Yorkshiremen (game)

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Yorkshiremen is a conversational game based on the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, in which any number of players try to one-up each other with increasingly outrageous and absurd accounts of deprived childhoods.

[edit] Rules

• The first player begins by picking a subject (usually the most recent topic of conversation) and making a statement about how things were so much worse when that player was growing up. For example, someone sitting in a restaurant might begin with "I can't get enough of this steak. Why, back when I was a child, the only part of the cow we could eat was the fat."
• The next player then proceeds to explain why they had it so much worse than the previous player. To continue the above example, the next statement might be "Fat? You were lucky! All we got was the fur."
• Play continues in this fashion until a player is unable to logically one-up the previous statement (bear in mind that there is a fine line between "logical" and "feasible"). The traditional ending is for that player to announce that "you try to tell this to the young people today, and they don't believe you!" If you must pick a winner now, all players may argue over who made the best statement.

[edit] Popular variant rules

• Repeating a statement that was previously made by you or any other player is illegal, even if it makes sense in context.
• Instead of ending the game when one player is unable to make a good statement, that player is eliminated and the game continues until only one player is left.