The game from The Game (1997)
The Original: Essentially a rollercoaster ride, with people instead of a rollercoaster and your life instead of a track. Or is it? It is. Or is it?

How We’d Play It: Drive our nan to the local shopping centre on Christmas day when everything’s shut, leave her there, then hire an actor to give her the wrong directions home.



Nuclear War Game from WarGames (1983)
The Original: Teenage hacker finds a back door into Government supercomputer and nearly starts World War III.

How We’d Play It: Hack into our sister’s Facebook account while she’s distracted by mince pies and leave a series of insulting comments claiming that one half of her Facebook chums hates the other half and nearly start World War III.



Russian Roulette from The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Original: Our heroes are handed a gun with one bullet in the chamber, told to spin it, before being forced to hold it against their temple and pull the trigger.

How We’d Play It: Hand grandpa his old army revolver, tell him the Germans are coming and duck.



The Puzzle Box from Hellraiser (1987)
The Original: Chinese puzzle which, when solved, unleashes a horde of demonic Cenobites dressed in S&M gear intent on tearing your soul apart.

How’d We’d Play It: Paint a Rubix Cube black and get our girlfriend to put on the wet look leggings we got her for Christmas.



Sexy chess from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Original: Okay, so it’s pretty much normal chess, but with a bit of sexy rubbing and flirting thrown in.

How We’d Play It: Hide the chess set from our parents and kick over the Christmas tree if they try to look for it.