Funny play on word sentences

We found 159 ‘play on words’ sentence examples to help you understand how to use play on words in a sentence.

• A Lenny For Your Thoughts is a cute play on words that may mask the romance and angst of the story.
• It’s that play on words and letters and concepts that kept me hooked and engaged until conclusion.
• An Unforeseen Match by Regina Jennings I loved the play on words in the title.
• The title is a play on words, and things have really changed in Arkady Renko’s Moscow.
• A little play on words but it definitely was not pork intestines.
• Play on words not a metaphor.
• So simple and such a play on words.
• Because this was sold as a play on words, I thought it was going to be much more fun.
• Haha I love the funny lil play on words humor as well as, my girlfriend has crabs.
• Byrd is a master at subtlety, and all of the witty play on words were fun to find.
• Who can resist a play on words.
• Often the questions are repeated with a different play on words.
• The comparisons and play on words were a little over kill in my opinion.
• Nice play on words Holy Grill.
• His final conclusions about living a Jesus shaped spirituality is just a play on words.
• The play on words associating pornography and trading in material for loans is interesting.
• Stine is a master of scary stories and always, he loves to play on words for his titles.
• What a clever play on words.
• Not a drinker, but enjoyed the play on words and relationship between the characters.
• Then she accuses me of indulging in a tawdry play on words.
• The play on words brings humor.
• I love Sandra’s many play on words.
• But this really isn’t an ordinary spelling bee, because it is all about a play on words.
• I wish it has more benefits, thought the title was a play on words or whatever.
• Play on words intended.
• My title being a play on words because this is a novel and deals with the subject of nature vs.
• Thus, the play on words for the title.
• I think the headline is play on words.
• The latter humorous quote above about not making predictions -by Yogi Berra -is not really a pleonasm, but rather an ironic play on words.
• Note the play on words, I mean wertz.
• Even worse were the constant cliches and the sophomoric play on words.
• The advertising slogan was a play on words.
• Her play on words made me chuckle.
• Nothing Bundt Cakes is a clever play on words, but seriously this shop is so much MORE than cakes.
• The play on words is great and true.
• Hell I am drawn to him too with his play on words he is SUPER sexy.
• Some have a funny play on words, and others are just a downright disaster, or completely bizarre.
• I gave it 3 stars for the authentic effort, and McDermott’s play on words.
• Sorry, I couldn’t resist the play on words.
• Cute play on words theme.
• Chance’s willingness to take courageous chances yes, a play on words with both characters and plot.
• Please forgive the play on words.
• Elliot’s amazing description and play on words.
• Also, bonus points for the title’s play on words.
• The author has a nice play on words and has a dreamy like quality to her writing.
• A great play on words and I loved it.
• While the play on words may be too hard for my son.
• The play on words, however, is too contrived for me to buy into but that’s a minor criticism.
• This is certainly a creative play on words.
• The title, a pub, is a bit of a play on words, or names and words, one surmises.
• I also found the play on words interesting in the title.
• This is hog wash with a major play on words and emotions.
• I read it at Easter and liked her play on words with the title.
• I especially liked the play on words with the title.
• The play on words in the title cute.
• I enjoyed the play on words and the story of the restaurant.
• A little play on words, but sooo true.
• There is a lot of humor, play on words, and twists in the story.
• Love the play on words so to speak.
• Her play on words is RIDICULOUS.
• With a play on words restaurant name, I expected more in terms of clever, class, or at least kitsch.
• Such a cute play on words, really.
• I thought that maybe Sabrina was a play on words, witch and a vampire.
• Those sort of play on words litter the text and provide amusement.
• I love the cover art and the title with it’s fun play on words.
• It’s a play on words.
• Using an obvious play on words, this adorable line of lotions will moisturize your skin and provide you with a subtly delectable scent throughout the day.
• I found the play on words or should I say names throughout entertaining.
• Prisoner u wist on a familiar quote ‘If at first you don’t succeed, give up ‘ orf aw play on words or on a situation.
• All of the character names are a play on words.
• Was Dargon actually the dragon and just a play on words.
• Cute play on words at times.
• The same play-on-words was used in the title of the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon, » Easter Yeggs «.
• Nice play on words with the title, huh.
• This author has a good sense of play on words, loves his characters and his food.
• The title is merely a play on words.
• The illustrations are vibrant and the play on words is cute.
• The play on words in the title is a mere hint of the delights to be found inside, and I do wish Mr.
• On a more esoteric note, I enjoy the play on words in the titles of both novels Never Ceese.
• All the stores in town had to have a play on words.
• And I love the play on words in the title.
• The name makes me smile, I love the play on words and their muffins are tasty.
• Altar Ego is a play on words.
• Very nice play on words there.
• Lots of references, puns, and play on words.
• Not sure if it is a play on words.
• Even the title is a fun play on words whose metaphor points to the heart of the novel.
• It involves some play on words.
• The title’s play on words is an amusing touch.
• Am I missing the joke here, or is this just a meaningless play on words.
• I also love the fact she brings in a ton of characters in this series that are a play on words.
• Their names, of course, are a play on words with the holiday season.
• It is funny, with a log of play on words jokes.
• You have to be careful though, a maintenance free countertop water filter is a play on words.
• I like the play on words as far as ‘bonfire of the sanities’.
• I thought the setting, the world building and even the play on words were creative and interesting.
• Full of puns and play on words.
• Enjoyed the play on words, etc.
• Well done and very funny and a great play on words.
• Nice play on words, Tom, nice play.

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It goes without saying that writers are drawn to language, but because we love words so much, the English language is filled with word play. By interrogating the complexities of language—homophones, homographs, words with multiple meanings, sentence structures, etc.—writers can explore new possibilities in their work through a play on words.

It’s easiest to employ word play in poetry, given how many linguistic possibilities there are in poetry that are harder to achieve in prose. Nonetheless, the devices listed in this article apply to writers of all genres, styles, and forms of writing.

After examining different word play examples—such as portmanteaus, malapropisms, and oxymorons—we’ll look at opportunities for how these devices can propel your writing. But first, let’s establish what we mean when we’re talking about a play on words.

Wordplay Definition

Word play, also written as wordplay, word-play, or a play on words, is when a writer experiments with the sound, meaning, and/or construction of words to produce new and interesting meanings. In other words, the writer is twisting language to say something unexpected, with the intent of entertaining or provoking the reader.

Wordplay definition: Experimentation with the sounds, definitions, and/or constructions of words to produce new and interesting meanings.

