Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium

"B" Game

5 to 30 or more players.

House party.

Each player is given a sheet of paper with numbered questions prepared like the following list. The answer to each question is to be written opposite it, and must consist of the letter B as an initial and added to it the number of letters designated, the whole conforming to the definition given. The following examples will illustrate:—

B and one letter, meaning to exist.—Be.

B and two letters forming a sack.—Bag.

B and three letters forming a storehouse.—Barn.

B and three letters, side of a stream.—Bank.

B and three letters, a young creature.—Baby.

B and three letters, a bag of goods.—Bale.

B and three letters, without hair.—Bald.

B and three letters, a surety.—Bond.

B and three letters, timber.—Beam.

B and three letters, a vegetable.—Beet.—Bean.

B and three letters, a poet.—Bard.

B and three letters, a drink.—Beer.

B and three letters, a globule.—Bead.

B and three letters, part of a bird.—Beak.

B and three letters, a vessel.—Boat.

B and four letters, an appendage.—Beard.

B and four letters, a tree.—Beech.

B and four letters, to commence.—Begin.

B and four letters, a strand.—Beach.

B and four letters, a receptacle.—Basin.

B and four letters, a kind of meat.—Bacon.

B and five letters, a combat.—Battle.

B and five letters, a hound.—Beagle.

B and five letters, a signal.—Beacon.

B and five letters, a cup.—Beaker.

B and eight letters, a demon.—Beelzebub.

The player wins who answers correctly the largest number. This game may be devised for any initial letter.