Eat Poop You Cat is a party game that has been likened to a cross between Telephone and Pictionary. It is also considered a modern-day cousin of the Exquisite corpse game, as well as bearing many similarities to 1000 Blank White Cards. It is played with a group of people, preferably a large one. You will also need a pad of paper and a writing utensil. Writing or drawing ability is not required. Trivial Pursuit is a popular party game. ... The telephone game, also known as Broken Telephone, Chinese whispers and whisper down the lane, is a game often played by children at parties or in the playground in which a phrase or sentence is passed on from one player to another, but is subtly altered in transit. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This is an article about the surrealist technique, for other uses see Exquisite Corpse Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in... 1000 Blank White Cards is a party game played with cards in which the deck is created as part of the game. ... Piece of paper Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibers. ... Writing is the process of inscribing characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other larger language constructs. ...

Due to its informal nature, the game has come to have many variant names. Examples which are descriptive by nature include: Fax Machine; Pictophone; The Picture Sentence Game; The Sentence Game; Paper Telephone; Sentence Picture; Telephone Pictionary; Descriptionary; and Writesy Drawsy. Examples which are likely derived from particularly funny results of the game itself include: I'pupiukat; EPYC (same as Eat Poop You Cat, but less likely to scare newcomers); Cricket Cricket I'm On Fire (or, more briefly, Cricket Cricket); and Moneyduck.

How to play

The first player begins by writing a sentence or phrase. This can be anything and in reference to anything. More surreal sentences tend to produce funnier final results. In linguistics, a sentence is a unit of language, characterised in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ... A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. ...

The next player then attempts to come up with an illustration that represents the sentence. Then the paper is folded over so that only the picture can be seen and is passed to the next player. Usually there are some restrictions on what can appear in the illustration to ensure that the third player cannot easily replicate the original sentence. For instance, numbers and letters can be forbidden. An illustration of a character from a story; also, an illustration of illustrations An Illustration is a visualisation such as drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. ...

The next player then attempts to formulate a caption for the illustration. Once the third player has captioned the illustration, the paper is folded over so that only the caption can be seen, and is passed to the next player.

This is continued until the game ends. There are a few different opinions as to when the game should end, but it should always end on a sentence, not an illustration. Therefore it is best played with an odd number of people. One variation says the game ends when every player has had a turn. Another says that the game ends only when the entire sheet of paper is filled, and that for a longer game, two or more sheets of paper should be taped together at the start of the game. In this variation, drawings and sentences may be biased by players' knowledge of what they wrote or drew before.

Notes

Much like the telephone game, this game is about starting with one idea, and through sharing it between several people in a chain, mutating it into a completely new idea. Comparisons between the initial and final sentences are often humorous, as well as comparing two consecutive sentences or two consecutive illustrations.

Because changing the idea is somewhat the goal of the game, creativity is a good thing. Putting a little spin on your sentence or using some artistic license on your illustration will cause a more desirable end result. People with poor drawing skills automatically achieve this desired confusion. In the same way, bad handwriting can lead to humorous changes of meaning, especially if the group's rules forbid asking for clarification. The Artistic License is a software license used for certain free software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation, most of CPAN modules and Parrot, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL). ...

Some ideas, once they enter the game, are very persistent. This tends to be if there is a very easy way to represent a word so that it is recognised in the same light by another person. Some examples are Nazis, devils, sex, Santa Claus, toilets, Godzilla, Batman, Trogdor, ninjas, wookiees, people in crowns, clocks/time, clowns, vampires, The Grim Reaper, Optimus Prime and Elvis. National Socialism redirects here. ... A modern interpretation of the devil, in red with goat like characteristics. ... Look up Sex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A common portrayal of Santa Claus. ... Boeing 747 toilet A toilet is a plumbing fixture and a disposal system primarily intended for the disposal of the bodily wastes; urine, fecal matter, vomit and menses. ... Godzilla , as portrayed during the late Heisei era (Godzilla vs. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man, and still sometimes as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Ninja (忍者) has two meanings. ... A Wookiee is a member of a race of hairy bipeds in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Places where monarchies maintain rule appear in blue. ... An analog wall clock A clock (from the Latin cloca, bell) is an instrument for measuring time and for measuring time intervals of less than a day—as opposed to a calendar. ... A pocket watch, a common timekeeping device. ... The classic American clown partnership of neat whiteface Mike Snyder and grotesque auguste Billy Vaughn pictured here with Ringmaster Danny McCallum. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires (or vampiress, for female) are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... Death, personified is an anthropomorphic figure or a fictional character who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. ... Optimus Prime (known in Japan as Convoy, Italy as Commander, France as Optimus Primo, and Brazil as Líder Optimus) is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes. ... Elvis Aron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll, or as just simply The King, was an American singer who had an immeasurable effect on world culture. ...

Variations

The "paper telephone" variant says that each player in the group starts a separate piece of paper, and all are passed when all players are done with their turn. This is, in effect, the same thing as playing several games at the same time. Playing this way has the advantage that all players at a table can be occupied simultaneously.

See also

• Surrealist games

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External links

Warning: Some archived games contain descriptions and depictions of potentially offensive material, including sexual and violent material.

• emontellese.com Play The Game Online!
• Trichotomy.ca EPYC contains a good archive of EPYC games, and a good description of What is Eat Poop You Cat?
• PaperTelephone.com archive of EPYC games
• Scarybug's Lair another archive of EPYC games
• chrisboy dot com
• Patteroast.net EPYC Site