Alphabetical Animals
| No. of Players: | 2+ |
| Type of Game: | spoken |
| What you need: | nothing |
Goal
To remember an increasingly long list of adjectives and animals.
How to play
The first player thinks of an adjective beginning with the letter A, and an animal beginning with the letter A, and says it in the follow format: “One a___ a___.” The second player repeats this phrase, but adds the phrase “two b___ b___” with a B adjective and animal. The third player repeats these two phrases, but adds “three c___ c___” and so on, round the players. Any player who cannot properly remember the sequence, and/or cannot think of a suitable phrase to add to that sequence, is out of the game. The last player left is the winner.
This game is similar to Alphabetical Adjectives.
Example
| Aisha: | One ageless alligator. |
| Baker: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons. |
| Cesar: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels. |
| Dante: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves. |
| Eddy: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk. |
| Aisha: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk, six fussy frogs. |
| Baker: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk, six fussy frogs, seven glad gazelles. |
| Cesar: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk, six fussy frogs, seven glad gazelles, eight hilarious hamsters. |
| Dante: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk, six fussy frogs, seven glad.... um... I forgot! (Dante drops out.) |
| Eddy: | One ageless alligator, two bankrupt baboons, three cute camels, four dramatic doves, five enraged elk, six fussy frogs, seven glad gazelles, eight hilarious hamsters, nine introverted iguanas. |
And so on.
Did you know?
There are approximately 125,000 adjectives in the English language. That's a lot of words to consider when looking to perfectly describe that jaw-dropping sunset before us.
This estimate is based on the fact that about a quarter of the words we use are adjectives – and if we assume there are 500,000 total words. That total is based on the number of entries found in unabridged dictionaries like Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
Incidently, this means there are approximately 250,000 nouns, 70,000 verbs, and 55,000 adverbs, exclamations, conjunctions and prepositions.
