The game of telephone is a classic ice breaker and party game. In other parts of the world it is known as Chinese Whispers. This international game is easy to set up and a lot of fun to play. You and your friends will try to pick a word or phrase, “pass it on” by whispering it to someone next to you, and have fun seeing how much it changed during the game. All you will need to play is a couple of friends or more, a word or phrase, and a quiet whisper.

1. Telephone Game Story Examples
2. Telephone Game Examples For Business
3. Broken Picture Telephone Game

How to Play the Broken Telephone Game

What it is: Just what it sounds like: a cross between the game telephone and the game charades! Best for: Group of about 5 to 8 people. What you need: You’ll need actions or events to act out, whether they’re ones that you think up on the spot or have written down ahead of time (see the charades post or the word generator for some lists of things you can act out, or the end of this post. About Chinese Whispers. Chinese whispers is a game that is played all over the world using different names. In Britain, the local refer to it as 'Chinese Whispers' because historically, the British believed the Chinese language to be incomprehensible, whereas in politically-correct America, the game is referred to as 'The Broken Telephone Game.'

• To play the Telephone or the Broken Telephone game, there should be a minimum of 6-8 heads. Try including as many people as you can as it will make the game more fun and entertaining.
• Make everyone stand in a straight line. For bigger groups, even a circular arrangement would work.
• Start the game by whispering a word or preferably a phrase in the ear of the person standing next to you. Try whispering as softly as possible to avoid any other person from hearing it. Let’s assume that the phrase whispered is “bananas are better than biscuits.”
• The next person whispers whatever he/she heard to the person standing next to him, and the game continues in this fashion until the last person receives the phrase.
• The fun actually begins when each person hears and communicates a different version of the original phrase to the next person. So for instance, the third or fourth person might have heard “bananas are bitter than biscuits”, and till it reaches the last person, it could have been something like this, “bandannas are butter and lipsticks.”
• The first and the last person say aloud the original and modified phrase, respectively. In most cases, both the phrases have no connection at all, especially the last phrase being completely weird and funny, getting a hearty laugh out of everyone.

Hard Phrases for the Broken Telephone Game

• I’d love eating toasted cheese and tuna sandwiches.
• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and says hello to the cat.
• The angry birds ate candy and crushed the subway surfer.
• A pink pig and a pesky donkey flew a kite at night.
• Rabbits rumble, giants grumble, dogs bark in the dark, and wolves woo in the blue.
• Wednesday is the hump day, but is the camel happy about it.
• Alex the Alsatian ate eleven Éclairs in the evening with an Espresso.
• The Martians invested in shares when the NASDAQ dropped several feet.
• Roger racketed seventeen balls against Sylvester alone.
• Bob the builder rented Oswald’s apartment and borrowed Noddy’s car.

Telephone Game Story Examples

Have fun!

Telephone is truly a oldie but a goodie. It is one of those games that has stood the test of time. It is so wildly popular still today because of the sheer silliness of the game results. Kids are funny. Sometimes they are fall down, spit your drink out funny. Now take a bunch of wound up, sugared up kids and tell them to quietly repeat a single phrase to their partner only once. What you get is normally hysterical pandemonium. This is a go to game I always keep in my back pocket. It never fails to fill that extra 5-10 minutes you didn’t count on at the end of the party. I started doing this years ago when a craft took 5 minutes instead of 25 to complete. Oh dear! At that time I made up the phrases on the spot, but now I have learned there are a few phrases that work better than others so I come prepared. Here is a list that can be used for any grade to get you started. Use the shorter phrases for the younger ones. You will be shocked at the results. LOL

Telephone Game Examples For Business

Broken Picture Telephone Game

1. Noisy Ned needs nuggets
2. Ghostly gum tastes gooey
3. Scarecrows steal soft sandwiches
4. Junie B Jones likes Jamba Juice
5. Dracula drinks dark drool
6. Ms. ________ makes math mash-ups (fill in your child’s teachers name )
7. Moody Mummies munch on moldy mothballs
8. Walking in a Winter Wonderland
9. Snowflakes will slide softly soon
10. Leaves like loose piles
11. Teachers take tons of toadstools
12. Recess rocks restless roosters
13. Counting cars quietly
14. Lightening McQueen likes loaded lunches
15. Classmates climb cars for cash