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THAT’S MY PLAN, AND
I’M STICKING TO IT!

GET EVERYONE TO GUESS YOUR LIST OF FAMOUS PEOPLE IN AS FEW CLUES AS POSSIBLE.

Each player makes a list of twenty famous people and writes each of them on individual, small pieces of paper with his or her own name underneath each one. These are the game pieces, which are all mixed up in a hat or other object to prevent anyone from seeing them.

Players must try to get all of the other players in the game to guess their “famous person” picks in as few clues as possible—preferably just one!

Player 1 goes first and picks a number of pieces out of the hat without looking or letting anyone else see who he picked. The number of pieces chosen is equivalent to the number of players in the game, not including the player who draws the pieces.

Player 1 must now try and get all of the other players in the game to guess one of the famous people he picked using only one-word clues and a maximum of three clues per name. It is up to Player 1 to determine which player will guess each famous person from the names he drew.

Players can assign the famous people they drew to whichever players they choose with one exception: players may not ask a player to guess one of the famous people he or she submitted to the pile. (That is why everyone puts their names underneath each famous person they submit.)

TIP: The player giving the clues should determine which player is most likely to guess each famous person based on his or her interests.

Player 1 selects the player he wants to have guess his first famous person and gives the first clue. Players can use one-word clues ONLY, and no clue can be any part of the person’s name. (For example, if you want someone to guess “Sylvester Stallone,” your first clue could be “Rocky.” If you want someone to say “Marlon Brando,” your first clue could be “Godfather.”)

Each player in the game MUST have the chance to attempt to guess one of the selections. Players may not skip anyone or use a player twice. Each player in the game has no more than 30 seconds after each clue. Once Player 1 has either succeeded or failed to elicit correct guesses from each of the other players, play continues with Player 2, who draws the same number of names from the hat and assigns them to the other players to guess.

NOTE: Once a game piece is used, it must be tossed away. Also, if a famous person is selected from the hat who has already been used in the game (for example, if more than one person submitted “Will Ferrell”), toss it away and pick again. There should be enough submissions to negate the loss of a few duplicates.

If the player who Player 1 selected to guess a name guesses correctly with just one clue, both players earn 3 points. If the player guesses in two clues, both players earn 2 points. In three clues, both players earn 1 point each. If a player doesn’t guess correctly in three clues, neither player (the guesser or the clue giver) gets any points and Player 1 moves on to the next player with a new name. For example, if there are five total players in the game, you can earn a maximum of 12 points (3 X 4 [the other four players]) each time it is your turn to pick the game pieces and give clues.