Sequitur

Sequitur is word association game. The kind of game you'd play anywhere with anybody any time you'd all feel like playing. One of those perfect "waiting" games you'd play at a restaurant while waiting for your food or in a line while waiting to get in or in a car while waiting to arrive.

I quote liberally:

"Any number of people can play, and there is no time limit either for the length of a turn nor the length of the overall game. Players can determine any limits for each game when they begin. They can even pursue other activities in the meanwhile, with the game played in the background...

"One player begins by stating a word or phrase.

"The next player then adds another word or phrase that is somehow associated with or suggested by the previous entry...

"At the end of the series of turns, the players reconstruct the entire chain in reverse, as a collaborative group, not taking turns. All participants pitch in as needed, since all the conceptual shifts and associations are contained in their aggregate memories."

Sequitur is what I would call a Pointless Game, to which, of course, author and Puzzle Mistress Kate Jones, would profoundly disagree. She is one of my more profound friends.

from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith