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There’s a new game taking over social media that might help you kill a few hours in quarantine because it’s a way to think about quarantine that is actually kind of fun. It’s called “Choose Your Quarantine House,” and all it involves is making a choice about what group of people you would want to be quarantined with.
If you’re alone right now, it’s probably wonderful to imagine being with people. If you’re with people right now, it’s probably wonderful to imagine being with other people. It’s the perfect light mental exercise.
The game seems to have been started on Facebook, according to Know Your Meme, when a woman named Savannah Locke shared a list of six houses with various celebrities listed underneath.
The question was which group would you want to be sitting around drinking wine with for the foreseeable future. It sparked quite a discussion and soon moved to other social media platforms, where people took the idea of “houses” and ran with it.
There are now hundreds of examples all over the Internet and unsurprisingly they’ve inspired quite a bit of conversation. It’s like astrology where you can choose your sign. Even celebrities are playing, though they personally know some of the people in these houses (each other).
There are also houses for literary figures, Star Wars, sci-fi characters, and various historical dictators. Sometimes all the houses are good and it’s too hard to choose, sometimes there’s one horrible person in each room and the choice comes down to potential damage. Have fun with all the possibilities, whatever house you are actually quarantined in right now:
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I think I’m a house five person. pic.twitter.com/2szob41Xus
— Petty White (@flotisserie) April 5, 2020
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pick your quarantine house. i will answer no questions. choose wisely pic.twitter.com/0ThoQaJYRV
— jake (@callmeshitto) April 6, 2020
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What seder table are you sitting at?? pic.twitter.com/FVzR3gmCmF
— Alma (@hey_alma) April 7, 2020
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what house are you staying at for the rest of quarantine? pic.twitter.com/oiN5ffuvKQ
— Jen (@inallmydreams13) April 8, 2020
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So this is QUARANTINE HOUSE “Marvel Superheroes Kelly Has Written” Edition…all six houses are below but the image is on the small side so make sure to check the full thread! WHICH HOUSE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?#QuarantineHouse #Marvel #KellyWrites #WhatsYourHouse pic.twitter.com/3iqCrp4LGC
— KELLY THOMPSON (@79SemiFinalist) April 9, 2020
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ME (thinking): They probably shouldn’t be making those ‘choose your quarantine house’ memes about real people
FRIEND: Hey have you seen this pic.twitter.com/gXHwMxrH4R
— Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson (@MaraWilson) April 9, 2020
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Very happy with my housemates and when the police come sniffing around, we’ll just turn up the music, throw the rug back over the trapdoor and claim Jeffrey went foraging in the woods and never came back. https://t.co/9USYHP2n6b
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 9, 2020
What happens in the quarantine house stays in the quarantine house. https://t.co/O1Cx9bZxgO
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 9, 2020
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Choose your quarantine house: Russian Revolution/Russian Civil War edition: pic.twitter.com/DqWQyTFf27
— iceblink luck (@MissPavIichenko) April 9, 2020
