# help me identify this drawing game

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 16, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-drawing-game/372976 "2006-09-16T18:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-drawing-game/372976/1 "2006-09-16T18:12:25Z")

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A group of people collaborate to draw a picture of a person. They fold the paper into several sections. One person draws the head, then the next person draws the body, etc., but no one can see what the person before them drew. It makes for some weird pictures.

I remember reading that this game actually started as a “sentence” game, where the first person would supply the subject, the next the verb, etc. The name of this game was drawn from a sentence that was forumlated while playing it, but I can’t remember what that was. For some reason it’s been bugging me for days. Help me, oh wise ones.

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-drawing-game/372976/2 "2006-09-16T18:18:25Z")

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Sounds like a slightly domesticated version of the Exquisite Corpse.

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**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-drawing-game/372976/3 "2006-09-16T18:23:59Z")

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[QUOTE=capybara]  
Sounds like a slightly domesticated version of the Exquisite Corpse.  
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YES. That’s exactly what I was trying to remember. THANK YOU. I can rest easy now.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-drawing-game/372976/4 "2006-09-16T18:27:04Z")

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[QUOTE=capybara]  
Sounds like a slightly domesticated version of the Exquisite Corpse.  
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Could you explain the Exquisite Corpse game?  
Is it a scavenger game played in a graveyard?