Sixty little slips of paper are each given a letter of the
alphabet and then placed in a box. The company sits
around a table and the leader draws out one of the slips,
without looking at them, and then announces the letter.
Everybody is paying great attention, and the first person who
calls out the name of a town in any part of the world commencing with the letter announced is given the slip. The
person who wins twelve slips first receives a prize.
All
those who have none by this time pay a forfeit. Another
idea is to make the winner the individual who can first
form a word of three letters or more with the slips in his
possession.
The game can only proceed satisfactorily when
the leader exercises great care in spotting who calls first.
Otherwise, there will a certain amount of dissatisfaction.