[TedDoesntTalk]

> I was a bit shaken by Eat Poop You Cat, but it seems a nice game you can play with pen and paper.

This looks like a marvelous game that requires no purchase and no special equipment. Why would it shake anyone except for a ridiculous name?

[DicIfTEx]

Interesting; I've never heard of Eat Poop You Cat (and I doubt I would've forgotten it if I had), but it's basically the same idea as Consequences[0] or Picture Consequences[1], only less structured.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_(game)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse#Picture_conse...

[SamBam]

I had never heard of the name either, but then from the description I realized it was simply what we always called Words and Pictures.

It's a fun game, and essentially a version of telephone.

I grew up in a family of classicist academics, and had to endure the Latin game, which was exactly the same except instead of drawing pictures you translated the sentence into (usually poor) Latin, and then back again with every round.

[irrational]

> you translated the sentence into (usually poor) Latin, and then back again with every round.

I’m honestly jealous you grew up in a family that could do this.

[ChrisRR]

Consequences is a classic game that you can play with pen and paper. It became a staple of our family christmases

[cableshaft]

Yeah, I've played it at meetups with just a folded piece of paper and a pen. It's good fun. There's a better board game implementation of it (that's also on that same list) called Telestrations, with laminated flipbooks and dry erase markers and cards for starting ideas (which I mostly don't use when I play the game), that makes the experience a bit easier, but they're both the same game at heart.

[dr_orpheus]

It's so much fun to play. Never heard it called "Eat Poop You Cat" though. We always called it Telephone Pictionary.

[asgardian28]

That was the reason, had never heard of it. Sounds really fun though!