same middle initial that you started name 3 with (without using name 3)
one name from the last book you read

if you overlapped names on the list like i did, here are some extra rules:
1st overlap: virtue name
2nd overlap: name from a song on your top-played list
3rd overlap: month
4th overlap: color

see comments for my answer. hope that the rules made sense and that you had fun!

epilogue: you get all the rules figured out and ended up with some combos that you might not have thought of before. huzzah!

Comments

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

original lists:
1. amelia
2. jane
3. elanor
4. catherine
5. jocelyn

1. james
2. william
3. geoffry
4. elijah
5. gene

combos made with rules:
1. andromeda grace (princess from greek mythology beginning with “a”/character in harry potter and the deathly hallows, part 1; and here’s where i used my first overlap virtue name)
2. artemis jane (greek goddess beginning with “a”; original list name 2)
3. azalea catherine (flower beginning with “a”; original list name 3)

1. jude gregory (second overlap name from “hey jude” by the beatles; name starting with “g”)
2. august gene (third overlap month name; original list name 5/name starting with “g”/character in a separate peace)
3. james george (original list name 1; name starting with “g”)

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Andromeda Grace is pretty.

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I understand. I think I was following you until you got to the overlap part.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

sorry :)
with the original rules, you should end up with six names for each gender. however, for some of my name choices, the name i chose satisfied two name rules (eg, andromeda is both a mythological character *and* a character from harry potter), so i wound up haveing less than twelve names. in order to have enough names, i made up extra rules in case if other people ran into the same problem.
does that make sense? i made this a little more complicated than i thought :/

[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going to give it a shot.

Original

Eleanor
Kathleen
Isadora
Felicity
Abigail

Graham
Corbin
Declan
Liam
Murphy

Rules

Andromeda Felicity
Ambrosia Kathleen
Aspen Juliet (from Love Actually)

Graham Drake
Murphy Dalton
Benton David (from Scarpetta)

I didn't really order my original list so I could have cheated (for example, I have many more C boy names than D if I wanted to make it easier), but to play along, I left them in the random order I came up with them.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

i love aspen juliet! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

I'm not quite sure if I got this 100% correct because I only ended up with 5 names to make combos from... so I just used 3 mythological/botanical names for the girls.

Original List

1. Neva
2. Josephine
3. Hazel
4. Gwendolyn
5. Margaret

1. Henry
2. Louis
3. Desmond
4. Archer
5. Theodore

Combinations with Rules

1. Josephine Niamh (daughter of the sea god in Irish legends)
2. Gwendolyn Minerva (Roman goddess of wisdom and war)
3. Lucy Magnolia (Lucy from The Godfather and Magnolia the tree/flower)

1. Henry Donovan
2. Theodore Declan
3. Bertram Dominic (Bertram from Dawn of the Dreadfuls)

The D's were just D names that I liked besides Desmond... so I'm not sure if that's exactly the way it was supposed to go?

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

haha, i know the rules are a little complicated--i couldn't figure out exactly how to clarify. sorry! (oh, and i did mean to use three mythological/botanical names--yay!)
it looks like you did it pretty much right :) i really like lucy magnolia

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Ok good--I did like the names I ended up with! Magnolia is my kitty's name. :-)

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Julie
Katherine
Victoria
Alexandra
Michaela

Jordan
Morgan
Cameron
Colin
Peter

Rules
1. Katherine Minerva
2. Alexandra Maeve
3. Hermione Megara
4. Jordan Connor
5. Peter Callum
6. William Christopher

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

ooh, i like katherine minerva :)

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Julia, Rosemary, Mercy, Miriam, Robyn

Matthew, Joseph, Isaac, Elliot, Wesley

Rosemary Faith
Rowan Miriam
Rhea Gillian
Matthew Ibsen
Wesley Isaiah
Carter Irving

(Rosemary was my only overlap, thus Faith)

[bookity.livejournal.com]

Amelia, Johanna, Charlotte, Annalise, Macy

Warren, Samuel, Benjamin, Logan, Nathaniel

Megaera Annalise
Melia Johanna
Ariadne Rapunzel (Curses tangled for having so few actually NAMED characters)

Nathaniel Brom
Warren Blake
Adam Bryce

[kaoriz.livejournal.com]

anastasia
beatrice
audrielle
lyra
saoirse

marius
clark
gabriel
nicola
soren

----

Beatrice Selene
Lyra Artemis
Hermione Athena

Marius Grant
Soren Giovanni
Percy Garreth

Haha that was fun

[coffeecup37.livejournal.com]

Girls:
1. Tallulah
2. Sofia
3. Isadora
4. Feya
5. Clementine

Cassandra Freya [Cassandra = mythological, begins with 'c' & Freya #4 from original list]
Thalia Roxanne [Thalia = mythological, begins with 't' & Roxanne = from a movie]
Clover Sofia [Clover = botanical, begins with 'c' & Sofia #2 from original list]

Boys:
1. Atticus
2. Malachi
3. Alexander
4. Jasper
5. Archer

George Atticus [George = book character & Atticus = begins with 'a', #1 from original list]
James Archer [Archer = begins with 'a' & #5 from original list]
Henry August [August = begins with 'a']

[holidaylights.livejournal.com]

Tali
Eliza
Shira
Eliana
Aviva

Acacia Eliana
Ariadne Eliza
Thalia Rebecca (the main character was Becky, but I'll assume it was short for it)


Asher
Noah
Micah
Daniel
Ira

Asher Michael
Ira Meir
David Matthew

[supermonkeyfics.livejournal.com]

Original lists:
1. Lee
2. Alexander
3. Robin
4. Rowan
5. Tobias

1. Remy
2. Vivian
3. Laurel
4. Violet
5. Sora

Boys:
Lee Rohan
Tobias Riordan
Adam Rhys

Girls:
Rue Vivian
Rhea Lisa
Sage Violet

[b-gum.livejournal.com]

I hope i played right!

Original List:
Kimberly Karen
Janie Louise
Mneme Christine

Liam James
Charles Reese
Aeson Lyle

After the game:
Kahili Karen
Kohl Louise
Madonna Lily Isabelle

Liam Cade
Lyle Colin
Benjamin Cody

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Edward
Jeremiah
Patrick
Albert
Christopher

Eulalia
Esme
Eliza
Catrine
Grace

Your rules are so confusing and I'm on so many pain meds, I'm gonna come back and edit this later.