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A New Year's Eve Entertainment
Look through your old newspapers and magazines and cut out al...

Feather Blowing Relay
Four contestants constitute a team. A feather is placed on th...

A Good Fat Hen
A nonsensical game, useful in leading to forfeits. The compan...

Hound And Rabbit
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; scho...

Warning
This game is something similar to another very good game call...

Old Woman From The Wood
(For boys, see _Trades_.) _10 to 60 or more players._ ...

Looby Looby
This is another of the old country games in which the players...

Prefixes.
One of the players is sent out of the room. The others the...

Riddles

Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category: WRITING GAMES





A more difficult game is "Riddles." At the top of the paper is written
anything that you can think of: "A soldier," "A new dress," "A fit of
the blues," "A railway accident"--anything that suggests itself. The
paper is passed on and anything else is written, no matter what. It is
passed on again and opened. Suppose that the two things written on it
are, first, "A school-teacher," and second, "A pair of skates." The
duty of the player is to treat them as a riddle, and, asking the
question either as "Why is a school-teacher like a pair of skates?" or
"What is the difference between a school-teacher and a pair of
skates?" (whichever way one prefers), to supply a reasonable answer.
This game, it will be seen, is suited particularly to clever people.




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