It should come as no surprise that many word play examples were written by Shakespeare. One such example comes from Hamlet. Some time after Polonius is killed, Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, asks him where Polonius is. The below exchange occurs:

The line “Not where he eats, but where he is eaten” is a play on words, drawing the audience’s attention to Polonius’ death. He is not eating, but being consumed by the worms. This play on the meaning of “eat” utilizes the verb’s multiple definitions—to consume versus to decompose. (It is also an example of synchysis, and of polyptoton, a type of repetition device.)

The most common of word play examples is the pun. A pun directly plays with the sounds and meanings of words to create new and surprising sentences. For example, “The incredulous cat said you’ve got to be kitten me right meow!” puns on the words “kidding” (kitten) and “now” (meow).

To learn more about puns, check out our article on Pun Examples in Literature. Some of the play on words examples in this article can also count as puns, but because we’ve covered puns in a previous blog, this article covers different and surprising possibilities for twisting and torturing language.

Examples of a Play on Words: 10 Literary Devices

Word play isn’t just a way to have fun with language, it’s also a means of creating new and surprising meanings. By experimenting with the possibilities of sound and meaning, writers can create new ideas that traditional language fails to encompass.

Let’s see word play in action. The following examples of a play on words all come from published works of literature.

1. Word Play Examples: Anthimeria

Anthimeria is a type of word play in which a word is employed using a different part of speech than what is typically associated with that word. (For reference, the parts of speech are: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, articles, interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions.)

Most commonly, a writer using anthimeria will make a verb a noun (nominalization), or make a noun a verb (verbification). It would be much harder to employ this device using other parts of speech: using an adjective as a pronoun, for example, would be difficult to read, even for the reader familiar with anthimeria.

Here are some word play examples using anthimeria:

Nouns to Verbs

The word “peace” is being used as a verb, meaning “to calm down.” Many anthimeria examples come to us from Shakespare, in part because of his genius with language, and in part because he needed to use certain words that would preserve the meter of his verse.

Of course, “unhair” isn’t a word at all. But, it’s using “hair” as a verb, and then using the opposite of that verb, to express scalping someone’s hair off.

Shakespeare is using “scarf” as a verb, meaning “to wrap around.” Nowadays, the use of “scarf” as a verb is recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, but at the time, this was a very new usage of the word.

Verbs to Nouns

It’s difficult to find examples of nominalization in literature, mostly because it’s not a wise decision in terms of writing style. Verbs are the strongest parts of speech: they provide the action of your sentences, and can also provide necessary description and characterization in far fewer words than nouns and adjectives can. Using a verb as a noun only hampers the power of that verb.

Nonetheless, we use verbs as nouns all the time in everyday conversation. If you “hashtag” something on social media, you’re using the noun hashtag as a verb. Or, if you “need a good drink,” you’re noun-ing the verb “drink.” Often, nouns become acceptable dictionary entries for verbs because of the repeated use of nominalizations in everyday speech.

Nouns and Verbs to Adjectives

The words “gossipest, poachest, jailest” might seem silly or immature. But, they’re fun and striking uses of language, and they help characterize Mrs. Day through dialogue.

“I’ll get you, my pretty.”

—From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

By using the adjective “pretty” as a noun, the witch’s use of anthimeria in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz strikes a chilling note: it’s both pejorative and suggests that the witch could own Dorothy’s beauty.

Anthimeria isn’t just a form of language play, it’s also a means of forging neologisms, which eventually enter the English lexicon. Many words began as anthimerias. For example, the word “typing” used to be a new word, as people didn’t “employ type” until the invention of typing devices, like typewriters. The word “ceiling” comes from an antiquated word “ceil,” meaning sky: “ceiling” means to cover over something, and that verb eventually became the noun we use today.

2. Word Play Examples: Double Entendre

A double entendre is a form of word play in which a word or phrase is used ambiguously, meaning the reader can interpret it in multiple ways. A double entendre usually has a literal meaning and a figurative meaning, with both meanings interacting with each other in some surprising or unusual way.

In everyday speech, the double entendre is often employed sexually. Indeed, writers often use the device lasciviously, and bawdry bards like Shakespeare won’t hesitate when it comes to dirty jokes.

Nonetheless, here a few examples of double entendre that are a little more PG:

The repeated use of “institution” suggests a double meaning. While marriage is, literally, an institution, West is also suggesting that marriage is an institution in a different sense—like a prison or a psychiatric hospital, one that she’s not ready to commit to.

In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero, Odysseus, tells the cyclops Polyphemus that his name is “no man.” Then, when Odysseus blinds Polyphemus, the cyclops is enraged and tells people that “no man” did this, suggesting that his blindness is an affliction from the gods. In this instance, Polyphemus means one thing but communicates another, causing humorous ambiguity for the audience.

In Oscar Wilde’s play, the protagonist Jack Worthing leads a double life: to his lover in the countryside, he’s Jack, while he’s Ernest to his lover in the city. The play follows this character’s deceptions, as well as his realization of the necessity of being true to himself. Thus, in this final line of the play, Jack realizes the importance of being “earnest,” a pun and double entendre on “Ernest.”

3. Word Play Examples: Kenning

The kenning is a type of metaphor that was popular among medieval poets. It is a phrase, usually two nouns, that describes something figuratively, often using words only somewhat related to the object being described.

If you’ve read Beowulf, you’ve seen the kenning in action—and you know that, in translation, some kennings are easier understood than others. For example, the ocean is often described as the “whale path,” which makes sense. But a dragon is described as a “mound keeper,” and if you don’t know that dragons in literature tend to hoard piles of gold, it might be harder to understand this kenning.

A kenning is constructed with a “base word” and a “determinant.” The base word has a metaphoric relationship with the object being described, and the determinant modifies the base word. So, in the kenning “whale path,” the “path” is the base word, as it’s a metaphor for the sea. “Whale” acts as a determinant, cluing the reader towards the water.

The kenning is a play on words because it uses marginally related nouns to describe things in new and exciting language. Here are a few examples:

Kenning In Beowulf

At some point in the text of Beowulf, the following kennings occur:

• Battle shirt — armor
• Battle sweat — blood
• Earth hall — burial mound
• Helmet bearer  — warrior
• Raven harvest — corpse
• Ring giver — king
• Sail road  — the sea
• Sea cloth — sail
• Sky candle — the sun
• Sword sleep — death

Don’t be too surprised by all of the references to fighting and death. Most of Beowulf is a series of battles, and given that the story developed across centuries of Old English, much of the epic poem explores God, glory, and victory.

Kenning Elsewhere in Literature

The majority of kennings come from Old English poetry, though some contemporary poets also employ the device in their work. Here are a few more kenning word play examples.

