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TWINS

IT’S A RACE TO FIND THE PAIR!

PREPARATION

Each player thinks of two words which have something in common, such as baseball and basketball, trumpet and trombone, airport and terminal, etc. No plurals allowed! Players draw dashes in a line representing the number of letters in the two words if they were placed next to each other. (For example, with baseball and basketball, the total number of letters in both words combined is eighteen: baseballbasketball.

OBJECTIVE

Players attempt to be the first to find the pair.

GAME TIME & EXAMPLE

Using the example of baseball and basketball, Player 1 goes first and tells the other players to draw eighteen dashes. Player 1 then tells everyone to place specific letters one at a time over specific dashes. Every 15 seconds, he provides one letter until someone shouts out what he or she thinks the two words are. However, Player 1 must provide the letter clues in the following sequence:

1.    First letter of the first word.

2.    Last letter of the second word.

3.    Second letter of the first word.

4.    Second-to-last letter of the second word.

5.    Third letter of the first word . . . and so on.

After seven letters are placed with the example of baseballbasketball, the line should look like this:

base___________all

Play continues as players take turns coming up with “twin” words.

SCORING

The first player to figure out the two words and shout out the correct answer earns 5 points for that round. HOWEVER, if players guess incorrectly, they are out of the round (only one guess per player per round). In addition, each time a player shouts out a wrong guess, the prize for the correct answer increases by 5 points for the rest of the players competing. The first player to earn 100 points wins!