"B" GAME

5 to 30 or more players.

House party.

Each player is given a sheet of paper with numbered questions prepared like the following list. The answer to each question is to be written opposite it, and must consist of the letter B as an initial and added to it the number of letters designated, the whole conforming to the definition given. The following examples will illustrate:—

  1. B and one letter, meaning to exist.—Be.
  2. B and two letters forming a sack.—Bag.
  3. B and three letters forming a storehouse.—Barn.
  4. B and three letters, side of a stream.—Bank.
  5. B and three letters, a young creature.—Baby.
  6. B and three letters, a bag of goods.—Bale.
  7. B and three letters, without hair.—Bald.
  8. B and three letters, a surety.—Bond.
  9. B and three letters, timber.—Beam.
  10. B and three letters, a vegetable.—Beet.—Bean.
  11. B and three letters, a poet.—Bard.
  12. B and three letters, a drink.—Beer.
  13. B and three letters, a globule.—Bead.
  14. B and three letters, part of a bird.—Beak.
  15. B and three letters, a vessel.—Boat.
  16. B and four letters, an appendage.—Beard.
  17. B and four letters, a tree.—Beech.
  18. B and four letters, to commence.—Begin.
  19. B and four letters, a strand.—Beach.
  20. B and four letters, a receptacle.—Basin.
  21. B and four letters, a kind of meat.—Bacon.
  22. B and five letters, a combat.—Battle.
  23. B and five letters, a hound.—Beagle.
  24. B and five letters, a signal.—Beacon.
  25. B and five letters, a cup.—Beaker.
  26. B and eight letters, a demon.—Beelzebub.

The player wins who answers correctly the largest number. This game may be devised for any initial letter.