“The Wanderer” is a poem anonymously written and preserved in a codex called The Exeter Book, a manuscript from the late 900s. It contains approximately ⅙ of the Old English poetry we know about today. In this poem, an “earth-stepper” is a person, and a “wealth-chamber” is the wanderer’s mind or heart—wherever it is that he stores his immaterial virtues.

Ian Crockatt is a contemporary poet and translator from Scotland, and his work with Old Norse poetry certainly influences his own poems. “Sea wolf” is a kenning for “sailor,” and a “love cry” is a love poem.

In this Frost sonnet, the speaker employs the kenning “petal-fall” to describe the autumn. The full text of the poem has been included, not for any particular reason, other than it’s simply a lovely, striking poem.

4. Word Play Examples: Malapropism

A malapropism is a device primarily used in dialogue. It is employed when the correct word in a sentence is replaced with a similar-sounding word or phrase that has an entirely different meaning.

For example, the word “assimilation” sounds a lot like the phrase “a simulation.” Employing a malapropism, I might have a character say “Everything is programmed. We all live in assimilation.”

For the most part, malapropisms are humorous examples of a play on words. They often make fun of people who use pretentious language to sound intelligent. But, in everyday speech, we probably employ more malapropisms than we think, so this device also emulates real speech.

The name “malapropism” comes from the play The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In it, the character Mrs. Malaprop often uses words with opposite meanings but similar sounds to the word she intends. Here’s an example from the play:

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!” (Instead of pinnacle.)

Malapropisms are also known as Dogberryisms (from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing), or as acyrologia. Though this word play device is employed humorously, it also demonstrates the complex relationship our brain has with language, and how easy it is to mix words up phonetically.

5. Word Play Examples: Metalepsis

Metalepsis is the use of a figure of speech in a new or surprising context, creating multiple layers of meaning. In other words, the writer takes a figure of speech and employs it metaphorically, using that figure of speech to reference something that is otherwise unspoken.

This is a tricky literary device to define, so let’s look at an example right away:

The expected phrase here would be “the blood from spilling.” But, in this excerpt, “life” replaces the word “blood.” The word life, then, becomes a metonymy for “blood,” and as this displacement occurs in the common phrase “spilled blood,” “life” becomes a metalepsis.

So, there are two layers of meaning going on here. One is the meaning derived from the phrase “spilled blood,” and the other comes from the use of “life” to represent “blood.” In any metalepsis, there are multiple layers of meaning occurring, as a metaphor or metonymy is employed to modify a figurative phrase, adding complexity to the phrase itself.

This is a tricky, advanced example of word play, and it primarily occurs in poetry. Here are a few other examples in literature:

Here, the face in question is that of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world (according to The Iliad and the Odyssey). Helen is claimed by Paris, a prince of Troy, and when he takes Helen home with him, it incites the Trojan war—thus the references to a thousand ships and the towers of Ilium. So, the face refers to Helen, and Faustus describes the beauty of that face tangentially, referencing the magnitude of the Trojan War.

In this Biblical passage, the phrase “cleanness of teeth” is actually referencing hunger. By having nothing to eat, the people have nothing to stain their teeth with. Thus, the figurative image of clean teeth becomes a metalepsis for starvation.

This is a complex extended metaphor and metalepsis. Instead of saying “to the ends of time,” Shakespeare modifies this phrase to “the last syllable of recorded time.” He then extends this idea by saying that life is “a walking shadow, a poor player”—in other words, that which speaks the syllables of recorded time, and then never speaks again. By describing life as an idiot which signifies nothing, Macbeth is saying that life has no inherent value or meaning, and that all men are fools who exist at the whim of a random universe.

Note: this soliloquy arrives after the death of Macbeth’s wife, and it clues us towards Macbeth’s growing madness. So, yes, it’s a very dark passage, but dark for a reason.

To summarize: a metalepsis is a type of word play in which the writer describes something using a tangentially related image or figure of speech. It is, put most succinctly, a metonymy of a metonymy. There is also a narratological device called metalepsis, but it has nothing to do with this particular literary device.

6. Word Play Examples: Oxymoron

An oxymoron is a self-contradictory phrase. It is usually just two words long, with each word’s definition contrasting the other one’s, despite the apparent meaning of the words themselves. It is a play on words because opposing meanings are juxtaposed to form a new, seemingly-impossible idea.

A common example of this is the phrase “virtual reality.” Well, if it’s virtual, then it isn’t reality, just a simulation of a new reality. Nonetheless, we employ those words together all the time, and in fact, the juxtaposition of these incompatible terms creates a new, interesting meaning.

Oxymorons occur all the time in everyday speech. “Same difference,” “Only option,” “live recording,” and even the genre “magical realism.” In any of these examples, a new meaning forms from the placement of these incongruous words.

Here are a few examples from literature:

Note: an oxymoron is not self-negating, but self-contradictory. The use of opposing words should mean that each word cancels the other out, but in a good oxymoron, a new meaning is produced amidst the contradictions. So, you can’t just put two opposing words together: writing “the healthy sick man,” for example, doesn’t mean anything, unless maybe it’s placed into a very specific context. An oxymoron should produce new meaning on its own.

7. Word Play Examples: Palindrome

The palindrome is a word play device not often employed in literature, but it is language at its most entertaining, and can provide interesting challenges to the daring poet or storyteller.

A palindrome is a word or phrase that is spelled the exact same forwards and backwards (excluding spaces). The word “racecar,” for example, is spelled the same in both directions. So is the phrase “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” So is the sentence “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.”

The longer a palindrome gets, the less likely it is to make sense. Take, for example, the poem “Dammit I’m Mad” by Demetri Martin. It’s a perfect palindrome, but, although there are some striking examples of language (for example, “A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash”), much of the word choice is nonsensical.

Because of this, there are also palindromes that occur at the line-level. Meaning, the words cannot be read forwards and backwards, but the lines of a poem are the same forwards and backwards. The poem “Doppelganger” by James A. Lindon is an example.

Want to challenge yourself? Write a palindrome that tells a cohesive story. You’ll be playing with both the spellings of words and with the meanings that arise from unconventional word choice. Good luck!

8. Word Play Examples: Paraprosdokian

A paraprosdokian is a play on words where the writer diverts from the expected ending of a sentence. In other words, the writer starts a sentence with a predictable ending, but then supplies a new, unexpected ending that complicates the original meanings of the words and surprises the reader.

Here’s an example sentence: “Is there anything that mankind can’t accomplish? We’ve been to the moon, eradicated polio, and made grapes that taste like cotton candy.” This last clause is a paraprosdokian: the reader expects the list to contain great, life-altering achievements, but ending the list with something a bit more trivial, like cotton candy grapes, is a humorous and unexpected twist.

