Yes and No

Yes and No is a spoken word game similar to Twenty Questions played in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". In the game, the host (Fred in "A Christmas Carol") has something in mind, and the guessers (party guests) ask several simple yes-or-no questions. In "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge is the object, as seen in the section below:

Excerpt

It was a Game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's nephewhad to think of something, and the rest must find out what;he only answering to their questions yes or no, as the casewas. The brisk fire of questioning to which he was exposed,elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a liveanimal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal, ananimal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes,and lived in London, and walked about the streets,and wasn't made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, anddidn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market,and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or atiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear. At every freshquestion that was put to him, this nephew burst into afresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled, thathe was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. At lastthe plump sister, falling into a similar state, cried out:

"I have found it out! I know what it is, Fred! I knowwhat it is!"

"What is it?" cried Fred.

"It's your Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge!"

Which it certainly was. Admiration was the universalsentiment, though some objected that the reply to "Is it abear?" ought to have been "Yes;" inasmuch as an answerin the negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughtsfrom Mr. Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tendencythat way."

"Source: gutenberg|no=46|name=A Christmas Carol"

External links

* [http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html Guess the Dictator] - An good online game similar to yes-and-no