Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — YOUNG FOLKS’ CORNER [ARTICLE]

YOUNG FOLKS’ CORNER

Twenty Guesses. A good game is that called “twenty guesses.” Any number of players can participate. It can be played anywhere. One of the players Is chosen for leader. She goes several yards away while the others take the name of some visible object. Then they call the leader back. She goes to No. 1 and asks: “Is it in the animal kingdom?” oi whatever kingdom she chooses to say. Supposing the object to be a wooden door. No. 1 says, “No.” The leader then goes to No, 2 and asks: “Is it in the mineral kingdom?” No. 2 answers, “No.” The leader then knows it is in the vegetable kingdom. She has eighteen more guesses to guess the object. She can ask any question at all, but the players can only answer yes or no and cannot answer out of their turn. If the rules are broken the leader changes places with the one who broke them. When the leader says, “It is a wooden door/’ the player whose turn it was now becomes the leader, and so on.