[smichel17]

Me, too. Instead of having to remember all 20 words, I just had to remember a few stories: the cat eating an apple on a ball in a tree, the square face whose house is a boxcar, etc.

[dghf]

How many stories? If you had three or so words per story, that would give you about seven stories, which fits the notion of 7 +/- 2 "chunks" of information.

[hliyan]

Same here. I too managed to recall all words in the correct order using the same technique.