TRY TO REMEMBER

PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

WHICH PICTURES WEREN’T IN THE ORIGINAL DRAWING?

PREPARATION

Each player draws a picture containing ten different objects and nothing else. The objects can be anything: an apple, a man, the sun, the moon, a nose, a candle, a box, a cat, a wizard, etc. Each object must be different, and no two objects should look alike. (In other words, each player can draw only one person, one car, one tree, one bush, and one dog, etc. The player’s person shouldn’t look like their dog, and their tree shouldn’t look like their bush, and so on.) Draw each object anywhere on a sheet of paper. Make the objects as clear as possible (within the scope of your talents), and leave enough room for five other objects of equal size to be added to your picture later on. Players should write their own name clearly at the top of their picture.

Players should also create score cards on a separate sheet of paper. Each player should write the name of every player in the game (including their own) with the numbers 1 through 5 below each one, leaving room to create a list of five objects for each player.

OBJECTIVE

Players must find the objects that were added to all of the other pictures and make it difficult for other players to find the new objects in their own pictures.

GAME TIME

Players pass their pictures around the table. Give each player 60 seconds to study each picture.

NOTE: The more players in the game, the more time you can allow for studying the pictures.

Look at all of the objects in the pictures carefully! Continue rotating the drawings until they return to the original artists. Once each paper returns to its owner, players label the ten objects in their pictures. In other words, write dog next to the dog, cat next to the cat, apple next to the apple, and so on. Don’t show anyone your pictures while you are labeling your objects!

Now each player adds five new objects to his or her own picture. DO NOT let anyone see what you are drawing. Remember, you cannot draw an object that looks exactly like another in your picture.

Players must label each new object like the others and place the name of the object on their score card under their name. This is essentially the answer key for each player’s picture. Players should put their picture on the table facedown when they are finished labeling the new objects and adding them to their score card.

Now all the pictures are passed around the table again. While looking at each picture, players should write down the five objects they feel were not in the original picture. Players must write those objects under that artist’s name on their score card. Once all players are done writing down their guesses for all of the pictures, the score cards should be complete. Now, one at a time, each original artist places his or her picture face up in the center of the table and reveals which five objects were added after the first viewing. Players reveal their guesses and tally points.

SCORING

For every new object that players guess correctly on someone else’s picture, they earn 1 point.

In addition, the original artist receives a point for every object that was missed by another player. (For example, if Player 2 guessed correctly on three of Player 1’s five added objects, she earns 3 points and Player 1 earns 2 points for the two objects she missed.

The player with the most points after one full round wins.

TIP: You can earn a lot of extra points for your own objects from everyone in the game if you disguise them well!

SAMPLE: