Three word story

Three word story

Three word story is a game in which a story is built by multiple people, who use three words each turn. It is a common favorite of forum gamers, since it is easy to explain and play in a linear, structured fashion. An example game goes as follows:

* A fat man...
* ... walked into a...
* ... car and it...
* ... was very painful...
* ... but he jump...
* ... back up and...
* ... dug a really...
* ... small cave that...
* ... had to red...
* ... cats coming out...
* ... from some smoke...

Punctuation is usually very uncommon in textual variants. The segmented nature of the story makes it easy to create seemingly-random plot twists that are only tangentially related to the last three words.

Variants on the game exist, usually created by changing the number of words or using sentences or paragraphs instead. More comic versions could use a certain number of letters or fractional words: "comp..."/"...ost".

The three word story is popular with many bloggers [http://www.thisisthis.org/threewordstory/] .

External links

* [http://www.gamelair.com/gameforums/forum-games/7651-new-neverending-sentence.html Three Word Never Ending Sentence Game]
* [http://www.fowlerrd.com/story/ The Story Project] - Five word never ending story
* [http://www.110mb.com/forum/empty-t2210.0.html 110mb 3 Word Story] - at 2000+ posts already.
* [http://www.drossforum.com Three word story, Five word story, Word association, Spit-Swallow text game]


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