Down the Line — Everybody draws at once. Nothing survives the trip.

Everybody draws a line nobody else has seen, passes the pad on, and names the drawing they are handed. At the end every chain is read out. 3 to 8 people, about 15 minutes.

Nobody waits for anybody. Every seat is drawing or writing at the same moment, so a call of eight takes exactly as long as a call of three — which is the opposite of how a party game usually scales, and the reason this one fits a coffee break.

Nobody has to be good at it. A bad drawing is a better round than a good one, and the person who cannot draw at all is the reason the chain ends up somewhere worth reading.

It is nobody against nobody. There are no teams and nothing to be knocked out of; the worst that happens to you is that six people laugh at a horse you drew.

A round

A line to drawPass it onSay what it isRead them out

On the sheet

+2Whoever drew it — the next person names it right

+1Whoever named it — the same drawing

Also on

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How to play Down the Line