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RELATIVES

BE THE FASTEST TO FIGURE OUT THE COMMON THEME IN THIS EXCITING TEAM CHALLENGE!

PREPARATION

First, divide the group into two teams. For each round, all players must come up with a “four-word relative,” that is, four words that are all related in some way. (For example, one four-word relative could be toast, fries, onion soup, and horn. Can you guess the relationship?)

Each of the four words are clues provided one at a time to the other players as they try to find the relation of those words to a specific theme. (In the above case, that theme is “things that are French”!) Players should not let any other players, whether on their team or the other team, see their words.

IMPORTANT: When creating your order of clues, the first and second clues shouldn’t give it away easily, but the answer should still be possible to figure out with some creative thinking!

OBJECTIVE

Players must figure out the theme before the other team! For each round, the faster a player gets it, the more points his or her team receives.

GAME TIME

Players from each team take turns providing clues to their four-word relatives while both teams attempt to guess the theme. Player 1 goes first, giving clues one at a time. Players have 30 seconds to guess the theme for each clue. Only one guess per team per clue!

TIP: This game is played Family Feud style. The first player on either team to raise his or her hand after each clue gets one guess. If that person gets the theme wrong in that one guess, the other team has 30 seconds to get together and provide one guess collectively, and so on.

The first team to guess the theme earns points (see “Scoring”). Then Player 2 gives clues for her four-word relative, and so on.

SCORING

Teams earn 20 points for guessing the theme after the first clue, 15 points for guessing after the second, 10 points for guessing after the third, and 5 points for guessing after the fourth clue.

EXAMPLES OF RELATIVES

•    king, queen, twin, bunk—types of beds

•    Oklahoma, Mississippi, Sacramento, concentration—words with four syllables

•    river, check, call, raise—poker terms

•    Jack, Cliff, Will, Bob—first names with other meanings

•    B12, A1, B1, C7—gates at the airport

•    John, Pete, Keith, Roger—original members of The Who

•    push, pull, lift, curl—things you do with weights

•    contract, jersey, check, cast—things you sign

•    bone, off, rex, cup—things that go with t

•    bra, belt, clothespin, sling—things that hold other things up

•    lions, tigers, pistons, automobiles—Detroit

•    Bill Murray, Demi Moore, Dan Aykroyd, Patrick Swayze—ghost movie actors

•    Jason, Julia, Michael, Jerry—Seinfeld actors

•    Alaska, Argentina, Alabama, Aida—begin and end with the letter a

•    raise arms, stand up, put arms down, sit down— how to do the wave

•    Rabbit, Beetle, Mustang, Taurus—car models

•    “Girl,” “Michelle,” “Yesterday,” “Help”—Beatles songs

•    Glory, Hard Rain, Amistad, Unforgiven—Morgan Freeman movies

•    chance, income tax, Oriental, Park Place—Monopoly

•    emergency, dark, bath, living—rooms

•    pit, chair, rest, wrestle—arm stuff

•    balloon, cookbook, tattoo, assassin—words with two sets of double letters

•    paint, men, group, drums—Blue Man Group

•    cross, left, right, jab—boxing terms

•    pro golf match, Broadway play, church, library—places where you need to be quiet