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[[Category:Games]]
The Greatest Game in the World, also known as "Greatest Game" or "Telepictionary," is a party game similar to [[Telephone Oracle]] both in that it involves papers being passed around and in that it is enjoyable regardless of intoxication level, talent level, or... well, basically anything besides sense of humor, which is a must. It is derived from the French surrealist random generator game "exquisite corpse", and occasionally goes by that name.
== Equipment ==
== Tips, Tricks, and Strategies ==
[[Image:Greatestgame.jpg|Artistic talent is unnecessary, but don't tell [[Sean CarolloHayes]] '0708.]]
* Don't worry about your level of artistic talent. If everyone could draw like Sean CarolloHayes, artist of the above, there wouldn't be much movement in a game. Usually a mix of players of different drawing skills produces the best games, with a higher level of artistic incompetence producing more hilarity.
* Starting with a sentence that has several blatantly undrawable concepts ("the thermal coefficient of expansion," "zero-sum game," statements related to time, etc.) tends to yield funnier results. Other starting-sentence types that work well are song lyrics, quotations, and ending sentences from previous games.
* One sneaky strategy common in groups of mixed sensibilities is conscious censoring of "inappropriate" content. (Conversely, some people will consciously inappropriatize formerly clean content.) Also seen in [[Telephone Oracle]], it is not quite fair in Greatest Game but can often lead to funny contrasts.
