Rhopalics
| No. of Players: | 1+ |
| Type of Game: | written or spoken |
| What you need: | pen & paper or nothing |
Goal
To craft a sentence where each word has one more syllable or letter than the preceding one.
How to play
A rhopalic sentence is a sentence in which each word contains one more syllable or letter than the previous word. Players challenge themselves or others to write rhopalic sentences after first agreeing on whether to focus on syllables or letters. The player with the longest sentence is the winner. Alternatively, each player contributes a word in turn. Any player who cannot think of a suitable word must drop out. The last player left is the winner.
As writing rhopalic sentences using syllables becomes exceedingly difficult after about six or seven words, players can repeat the cycle after every fifth letter or so.
Examples
The players alternately add words to a growing rhopalic sentence.
Using syllables:
Was Johnny's favorite technology elementary...
You started yesterday incredibly: congratulations, Alexanderina...
Red pencils exercise uncreative Trinidadian's...
The country's President facilitates California's revolutionary...
Using letters:
I am not ever super drowsy, drained, fatigued, enervated...
I do not kill happy cattle, however, Beatrice mutilates alligators aquatically...
If you won't climb upward towards Everest's abandoned, unalluring mountaintop...
Bob goes above heaven, evading nonlegal authority cheerfully...
