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unusual facts about word game



The Name Game

"The Name Game" can also refer to any of several variations on a word game also known in the United States as "States", in Croatia and Serbia as "Kalodont", in Russia as "Goroda", and in Japan as "Shiritori", in which the players in turn name words in a given category beginning with the final letter of the previous word.


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Facts in Five

Onanian got the idea for the game after reading in the newspaper supplement This Week that Categories was the favorite word game of the recently deceased President John F. Kennedy.

Leonard B. Stern

Leonard Bernard Stern (December 23, 1923 – June 7, 2011) was an American screenwriter, film and television producer, director, and one of the creators, with Roger Price, of the classic word game Mad Libs.

Yes and No

Yes and No is a spoken word game similar to Twenty Questions played in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.