Pearl Bates: Any number of players can play. You all stand in a circle and the first player says, “I’m gonna take a trip to Alaska, and I’m gonna take some ____________.” In the blank you put a word that, say, starts with the first letter of your last name. Like I might say, “baloney.”
Then the next person says, “Well, I’m gonna go, too, and I’m gonna take some ___________.” But if the word that the person uses doesn’t start with the first letter of his or her last name, I say, “No, you can’t go,” and that person has to keep standing there in the circle (and guess again when his turn comes around). If the word chosen does start with that person’s last name, that person gets to sit down and wait for the next game to start.
Then the next person goes, and so on around the circle until everyone has caught onto the trick and has sat down. You keep going until everyone is out.
Then with the next game, the lead person chooses another trick that the rest have to figure out. Like I might decide to use the first letter of my first name this time, and say, “I’m gonna take a trip to Alaska, and I’m gonna take some peas.” And the next person tries to figure out what trick I’m using and choose the right word.
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I like the game about going to Alaska! I can imagine teachers using it in their classrooms and coming up with all sorts of rules for the students to use as the game progresses. I think it would work well as a car game on a long trip too.
The girls and I used to play the alphabet game in the car. We would pick a subject, like first names, and then take turns thinking of names that start with each letter of the alphabet.
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Tipper
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