Charade (pantomime game)
Scharade (or Charade ) denotes a board game with a comical representation.
How to play
The game master writes a word on small pieces of paper (there are more pieces of paper than other players), which is made up of two nouns , folds them up, mixes them and lets each player draw a piece of paper. Each player must now pantomime the drawn word to the other players until they have guessed it. Of course, the word parts can also be explained individually.
The word parts should be something concrete and tangible in order to allow a pantomime representation. Examples: ship's hull, ink pen, telephone receiver, candelabra.
If there is a correspondingly interested or well-trained round of games, book titles or film titles are also presented as charades. Here, agreed pantomimic signs are often used (e.g. looking at the palms of the hands shaped into a book as a symbol for literature).
One possible variant is to play the game without a game master, but with two teams. Each team then first thinks of several terms in a separate room, which a player from the other team must then pantomime his teammates. What is particularly appealing about this variant is that a team knows what the active player is.
