Have you ever played The Game With No Name (and I don't mean the horror-survivor-electronic game)?
Creative Genius hosted his wife's birthday party here on Friday night and we laughed ourselves silly playing this game.
The only supplies needed to play the game are a pencil and a stack of scrap paper for each player.
Each player needs to have as many small pieces of scrap paper in his stack as there are players (12 players=12 pieces of paper for each person).
On the first round, each player chooses a word to write on the top piece of paper in his stack; any word he prefers, but usually a noun, because the player on his right is going to have to represent it with a picture.
After each player has written a word on his top sheet, he passes his entire stack to the player on his right.
Now each player reads the word written on the top sheet of the stack he's just been handed, places the top sheet at the bottom of the stack, and draws a picture to represent the word on the new top sheet.
Again, each player passes his entire stack - now with a picture on the top sheet - to the player on his right.
Each player then looks at the picture on the top sheet of the stack he's just been handed, places it at the bottom of the stack, and writes (on the new top sheet) the word he thinks the picture represents.
The stacks continue to be passed in this fashion - word, picture, word, picture,etc. - until each player's original stack is returned to him.
Then, one at a time, each person shows how his original word fared as it made it's way through the various interpretations.
Sometimes, if the word is fairly simple to depict with a drawing, the stack makes it back with very little, or no, change in the original word.
As was the case with "moustache" during our game on Friday night.
When this happens, it's just the variety of the drawings themselves which make us laugh.
Occasionally, a word will make it around the circle with just a small shift in meaning.
As was the case in Friday's game, when 'nerd'...
...morphed into simply "little boy".
The real fun, though, comes when something changes drastically during interpretation, and we finish with a whole stack of words and drawings which are far removed from the original.
I didn't manage to save the entire series of words and drawings which had us in stitches Friday, but one of the stacks started with the word "schnauzer".
And the first person to draw it did a fine job.
But the person who looked at the drawing thought it was a "terrier".
And the person who saw the word "terrier" isn't a dog-lover...so their drawing looked like "wolfman" (or at least that's how it was interpreted by the next player).
Things deteriorated pretty rapidly from there, and the second-to-last word on the stack was "devil".
The last artist, however, did not know quite how to go about drawing a picture of the devil.
So...
We got ourselves a "devil bunny".
And that was the last word on that.