Idea: MadLibs

[GeorgeWL]

Build a MadLibs game.

Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the – often comical or nonsensical – story aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or solo with a computer acting as host.

Mad Libs books contain short stories on each page with many key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a category, such as "noun", "verb", "place", "celebrity," "Exclamation" or "part of the body".

One player asks the other players, in turn, to contribute a word of the specified type for each blank, but without revealing the context for that word. Finally, the completed story is read aloud. The result is usually comic, surreal and somewhat nonsensical.

[florinpop17]

Cool idea.

Just a question: The story is written by one of the players which will leave out some blank spaces to be completed by other players?

[GeorgeWL]

Well the original format was a book with the stories ready-made, and with the blanks pre-assigned.

But I have seen variants where the other player writes the story too.

[GeorgeWL]

Stern and Price's original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example:

"exclamation! he said adverb as he jumped into his convertible
noun and drove off with his adjective wife."

After completion, they demonstrate that the sentence might read:

"Ouch! he said stupidly as he jumped into his convertible cat and drove off with his brave wife."