![]() ![]() Hesitations, statements or non sequiturs lose. Every player has to quickly continue the conversation, using only questions. ![]() REI staff member Kira saw the game played in the movie Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and was enamored. Would you like to play this game? How, you ask? Wouldn’t you like to know? Yeah. Apparently, the youngberry is similar to the boysenberry but was developed-by BM Young, who else?-in 1926.) Rob Cranfill, an REI member, retired software engineer and outdoors dilettante, gave some sage advice: “Keep your answers in the singular form or you’ll run out of S’s.” Question Tennis Say a word, perhaps “strawberry.” Your opponent must use the last letter of the word to offer up a new word in this case, might I suggest, “youngberry.” (A word I didn’t know until this very moment. It’s even funnier when you ask for the rationale behind their choices. Just create two awful scenarios and ask your friends to pick. “Would you rather have a nose like Pinocchio or have to tell the absolute truth in every situation?” Carolyn Fletcher, a nonprofit operations manager who insists on playing this game on every road trip, asked me recently. This silliness is courtesy of Laura Chapman, an REI staff member and consistent failure at the game (because she loves toothy laughing). If someone shows their teeth, that player is out and play continues until only one person is left. If neither person shows their teeth, the next person then turns to their neighbor and says “pterodactyl.” The catch? You may laugh, make faces and use funny voices to try to get each other to break your lip coverage. One person will start, facing another player and saying “ pterodactyl” without showing their teeth. For this game, you and your fellow players must all cover your teeth with your lips. Unfortunately, it’s not unlike The Song That Never Ends. (Fortunately, this game can last forever. Unfortunately, it was the middle of summer and 110 ☏. Chloe Smith, an outdoors lover who is about to marry an REI member, offered a thought-starter: “Fortunately, the bear had a nice hat to keep him warm. Fortunately, UnfortunatelyĬraft a wacky, twisty-and-turny story with your companions by using “fortunately” to begin each sentence and then “unfortunately” to kick off the next person’s addition. (Did you guess mine ?) Courtney Hans, an REI staff member and grammar aficionado, kicks it up a notch and asks her friends to sing, not say, the guessed song. If your partners can’t get it, give them another word (like “run”) and another (“never”) until they solve the lyrical puzzle or give up, in which case you must prove yourself by revealing your super-hard song. It’s team play, so everyone guesses together. (Like “desert,” the verb, not the noun.) Your fellow players are tasked with figuring out what in the world that song could be. You think of an important word in a song you know and say it aloud. Like: The-red-fuzzy-hat-sat-close-to-a-steaming-pile-of-scat. Additional challenge? Make your story rhyme. You guessed it: Each person says one word to create a (usually) pretty kooky story, says Sandy Martin, a retired nurse who has been a camper for more than 50 years. These 12 games are perfect for playing over video chat or with your household, so draw up a scorecard and get playing. We consulted with REI staff members and general subject-matter experts (aka fellow equipment-free game fanatics) to create a nowhere-near-exhaustive list of games that only require words. But what happens when you and your pals are social distancing and your favorite board games gather dust?įear not.
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