Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 Traffic Jams 1
Car Cricket 2
Sail the Seven Seas 4
Where's Voldemort? 5
Destination Sentences 7
1-2-3-Spy 9
I've Just Seen… 11
Cat Eats Mouse 13
How Did Liverpool Get Its Name? 15
Reg! 17
I'm in Business 19
2 The Kitchen Table 21
Crambo 22
Kim's Game 24
Please Pass the … 25
Shut Your Eyes 27
Boink! 28
King Henry VIII's Banquet 30
Six Degrees of Separation 32
What's My Line? 34
Seat Memory 36
Hardest Game in the World 39
3 Long, Hot Summer 41
Twenty-One Dares 42
Murder in Paradise 44
Preposition I-Spy 47
Don't Finish the Word! 49
Top Ten of Everything 51
Story Tornado 53
Stupid Superheroes 55
What's It Worth? 58
Genre Bender 60
Avagat 62
4 One-On-One 65
Reflect Me 66
Blindfold Game 68
Squiggle Challenge 70
Fortunately/Unfortunately 71
Control the Robot 73
Boxes 75
Dice Soccer 77
Switch! 80
Hangman Mastermind 82
Lego Challenge 84
5 Party Time 87
Clap Clap SQUAWK 88
Zip Bong 90
Bang! 92
Co-Op Musical Islands 94
Squashed Sardines 96
Who's the Leader? 98
Chappy Tomato 100
Locked Box 102
Mafia 104
Pat Clap Click Click 108
6 Cabin Fever 111
Sniffer Dog 112
Endless Sentence 113
Pan Tapping 116
Silly Word Snowballs 117
The Floor Is Lava 119
The Silent Game 120
Disregarded Things 121
Monsters of the Nook and Cranny 122
Jumble 124
Double Acrostic 126
7 Long Games For Long Journeys 129
The Questions Game 130
Buzz Words 132
Glom! 134
Yes/No/Black/White 136
Adjectival Animals 138
Similelarly 140
Celebritables 143
Essence 144
No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die 146
RPGs (Role-Playing Games) 148
8 After Dinner 153
1,000 Blank White Cards 154
Category Scramble 159
Would You Rather? 162
Wavy Gravy 164
Two Truths and a Lie 166
No More Dogs 169
Acrophobia 171
Fictionary 173
Botticelli 175
Hunt for the Pair 177
9 A Very Merry Christmas 181
One-Word Story 182
Twenty Questions (aka Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) 184
Say What You See 187
The Exquisite Corpse 189
Identity Crisis 191
Letter Links 193
First Lines 195
Consequences 198
Brian! Brian? 201
Blabbermouth 203
10 Just Chill Out 207
Word Association 208
Why? 210
Fit-It 212
A-Z of 214
Word Ladders 216
Right on Target 218
Ten-to-One Story 220
Grow a Word 222
Write Against the Odds 224
Talk Like Shakespeare 226
Appendix 229
Acknowledgments 253
Index 255
