Alphabet Train
I learned this game at the 2005 OCA Conference, at the "No Equipment, No Planning Time, No Problem" session facilitated by Matt Barr.
Seat everyone in a circle. Choose one person to start the game by saying a word. The next person in the circle must quickly say another word that start with the letter that ended the previous word. Proper nouns (e.g., names of people or places) cannot be used. Once used, that word cannot be repeated for the rest of the game. Players can be eliminated if they take too long to come up with a new word, if they use a proper noun, or if they repeat a word already used.
The beginning of a game might sound like this:
- Player 1: "apple"
- Player 2: "elephant"
- Player 3: "tiger"
- Player 4: "river"
- Player 5: "rhino"
- Player 6: "octopus"
- etc.
To make the game more difficult, you can specify that all words used must be on a theme, e.g., food, animals, places, etc.
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