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Dinah
Guest
Living room entertainment is a good idea in this recession. The Dictionary game is more fun than kittens in box. Do you know how to play?
Gather comfortably with pens and same-size pads, with one person starting with the dictionary. An unabridged works best. Everybody writes their name in a corner of their paper. Find a word nobody knows the definition of, by asking aloud. It's spelled, and its part of speech is given. The definition is written by the one holding the book. Everybody else guesses, writing plainly as possible. The papers are folded once, all folded alike, and gathered. The dictionary person reads through each definition silently for legibility, handing back any they can't read, for legibility, waits and checks, then reads them all aloud, dictionary definition included.
If you guess the right definition, you get twenty-five points. For however many times your definition is chosen, you get five points each. The person reading them tallies which get however many.
The dictionary is passed to the right, the papers redistributed and names crossed out and replaced. Former definitions are crossed out.
Gather comfortably with pens and same-size pads, with one person starting with the dictionary. An unabridged works best. Everybody writes their name in a corner of their paper. Find a word nobody knows the definition of, by asking aloud. It's spelled, and its part of speech is given. The definition is written by the one holding the book. Everybody else guesses, writing plainly as possible. The papers are folded once, all folded alike, and gathered. The dictionary person reads through each definition silently for legibility, handing back any they can't read, for legibility, waits and checks, then reads them all aloud, dictionary definition included.
If you guess the right definition, you get twenty-five points. For however many times your definition is chosen, you get five points each. The person reading them tallies which get however many.
The dictionary is passed to the right, the papers redistributed and names crossed out and replaced. Former definitions are crossed out.