Quiz Guys John Chaneski and Greg Pliska lead a couple of rounds of “Chain Reaction,” a word game that’s great for parties and long car rides. Two players try to make a third one guess the word that the other two are thinking of. The trick is that they have to give alternating one-word clues to build a sentence. Hilarity ensues. Hillary sues. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Chain Reaction Word Game”
You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette.
And I’m Grant Barrett. And holy moly, I can’t believe it. Look at this. It’s John Chaneski and Greg Pliska, both quiz guys.
Oh my gosh.
You’re seeing double. It’s true.
John is doing the robots.
And Greg is breaking.
You’re hearing double.
Popping and locking. It’s amazing.
If the two of you are here, you must have something planned.
No, you know what? We thought we’d stop by and annoy you with yet another game from my book, Super Party Games.
Remember that thing I did that time?
You’re deprecating there, but it’s a nice book.
It’s a good book, yes.
It actually works, right?
People all over have told me what a great book it is.
Super Party Games.
It holds up all the other books on my shelf really well.
I went to a funeral the other day.
Amazing with your book.
Everybody at a funeral loves.
The mixers especially are good for a funeral.
We’re going to play a version of a party game called Chain Reaction.
Now, it’s very simple.
Two of us will have a list of items, people, places, events, things,
And they will have to get a third person to guess those items.
Now, the two clue givers will describe the item, but they’ll do it one word at a time.
For example, if the answer is balloon, Greg and I might say,
This object contains air and is found at a birthday party.
Got it?
Got it.
Oh, understand?
Your great uncle who talks too much.
That guy, right?
That’s hot air.
Now, be aware there are two challenges to this.
First, the two clue givers, who are going to be me and Greg, we have no idea what each other will say.
So if we are cluing balloon and I say Macy’s, Greg has to figure that I’m going for Thanksgiving Day.
Parade.
Or otherwise hilarity will ensue.
We don’t want that to happen.
Yeah, no.
The second challenge is that the clue must be in the form of a valid sentence.
You can’t just spew out words like air.
Latex.
Inflate.
Helium.
Right. Nothing like that.
What a party that must have been, though.
Right.
Sheep. My invite got lost in the mail.
Now, we’ll take a minute. We’ll see how many we can get in a minute.
So, you two are first going to quiz Martha, and then the two of you are going to quiz me, right?
Yes, exactly.
Okay. Martha, you’re on your own, and we’ll see how it goes.
All right.
All right.
Are we ready?
Yes.
And let’s go.
This cartoon character has…
Casper the Friendly Ghost.
A dog.
Charlie Brown.
And a helmet.
Scooby-Doo’s dad.
A dog and a helmet.
Sergeant.
New sentence.
This cartoon character is a army guy.
Beetle Bailey.
That’s it.
Here’s the next one.
You start.
This plane is where the president flies.
Air Force One.
Right.
Very good.
This web tool can be used to find many things.
Yes.
Here’s the next.
This part of a newspaper is where –
Classified ads, editorials, comics, front page.
Oh, okay.
And there’s the one minute.
I think we should give her the answer.
We were looking for op-ed page.
But editorials includes two letters from the correct answer.
That’s good enough.
Anything is fine.
Wow, Mark.
How many did she get?
10% is fine.
How many did she get?
Four.
Four.
Four.
Four.
Four.
Okay.
All right.
Now we’ll give to Grant.
I’ll begin.
Ready, set, go.
This form of intercourse is very…
Conversation.
Talk, chatter, speaking.
Not.
Sex missionary.
Dangerous.
And.
Includes.
The.
Condom.
And.
Safe sex.
Yes.
There you go.
Good.
Okay.
This.
Is.
The.
Temperature.
At.
Which.
212.
Zero.
32.
Water.
Becomes.
Ice.
Freezing.
Good enough.
Good enough.
Freezing for it.
This.
Is.
A famous painting which depicts a Mona Lisa lady.
Yes.
Very good.
Next.
This phrase is what you say when someone sneezes.
Bless you.
Gesundheit.
Very good.
Bless you.
Yeah.
Next one.
This is a bunch.
Oh, you’re eating it with my time.
It’s a bunch.
It’s a bunch.
Grapes.
Brady’s.
This is a bunch.
Bunch of letters.
What’s the word we say?
It’s a word.
You can’t say word.
It was password.
Sorry.
I was thinking of the game show.
I thought it was this is a game show.
That’s the problem right there.
He’s thinking of the game show.
I’m thinking of getting onto my bank account.
How did we do there?
How did I do?
One, two, three, four.
Four?
Four.
Well, Martha, how about we gang up and we’ll go two on two.
These two take on both of us on a couple, all right?
I like it.
Sure.
You can both answer.
I bet between the two of us, so we can knock down, say, seven.
What do you think?
I think so.
I’ll start.
Ready, set, go.
Here we go.
Ready?
One, two, three, go.
These devices are worn on your teeth to braces.
Yes, braces.
This guy calls out the bids at auctioneer.
Very good.
I think we have to go to the word auction.
Okay.
These tiles are used in a game where you lay dots next to each.
Domino’s is right.
Next.
This part of plant was worn by Adam and Eve.
Big leaf.
Next.
This guy asks for change on the sand.
Handlers. Yes, next.
This place is
Where
You
Find
Animals. Zoo.
Or menagerie. Or the
Person who takes care of them.
Sorry, it was a farmhouse.
Greg keeps
Animals in his farmhouse. That’s the problem.
Some places they keep cows and kitchens in the lower level.
Chickens in the lower level and the family lives upstairs.
There you go. That was one, two, three,
Four, five.
Okay.
Not bad.
Well, we did do better as a team.
That’s true.
We did.
I think it’s fair just to point out that it’s also the strength of the cluers that allows
You guys.
Like, if you only got three, it would be our fault.
I wasn’t going to say anything, but no.
No, that’s brilliant.
This is immense fun.
Yeah, this is great.
We’re just going to stay here for the rest of the show if you don’t mind.
This would be a good car game.
I could see listeners playing this on the way to their holidays, right?
Because you just whisper the word to your partner and make the person up front guess
It.
Right.
Right.
Gentlemen, it’s been fun, and thank you so much for coming.
It’s very nice to be here.
As always, we’re both entertained and educated.
Thank you, Martha.
Thank you.
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