With the paraprosdokian, writers contort the expected endings of sentences to create surprising juxtapositions, playing with both words and sentence structures. Here are a few literary examples, with the paraprosdokian in bold:

9. Word Play Examples: Portmanteau

A portmanteau is a word which combines two distinct words in both sound and meaning. “Smog,” for example, is a portmanteau of both “smoke” and “fog,” because both the sounds of the words are combined as well as the definition of each word.

The portmanteau has become a popular marketing tactic in recent years. A portmanteau is also, often, an example of a neologism—a coined word for which new language is necessary to describe new things.

Here are a few portmanteaus that have recently entered the English lexicon:

• Fanzine (fan + magazine)
• Telethon (telephone + marathon)
• Camcorder (camera + recorder)
• Blog (web + log)
• Vlog (video + blog)
• Staycation (stay + vacation)
• Bromance (brother + romance)
• Webinar (web + seminar)
• Hangry (hungry + angry)
• Cosplay (costume + play)

Lewis Carroll popularized the portmanteau, but a work of fiction that’s rife with this word play is Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce. The novel—which is notoriously difficult to read due to its use of foreign words, as well as its disregard for conventional spelling and syntax—has coined portmanteaus like “ethiquetical” (ethical + etiquette), “laysense” (layman + sense), and “fadograph” (fading + photograph).

10. Word Play Examples: Spoonerism

A spoonerism occurs when the initial sounds of two neighboring words are swapped. For instance, the phrase “blushing crow” is a spoonerism of “crushing blow.”

Often, spoonerisms are slips of the tongue. We might confuse our syllables when we speak, which is a natural result of our brains’ relationships to language.

Spoonerisms can be literary examples of a play on words. But they’re also just ways to have fun with language. An example is Shel Silverstein’s posthumous collection of children’s poems Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook.

How to Use a Play on Words in Your Writing

Writers can utilize word play for two different strategies: literary effect, and creative thinking.

When it comes to literary effect, a play on words can surprise, delight, provoke, and entertain the reader. Devices like oxymoron, metalepsis, and kenning offer new, innovative possibilities in language, and a strong example of these devices can move the reader in a way that ordinary language cannot.

Word play can also stimulate your own creativity. If you experiment with language using literary devices, you might stumble upon the following:

• A title for your work.
• Character names.
• Witty dialogue.
• Interesting or provocative description.
• The core idea of a poem or short story.

I’ll give a personal example. Once, in a fiction course, I was struggling to come up with an idea for a short story. A friend and I ended up bouncing words around and came up with the phrase “psychic psychiatrist” (an example of alliteration and polyptoton). Just playing with words like this was enough to inspire me to write a story about exactly that, a psychiatrist who predicts the future for their clients without realizing it.

Titles like The Importance of Being Earnest (a self-referential pun), “Dammit I’m Mad” (palindrome), or Back to the Future (oxymoron) all use word play to frame and guide the story or poem. You might find inspiration for your own work by considering, with careful attention and an appreciation for language, the many possibilities of a play on words.

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Correct word order has a significant role in teaching a foreign language. Many learners automatically order the words in a sentence as in their native language. However, since different languages have various sentence structures, ESL teachers should be very attentive in dealing with this topic. Despite its difficulty, it can be taught in fun and entertaining ways to primary school children. Here we present activities that will definitely come in handy to practise word order with your kids.

Rainbow sentences

One of the fascinating ways of practising word order with kids is definitely with Rainbow order. Distribute the mixed parts of the sentence to your students and ask them to put the words in the correct order according to rainbow colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). To make it more fun, you can also play the rainbow song. Children really enjoy doing this activity.

Question cards

Use question cards to introduce the rules of word order to your students, such as Who/what, what happens, where, when, etc. Provide with an example (Bob goes to school every day.) and get your students to put the mixed words in the correct order.

Expanding the phrase

Write a word on the board. Ask your students to take in turns and add extra words to make it into a longer and longer sentence. It must be a logically coherent sentence. Students cannot remove words, but they can change the order while adding new words. My kids really enjoy this activity, especially when I ask them to use their imagination and expand the phrase in a funny way.

Cat

• A black cat
• A big black cat
• Tom saw a big black cat
• Tom saw a big black cat in the forest
• Tom saw a big black cat in the forest last night

Removing words from a sentence

This activity is considered to be the opposite of the previous one. Here you provide your students with a long sentence and ask them to take turns and to remove words so that it always remains a sentence.

• Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud, so she doesn’t watch them.
• Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud, so she doesn’t watch.
• Kate doesn’t like cartoons because they are loud.
• Kate doesn’t like cartoons.

Brainstorming sentences

Ask your students to work in pairs or in groups. Choose a topic that the students are familiar with (weather, animals, food, jobs, etc) and get them to make up as many correct and long sentences as possible.

Example: Animals

Group A: Crocodiles are very dangerous animals.

Group B: Many people are afraid of spiders and not mice.

Group A: It is very difficult to survive crocodile’s attack because they attack very quickly.

Group B: Last summer, when we were staying in a forest, we suddenly saw a wolf near our tents.

Gringle

This is a guessing game. Choose a player, who will think of a verb his/her classmates must guess what verb this student is thinking of. The verb is replaced by a nonsense word such as “gringle”. The students then ask questions, like this:

— Can you gringle at night?

— Who gringles more — girls or boys

— Do you use a special object to gringle?

— When do you usually gringle?

— Is gringling a fun or a serious action?

Why do people gringle?This game is a magnificent tool for practising word order in interrogative sentences with your kids. With the help of numerous questions, they revise different types of questions, such as General and Special ones.

This was the list of the activities that I usually use with my kids to practise word order. I am sure you are aware of some other fascinating ways as well. Share them in the comments below.

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Children face multiple challenges with sentence construction. Board Games help teachers and parents face the challenge of getting children excited enough about mastering correct sentence construction.

I found 14 sentence building board games for children aged 6 to 13. Some use boards, and others dice, rods, dominoes, or other game parts. I highly recommend “Sentence Dice”, “Cooking Up Sentences”, “Sentence Building Rods” and “Super Sentence”.

Sentence Building Board Games Comparison Table

These 14 board games for sentence building help children of all ages master the ability to construct different types of sentences.

