This is a little bit late but better late than never.
My friends and have have started playing this game called Telephone Pictionary in the last month or so. I recently had the idea that this game could be used in a linguistics study somehow. I'm not sure how exactly, and even if I did know, it would probably be outside my area of interest. It would have something to do with how people interpret and describe symbols in a picture. Anyway, it's great fun. Here's how you play:
1. Get together a group of people. The game is best played with 5-10 people. Each person needs a stack of papers about the size of an index card. They will need as many pieces of paper as there are people playing the game. We usually assign a number to each player and put that number on each of the cards in case they get mixed up.
2. Each person writes down a phrase on their first piece of paper. This can be a movie quote, a cliché, song lyrics or a made up sentence. Your group can put limits on this as you see fit. You'll see why in a minute.
3. Everyone then passes their entire stack of paper to the person next to them. It doesn't matter whether you go clockwise or counter-clockwise, just make sure everyone passes the same direction every time.
4. Everyone has one minute to draw the phrase on the next paper (someone will have to time this). At the end of that minute, put the first paper behind the stack and pass it to the next person. A picture should now be on the top of the stack.
5. Everyone now has one minute to guess what phrase describes the picture and write it down on the next piece of paper. At the end of the minute, put the picture on the bottom of the stack and pass the stack to the next person. A phrase should now be the top paper of the stack.
6. Continue in like manner, alternating between pictures and phrases, until everyone has back their original stack of paper.
It's hilarious what you end up with at the end. Take turns sharing what each person got with the rest of the group. Everyone wins.
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