A varitation for 20 questions
On road trips
my family played a different version of twenty questions that was a bit more abstract
. Maybe it has a name of its own, but I’ve never found it. There is no limit to the amount of questions in this variation
and you're not trying to guess what the object
is. So right off the bat
it's pretty different from 20 questions. A neat thing about it though is it can be played on its own or at the same time as a standard game of 20 questions. If you play it with 20 questions, you're not restricted to yes or no questions and answers.
So how do you play?
One person makes up a rule
that they must adhere
to every time they answer a question. The other person/people ask different questions and try
and figure out what the rule is. The answers don’t have to make perfect
sense they just have to follow the rule and address the question
in some way. Here is an example:
"I will always make reference to something that is spherical (basket ball, soccer ball, a planet, a jawbreaker, a pearl, peppercorn, a bubble, a marble)".
question : What is your favorite book?
answer : Around the World in 80 days
question : When trumpets sound how do you feel?
answer : Like putting pearls in my ears
question : What would you do if someone slapped your mom?
answer : Spit out my jawbreaker and bust their head open.
It's the kind of game that you don’t want to put many restrictions on but you will find certain things might have to be outlawed
based on the players. I think two restrictions are important. Physical
movements cannot count as a rule and if grammar
or any language/spelling type rule is allowed (The third word of my answer will always begin with the letter K
) the game most be played on paper. It’s nice to play on paper anyway so you can look over all the answers.