Game	Age	Players	Price	For	Rating
Sentence Dice	4-6	2	$	Families	★★★★☆
Build a Sentence Part 1 (Creative’s)	5-6	2-4	$$	Families	★★★☆☆
Sentence Scramblers	6-8	2-4	$$$	Teachers	★★★☆☆
3-D Sight Word Sentences	6-7	2-4	$$$	Families	★★★☆☆
Giant Sentence Building Cubes	6-8	2-4	$$$	Teachers	★★★☆☆
Sentence Building Dominoes	6-8	2-4	$$	Families	★★★★☆
Sentence Building rods	6-10	2-4	$$$	Teachers	★★★★★
Build-A-Sentence (Learning Advantage)	6‑8	2-4	$$	Families	★★★☆☆
6 Grammar Games	6‑8	2-4	$$	Teachers	★★★☆☆
Cooking Up Sentences	7‑10	2-4	$$$	Teachers	★★★★☆
Build a Sentence Part 2 (Creative’s)	8‑10	2	$$	Families	★★★☆☆
Sentence Scramble	9-14	2-4	$$	Families	★★★☆☆
Super Sentence	9‑14	2-4	$$$	Families	★★★★☆
Sentence Smart	12‑13	2-4	$$$$	Teachers	★★☆☆☆

Sentence Building Board Games for Primary School

Sentence Dice (Junior Learning)

★★★★☆

Players: 2 | Ages: 4-6 | CCSS Grade: K1 to K2 | Price $ | For Families

The “Sentence Dice” game comprises six dice appropriately decorated with words and pictures, each with a different color to differentiate each part of speech:

• Purple dice: prepositions (A, My, Their…), the first word of the sentence
• Green dice: adjectives (old, big, happy, young…)
• Orange dice: nouns (fish, dog…)
• Pink dice: past tense verbs (ate, swam, walked, sung…)
• Red dice: adverbs (inside, outside…)
• Blue dice: the object of the verb (“the river.”, “the road.”, “the house.”, “the park.”), which is also the last part of the sentence

Tossing these dice enables to build a simple grammatically correct sentence every time. It might not make sense, making the sentence funny. You can start with just 4 dice (My / fish / ate / the river.), or include the 6 dice (Their / happy / dog / walked / inside / the house.)

Young children love dice and the instant random sentences that are created – and they learn the basics of sentence construction. The extreme simplicity of the game means that anybody can use it.

Of course it is limited because there are only 6 dice. You can expand the game though by:

• Creating your own additional (alternative) dice using the same colors for each part of speech.
• Making the sentences a bit more complex by adding a few additional dice, and replacing the end dice, like in (Their / happy / dog / walked / quickly / inside / the green / house.).

Build a Sentence Part 1 (Creative’s)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 5 – 6 | CCSS Grade: K2 – 2 | Price $ | For Families

The subject and predicate are the building blocks of sentence construction. Creative’s Part “Build a Sentence Part 1” helps children understand how to combine subjects and predicates to create sentences. Some of the sentences may be funny, others may be serious. The aim is to help children in grades K2 to two have fun learning how to combine simple subjects and predicates to create simple sentences.

Note that the sentences are always made with just two cards, making the game very simple to use but also quite limited. It contains 30 predicate cards and 30 subject cards, but you can create your own as the principle of the game is so simple!

You might also use the game to assess with the child if the sentence states something possible or impossible.

Sentence Scramblers (Smart Kids)

★★★★☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-8 | CCSS Grade: 1-2 |Price $$$ | For Teachers

The purpose of Sentence Scramblers is two-fold:

• Help students understand how to create simple and compound sentences with the right punctuation.
• Expands the vocabulary of students in grades one and two who may not have been exposed to words such as marvelous.

These two purposes make Sentence Scramblers ideal for more advanced students in grades one and two.

The game includes a “parts of speech” spinner, and 125 foam tiles that are color-coded by parts of speech:

• 12 sentence openers
• 12 verbs
• 12 adverbs
• 12 adjectives
• 24 nouns
• 4 connectives
• 12 prepositions
• 20 determiners
• 17 punctuations

The rule consists of building complete sentences that players try to add new words to as the game progresses (still keeping their sentences complete). this is a very interesting (and pedagogically effective) rule as the task gets progressively more difficult, which does not discourage players at the beginning but maintains a constant challenge.

The game parts are also very generic, which enables you to use the game with your own rules. For example, you can easily ask students to build sentences according to predefined sentence structures. You can also ask them to replace sentence elements in existing sentences to attain certain goals (for example making a sentence funnier, of making the sentence something possible or impossible).

3-D Sight Word Sentences (Primary Concepts)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-7 | CCSS Grade: 1-2 | Price $$$ | For Families

3-D Sight Word Sentences is designed to meet the needs of both visual and tactile learners, a feature that makes it ideal for children in grades one and two. Children fill in missing areas of sentence cards with 3-D sight words. Therefore, the game is good for improving sentence building skills, and for helping children associate nouns with their physical counterparts. Primary Concepts calls these words “sight words”.

The main drawback of this game, however, is that the sentence cards and real-life word replicas are limited. There are only 20 sentence cards and 15 real-life replicas. Although the focus is on fundamental words that children in grades one and two should learn, it would have been great to expand the word repository so that more advanced students could have an appropriate challenge.

Giant Sentence Building Cubes (Lakeshore)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-8 | CCSS Grade: 1-3 | Price $$$ | For Teachers

These sentence building cubes are fun and can be used in so many ways that I had to include it in this list. Players will have fun seeing the crazy sentences they create through the random roll of the dice. The game is simple to understand – players roll six dice (one of each color, featuring each a part of speech) and rearrange them to make grammatically correct sentences. If a sentence can’t be created, the player loses the turn.

The 40 cubes (240 faces) are made of foam, which is less sturdy than plastic:

• 9 red nouns dice (54 nouns)
• 9 green adjectives dice (54 adjectives)
• 9 blue verbs dice (54 verbs)
• 13 diverse parts of speech and punctuation yellow dice (78 faces)

Sentence Building Dominoes (Educational Insights)

★★★★☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-8 | CCSS Grade: 1-3 | Price $$ | For Families

Tactile learners are most likely to enjoy this sentence building dominoes game. The 114 double-sided dice include 228 nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and punctuation marks (color-codes for 8 parts of speech). This makes the game adaptable to suit the needs of students at various learning levels. The game’s activity guide helps teachers and parents understand how to adapt the game for these purposes.

The dominoes are sturdy as they are made of hard plastic. And the pieces are smaller than the foam cubes of “Giant Sentence Building Cubes” by Lakeshore, which makes the game easier to use on small tables. You can also introduce a bit of grammar with the plural and building verbs from nouns (laugh ==> laugh / ing), which is great.

My only regret is that commas are missing.

