Acrophilia

The other day I made up a game with Leah Davis. I've play-tested it three times now and it is certainly the funniest game I've ever played -- it induces almost nonstop laughing.

The game is simple. Each player takes seven letters from a scrabble set. One player is declared to be the judge on the first round. The judge uses his or her letters to make a acronym-sentence: one letter per word. Everyone else then makes up their own acronym-sentence with their letters and tries to make their sentence a logical follow-on of the previous sentence(s). The judge writes down all of the sentences and picks a winner based on whatever criteria he or she likes. The winning sentence is then moved into the middle of the table, the judge rotates one position, and another round ensues until there are no more letters.

Additional rules:

• You must use all of your letters, no skipping "a", "of", "the", etc.
• You can add any amount of punctuation you want. The more, the better.
• Bonus points for punning or word-play
• Bonus points for proper names
• Bonus points for a sentence that is a direct response to the previous one.
• Super bonus if you can make a palindromic sentence where you use all of the letters forwards and backwards to make a 14 word sentence!

A warning, this game gets ridiculous very fast. In all three play-tests it turned obscene, racist, sexist, etc. within a few turns. I've kept some of the play papers but decorum prevents copying any of it here. :-)