Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, the difficult-to-understand mechanism of whispering, and that some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line. The game is often played by children as a party game or on the playground. It is often invoked as a for cumulative error, especially the inaccuracies as rumours or gossip spread, or, more generally, for the unreliability of human recollection or even. A game of Eat Poop You Cat, starting with 'Only the good die young' and ending with 'The three vikings visit Christ'.
The pen-and-paper game Telephone Pictionary (also known as Eat Poop You Cat) is played by alternately writing and illustrating captions, the paper being folded so that each player can only see the previous participant's contribution. Commercial boardgame versions and were both released in 2009. The game has also been implemented online at, and other sites. A translation relay is a variant in which the first player produces a text in a given, together with a basic guide to understanding, which includes a lexicon, an, possibly a list of grammatical, comments on the meaning of difficult words, etc. (everything except an actual translation). The text is passed on to the following player, who tries to make sense of it and casts it into his/her language of choice, then repeating the procedure, and so on.
Each player only knows the translation done by his immediate predecessor, but customarily the relay master or mistress collects all of them. The relay ends when the last player returns the translation to the beginning player. The game has been played in the community.
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The Meme Machine.. The form and timing of the tic undoubtedly mutated over the generations, as in the childhood game of Chinese Whispers (Americans call it Telephone) •. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
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Fabulous Orients: fictions of the East in England, 1662–1785.. The sinophobic name points to the centuries-old tradition in Europe of representing spoken Chinese as an incomprehensible and unpronounceable combination of sounds. • Young, Linda W. Cambridge University Press.. • Jackman, John; Wendy Wren (1999).