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From 'A guide to game series' Observer
Ex Libris
Blush rating: 3/5
AKA: The game of first lines and last words
Aim: To fool your friends with spoof intros
How to play
This game works best with a group of at least four people. First, make sure that everyone has some paper and a pen.
To start, one player is chosen to be the "reader" and picks a book off the shelf. The reader discloses the author's name and a little about the novel. Armed with this information, the other players must write down plausible opening and closing sentences for the book.
All of the players' suggestions are then passed to the reader who mixes them all together, including the correct lines, and reads all the entries out.
Players must identify the true versions at the same time as trying to dupe the other players with their own false entries. Award players a point for every person their fabricated version manages to fool and make whoever guesses correctly the next reader.
Spice it up:
Ham it up by reading the lines out in the manner of the author (cod Dickensian, fey Jane Austen etc), or show off by playing in a foreign language.