Halloween Games: Consequences

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Consequences
Players sit in a circle: each person has half a sheet of notepaper and a pencil and is asked to write on top– (i) one or more adjectives, then to fold the paper over so that what is written cannot be seen. Every player has to pass their paper to the right and all have to write on the top of the paper which has been passed by the left-hand neighbor. (ii) the name of a gentleman; after having done this the paper must again be folded and passed on as before; this time must be written (iii) one or more adjectives; then (iv) a lady’s name; next (v), where they met; next (vi) what he gave her; next (vii), what he said to her; next (viii), what she said to him; next (ix), the consequence; and lastly (x), what the world said about it. Be careful that every time anything has been written the paper is folded down and passed on to the player on your right. When every one has written what the world says, the papers are collected and one of the company proceeds to read out the various papers, and the result may be somewhat like this:— (1) The horrifying and delightful (2) Mr. Brown (3) met the charming (4) Miss Phillips (5) in Westminster Abbey; (6) he gave her a flower (7) and said to her: “How’s your mother?” (8) She said to him: “Not for Joseph;” (9) the consequence was they danced the hornpipe, and the world said: (10) “Just what we expected.”

[French Ministry of Education Site: Centre national de documentation pédagogique]