Apples to Apples

Many of you are probably familiar with this game. Personally, I love it. I love any game that has to do with words. My sophomore year of college, my roommates and other friends and I would play this for loooooong periods of time and not get tired of it.

For those of you not familiar with the game:
In the game that you buy from the store, there are two kinds of cards included: green ones (adjectives) and red ones (nouns- of all kinds). To play the game, each person is dealt five red cards (nouns). Each player takes a turn being the "judge". The "judge" draws a green card from the adjective stack, reads it aloud, and lays it face up on the table. Each player (other than the judge) chooses one card from his or her hand and lays it facedown in the middle of the table, making no comment about which card was played by him or her. The judge then turns over all the cards and chooses the one that he or she thinks best compliments the adjective. This becomes funny when people pick crazy cards that don't normally correlate to a particular adjective. When the judge chooses a noun as the winning card, the person who played that card collects the green adjective card (similar to getting a point). The first person to collect ten green cards wins.

I used this game just the other day when teaching adjectives. They loved it. For that particular class, though, I dealt the teams (I had them play in pairs) green adjective cards, and I put a red noun card down in the middle. It was a success.

If you don't have an Apples to Apples game, it would be pretty easy to recreate: using index cards (or something similar), make stacks of adjectives and nouns (things, places, people, even concepts like "going to grandma's").