Comments on: Epic Win: MASH: Mansion-Apartment-Shack-House

By: DarkOctoberNight

DarkOctoberNight — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:04:48 +0000

I forget how to do this now, but we used to play it all the time during recess

By: steph

steph — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:30:38 +0000

wow we did this like six months ago…they have an ipod app for it now. but we played it with paper.

By: Scarlett

Scarlett — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:24:18 +0000

I loved playing this game with my friends. I remember we had to write who we wanted to marry, # of kids, jobs we want, # of pets, animal, dream vacations, vacation home, vechile, car color, and even more!!!!

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:04:30 +0000

That is so cool. I’m seriously hoping that I don’t end up with the guy that I always seemed to end up with in the game.

By: Sarhii

Sarhii — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:21:22 +0000

omg, I completly forgot about this until just now….soooo many notebooks devoted to that game

By: Jagger

Jagger — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:48:28 +0000

Holy hell, this is coming back. Towards the end of last year it started going around my school (I’m a freshman in high school, going into sophomore)

By: Miki

Miki — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:25:55 +0000

I only learnt to do that about a year ago xD
It lives on!

By: lovergurl2008

lovergurl2008 — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:06:57 +0000

Thank you!! I’m glad I found your answer!! I was beginning to think I was crazy…I just tried it twice and got the same answers shown….that’s how we did it in school…..:)

By: lovergurl2008

lovergurl2008 — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:03:37 +0000

How is it not done right? I just sat here and did it and got the same answers.

By: lovergurl2008

lovergurl2008 — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:59:10 +0000

Yeah, we did the TRUE LOVE formula…..I actually did it recently one night when I was bored out of my mind! It can be pretty funny!
I’m not sure I know FLAMES though…..

By: lovergurl2008

lovergurl2008 — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:57:51 +0000

We’ve been playing a mini version at work lately…when we’re bored. We just have M.A.S.H. (of course), Husband, # Kids, Honeymoon, Job, and Car. Small enough to play through pretty quick. We’ve come up with some hilarious ones!!

By: lovergurl2008

lovergurl2008 — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:53:37 +0000

My friends & I had a pretty big one too….it went on for pages!! It was sooooo much fun!

By: cereal

cereal — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:40:40 +0000

Kids at my school play that all the time.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:31:10 +0000

OMG, this was indoor recess heaven when I was in elementary school! We played it a number of ways, but the most popular “rule” was that you absolutely HAD to put down one awful option for each category. It was torture in 4th grade, getting “married” to the creepy boy who ate paste. LOL.

And we either used the spiral, the psychotic dot method, or the zig-zag (counting the number of points).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:58:09 +0000

I continue to play this a lot (of course I’m a teenager)
My friends and I of course added horrendous things just for fun
At one point in time I had -1/2 children in one of them and lived on the dark side of pluto

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:21:53 +0000

Wow, this is the first one that’s ever really stunned me because I’d forgotten about it for so long. I probably haven’t seen or thought about it in 18 or 20 years. …Needless to say, most of my friends in gradeschool were girls.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:35:43 +0000

I played this a couple of times when I was a kid.
My friend’s daughter and her friend did this for me about 2 summers ago. Every time they asked me what guy to put in the husband category, they both sqealed
“Eeeeew. He’s old! Like thirty-something!”
“Yeah, but he’s hot. Wait a minute. I’m almost thirty.”
“I know! Haha!”
They were nice enough to let me put my real husband in that category, though. Unfortunately for him, at the end of the game I was to marry Michael Jackson (the “new” creepy one, not the 80’s young Michael Jackson in his prime. The girls were too young to know the ‘Thriller’ Michael.)

Ah, memories. I’ll have to teach my girls to play this game. That, and all of the fun hand-clapping games girls play.

By: emily

emily — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:51:01 +0000

and I never did marry Harvey from Sabrina

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:59:39 +0000

OMG! Points for knowing who Ioan Gruffudd is! *sigh*

By: EightIzEnuff

EightIzEnuff — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:30:41 +0000

We used to play MASH RAP (Rich Average Poor). For jobs, I always wound up being a waitress. I tried that once…didn’t like it!
One night being stupid and nostalgic, my best friend from college and I added categories like “How Will I Die” and “What color will my wallpaper be?” and others I can’t even remember now.
We also played where you got to list 2 desirable choices and 2 undesirable ones – just to make it interesting.

By: jwags6

jwags6 — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:12:03 +0000

My neighbors and I used to play this in chalk out on our sidewalks…then we were always worried that one of the actual boys would walk by and think we were stalkers! I also played this at a bar last year with a few of my friends, we used local celebs, like the Mayor of our town, Weather guy and 60-something news anchor!

By: lola

lola — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:04:45 +0000

we used to play this in primary school all the time, we played the “M.A.T.C.H.” version though, and i’m pretty sure we had a fifth list for number of kids you would have or something like that. It took a surprisingly long time for this game to get old!

By: Shnyrdthng

Shnyrdthng — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:15:33 +0000

Ha! Yea I remember the True Love formula!! We did that relentlessly…

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:32:18 +0000

Oh my god! I used to play this all the time at sleepovers! We’d get huge lists going, we’d have like 50 things!

Great nostalgia win!

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:00:58 +0000

Um…it does work. Just start with MASH then go from Boys to Careers to City to Cars.

