| Players: | 8-30 |
| Equipment: | Several sheets of paper and pencils |
| Preparation: | None |
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One of the all-time favorite games, this is a classic. Divide the group into two equal lines or
teams. The first players of each team are the captains. They get together and make up a message
for both teams. It might be a proverb such as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," or
it may be a line from a song, or an original sentence. The original sentence works best. They write two copies of the message, fold the papers and give one to the last player on each team, who can't look at it. Then the captains go back to the head of their teams. At a signal, each captain whispers the message to the next player in line - who whispers it to the third player. The message passes from player to player until the last person in line gets the message. When both teams are finished, the last player of each team says aloud the message he or she has heard. Then they open up the slips of paper and read what the original message was. They are usually quite different. The team that gets the correct message (or the more correct one) wins. Now the last player becomes the captain and the two new captains decide on another message. The game is played over and over again until everyone has had a chance to make up a message, and to prove that its not safe to believe any rumor without tracing it back to the source! |
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