What's Apples to Apples?? (Do I know it by another name or do I get to add a game to my list?)
That's the official name of it. wednesday_10_00 introduced me to it. Essentially, you have two sets of cards--one set of nouns, one set of adjectives. (The two sets are "red apples" and "green apples.") You give each player (or team) several noun cards...when I do it with students, I generally limit them to three cards to save time.
One team is the "judge" and gets an adjective card. All the other teams have to try to find a word among their cards that best matches the adjective card. For example, let's say the adjective is "long" and the cards the team has are "chair," "pizza," and "train." They have to pick one of the three that is the most "long."
All the selected cards are placed in front of the "judge" team (so that they don't know which card came from which team). Of the cards selected, they have to decide which word best matches the adjective. Whoever submitted the winning card gets to keep the adjective card to mark that they won a point.
Everyone who submitted a card gets another one to bring their total back to the starting number. Play continues with the next team becoming the "judge." You can play until a certain time limit (generally the best way to go in a class) or a certain number of rounds (to ensure everyone gets to be the judge the same number of times), but the official way is to choose a certain number (say, five) and whoever wins five adjective cards first wins the game.
You mean you don't try everything with potatoes first??
I know, I know, I'm falling down on the job. It's just that potatoes take so long to cook...
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Date: 2005-01-24 12:58 pm (UTC)That's the official name of it.
One team is the "judge" and gets an adjective card. All the other teams have to try to find a word among their cards that best matches the adjective card. For example, let's say the adjective is "long" and the cards the team has are "chair," "pizza," and "train." They have to pick one of the three that is the most "long."
All the selected cards are placed in front of the "judge" team (so that they don't know which card came from which team). Of the cards selected, they have to decide which word best matches the adjective. Whoever submitted the winning card gets to keep the adjective card to mark that they won a point.
Everyone who submitted a card gets another one to bring their total back to the starting number. Play continues with the next team becoming the "judge." You can play until a certain time limit (generally the best way to go in a class) or a certain number of rounds (to ensure everyone gets to be the judge the same number of times), but the official way is to choose a certain number (say, five) and whoever wins five adjective cards first wins the game.
You mean you don't try everything with potatoes first??
I know, I know, I'm falling down on the job. It's just that potatoes take so long to cook...