Doctor's Office
| No. of Players: | 2+ |
| Type of Game: | spoken |
| What you need: | nothing |
Goal
To recall and add to a growing alphabetical list of words.
How to play
The first player says "I went to the doctor's office because I had ___" where the sentence is completed with an illness that begins with the letter A. The second player repeats this sentence, but adds an illness that begins with the letter B, and so on, each successive player repeating the sentence and adding another illness at the end that begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Any player who cannot remember the entire list in alphabetical order, or who cannot think of a suitable illness, drops out of the game. The last player left is the winner.
Other versions of this game are Grandmother's Trunk, Suitcase, and The Store.
Example
| Amara: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety. |
| Brooks: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety and a boil. |
| Callie: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, and cystic fibrosis. |
| Derek: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis and deafness. |
| Esther: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness and an earache. |
| Amara: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness, an earache, and floaters in the eye. |
| Brooks: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness, an earache, floaters in the eye, and gout. |
| Callie: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness, an earache, floaters in the eye, gout, and hypothermia. |
| Derek: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness, an earache, floaters in the eye, gout, hypothermia, and influenza. |
| Esther: | I went to the doctor's office because I had anxiety, a boil, cystic fibrosis, deafness, an earache, floaters in the eye, gout, hypothermia, influenza, and... um... |
| Amara: | Can't think of an ailment that starts with J? You're out. |
And so on.
