BONUS: Game Night with the Gerdes Family

Last night was game night at our house, and our friends the Gerdes family came for dinner and gaming (and brought WONDERFUL dessert, but more on that later).  We only had time to play three games - some of us busy working too late and getting up too early to push it beyond that, but the games we got in were good.  The first game we played is one I've posted about already: Spyfall.  The second was Balderdash, which will be the topic of my next post, game 34.  The third and final game was the Picture Sentence Game, which I haven't posted about yet, but isn't technically "on" our shelf either since it's a party game played with pencil and paper.  Hmm  .  .  .

A little sample of the Picture Sentence Game is above.  It's like the whispering "telephone" game that little kids play. In this game, one person writes a sentence, the next draws a picture of that sentence, the next writes a sentence describing the picture, and so on.  You can see how much things can change just from one sentence to the next!  I've given a longer description and two full examples at the end of this post.

Our first game was Spyfall.  Our friends hadn't played it before, so we introduced them to it.  Below are the three locations we got:
Next up was Balderdash (Kalvin's request, and I was hoping it would be requested).  This is technically Game 34 in this venture, so more on it tomorrow.  Since we played with more than the maximum number of players, leaving us not enough pawns, we improvised on tokens!
Let's not forget dinner and dessert.  We gamers have to keep up our strength! So some pictures of that, and then some full Picture Sentence Game results.
 Dinner was home-made lasagna with garlic bread, jello, salad, veggies and fruit.  Dessert was an amazing gooey chocolate cake along with Pastor Glenn's famous, award-winning home-made ice-cream: Cookies 'n Cream.  Ooh-la-la!!

 OK, so, on the the Picture Sentence Game.  Each person begins with a pencil and a stack of as many sheets of paper as there are people playing.  Each player comes up with an initial sentence, writes it on the top sheet of paper, turns the stack upside-down, and passes the stack to the player on their left. Once the next player receives this pass, that person turns the stack right-side up and illustrates the sentence with a picture.  The sheet with the initial sentence is put on the bottom of the stack, and no other players may look at it.  Successive passes work the same way, alternating the drawing of a picture and the writing of a sentence - players only allowed to look at the one sheet that is on top of the stack they are given.  The end is the most fun.  The way we play is that we throw the last picture drawn in each stack into the center of the table, and the players try to identify which picture resulted from their initial sentence.  Sometimes the "message" remains clear throughout the game.  Sometimes results become wildly different!

 SAMPLE 1



 SAMPLE 2



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