Broken Picture Telephone

By Miss Cellania in Blogs & Internet on Feb 8, 2009 at 8:22 am


This online game is like the old telephone game, except with pictures. It starts with a post-it note describing a scene. The first player draws the scene. The second player only sees the picture the first player drew, and write what they think it is. The next player draws a picture illustrating the previous player’s words. Players only see what the one player previous drew or wrote. But after eleven steps (ten players), you can see the whole game. In fact, anyone can see completed games, like the one shown. Some games stay close to the original scene, but some stray strangely far afield. Link -Thanks, DaMamaJama!


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  1. just a guy
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    I vaguely recall something else like this a while ago, only it didn’t have a post-it note background.

  2. ted
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    This is fine, but people tend to try and throw twists into these, making the it a little less genuine.

  3. Rich
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Also known, would you believe, as “Eat Poop You Cat”.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_Poop_You_Cat

  4. Ant
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    Why do we have to get an account? :(

  5. Blaze
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    you need an account so they can email you results, they take a while to filter threw, cause of the stages, and you don’t get to choose where in the game you start off at. still waiting for a few of mine to finish, and see how my superb drawing skills get interpreted, lol.

  6. DOJ
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    looks like fun

  7. Johnny Cat
    Feb 8th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

    I’ve been playing off and on all day. Great, spontaneous fun!

  8. Johnny Cat
    Feb 9th, 2009 at 12:04 am

    Here’s one I started, with “Spongebob Goes To Disneyland” that has a fun ending.

    http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/view?id=723

    And here’s one that started off as “Prying Open An Old Cookie Jar” that I found as “Two Boy Clams Meet A Girl Clam” and ended up in Pac Man glory.

    http://www.brokenpicturetelephone.com/view?id=723

  9. Johnny
    Feb 9th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    This game is much more fun with about 10 friends sitting in a room and a couple of beers.

  10. Kadaj
    Feb 9th, 2009 at 2:24 am

    O my god people, if you dont wanto to register, just check te gallery. Ive been laughing for about an hour, this i sjust funny as hell. In fact i think that draqing aint that funny, as watching the gallery.

  11. Kukas
    Feb 9th, 2009 at 6:08 am

    There’s this similar site: http://www.eatpoopucat.com/

    But it haven’t been updated for a year or so.

  12. Lemish
    Feb 9th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    The site is very buggy for me.

  13. Lore
    Feb 10th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    I love this site! I’ve been playing it off and on all day and the things people come up with are awesome.

  14. jhbmw007
    Feb 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    They should rename it to broken website game- lord is that site buggy!

  15. Johnny Cat
    Feb 13th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    They are fixing the bugs and should have an improved version up Feb 16, including players being able to rate and comment on completed games.

  16. DaMamaJama
    Feb 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am

    Site is back up now – unfortunately the old games were lost, but the 400+ games that have finished in the last 30 hours are ridiculous! Less bugs and more features! I think I did at least 20 games last night…


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