Book of a Hundred GamesCharles Scribner's Sons, 1896 - 171 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
amusing Answer arranged asked to write auctioneer Aunt Anne Bab Ballads baby ball beforehand blindfolded booby prize bowl button called captain cards chair child's bank choose circle clothes-pins color conundrum curtain draw example finished flags flower folded foolscap paper foot-ball forfeit Game Club guesser guests arrive half an hour hand handkerchief host hostess large sheet leader letter light LITTLE JACK HORNER MATERIALS REQUIRED Mexican hairless dog mucilage needle noun nursery rhyme Out-player pairs of scissors palette pantomime paper and pencils papers are collected party pencil and paper pencils and sheets pict piece of paper play this game players poem prize is given quinine pills read aloud receives a prize rhyme ribbon right-hand neighbor seated shadow sheets of foolscap sheets of paper side slips of paper song tacks Trilby turn twenty minutes William Ewart Gladstone winning word written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 44 - As the guests arrive each one receives a slip of paper on which is written the name of a flower. When all...
Seite 162 - The hunter having heen shown the whistle, kneels in the centre of the circle, and lays his head in the lap of one of the players until the whistle is concealed. While he is in this posture, the whistle is to...
Seite 120 - ... long as possible, and to prevent the masters taking their places. The men consult secretly among themselves, and decide upon some trade or profession, the practice of which may be certain movements of the arms, hands, or legs. They now range themselves opposite the masters, and the foreman tells them the first and last letters of the trade they are about to exercise ; as for example, C — r for carpenter, D — t for druggist, B — h for blacksmith, and so on. The men now set to work and express...
Seite 163 - ... and drops it, and the hunter, being released, is told to find it; but this is no easy task, as he carries the object of his search about his own person. As the hunter kneels in the centre of the group, the different players blow through the whistle and drop it, as the opportunities occur. The puzzled hunter is sometimes fairly tired out before he discovers the trick that is played upon him. We need scarcely say that the whistle should be very small and light. MAGIC MUSIC. This is a very similar...
Seite 138 - THE FOUR ELEMENTS. The party being seated in a circle, the player who has been chosen to commence the game takes a knotted handkerchief, and throws it suddenly into another's lap, calling out at the same time either
Seite 162 - My lady is going to the theatre and wants her scentbottle." At this the " scent-bottle " springs up and tries to catch the plate. When the word " toilet " is spoken by the plate-spinner all the players change their seats, and as the spinner takes care to secure a place, one player of course finds himself without one, and is obliged to pay a forfeit and twirl the plate. When the game flags the forfeits may be redeemed.
Seite 166 - ... loud and noisy when the puzzled player does what he ought not and soft when he begins to do anything like the performance of his task.
Seite 127 - How do you like it? where do you like it? and when do you like it?" I do not propose to put any of these questions now with regard to the Pittsburgh Survey, because none of you as yet are in position to answer them. I do propose, however, with myself to play a somewhat similar game which may be entitled What is the Pittsburgh Survey? Why is the Pittsburgh Survey? and...
Seite 109 - Hands up," and he and all his comrades simultaneously place their closed fists on the table. The top player on the opposite side has now to fix upon the hand in which the piece is concealed. There are two ways of guessing, either...
Seite 68 - Two persons in apparent conversation should be careful to speak one at a time, each waiting for the other to finish his pantomime before replying to it.