# Add a Sentence Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 8, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139 "2012-04-08T01:39:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/1 "2012-04-08T01:39:13Z")

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Basically for this you add a sentence to continue on a story.

It was a rainy spring day in Konigsberg as Karl von Rittner was packing his belongings.

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**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/2 "2012-04-08T22:22:37Z")

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He loaded his suitcase with the usual: three pairs of underwear, two pairs of socks, a toothbrush, his nitroglycerin tablets, and his pet iguana, Max.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/3 "2012-04-09T13:44:22Z")

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Since he was a banker, he did not put on his Mac.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/4 "2012-04-09T14:07:22Z")

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His pet armadillo, Mittens, looked up sadly, knowing his beloved master would not be back for several days.

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**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/5 "2012-04-09T16:16:31Z")

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What Mittens did not know, what nobody could have known, was that he would not return.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/6 "2012-04-09T16:53:47Z")

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Karl gently laid h-s bag on the back seat of the taxi.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/7 "2012-04-09T20:46:24Z")

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“The usual place?”, asked the taxi driver knowingly.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/8 "2012-04-09T20:53:44Z")

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“No, someplace I’ve never been before”, Karl replied cryptically.

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**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/9 "2012-04-09T21:25:14Z")

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“OK then,” said the taxi driver as he sped Karl off to the Hamburg docks, “Pier 27-C it is.”

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/10 "2012-04-09T21:27:55Z")

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“What do I owe you?” Karl asked.

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**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/11 "2012-04-09T21:42:38Z")

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“Keep your money,” the cabby replied, “I have a feeling you’re gonna need every penny where you’re going.”

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/12 "2012-04-09T23:41:11Z")

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A body floated by; from the long, blonde hair it must have been female, but it was hard to tell now.

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**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/13 "2012-04-10T00:19:43Z")

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Meanwhile, our poor protagonist Karl was watching a lovely rainbow over to the left, and missed the aforementioned\* but highly important\* body floating by the docks.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/14 "2012-04-10T00:33:55Z")

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Sudenly, there was a scream from down river. “Ahhhhhhhh!”

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/15 "2012-04-10T00:37:24Z")

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Karl’s eyes narrowed and his face began to scowl as he slowly turned in the direction the scream came from.

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**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/16 "2012-04-10T00:50:21Z")

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At that moment, an excited Max scampered down towards the scene.

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**Author:** ![Jilaad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jilaad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jilaad)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/17 "2012-04-10T01:12:50Z")

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Having reached the body, Max dons his tiny iguana-sized Deerstalker hat, clutches a tiny pipe between his teeth, and peers into the gaping hole in the back of the dead woman’s head.

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**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/18 "2012-04-10T01:19:22Z")

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The End.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/19 "2012-04-10T01:22:30Z")

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“That’s an odd thing for a note shoved inside the gaping hole of a dead woman’s head to read.” thought Karl.

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**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-a-sentence-game/618139/20 "2012-04-10T01:40:08Z")

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“And where did my Iguana get such a tiny pipe?”

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