Would you cut off your pinky to get a million dollars?

Would you kill your cheating spouse to marry the man of your dreams?

Would you eat a dog turd to win a year's supply of ice cream?

See, these are the sort of preposterous questions that make up the would you game,

which is like a deranged cousin of the would you rather board game, but unlike the popular board game,

the would you game has real-world stakes.

Stakes as high as life or death or even higher.

I found this out the hard way with my sister SETI.

Her actual name is September, but everyone called her SETI.

Just like everyone calls me Toby.

My actual name is October.

And yes, we do hate our parents for this.

SETI was always competitive, even when she was very little, but I didn't understand how competitive

until she invented the Wudji game.

We played during boring summers at home.

In the beginning, it was just SETI, me, our older sister Jules, July, everyone called her Jules,

and her best friend Darren.

Darren's the one who added cards to the game, structure.

He was kind of a nerd like board games, though he only reluctantly played them with me and

Settie, whom he found too young and competitive.

The game as it exists today is largely Darren's construction.

There are seven cards always dealt in order.

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