You gotta love a good game night with friends!
Tonight we played
Lost in Translation, a very fun game.
This game is similar to the old school
Telephone.
Everyone gets enough blank pieces of paper that you have one for every person playing plus one piece extra. For example, tonight we had 9 people playing, so everyone had 10 pieces of paper.
You start out thinking up a phrase and write it on your first piece of paper. Once everyone's ready, everyone passes their stack of papers with the phrase on top either to the right or left. The next person draws a picture showing the phrase on the next piece of paper. When everyone's finished drawing their pictures, pass the stack again and this time you try to figure out the phrase the person was illustrating. You keep passing. Keep alternating phrase, picture, phrase. End on creating a phrase. The change in the phrase and the pictures are sometimes hilarious!
Here's the funniest round tonight that I started...
The phrase I began with was
There's a frog in my throat! I think the first picture was great. Clearly, it is illustrating a frog in the little girl's throat. And in case there's any confusion, she drew the water with the lily pad.
The next person also figured out that the phrase involved having a frog in your throat. The next person drew a lovely illustration of someone panicking about the frog in their throat.
This is where the phrase gets out of hand (and funny)! It changes to
Aliens invading my body.
And then it changes again to
An alien runs into Barbara Walters.
Finally it ended with
Aliens on TV.
What a change! I love seeing everyone's interpretations and how the phrases evolve. Definitely recommend this game for any game night!
On a side note... the
Oreo Pudding dessert was a HUGE hit! I left tonight with an empty pan.
