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Family Legends
Tell a true family story and stop right before the ending. The room guesses what happened.
- ~20 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- In the Family Lines pack
- Ages 10+
What it feels like
Every family has its legends: the holiday, the car, the turkey, the dog. You've heard them a hundred times. But do you actually know how they end? Here's what you do. The tellers each pick a true story and secretly write down how it really ended. Then they tell it out loud, and stop right before the good part. Everyone else guesses the ending. A close guess scores two. But if nobody sees it coming, the teller takes three.
How to play
- A few of you are the tellers. In a private turn, each teller gets a story prompt — like “a time a plan went completely sideways” — picks a true story and writes its real ending in one line.
- On your round, tell the story out loud and stop right before the ending: “…and then —”.
- Everyone else says what they think happened. Then the teller reveals the ending.
Scoring: 2 points for everyone the teller says was close. If nobody saw it coming, the teller scores 3.
You'll get prompts like
- “The family story that gets told every single year”
- “A family holiday that went completely sideways”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