Sentence Rods (Hand2Mind)

★★★★★

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-10 | CCSS Grade: 1-3 | Price $$$ | For Teachers

The Hand2Mind Sentence Rods function in a manner similar to the Sentence Building Dominoes.

But is way richer, making it a more attractive option, especially for teachers:

• The game has almost 3 times more words because there are more pieces, and the pieces are rods. They can be rotated on their 4 different faces to create the sentences, while dominoes have only two faces. So the 158 rods offer 632 possibilities while the 114 dominoes only 228.
• Some of the rods have blank spaces where appropriate words can be written using a dry-erase marker.
• The rods stick when connected, which is a great advantage if you want to build sentence parts that you will combine together.
• You have much richer punctuations marks including semicolons, commas, quotation marks

The only problem is that rods can sometimes difficult to pull apart. This is not much of a problem usually except for the small punctuation rods.

Build-A-Sentence (Learning Advantage)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-8 | CCSS Grade: 1-3 | Price $$ | For Families

The imagery and simplicity of Learning Advantage’s Build-A-Sentence game make it ideal for young children in grades one to three. It’s also an ideal game for teaching the basics of sentence construction. Players spin the spinner, pick a phrase card with the corresponding color and then put a sentence together after a few turns. There are 140 phrase cards split across four categories (who, what, where and when).

The words and phrases are simple enough for children in grades one to three. This positive feature of the game makes it particularly useful for improving sentence structure and reading skills.

Six Grammar Games (Junior Learning)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 6-8 | CCSS Grade: 2-4 | Price $$ | For Teachers

This collection of grammar games can be an addition to a teacher’s English classroom learning center. There are two board games, two matching games, and 14 sentence puzzles. They teach punctuation, sentences, connectives, modal verbs, tenses determiners, phrases, and adverbials.

You should note that the games require only a pretty basic level of understanding of sentence structures though.

Cooking Up Sentences (Learning Resources)

★★★★☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 7-9 | CCSS Grade: 2-4 | Price $$$ | For Teachers

Vibrant colors and an eye-catching design make this parts of speech game enticing for young children in grades two to four.

The game includes:

• 4 double-sided Recipe cards that list ingredients that are parts of speech and must be used in a sentence.
• 150 small white parts of speech tiles (color-coded on the back, with 8 types: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, articles, adverb)
• Free ingredient cards, pans, spinner

The cooking theme is relevant to the sentence building objective. The game is based on collecting ingredients (parts of speech) to make a complete recipe (sentence). Teachers can adapt the game to suit students at different levels.

Build a Sentence Part 2 (Creative’s)

★★★☆☆

2 players | Ages: 8-9 | CCSS Grade: 3-4 | Price $$ | For Families

The Creative’s Part-2 “Build a sentence” game provides a second step on the logical progression for learning parts of sentences and how to effectively combine them. Part two pays specific attention to the important role of parts of speech in a sentence. Each player is given a blank game board that is color-coded to match the various parts of speech. 240 parts of speech cards enable the players to build their sentences.

The aim is to create as many grammatically correct sentences as possible.

However there are only 5 parts of speech to use (start of sentence, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives), the sentence structures are really limited and the cards are not of very good quality.

Sentence Scramble (Wiebe Carlson Associates)

★★★☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 7-9 (or 9-12 for ESL) | CCSS Grade: 4-8 | Price $$ | For Families

English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers will find Sentence Scramble useful for building these students’ basic language skills. It follows a premise similar to Scrabble except that players are building sentences rather than words. Players have to carefully choose common English words to create grammatically correct sentences in the form of a crossword puzzle.

What would kick this game up a notch is if it included advanced words for advanced players. These words would help more advanced students expand their vocabularies while also helping them understand how to use these new words in sentences.

Sentence Building Board Games for Middle School and Up

Super Sentence (Learning Advantage)

★★★★☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 9-14 | CCSS Grade: 4-9 | Price $$$ | For Families

The “Super Sentence” Game by Learning Advantage is a strategy game that brings players into a world of grammatically correct sentences. The first player to correctly complete five sentences wins. Some of the sentences will be silly (that’s the fun of the game after all) but they should be in the correct tense, use verbs that agree, and the correct subjects.

There are four types of word tiles: who (green), what (blue), where (yellow) and when (red) tiles. Since the game is appropriate for a wide age group, teachers and parents can choose the best tiles based on the players’ English level. For instance, grade four students will most likely only use the where and when tiles. However, students in grades seven, eight and nine will most likely use all four categories of tiles.

This game is as much a game of strategy as it is a game of knowing how to put words together. Players may choose not to place tiles on a given turn based on how they think their opponents may capitalize on the placements. They can also make this decision while trying to choose the best combination of tiles to make a grammatically correct sentence. Players can challenge the construction of sentences created by their opponents. Successful challenges result in the tiles being returned to the unclaimed tiles piles. However, unsuccessful challenges result in the opponent having to surrender any sentences created. This is where the competition intensifies!

The sentence tiles are made of sturdy material. The length of the game and the competitiveness make the game more interesting at home in my opinion.

Sentence Smart Board Game (Scholar Skills)

★★☆☆☆

Players: 2-4 | Ages: 12-13 | CCSS Grade: 7| Price $$$$ | For Teachers

Scholar Skills’ Sentence Smart Board Game has a board with color-coded spaces for each part of a sentence. The aim of the game is to be the first player to get rid of all their word cards by constructing a complete sentence with them.

The board is attractive, with several bonus sections, such as a spinner and white cards, to increase the excitement and competition within the game. Cards are also color-coded (green- nouns and pronouns, yellow – verbs, blue- adverbs, red – adjectives, purple – prepositions and orange – conjunctions) so players can easily identify the parts of the sentence.

My concern is that only one player gets to build a full sentence and win. It would have been better to build a mechanism where all players would generate several sentences, such as with “Super Sentence” for example.

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This telephone game is also known as ‘Broken Telephone,’ ‘Chinese Whispers,’ or ‘Pass The Message.’

Regardless of what you call it, it’s a fun game that you can play anywhere, anytime, and with any number of people.

It’s a simple party game, as you don’t need anything to play except a few good telephone game phrases to get you started.

The telephone game is a fun icebreaker activity, great to play at parties, and even a fun camping activity.

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How to Play the Telephone Game

Step 1

Teens should stand in a straight line or form a circle. They should stand close enough to whisper in each other’s ear, but be mindful that other participants should not be able to hear them.

Step 2

Choose an appropriate word or phrase depending on the age of the group of people playing the game.

The first person must whisper the word, phrase, or sentence to the next person in line. They must try to say it as clearly as possible and may not repeat it.

