Friday's Fun: Vintage Games - Unwanted Letter, Omit the E

It seems that all of my Vintage Games have been word related as of late! :) Here is another one. **UPDATED**

Unwanted Letter

Choose an unwanted letter, M for example. Have everyone sit in a circle. Choose someone to ask a question of. The idea is to ask a question which would most logically be answered using the letter M. However, the person answering cannot use that letter.

So, for example, the question asked could be "What day immediately follows Sunday?" (You cannot phrase it "comes after" because Tuesday, Wednesday, etc all come after Sunday.) The asker then begins to count at a reasonable rate to ten (the person is only given ten seconds to answer).

The obvious answer is Monday. However, they have to avoid using the letter M, so they could answer "The day before Tuesday."

The person who was answered the question, now gets to ask the next question.

Anyone who is not able to answer within ten second OR answers using the unwanted letter must either sit out or pay a forfeit.

For fun, you can have three or four letters that are unwanted.

A similar version of this game is called Omit The E, and focuses on just the E. It also would make a great ice breaker when played as guests arrive at your house for a party.

The letter E is considered the most used letter in the alphabet. Questions are asked of each other and the answer cannot have the letter E in it. The question may have E, but the answer may not.

For example, if asked "How are you today?", they cannot respond "I am fine" because fine has the letter E in it. Instead, you could respond "I am all right."

The questioned is given 20 seconds to answer, if they cannot they have to pay a forfeit.

UPDATE:

I was thinking last night of how to play this will younger children (as AA is just learning to spell and the others don't know), and I thought you could omit SOUNDS! So for example, you would omit the mmmmmmmm sound. You could use the same question as above.

Playing these games with my children have been some of the most fun times I have had with them lately. It is so great to see their eyes when it finally CLICKS that they understand HOW the game is played. And they are so easy to play in the car! We are not as close to the grocery store as we were, so playing the game fills the time.

Rebecca asked where I got these games from, they are ALL actual vintage games that were played during the time of Little House on the Prairie and the times of Ebenezer Scrooge!