Oh, /sweet/ - 'Chore Wars', an... adventure game?

From their FAQ:

What is Chore Wars?

Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting other people in your house or workplace to sign up to the site, you can assign experience point rewards to individual chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.

Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets - every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a "level", and their class changes to match the type of chores that they've been doing.

What would I use it for?

Primarily, it's a system to let you measure how much housework people are doing - someone who only seems to do the washing up might actually be putting in a good couple of hours a week, when it's all added up, and the housemate who appears never to do anything might be at their busiest when everybody else is out...

As you can see from the testimonials from existing players, it's completely up to you what you do with the data. You could:-

• Use it just for a few weeks, to get a sample reading of your household and make sure that everyone's pulling their weight.
• Use the weekly high-score table to give out a prize every weekend. (Maybe the winner gets bought drinks, or chooses what television to watch on a Saturday night.)
• Use XP or gold as a target for children - award treats for levelling up, or allow them to 'spend' gold on toys and games in the real world.
• Agree to pick out the lowest scorer when the household needs a scapegoat to do a particular, urgent chore (or when you need to pay a restaurant bill).
• Keep track of how often a particular chore actually gets done, when it was done last, and who does it the most often.
• Use the chore comments as a mini weblog for the household, or for a micro-blog of one particular chore ("making dinner" works quite well).
• Use the site as a single-chore tea-making roster at work, or even a casual incentive for actual office tasks.
• Award XP for housekeeping duties on your Internet forum or wiki.