Student organization Let’s Link hosted “Love or Linked Up” Thursday in Coates Hall, a game where couples were asked questions about one another, and the audience had to deduce which couple was fake.
Let’s Link aims to “connect different Black students on campus through networking vents,” according to planning and outreach officer Monique Porter, a psychology junior.
Four pairs were selected to participate; three were real couples, and one was fake. they then had to answer questions about their respective partners. To help the audience deduce which pair was the impostor couple, a score of each correct answer was kept. At the end of the game the audience would use that score to vote on which duo’s love they didn’t believe.
The questions came in three rounds, with each round asking tougher questions than the last.
The first round asked, “What is your partner’s birthday?” Or “What is your partner’s major?” The second round featured more specific questions, such as a partner’s favorite holiday or middle name. Finally, round three asked about a partner’s go-to Chick-fil-A meal, shoe size and more.
Each question was asked for each partner. To get a question correct, the partners had to have their answers match. To do this, they stood back-to-back and had to either write down a fact about themselves or try and guess a fact about their partner, depending on who the question was directed towards.
Let’s Link president and psychology senior Jalyn Underwood said her favorite part of the show was the comedy that came from couples getting the answers wrong.
Sometimes couples would have different answers and be shocked about their partner’s actual favorite hobby or even middle name. Other times a couple would have a very specific matching answer, reaffirming how much they knew about each other.
As the contestants were being questioned, the job of the audience was to figure out which couple was actually just friends. At the end of the show, members of the audience placed their bets on which couple was the impostor. Then the impostor couple came forward for the big reveal.
“I felt like it was a cute idea, a good turnout. It could have been better, but I still feel like it was a good idea, and everybody came to have fun,” Underwood said.
