"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Any of you players ever use Neil Stauss's 5 question game? It works great

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I've Used it, and its a great ice breaker in a bar approach or online chat. Here's how you Do it.

Ask the target at a bar if she wants to play a game, and If she wins you will buy her a drink. She should ask you what kind of game? Tell her all she has to do is answer 5 easy questions and get them all wrong. She should say okay let's play.

My first question would be what holiday is on 12-25? She should say something like Halloween lol. I would smile and say okay,

what colors are the American flag? She should say something like pink, black. And green lol. I would say cool lol. What is 1+1? she should say something like 37 hehe. I would say wow you're too good lol is this game too easy for you or what?

She should say yea it is why don't you step it up a notch. I would say lol i just won!!! After this she is all yours to get to know
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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joverby

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Might not work for everyone but seems like a really solid idea for an icebreaker.
 

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I've started developing a little more respect for Strauss lately ever since reading Emergency. He has pretty solid stuff, and he isn't as much of a glossed over wimp that he used to be. Kind of like me.
 

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Not really. If she's interested, she's going to look friendly and I'll say 'hi.' The most fail proof ice breaker I know is asking for a cigarette. If she goes away, you still got a cigarette. If she sticks around, it's almost like you're obligated to shoot the breeze with her because she did you a favor.
 

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The asking for a Cig to break the ice is basic. I think the 5 ? Game works better, because they get to interact with what seems to be a fun person, and if you start a relationship with her she will tell all her friends how she met you. It sounds a lot better than telling her friends how you walked up to her and asked her for a smoke.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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To me, this is too gimmicky, it reeks too much of being a pickup device.
Also, if she answers that the game is too easy, but in doing so she loses, that means the game really wasn't too easy for her. Which means she answered it wrong. Which means she didn't lose. Does that mean she won? Uggh.

I don't deny some guys are good with this kind of stuff though.
 

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Wait until you see the look on the face of the chick who's already been scammed this way.
 

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Johnnyventana said:
Wait until you see the look on the face of the chick who's already been scammed this way.
Yep.

This is bound to happen to you eventually. Can you say awkward?
 

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YoExGirlzN199@ said:
The asking for a Cig to break the ice is basic. I think the 5 ? Game works better, because they get to interact with what seems to be a fun person, and if you start a relationship with her she will tell all her friends how she met you. It sounds a lot better than telling her friends how you walked up to her and asked her for a smoke.
Like the other guys said, it sounds like a gimmick. This isn't how real people talk. It's how people who spend years reading PUA material talk.

I don't smoke. But I know far more people who have met over a smoke than who have met over corny pickup games.

And really, if a guy is too nervous to walk up to a girl and talk like a normal grown man, he's not gonna be confident enough to pull off some weird 5 questions game. Or pull it off and somehow still sound like a cool person.
 
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