Well, on Friday 21st, I was over an Stephen's for his birthday party which consisted of a small group of friends; about 11.
I got there a little late but it seemed though they had only been playing Articulate! at that time. After a while and more people arrived, we played What If? Then, and my version of that game, which I never know of really, but was similar to.
The result of the night was endless side splitting laughing which we ended at 1 in the morning to leave for home.
Articulate! is a game where you go around a board and try to explain something without saying and your team has to guess it. There are 5 categories and as you land on a spot on the board, you will look at your cards, explain the item you landed on, and have you team answer as many as they can within a minute to move that many steps to your next category, unless you land on the same one again.
Good game, but tough also.
Someone then suggested we play What If? Then.
In What If? Then, everyone writes a 'what if' question. It is gathered in into something like a hat, and everyone randomly picks a question out. If you get your own question, you place it back and you pick a new one.
Once everyone has their question, they answer it, and put it back in.
Everyone once again selects one at random and this time it doesn't matter if you get your own.
The first person reads their question, but rather than the answer they got, the person next will read their answer. Due to this, the answer will sometimes make sense and fit well, or make no sense. They then read their question, and the third person will read their answer, and so forth.
An example:
Our first topic was about Pratt, then random, then something relating to the party. The only one I can remember was the question I got "What if Pratt jumped off a roof?", which I answered "Then he'd wish he had wings right now", which in turn was answered to "What if the sky was falling?" - "Then he'd wish he had wings right now".
We then played my version, which was one I learned during Year 10 when I was part of Peer Support.
Everyone would write a sentence or two; not too long as we want to keep the pace moving.
They then pass it to the person next to them. That person will then add to the sentence and once complete, fold back the first sentence and pass to the next person.
Person 3 can only see person 2's sentence, not person 1. What happens is they do not know what the starting topic was and will have to make an assumption off person 2's sentence, technically writing a new theme with their sentence. They fold it back and pass it on to the next person.
Person 4 can only see person 3's sentence, while person 1 and 2's are folded back.
This continues on for as long as you want; usually about 10-15 passes will give a good length, and you can pass along more if you like.
The result is usually a mix of topics, names, and themes. At times, you will get partial sentences that fit together, and at other times, most, or all of the story, fits together.
When we did it during one of my classes, there was one story that flowed perfectly start to finish; these days, I can only get most of the story flowing.
Here's one of our favourites we had during that night (I'll number each separate sentence written):
1 Once upon a time, Ammon liked wearing dresses
2 So he decided he needed to go shopping, he drove to the city
3 When he got there he went to his favourite bar, a gay bar
4 Because he loves the sound of mens voices
5 A whispering voice says "The sound of mens voices intrigue only damned souls, heed my warning"
6 Mens voices echoed in Ammon's head, and the song *it's raining men* came to him
7 Hallelujah!
8 Praise the Lord!
9 He's the best. I wonder if he knows about Ammon?
10 He wanders in Wonderland with Alice
11 And then a dog stole his bone, and the dog lived happily ever after
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