About half an hour ago, Mr. Rilch announced that he couldn’t sleep. “Why don’t you try The Minister’s Cat?” I suggested.
“…What?”
“Well, it’s a game you play in your head. You think up an adjective, a verb and a noun to describe the minister’s cat, all beginning with the same letter. And they should all make sense in a sentence. Like, 'The minister’s cat is an agile cat who ascends the Acropolis. The minister’s cat is a belligerent cat who—”
“ZZZZZZZZ. Sounds great, Rilch.”
I don’t know if he’s doing it now; probably not. But it sure works for me!
I write novels in my head. It takes me a minute to remember where I left off, and I go on with the story. I usually only get a “page” or so before I conk out.
I immediately thought of the same scene and was wondering how you’d play that alone.
FWIW, that version is a party game that needs a fairly large group to play. Someone starts out with “The minister’s cat is an agile cat” then the next says “The minister’s cat is an angry cat” the next person says “The minister’s cat is an awesome cat” and so on with adjectives beginning with “a” until someone goes blank on it. They’re out, and the next person in line starts with “b” words. It’s also done at a fairly rapid pace, so a person can’t just sit there and think about it.
Wrongo. I used to play it with one other person. Needless to say, we went through the alphabet pretty quickly.
The last time we played, he said “The minister’s cat is a secret cat.” That ended that. We couldn’t help but crack up as we postulated a spy-world character named Secret Cat.