By: theblackdog

theblackdog — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:30:49 +0000

I loved this game, we eventually started calling it Cash Em (Car, Apartment, Shack, House, Elevator, Mansion).

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:41:41 +0000

This game is an instant classic. I feel like getting my friends in college together and playing it now and getting epic with it. Sounds like a good sleepover.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:40:36 +0000

Also, Mansion would have been crossed off already. But there could be more hidden categories we don’t know about.

By: Nightlyeclipse

Nightlyeclipse — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:09:14 +0000

We did too! We kept adding to it until it got hard to fit on just one page! I played this game all the time. I think ours was M.A.T.C.H. (Mansion, Apartment, Trailer, Castle, House.)

By: RankMyTyping

RankMyTyping — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:57:44 +0000

Well put

By: QueenMab812

QueenMab812 — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:58:09 +0000

I played it as MASH IT with IT being Igloo and Teepee. I’m a freshman in college and I played it all last year in precal with my friends. A few guys in my physics class created the category of “mistress” so us girls decided that we could have “man whores”. We usually put ridiculous things like Batman, Voldemort or Indiana Jones as the husbands/man whores and ludicrous careers like “Professional moose impersonator”. I saved a lot of these and they’re always good for a laugh.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:49:51 +0000

I used to cheat and list the cutest boy twice.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:00:42 +0000

Just did it… I will live in a SHACK in GRANADA, SPAIN with ORLANDO BLOOM, working as a TRANSLATOR and driving a BUICK.

By: Modak

Modak — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:37:09 +0000

We did the dots thing as well… I played this two years ago all the time in study hall… I think I’ll play this tomorrow with my friends. XD

I just did one according on the website, and, apparently, I will drive a blue Saleen, live in a Shack, marry a married dude (obviously the not-desired option) and have no kids, and I will be a Journalist in Hell! The place for all the best scoops!

By: nell

nell — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:53:41 +0000

We always used to play this. But the person who was doing it for you used to make dots until you said stop, then the number of dots represented the random number. I always ended up living in a shed but with a limo, why I wouldn’t just live in the limo we never understood.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:23:16 +0000

I played this in jr. high! For the boys section, I used to use the names of a few guy friends, and then the boyfriend I had at the time (hoping he would win). For some reason I always landed on the same guy! Ricky… I didn’t like him at the time other then just as friend.

Time makes fools of us all, we’ve been dating for 7 years and are getting married next summer.

Never did get that ‘98 purple mustang convertable though…

By: jewlz

jewlz — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:20:47 +0000

My friends and I never liked the idea of living in a shack, so we changed the S to studio for studio apartment.

By: Smalls

Smalls — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:12:34 +0000

What’s really funny is that I was just discussing this game with my freshmen on Friday. I teach at an all-girls school, and the girls had found a website to play the game electronically.

http://www.swingsetpress.com/playmash.htm

By: TammyZ

TammyZ — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:58:47 +0000

Looks like the number should have been 8 to get those results.

By: TammyZ

TammyZ — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:58:00 +0000

Yep, I’ve definitely played hours of MASH. It looked the same and we had about 14 categories. Even what planet we’d live on. LOL!

And Bandana is right. The results are impossible unless they used a different system than I’m aware of.

By: Krepta

Krepta — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:37:04 +0000

It wasn’t until I grew up that I learned about the spiral thing– we would just choose a random number in my classes, it amounted to the same thing.

By: Grainzilla

Grainzilla — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:11:16 +0000

Wow, I’ve totally forgotten about MASH. I haven’t played this since grade 5.

By: Bandana

Bandana — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:33:33 +0000

I can’t help but notice that the pictured M.A.S.H. was improperly done. Hugh Grant gets crossed off, and the rest wouldn’t all come up as the fist one. This is a Nostalgic win FAIL.

By: badcat

badcat — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:10:36 +0000

Aww, I got crossed off.

By: MaeB

MaeB — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:53:45 +0000

My friends and I used to play this a lot. We added letter at the end of MASH for more options but I can’t remember what they were. For some reasonI think Condo was an option. I had a sketch book FULL of MASH and other games like it. Anyone ever do the FLAMES one? Or the TRUE LOVE formula to findout what “percent” your compatibility is? I used to do those with my crushes, but also my favorite tv couples to see if their love would last. Yikes…

By: di

di — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:09:44 +0000

we just did this at work about a month ago.

all of us are in our 20’s, mind you. and no, MASH is not good at predicting the future, as i did not marry Zack Morris.

By: zenith

zenith — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:35:49 +0000

A very good point, and I can’t agree more.

By: Lozateazer

Lozateazer — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:21:05 +0000

Man, I just moved out of my mother’s house, and I literally went through over 10 years of my belongings. (I was about 13 when I stopped throwing things away haha)

I cannot tell you how many MASH’s I threw away. So so so funny to see this here, now, after that!

By: dlszelc

dlszelc — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:51:57 +0000

We played so that every topic (and yes, those topics were pretty extensive. We often had type of car, maid of honor, wedding colors, number of children…. on and on) had five options. Four of those options would be favorable, things you wanted, one of those options would be negative, the worst possible answer you could think of. So that way you weren’t guaranteed to have a good result. This provided my friends and I with hours of hilarity when we were young. Kind of makes me miss it…

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:10:33 +0000

I remember similar games, but ours weren’t exactly like this. I might do this at college on Monday for a laugh