Shout Out

Shout Out

You need: A deck of cards, one dice, and people

Admittedly this game is based on my favorite drinking game 'Tourettes', so it's not entirely unique, but it does add original elements and make it more fun in my opinion. If you've played 'Tourettes' to death like our group of friends and are just getting too good or running out of words, give this a shot.

One person starts with the deck of cards (this doesn't really matter so choose at random, but if people are annoying about it, roll the dice for highest value to begin). They start by rolling the dice. They then turn the person on their left and flip the top card over.

How the game works. The goal is to shout out words according to certain letters. Less vaguely, what I mean is, in Tourettes, a person flips over a card and then two people race to be the first to shout out a word beginning with that letter. Ex) Ace = calling out apple or anaconda. However, in this game, the rolling of the dice signifies the position of the letter in the word. Thus, if someone rolls a three and then flips an Ace, they must call out a word like state or drank, where the a is the third letter of the word. If they roll a two and flip a seven, they could say ass, usher, or issue for example because the 's' is the second letter in the word.

The first person to call out an accurate word, wins the match-up. Every time someone loses a match-up, they must drink.

The person with the deck does this repeatedly, going around the circle to each person, until they lose three match-ups in a row. They then hand the deck off the person on their left and play continues.

If beginners, or you just want a less intense difficulty: Only use 1,2,3 on the dice (or similar stipulations). Ex) If a six is rolled, have them roll again. Just set any such parameters beforehand.

We actually play with #1-4 in each suite picked out of a regular deck of cards and a deck of Scrabble Dash letter cards. The 1-4's from a deck of cards act as our dice and the Scrabble Dash cards act as the letter indicators (regular cards in the above version). I tried to create the dice version because I figured it would be more universal as not everyone has Scrabble Dash cards.

Alternate Version: Simply play 'Tourettes' or perhaps even 'Shout Out' with various categories like bands, songs, countries, cars, whatever! Enjoy!