As a child, whenever we were going on a long journey, in order to keep the kids occupied my Mum would suggest a game of “The Ministers Cat”. The youngest child would be first to start and would say for example “The Ministers Cat is an ANGRY cat”. Each player would take their turn in order of age (and possible degree of difficulty depending on the number of players). We would go through the alphabet until Z. If a player could not come up with a suitable adjective they would be out, although we would usually skip on X! I have played this recently with my niece and grandchildren and whilst it’s good fun, it’s also good for their vocabulary.

wow, am I glad I found this discussion. I was trying to teach my niece Concentration, and didn’t remember some crucial parts. Now here is how I played it as a kid: Concentration/are you ready/if so/let’s go/starting/with names/of boys/one apiece/no repeats… then the first girl shouts out a name beginning with the letter A, the next girl shouts out a name beginning with B…

Lizgui… Thank You!!! I couldn’t remember the name of a favorite game I used to play. It was “Concentration!”. Girls names,(as you said), names of flowers, names of boys (of course!) and anything else we could think of. It was so much fun thinking of things to name! Thank you for bringing that back! 😉