cricket cricket from my birthday

[jinian]

Less than a month to get my butt into the computer lab and scan these! Go me!

For those not yet fortunate enough to have played Cricket, Cricket, I'm On Fire, the rules go like this:

• Each person playing writes a phrase others could be reasonably expected to know at the top of a half-sheet of paper. Song lyrics, proverbs, whatever. I personally resort to Shakespeare quotes fairly often; making people draw the Earth in a corset is just fun.


• The paper goes to the next person, who's sitting next to person 1 in whichever direction people have agreed to pass papers. Person 2 has to attempt to convey the sentence with a picture. Bad drawings can actually be more fun than good drawings, because in the next step...


• Person 2 folds the top of the paper to hide the words and passes the paper to person 3, who has to make words out of the picture.


• People 4 through n get either words or picture and have to produce the other one. The paper ends on words when there's no more room for pictures (or when the phrase has gone around unmutated).


• When all the papers are done, everyone gets one to open and read. People often say this, but hilarity really does ensue. And here are the samples to prove it.

The body politic
The cobbler's children go without shoes
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Catch a tiger by the tail
Revenge is a dish best served cold
Tiger, tiger, burning bright

More samples are in the directory these are in. These newest scans look a little light on this screen, but they looked good in the lab so hopefully they look all right to most people.

(Some people play debased versions of Cricket in which the sentences can be just anything, but I like a little information with my entropy.)

Comments

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

I was particularly charmed by "we caught a king! beavers will fart tonight". The illustration was delightfully evocative. :-)

[tiassa]

Oh! I've seen this game, but it was called Heresy when it was explained to me. I've always wanted to try it.

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wish I could have been there. SO FUN!

[hattifattener]

Neat. I've also heard it called eatpoopyoucat. (And "picture sentence picture".) I wonder what else it's called.

I also like the way it exposes unexpected bits of cultural imagery. Like the cobbler at his bench with a hammer, even though we hardly ever wear shoes with nails in them any more. (At least I don't.)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

EPYC has been one of the debased versions every time I've ever heard of it, and Wikipedia's EPYC article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Poop_You_Cat) confirms that. Of course, they also say Cricket Cricket is the same thing, which it's not.