Game / activity
Candy War: four visitors and two tie-breaks
How this one works
Premise
- Curtis gives the hosts four trick-or-treaters with specified costumes. Each host chooses a candy, and they vote on who offered the worst one; the overall loser will receive a prank. The voting language repeatedly slips between favorite and worst, so the final clarified decisions below take precedence over early reactions. Tied rounds use a war draw with one hidden candy followed by one revealed candy for each host.
Corrected procedure
- A co-host corrects the tie-break procedure to require a hidden draw before the revealed one. The group judges the revealed candies, then learns what was hidden. A proposal to stop after three visitors is reversed, so the fourth visitor and second war are actually played.
Overall result
- Curtis explicitly declares himself the overall loser and asks to be pranked. No positive overall winner or final numerical score is stated. The subsequent pranks are proposals, not enacted punishments.
RESULT STATUS
A result is recorded; a participant winner is not.
Preserve the stated loser, cooperative result or uncertainty; no individual winner or final total inferred.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 8 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Brad prepared his own costumes
Brad misunderstood the task and prepared costume-and-candy pairs: Where’s Waldo with Payday, Transformers with Sour Patch Kids and a lifeguard with Almond Joy. The others challenge his explanations and suggest alternatives. These are discarded setup examples; they do not add three rounds to the four actual visitors.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Two proposed punishments for Curtis
After Curtis declares that he has officially lost, he requests a prank. Brad proposes keeping him on a podcast game long after he is tired. Ryan proposes putting a balloon over his car after bad nights until balloons become unpleasant. The recording confirms the two presenters. Neither prank is performed in the source.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Ghost: Ryan’s Butterfinger loses
Brad gives a York Peppermint Patty, citing its shape and white center. Ryan gives a Butterfinger because ghosts are slippery and hard to catch. Curtis gives peanut M&Ms because he likes them and the ghost arrived first. The hosts argue about taste and voting direction. Brad’s statement that he would rather have peanut M&Ms initially confuses the count; the clarified result is a Butterfinger loss for Ryan.
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Witch: Curtis’s pumpkin Reese’s loses
Ryan gives a Crunch bar after an initial disappointment-and-sadness joke. Curtis chooses a pumpkin-shaped Reese’s. Brad chooses a Charleston Chew, describing the long-lasting chew and trying to establish dominance over the witch. Discussion of its ingredients and flavors does not settle a factual product description. Despite conflicting early loser comments, the final exchange explicitly says Curtis lost, surprising the group because Reese’s seemed a safe choice.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Pirate: a premature loss becomes a three-way tie
Curtis chooses Snickers to avoid being tricked; Brad chooses Skittles so the pirate can taste the rainbow at sea; Ryan chooses Take Five because pirates take what they want. Curtis performs the pirate accent. The group disputes whether Take Five is a Halloween candy, and Ryan marks the claim for checking. A premature declaration that Curtis loses is challenged because voting is incomplete. Each host ultimately picks a different candy: an explicit three-way tie triggers war.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
First war: raisins make Curtis lose
Curtis corrects the method to require a hidden draw before a revealed one. Brad’s revealed draw is black licorice, Ryan’s is Mary Jane and Curtis’s is raisins. The group decides Curtis has the worst offering, and Curtis votes for himself to lose. The hidden draws are then revealed: circus peanuts for Brad, owner-confirmed Necco wafers for Ryan, and wax lips for Curtis. Curtis notes he has two losses and tries to stop; the others point out a final round could still change matters, so play continues.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Princess: another three-way tie
In the lightning round, Brad gives a Tootsie Pop, Ryan gives Nerds and Curtis gives Starbursts, joking that the packet usually contains two yellows rather than his preferred colors. The voting again mixes favorite-candy reasoning with the worst-candy premise. The final declaration is another three-way tie and another war.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Second war: Brad’s Bit-O-Honey loses
The revealed candies are Bit-O-Honey for Brad, fruity Tootsie Rolls for Ryan and Smarties for Curtis. The group declares Bit-O-Honey the loser. The hidden draws are sugar-free candy for Brad, owner-confirmed peanut butter taffy for Ryan, and Almond Joy for Curtis. Brad’s round loss does not override Curtis’s subsequent explicit overall-loss declaration.