7 Games You Can Play With a Dictionary

Dictionaries are versatile tools, really. You can look stuff up, use a page as a tissue or find a "more descriptive word to make your story come to life" for your English teacher. But one thing the don't teach you in school is how to use a dictionary for fun(and yes, I'm talking about the big college-sized hardcover ones, not the little sissified paperback ones you get in fourth grade). How do you do that? Allow me to tell you seven games you can play with a dictionary.

1. Dictionary Roulette
Russian roulette with a dictionary
RULES:
1. Find a group of people and make a circle
2. Have someone stand in the middle with the dictionary
3. Have the person in the middle start spinning in a circle
4. Once you have enough momentum, let go of the dictionary
5. See who gets hit
2+ players

2. Dictionary Tag
Throw the dictionary at fellow homo sapiens (aka humans)and see if they're the new "it".
RULES:
1. Whoever has the dictionary is it
2. Throw the dictionary at people
3. If hit, see if they cry
4. If they don't, they're it
5. If they do, they're it
2+ players

3. Dodge Dictionary
Dodge ball with dictionaries.
RULES:
1. Lay a bunch of dictionaries on the ground in the middle of your playing field
2. Maximum of two dictionaries per person
3. Throw dictionaries at opposing team
4. If hit, you're out
5. Don't get hit
2+ players

4. Dingo (dictionary+Bingo=dingo)
Dictionary bingo
RULES:
1. Pick 25 words out of a dictionary
2. write word on a 5x5 square card
3. Have someone call out words from aforementioned dictionary
4. Yell "DINGO" if you fill out five words in a row( can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal)
3+ players

5. Throw the Dictionary
See how far it goes.
RULES:
1. Get dictionary
2. Throw it
3. Measure how far it goes
1+ players

6. Break the Dictionary
Mess it up good.
RULES:
1. Do whatever it takes to reduce it to a pile of smoldering ashes
1+ players

7. Find the Dictionary
Hide and find the dictionary.
RULES:
1. Have someone hide the dictionary
2. Find it
3. You win if you find it in under a minute.
2+ players

There ya go. 7 games you can play with a dictionary.

Cheese Face out.