Anguish Languish
| No. of Players: | 1+ |
| Type of Game: | written |
| What you need: | pen and paper |
Goal
To rewrite words or phrases using similar-sounding words.
How to play
Players select snippets of text (famous quotations, book titles, TV shows, a phrase or word found in a magazine, etc) to rewrite using homophones, or words that have the same pronunciation, but different meanings and/or spelling. A vote can be held for the player with the funniest homophonic, or near-homophonic, transformation.
Examples
"They're using common sense" could be transformed into "There you sing calm incense." Here are a few others:
| Sales tax | ➔ | Sails' tacks |
| Red Sea | ➔ | "Read, see?" |
| Bel Air | ➔ | Bell heir |
| "Survivor" | ➔ | "Sir, revive her" |
| Mississippi | ➔ | Miss is sipping. |
| Algorithms | ➔ | Al Gore rhythms |
| Hearsay | ➔ | Hairspray |
| "The Real Housewives" | ➔ | The Rio House Wines |
| "Yellow Submarine" | ➔ | Yell low: "Some marine!" |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | ➔ | Tucan Mocked The Burn |
| "Here's looking at you, kid." | ➔ | "Ears lurking at ewe kid." |