The following person must then whisper what they heard to the next person in line.

Step 3

Each person will whisper what they heard to the person standing next to them until the message is delivered to the last player in line.

Step 4

The last person then says the message out loud for everyone to hear.

In most cases, the final message is very different from the original message.

The first player then reveals what the original message was.

The participants will find it hilarious to hear how the original phrase or word has been distorted.

🤓 If you have a small group, then you might like to choose some games to play with 3 people. 

Telephone Game Rules

1. Participants should whisper the word, phrase, or sentence only once and may not repeat it. Even if the next person could not hear or understand what was correctly whispered, make sure they continue playing because that is the point of the game.
2. Even though you should whisper the words, you should speak slowly and clearly so that the person can hear you.
3. Uncommon phrases or hard-to-pronounce words make the game more fun. The word or phrase should never be too familiar; you want to make sure it changes as it is whispered.
4. Words that rhyme and alliteration are great to use as well.
5. The original message should only be shared with the first player at the beginning and kept secret until the end of the game.
6. The facilitator of the game may wish to have the original phrase or word written down.

Where Can You Play Broken Telephone Game?

• at parties
• at a sleepover
• in the classroom
• at church youth group settings
• at a summer camp
• at home on family game night
• in a restaurant
• with friends
• at the office party
• at a team building
• in a language class
• waiting in lines
• on a road trip

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How Do You Choose a Good Phrase?

To make this popular game fun, it is essential to have some good broken-telephone game phrases.

It will be best to have a few phrases ready before the game starts.

If you want to make it even more entertaining, you should pick words and phrases that are challenging and easy to misunderstand when whispered.

Make the phrase silly enough for teens to have funny facial expressions as they pass the message along.

Alliteration, tongue twisters, rhymes, funny statements, or nonsense phrases are the best terms for children to use in telephone games.

However, when playing with tweens or younger children, make the phrases appropriate for their age. Don’t make them too long or complex for the kids to pronounce or remember.

Watch Jimmy Kimmel playing broken telephone with the Avengers:



Telephone Game Phrases & Sentences

It is best to start with easier words, phrases, or sentences before moving on to more challenging ones.

Here are a few telephone game starter ideas.

Easy Telephone Game Phrases

When playing telephone games with tweens and younger kids, it is best to use easy phrases to get them started.

Below are a few examples:

1.  Holy Night.
2. Topsy turvy.
3. Gobbledygook.
4. Baby shark.
5. Crazy fox.
6. Grumpy Grandpa.
7. Fairy godmother.
8. Dainty dishes.
9. Hugs and kisses.
10. Sparkling water.
11. Black crow.
12. Mickey Mouse.
13. Olive juice.
14. Hogwash.
15. League of legends.
16. Flabbergasted.
17. Bluebird blinks.
18. Salty and spicy.
19. Shark tank.
20. Greek grapes.
21. Eat Egg.
22. Taco Bell.
23. Snowflake Sunday.
24. Netflix and chill.
25. Just do it.
26. Angry birds.
27. Sugar and spice.
28. Jingle Bells.
29. Guinea pig.
30. Grain of salt.

Short Telephone Game Phrases

This is a list of short, simple, easy-to-guess whisper challenges for the beginning of the game.

After a while, you can shift to the funnier and more challenging phrases, which can be harder to guess.

1.  Jack and Jill.
2. Foggy London awaits.
3. It takes two to tango.
4. Stop screaming.
5. Speak louder.
6. She sells seashells.
7. Once in a blue moon.
8. Oh, never mind.
9. You are an angel.
10. I like you.
11. School is lame.
12. I like eggs.
13. It’s raining. It’s pouring.
14. Pickles on Buns.
15. I speak French.
16. Nice to meet you.
17. Let’s get fast food.
18. What do you do.
19. Sing a song.
20. Macaroni and cheese.
21. I got two pickles.
22. Cars for cash.
23. Pikachu, I choose you.
24. I’m growing old.
25. I don’t know.
26. Pretty pink Petunias.

Funny Telephone Game Phrases

Whether the final message passed along is correct or not, these hilarious whisper challenge phrases will make your teens laugh out loud.

These nonsensical phrases are some of the funniest game sentences we found.

1. Would you like to sign my petition to have “badminton” changed to “goodminton”?
2. Don’t worry, be silly.
3. Chocolates make my teeth hurt.
4. Swimming in spaghetti is fun.
5. These shoes don’t fit my hands.
6. The secret password is cock-a-doodle-doo-diddle-doodad.
7. Catch your fridge. It’s running away.
8. Is my breath awful right now, or is it just me?
9. I have an itch that I can’t scratch.
10. Oh no, I dropped all my gizmos!
11. I’m sending a silly message.
12. Would you rather put toffee in your coffee or brie in your tea?
13. Don’t move! There’s a massive spider behind you!
14. If you kiss me, I’ll turn into a frog.
15. I have no idea what I’m doing.
16. Ghostly gum tastes gooey.
17. A camel cannot see its own hump.
18. Restless roosters sit on yoga mats.
19. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
20. I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!
21. Minions must wear very large contacts.
22. Don’t worry, I know how to speak llama.
23. Do you know the muffin man?
24. My underpants are funderpants.

Watch how quickly the game can go horribly and hilariously wrong:

Hard Telephone Game Phrases

This is one of the few games that becomes more enjoyable and exciting when the phrases seem impossible to understand.

Complex lines are much more difficult to remember and can be easily distorted.

Here are some more challenging alliterations phrases for you to try.

1. The angry birds ate candy and crushed the subway surfer.
2. Jokers, jesters, and jugglers jingled, jumped, and jigged for the King of Jordan.
3. Rabbits rumble, giants grumble, dogs bark in the dark and the cat sat in the hat.
4. Did you order dark drool or Jamba juice for lunch?
5. We need moldy mothballs to keep the moody mummies quiet.
6. I have four fine fresh fish for you.
7. A dog named Moose ran loose through the spruce forest chasing a goose.
8. Your pet guinea pig ate my pink balloon on a rainy afternoon!
9. Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows!
10. Musical mice made the muffin mix while humming a melancholy melody.
11. The entrance is guarded by a fire-breathing, near-sighted dragon with a fear of heights.
12. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
13. Brave soldiers in a blue coat on a blue boat shouted bing bong.
14. A pink pig and a pesky donkey flew a kite at night.
15. Ice cream, candy floss, and colored candies.
16. Black mice chased Micky Mouse into loose piles of leaves.
17. Two-colored cans of sweet sugar.
18. White flowers smell wonderful.
19. Purple plum people pulled potatoes.
20. Fit flamingoes ate fat flying flies.

