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Story Chain

The group writes one story together, one line at a time. Nobody knows where it will go, and the result is usually much funnier than anything one person could write.

Players
3 or more
Time
15 to 30 minutes
You need
Nothing
Ages
8 and above
Type
WhatsApp group games

How to play

  1. The host posts the first line of a story.
  2. Members add one line each. A line must follow from the line before it.
  3. Nobody may post two lines in a row.
  4. After 20 lines, or when the host types "The end", the story stops.
  5. The host copies the whole story into one message and reads it back to the group.

Ready message to start the game

Story chain! Add ONE line each. No two lines in a row from the same person. First line: On a rainy Monday, the school bell rang by itself, and nobody was near it.

First lines to start a story

  1. On a rainy Monday, the school bell rang by itself, and nobody was near it.
  2. Grandmother's old trunk had a second lock that nobody had ever opened.
  3. The last bus of the night had only one other passenger: a goat wearing a red scarf.
  4. When the lights came back, the wedding cake was missing.
  5. The new neighbour moved in at midnight, carrying only a ladder and a parrot.
  6. Ravi found a phone on the park bench. It was ringing, and the caller's name was "Ravi".
  7. Every morning, one fresh mango appeared on the school gate, even in December.
  8. The lift stopped between the fourth and fifth floors, and then a voice said, "Welcome."
  9. The village well had been dry for years, until the day it started to hum.
  10. Meera's kite did not come down. It went up, and it took the string with it.

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