Thursday 5 January 2012

That's what it says on his business cards.

A new entry in my occasional, and very niche, series: Favourite Guess In The Game 'Articulate' Played Over Christmas. (If you don't know it, 'Articulate' is a board game where you try to get your team-mates to say as many of the words on the card as possible without using those words yourself.)

Describer: [Trying to get the guesser to say the word 'Adder'] 'Black (pause) Rowan Atkinson...'
Guesser: 'Lenny Henry!'

23 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:47 pm

    Oh my god XD

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  2. My favourite Articulate situation was as follows:

    Describer: [Trying to get the guesser to say Chameleon]
    Karma, Karma-karma-karma-karma.....

    Guesser: GEORGE MICHAEL!

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  3. Anonymous6:28 pm

    My favourite this year
    Describer: Talking about something really passionately?
    Guesser: Speechifying!

    I was laughing so hard I didn't hear the actual answer.

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  4. Anonymous7:32 pm

    I've never played it, I'm starting to think I should!

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  5. Anonymous7:36 pm

    Don't buy the board game, get everyone to write words (or just names) on slips of paper and throw them all in a big bucket during the evening, then play it that way. Much more fun.

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  6. Sarah9:37 pm

    Answer on card: 'The Himalayas'

    Describer: A mountain range in Scotland.

    Guesser: The Himalayas.

    Do they get bonus points for getting the answer right by both getting it wrong in the same way?

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  7. RĂ³is10:50 pm

    Describer: [Trying to get the guesser to say the word 'Blueberry'] 'Not a blackberry'
    Guesser: 'iPhone?'

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  8. lizzie_s11:39 pm

    Over Christmas we played a lot of Articulate

    Me as Describer (Trying to get the guesser to say Rocket)
    'Something you shoot into space'

    My son as Guesser: 'MONKEYS!'

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  9. Lesley-Anne12:59 pm

    Sadly we've never had Articulate as we are a Triv Family. Fave guesser comment on "how many strings on an abacus" (now immortalised in Family Lore) turned to her brother and said, "you'll know, you're musical..."

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  10. Anonymous3:31 pm

    Trying to get my Mum to say olive I said: 'it is a fruit, comes in green and black...'

    Mum: Jelly babies!

    My diet was not great as a kid...

    Emma x

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  11. The game sounds so funny!

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  12. Elliel11:50 pm

    Comedy gold in our household:

    Describer: [trying to get the answer Bob Monkhouse] presenter, first name is the same as his *points at grandfather*

    Grandmother: Robert?

    Describer: shorter...

    Grandmother: Bob?

    Describer: Yup, second name, first half... A man who lives in a monastery.

    Grandmother: monk?

    Describer: excellent! Second half... Somewhere a person lives.

    Grandmother: um, home?... Flat...?... Apartment?

    Describer: time's running out! Bob monk....

    Grandmother: abode!

    [timer empties, Describer hangs head in shame!)

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  14. I gave as a clue "Flatfish, we're playing just for the..." and got the correct answer from my teammate, but the bad loser opposite said that it was a "sounds like" and therefore inadmissable.

    And he wonders why we don't like playing with him.

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  15. Anonymous2:24 pm

    One Christmas, my cousin was describing 'Thrush'.

    Cousin - "It's a bird, and also a disease that women get"

    Another cousin's husband - "AIDS!"

    It stopped the whole game while everyone collapsed in hysterics.

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  17. Anonymous4:01 pm

    my mother trying to describe 'razor' to her husband of 24 years (who wears a beard), in the company of their 4 children...

    "most other men have them, but you don't..."

    we were inarticulate for some time

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  18. Claire10:36 pm

    I love articulate (and did you know that there's a new version out called 'Articulate your Life'- for those groups of friends who know every single solitary word of the game off by heart?).

    Favourite Articulate Situation:

    Describer: "Shape of the board"
    Guesser: "Square!!"

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