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The Name Game
A fun guessing game to play anywhere, anytime with lots of friends
Here is a great
game some of our lake friends, Steve and Amy, introduced us to this summer.
It is a guessing game that can be played by a group of players. The
advantage it has is that it requires almost no supplies, just paper and
writing utensils. It can also be played with just about any number of
players, but we recommend you have at least 5 players to keep it
interesting. As the game begins, each player is an individual player, as
play progresses the players are assigned to teams, with the object of the
game being to end up with the biggest team. Players from about age 6 and up
can enjoy this game together.
To begin each round, every player gets a slip of paper and writes the name of a famous person on it. One person is assigned to be the reader for this round, and they get two slips and write a different famous name on each. The reader does not participate in the guessing. The duty of reader should rotate to a different player every round.
Hint: agreeing on the definition of the term famous before the game will help to alleviate arguments later. For example, do fictitious characters or cartoon characters qualify as famous people?
Once everyone has
written a name on their slips, all the slips of paper are folded and
collected by the reader. When the reader has all the slips, they need to
read them through silently to themselves once to ensure that there are no
duplicates and that all meet the agreed upon criteria of famous person.
If there are any duplicates or invalid entries, the reader will request a
new submission from the players who submitted them, or simply ask everyone
to submit new names. Once the names are verified as valid and unique, the
reader reads each famous name aloud to the entire group. They should read
through the entire list at least three times slowly, always in the same
order.
The first
player to the reader’s left has to guess which player is the player who
wrote any one of the famous people’s names. For example, either “I believe
that John wrote George Washington” or “I believe that John is George
Washington” would be a valid guess, assuming that there is a player named
John, and one of the famous names read was George Washington. If that guess
is correct, and John is the player who wrote George Washington, John would
then be added to that player's team. This team now gets to make another
guess. If the guess is incorrect, play moves to the next player (not on the
same team) to make a guess. As long as a player or team continues to guess
correctly they get to continue with another guess. Anyone whose famous name
is correctly guessed becomes a member of the guessing team, regardless of
whether or not they were on another team.
The advantage of the teams is that they know at least one name that has not been guessed, and they can help each other remember what all of the famous names were.
Hint: it gets very hard to remember all the names with larger groups, but that is one key to winning the game.
Hint:
knowing the personalities of the people you are playing with can help you
figure out which names they are likely to have submitted.
Play continues until all of the famous names have been correctly matched to the players who submitted them. The winning team is the one with the most members at the end of the game.
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