1,000 Blank Cards

PARTY IN YOUR POCKET or

Calvinball! On Paper

or Necessary Equipment: (1) stack of blank index cards, (?)

pens/pencils

Preparation: Pass out an equal amount of blank cards to all

INST-A-PARTY (just add people) players. Each player creates multiple cards at their own
discretion. All cards must include a title; a picture; and
an instruction, point distribution, or game rule.

Gameplay: Cards are all shuffled together. Each player is

dealt five cards from the pile. Player one draws a card
from the deck and plays a card from his hand. This card can
be directed to an individual or the entire group. New cards
can be created and implemented at any time, unless otherwise
specified in a previous card.

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Preparation: Pass out an equal amount of blank cards to all

to retire.
learning; (fake) a place where phonemes and glottal stops go
Example: phrontistery: (real) an establishment for study and
from each player.
definition is never voted for, the judge receives a point
for every vote his definition receives. If the correct
humorous). The creator of a definition receives one point
definition they think is the correct one (or the most
reads the definitions to the group. The group votes on the
card. The definitions are shuffled together and the judge
player writes his own imaginative definition on his own
his card, and reads the word aloud to the group. Each
from the dictionary, writes down its correct definition on
Gameplay: One player (the judge) chooses an obscure word
players.
Preparation: Pass out an equal amount of blank cards to all
players. Each player writes an adjective, noun, or an
adjectivally-rife noun-phrase on each card.
Gameplay: Cards are all shuffled together. Each player is
dealt five cards from the pile. One player (the judge)
chooses a card from the top of the pile. The remaining
players submit a card based upon what they think the judge
will appreciate. The judge chooses his favorite word-
association, thus selecting a winner for that round.
Gameplay continues until the group becomes bored.
Example: “The dude who served me coffee yesterday”;
“Bodacious zombies from the planet Zork”
The Why/Because Game
or
Huh?

pens/pencils, (1) dictionary Necessary Equipment: (1) stack of blank index cards, (?)
Necessary Equipment: (1) stack of blank index cards, (?) pens/pencils

Preparation: Pass out an equal amount of blank cards to all

Poor Man’s Balderdash players.
or
Fictionary Gameplay: Each player writes a question on one side of the
card and its answer on the other. The cards are
redistributed, one card to a player. The first player reads
read his sentence. Everyone will laugh.
his question and the next player reads his answer. Hilarity
last player will read his sentence. The first player will
will ensue. Gameplay continues until all questions are
everyone has written a sentence or drawn a picture. The
answered.
the card to hide the picture. Gameplay continues until
writes a sentence representative of the picture and folds
Example:
and folds the card to hide the sentence. Player three
“What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen
Player two draws a picture representative of the sentence
swallow”/”African or European”
Gameplay: Player one writes a sentence at the top of a card.
AND
What is the meaning of life”/”42”
Preparation: No prior preparation required.
BECOMES
“What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow”/”42”
pens/pencils
Necessary Equipment: (1) stack of blank index cards, (?)
Eat Poop You Cat
Poor Man’s Exquisite Corpse or