Dirty Telephone Game Phrases

Although these phrases sound a bit awkward, they are difficult to guess.

1. I’m sorry I haven’t changed my socks in days.
2. I farted, and it smells like a cheesy burger.
3. Can you tell me where babies come from?
4. He left me high and dirty.
5. Eat your heart out.
6. Can I nibble on your earlobe?
7. Ride him, cowboy!
8. I want to lick your toes.
9. Coming in like gangbusters.
10. I can’t feel my lips. Can I feel yours?
11. Knock your socks off.
12. Walk softly but carry a big stick.
13. Stick it to the big man.
14. Can you rub this oil in my back?
15. What do you want me to do to you?

Cool Telephone Game Phrases

There is nothing more fun and interesting than games with cool and funny ideas.

You can use some of these cool and funny phrases while you play the broken telephone game.

1. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I know I’m doing it well.
2. When I grow up, I want to be a pokemon trainer.
3. I only Riverdance when I’m happy.
4. The best chips are chocolate ones.
5. Minions would look weird wearing contacts.
6. Kaleidoscopes, Calliopes, and Christopher Columbus.
7. Koala bears are cute, and pandas are cuddly little bears.
8. The only thing better than a tall, dark, and handsome man is one carrying a pizza box.
9. Dumbo’s real name is Jumbo Junior.
10. A Taco Bell chicken quesadilla with extra creamy jalapeno sauce.
11. Wednesday is hump day but is the camel happy about it.
12. Lightning McQueen likes loaded lunches.
13. Education is important, but big muscles are importanter.
14. Can you catfish a cactus for practice?
15. Bob The Builder couldn’t fix Noddy’s car with a toy robot.

Best Telephone Game Phrases

In a telephone game, the best phrases are those that are difficult, hilarious, and bizarre.

The weirder a phrase sounds, the funnier the responses at the end of the round.

The following are some of the challenging yet interesting phrases you can use in your next game:

1. Forsooth! What ho! Hey, nonny nonny! Prithee! Yowzers!
2. The sound of a raspberry is pppphhbbbbhhtttt.
3. I like to read in the shower.
4. Get high, climb a tree.
5. Don’t move! There’s a gigantic spider behind you!
6. The Eagle has landed.
7. When I was six, I had a pet guinea pig that I named “Sir Piggysworth.”
8. Chinese food is made with sugar and spice, and lots of rice.
9. I was voted most likely to become a cat lady in high school.
10. Nobody’s favorite food is cabbage.
11. I’m growing parsnips, rhubarb, zebras, and hairbrushes in my garden.
12. Candy crunching coconut lovers eat tons of toadstools.
13. Too blue to make it through to you too.
14. I had to fight thorny kumquats with thorny stems all my life.
15. Who put a raw fish in my suitcase?

Extra Tip: To make the game more challenging or exciting have players whisper the phrase in a different language or add sound effects to the message.

One Word Telephone Game Phrases

You might think that playing the game only saying one word will be easy. However, I’ve found some pretty tricky words to pronounce.

When playing one-word telephone games, one thing to consider is that words should be relatively long and open to misinterpretation.

Here are some one-word broken telephone game phrases that are hard to say:

1. Extraterrestrial
2. Proposition
3. Courageous
4. Sequacious
5. Triumphant
6. Enthusiastically
7. Dissimulation
8. Eloquent
9. Subterranean
10. Manipulation
11. Edinburgh
12. Abibliophobia
13. Obsolete
14. Murmured
15. Pauciloquent
16. Regulator
17. Typical
18. Qantas
19. Hypochondriac
20. Mitochondria
21. Yarborough
22. Autobiography
23. Anticipation
24. Momentarily
25. Marrakech
26. Bloviate
27. Capitalization
28. Incredible
29. Flibbertigibbet
30. Impignorate
31. Comeuppance
32. Erinaceous
33. Absquatulate
34. Whitsuntide
35. Snickersnee
36. Quire
37. Loanword
38. Anglicized
39. Taradiddle
40.  Encyclopedia
41.  Bumbershoot
42. Saqqara
43. Gardyloo
44. Bibble
45. Hogwash
46. Nasdaq
47. Pentecost

Telephone Game Variations

It can be boring to play the same old game repeatedly. While it is fun to play broken telephone, some players might want to try something different.

If you want to add a fun twist to the game, try one of the following variations!

Rumors

There is a variation of the telephone game called Rumors, in which players intentionally alter one or two words.

Watch how the words become twisted as they spread, just as a rumor does!

Team Telephone Game

The Telephone Game is great for large groups, especially with many players. It works well as a team-building activity.

You can either give both teams the same word or phrase, or you can let them choose one themselves.

Whoever ends the sentence closest to the original will win.

Read My Lips Whisper Challenge

In this version of the telephone game, players must wear noise-canceling headphones so that they cannot hear what the other players are saying.

The first person gets a word or phrase and says it out loud to the next player.

Each person repeats out loud what they think they said until it’s revealed in the end.

Watch BTS play the Whisper Challenge Game in this video below:



Charades Telephone Game

Here’s a wacky version of the game that combines charades with a telephone game. In this variation, the person must act the word or phrase with body language and facial expressions instead of whispering the word.

Watch how to play Charades Telephone Game in the video below:



Drawing Telephone Game

With this variation, the first player selects a word and begins the illustration of that word by drawing a single line.

The next player is quietly informed of the word and must continue drawing with just one line.

At the end of the round, the word is not revealed to the last player, and they must guess it from the drawing!

A board game version of this Telestrations.

Every player gets a sketchbook and has to sketch a word from their card. The sketchbook is then passed to the player next to them and they have to guess and write down what they think the drawing is. This process of drawing and guessing continues until you get your original sketchbook back. Then you go through each sketchbook together and see where it went wrong.

Telestrations Family Board Game

Watch how to play Telestrations in the video below:

Text Message Telephone

This is the modern spin on the old-fashioned game of telephone.

Instead of whispering phrases to each other down a line, players send text messages instead using their phones. 

The first person writes a short message on a piece of paper and shows it to the next person in line.

The recipient has fifteen seconds to memorize the message.

Then they write a text message, trying to make an exact copy of what they just read.

The first player then shows the message to the second player on their phone for 15 seconds, then takes it away.

Each person gets a turn to read and type the message. Finally, the last person reads their text message aloud.

The group then compares their texts with the original message.

Online Telephone Game Translations

You can download apps for Apple and Android devices that will translate your original phrase into different languages. When it eventually comes back to the original language, you’ll get some hilariously incorrect translations.

Interference on Google Play or Pass It On! on App Store