Consequences is an old parlour game

Parlour game

A parlour game is a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour, hence the name....

 in a similar vein to the Surrealist game

Surrealist techniques

Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature uses numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of...

 exquisite corpse

Exquisite corpse

Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original...

 and Mad Libs

Mad Libs

Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts another for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, usually with funny results...

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Each person takes a turn choosing a word or phrase for one of six questions, in this order.

1. Man's name
2. Woman's name
3. Place name
4. He said to her…
5. She said to him
6. The consequence was… (a description of what happened after)
7. An outcome

Then the story is read (for example):

Scary Bob met voluptuous Alice at the zoo. He said "This is delicious.", she said "Hit me baby one more time." He gave her a red rose, she gave him cholera. The consequence was that they eloped to Mexico. The world said "the femme fatale will always win".

The game is traditionally played by writing the words on paper and folding the paper to hide the previous words before passing it to the next player. An online variant of the game has been made: Consequences