The bit everyone gets wrong
Agree before you start whether proper nouns count for Thing. That is the argument every single time.
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How to play
Name Place Animal Thing
A letter, four columns, and everybody writing at once.
- Players
- 2–16 players
- You need
- One phone
- Origin
- India
- Shelf
- The phone runs it
The rules
4 steps.
- The phone calls a letter. Everyone writes a name, a place, an animal and a thing starting with it.
- First to finish all four shouts stop, and everyone puts their pen down.
- Read the answers out one column at a time.
- A unique answer scores; an answer somebody else also wrote scores less; a blank scores nothing.
What the phone does
The phone calls the letter and runs the clock. Scoring is yours — it will not judge whether a word counts.
It is a dealer and a scorekeeper, never a judge. It cannot hear the room and it does not decide who was right.
Same engine underneath
If you like this
And 58 more
One phone.
The whole night.
Name Place Animal Thing is one game in a library of 59. Finish it and PartyStack names the next one — a different kind each time, so nobody has to go back to a menu.
