Eat Poop You Cat
Eat Poop You Cat Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Telephone Pictionary
(Listed as "Eat Poop You Cat" on Board Game Geek)
Needed: These Rules, Paper, Pencils, and about 7 to 11 People. (With fewer, the story might not change enough to be funny, and with more the game can last too long.)
Setup
1. Cut a bunch of scrap paper in quarters; it's actually better if one side is already printed on. (This is a great use for old junk mail or drafts or whatever you find in your recycle bin.)
2. Give everybody their own stack of paper, each with a few more sheets than the number of players.
Playing the Game
3. Everybody writes a word or phrase on the top sheet of their stack. (Anything is fine: book, song, movie, band, saying, or just a word. You can make your own rules here.)
4. Leave the words on top and pass the whole stack to the left (pass to the right if you play again). (This simple procedure is hard for some Newbies to understand; don't hesitate to emphasize and maybe demo it. Keep an eye on them the first game. Someone will do it wrong!)
5. Everyone reads the words, moves that sheet to the bottom of the stack, and draws a picture on the new top sheet. (Assure all it's only scrap paper and they can "waste" the whole sheet. But even so, somebody will draw the picture on the same paper as the previous player's words.) Use no words as part of a picture, though stars or arrows or ? or ! or maybe "ZZZZZ" are okay. (You can make your own rules here too.)
6. A Leader should keep the time pressure high, maybe only 30 seconds or a minute per turn. (Nice artwork is not necessary, and not even desirable.)
7. Pass the stacks left again, look at the picture, move it to the bottom, and describe it in words. (Never look at other earlier pages!)
8. Alternate between words & pictures until the stacks have gone all the way around. (The Leader should put a small mark on all pages of their stack so they know when they get it back; the original meaning may have changed beyond recognition.)
The Reveal
9. Then take turns showing each series one page at a time, either forward or backward. (If some are especially hysterical, you might want to staple them together to save and look at again in a few years.)
10. The purpose is laughter; don't get hung up on mistakes, rules confusion, etc. (When there are irregularities, the Leader can remind them, "Pretend it's only a game.")
Appendix: The Classic Folded-Paper Version
Transcribed from "Eat Poop You Cat!" — the 3x5 card quick-reference written by BoardGameGeek user KeithUpNorth (2009). The stacked-paper procedure above was written as an easier alternative to this original folding method; both describe the same game.
Each player starts with a piece of paper and a pencil. At the top of their paper, each player writes a short sentence or phrase (esoteric stuff often yields humorous results).
Papers are passed to the left, where the next player "draws" the sentence (think Pictionary), folds the paper so only the drawing is visible, and passes it to their left.
The next player examines the drawing, and writes a sentence that they think the drawing represents... this continues until all players have their original back (or with large groups, an odd number of times, until a "final" sentence/phrase is written).
At the end, everyone unfolds their paper. Everyone laughs to see something like, "Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!" become "I'm sad, someone shot my dog".