My family’s version starts with a stack of blank cards for each person, enough to get all the way around the group. You move the previous card to the back before passing it on. One of our favorite games!

There’s also “Who-What-Where-When-Why,” which is kind of a combination of Telephone Pictionary and Mad Libs. This one uses a long piece of paper for each player, with sections marked off for those five questions in order. First person writes down a name or names (“Who”), then passes it down. Second person writes “What” that person or group did, folds over the “Who” section, and passes it along. So it continues with each question, until you get something really weird:

“Let’s see: the hobbits…blew up a sun…in Iowa…this past Thursday…because there is no spoon?”

Or maybe it only gets that weird in my nerdy family. 🤓