Last night we had family over and some of my kids broke out a board game called Chameleon. Because of course they would two days after my last post:

This is a game I had never heard of and did not know we owned. It’s a fun game suitable for adult or family entertainment. The instructions are so simple I’ll just post them here rather than explain:

After my extended family left, I joined my crew for a few rounds. In those 3 rounds, the secrets were:

  • Star Trek
  • Goofy
  • Janitor

Can we tie all of these together? Let’s try since the game was such an obvious synchronicity. A Star Trek is a common theme in a lot of what Bill has said, literally a walking trek through the stars that requires special shoes. Alright, that’s a start.

The Goofy secret seems like the odd man out in these secrets but with just a little bit of Googling I have learned that Goofy “is normally characterized as hopelessly clumsy and dim-witted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally, Goofy is shown as intuitive and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.” So IOW, Goofy is perhaps pretending to be something other than what he is much like a chameleon. Who else do we know who might have pretended to be a pathetic loser (like Goofy) but was actually quite wise? That would be Thomas Marsh as I outlined in this post.

Goofy has a cousin called “Arizona Goof” who actually just looks like Goofy in a different outfit. Arizona Goof is meant to be a spoof on Indiana Jones, who came up in the last post as a symbol for what may be required of the Gentiles (to cross over the gulf of misery via a narrow path, possibly in Moria).

During the Goofy round, I wasn’t the chameleon but the clue I offered was “shoes” which was well received by my teammates as sufficiently vague while also proving I was one of the good guys. Goofy, of course, features larger-than-life shoes, even for a bipedal canine, and as mentioned, Bill figures some special shoes will be needed for the Star Trek. Coincidentally, this morning I woke up to the Xanadu theme song in my head, which Bill often used as a symbol for this idea of using special shoes for the trek among the stars.

And then lastly, janitor. Let’s see, who could this point to? Perhaps our friend Thomas Marsh who both WJT and Bill connected to buckets. When Marsh went West to grovel in Utah, he declined any special authority or office except, he said, to be a deacon or doorkeeper. Who is the humblest key holder who keeps pretty much every door in any organization? Why, the lowly janitor, of course.

In that round I was the chameleon and I was fortunate to be the 5th player to have a turn out of 6. The other players did guess that I was the chameleon but luckily if the chameleon can guess the secret, he wins anyway, and I was onto them from these clues: school, low-pay, alone, headphones, [building was my clue], and finally, water, like for a bucket to mop with.

So I guess this all points to the chameleon Thomas B Bucket’s trek through the stars. That all ties together pretty nicely, actually. Pretty cool! Now what?