Who's closest
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Who's closest is a guessing game
, often played at parties
or on long journeys because it requires no board or other materials.
Play starts with one player thinking a random thought. The rest of the players then take turns trying to guess what the speaker is thinking of. Once everyone has guessed the thinker reveals the actual thought and everyone takes it in turns to justify why they were closest. The thinker decides who was closest and that person becomes the next thinker.
The ruling of the thinker is often heavily influenced by how humorous the justifications were. Unless a particular guess was very good, the decision is based mainly on how funny the justification was.
Example:
John Smith: Let's play a game
Barnaby Dawson: How about "Who's closest"?
John Smith: No Barnaby. You are a terrible person and nobody else likes playing that game with your terrible rules.
Guessing game
A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object.Many of the games are played co-operatively...
, often played at parties
Party game
Party games are games that some people play as forms of entertainment at social gatherings. Party games usually involve more than one player. There are a large number and styles of party games available and the one selected will depend on the atmosphere that is sought to be generated...
or on long journeys because it requires no board or other materials.
Play starts with one player thinking a random thought. The rest of the players then take turns trying to guess what the speaker is thinking of. Once everyone has guessed the thinker reveals the actual thought and everyone takes it in turns to justify why they were closest. The thinker decides who was closest and that person becomes the next thinker.
The ruling of the thinker is often heavily influenced by how humorous the justifications were. Unless a particular guess was very good, the decision is based mainly on how funny the justification was.
Example:
John Smith: Let's play a game
Barnaby Dawson: How about "Who's closest"?
John Smith: No Barnaby. You are a terrible person and nobody else likes playing that game with your terrible rules.