Thursday, August 20, 2009

Fun roadtrip games: Celebrity Initials

How to play:

There are two versions of this. One is the 20-questions game. One of you comes up with a celebrity, and gives the initials to the other. The other gets to ask 20 yes-no questions to discover who the mystery person is. The celebrity can be real or fake, human or otherwise, but the celebrity must be someone you're reasonably sure the other has heard of. So
, Buggs Bunny (fake non-human) is okay, but your second grade teacher is not. The best strategy to play this game is to go from the general to the specific. For example:

If the initials are J.D.

Is this a human being? Yes
Is it female? No
Is he living? No
Was he a politician? No
Was he an entertainer? Yes
Was he a singer? Yes
Was he in a band? No
Performed solo? Yes
Did he play an instrument? Yes
Piano? No
Guitar? Yes
Did he die within the last ten years? No
Did he die within the last 25 years? Yes
Did he die a natural death? No
Did he die in an accident? Yes
Was it a car wreck? No
A moving vehicle accident of any kind? Yes
Plane crash? yes
John Denver? Yes

Some questions can be tricky, like if they had asked if the person was an actor. John Denver did act in "Oh! God!" but he wasn't known for that. Likewise, if someone did Sonny Bono, they'd have to say he was a politician.

The other celebrity initial game, you two find letters, like on signs and stuff, and shout out two that are in a row. You'll have to do the whole word, two letters at a time. The first one to come up with a celebrity with those initials wins the round. For example, you see a sign that says "CAUTION" and someone says the word. You go through it:

CA: Christina Applegate
AU: Al Unser
UT: Uma Thurman
TI: Rapper T.I.
IO: I'm stumped.
ON: Ozzie Nelson

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