Homophone Word Game
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[edit] Homophones (game)
Homophones is a word game in which a player secretly creates a sentence or phrase using a pair of homophones or homonyms, subsitutes the homophone pair with another (usually nonsensical) word, then reads the newly created sentence out loud. The object of the game is for the other players to deduce what the original homophone pair. The first person to correctly identify the secret homophones "wins" and creates a new homophone puzzle.
Like the word game "Ghost", this game is often played on long car rides with multiple people.
[edit] Gameplay Example
The player creating the puzzle first thinks of a pair of homophones, such as "tax" and "tacks," then places the words into a coherent sentence. For this example, the player decides the sentence will be, "George had to pay a sales tax when he bought a box of tacks." The player then decides what word to substitute for the homophone pair. Let us say that he chooses the word "chicken." He then says aloud to the other players,
"George had to pay a sales chicken when he bought a box of chicken."
The other players then try to think of the correct homophone pair.
[edit] Humor
Homophones allows for generous uses of humor. The freedom to substitute any word for the homophones lets players create a wacky sentence or phrase not unlike the game Madlibs.
