Celebrity (game)
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Celebrity (also known as Celebrities) is a party game where several teams play against each other to guess as many celebrity names as possible before time runs out. The game takes place in three of rounds of increasing difficulty.
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[edit] How to play
[edit] Setup
Before play begins, each player is given slips of paper (usually five or more) upon which he or she writes the name of a different celebrity. The names must be kept secret. All of the names are then placed in a hat, or similar receptacle.
What's a legal name? While the game is called Celebrity, the names in the hat are not limited to those of famous figures from popular culture. Other acceptable names are those of fictional characters, famous animals, or any name that is well known to the group of players. Players may decide at this point on a guideline for how obscure the names can be, such as A name is permissible if it is expected to be familiar with at least half of the players.
After all the names are in the hat, the players are split into two or more teams of three or more players.
[edit] Round 1
One team is chosen to go first, and that team selects a player to give clues to the rest of his or her team. Play begins when the clue-giver picks a name out of the hat. From that moment, he or she has one minute to get his team to guess as many celebrity names as possible before time runs out.
In the first round, the clue-giver can say anything he or she wants as long as it is not any part of the celebrity's name or a direct reference to the name. For Dolly Parton, it is acceptable to say, "She has her own theme park in Tennessee", but not, "She has a themepark called 'Dollywood.'" It is also illegal to give clues such as, "Her name begins with a 'D'."
When the team guesses the celebrity name correctly, the clue-giver draws another name from the hat and continues until time is up or there are no more names in the hat. If an illegal clue is given, that name is set aside and another name is drawn from the hat.
When time is up, the team is awarded a point for every name they guessed correctly. They lose a point for every illegal clue that was given.
The next team then picks a clue-giver and play continues until there are no more names in the hat. Teams must rotate the clue-giver each round until every member of the team has been given a chance.
[edit] Round 2
After all of the names have been guessed in round 1, they are returned to the hat. The second round proceeds in the same manner except that the clue-giver is now limited to only one word. The word can be repeated many times, but only one word is allowed.
[edit] Round 3
In the third round, the clue-giver cannot speak at all, but must suggest the name to his or her team mates using hand motions, gestures, and pantomiming, similar to the party game Charades.
[edit] Winning
After all the names have been guessed in the third round, the team with the most points is declared the winner.
[edit] Variants
- Some groups like to play Round 2 using a two-word limit.
- The game can be played only with Round 1, resulting in a simpler game but which requires more clues to be written to cover the same time.
- Some groups allow a player to "pass" on a clue, putting it aside and going on to the next clue. At the end of the round, the score is the number of solved clues minus the number passed, and the passed clues go back into the hat. This variant can be difficult for beginners, as they tend to give up and pass on a difficult looking clue too quickly.
