h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a game most suited for groups of ten or more. It works best if most of the people know each other at least a little bit.

A circle of chairs (no armrests, please) is arranged, the chairs close together. There should be one less than the number of players.

Everybody sits down exept a selected person in the middle who gets a scarf or similar tied over the eyes. Volunteers (There are always plenty of those) are allowed to turn the person around until certain he or she has no sence of direction left. In the meantime the rest is changing chairs at random. The volunteers also sit down and the game begins. The person in the middle has to try and find where people are sitting and sit down on the knees of somebody. He or she might require a little help - no talking - to avoid sitting halfway between two people. No other form of touching is allowed. Sitting there on the knees and with the back turned to the person sitting in the chair the conversation runs as follows:

a: Mis-mis?
b: Miau..

(B is the person sitting in the chair).

Mis-mis is a sound/word used in Denmark for calling a cat you do not know. A similar call in another language will work just as well. The point is that the person answering will try to change his or hers voice as much as possible when saying miau. (This is the Danish way of writing the sound the cat makes). Person A now has to guess who he/she is sitting on. One try only. Correct answer= B has to be the person in the middle. Wrong answer= A has to try again from the point of being turned around.

It turned out more difficult than I expected to describe the game. I hope it makes sence.

Have fun.

Cissdur

We used to play this game as kids, but we called it "Squeak Piggy Squeak". Same rules, but person A would say "Squeak Piggy Squeak" and person B would make pig type squealing noises.

That version opens up for a whole new range of available noices.