LITERALLY: the game of multiple meanings

I woke up today with an IDEA. Which is like an IKEA but with more clutter.

It was genuinely my very first thought of the day, and these are usually the most disposable of all the thoughts, but I felt compelled to get it down in my notes with immediate effect. I’ve since refined the idea a bit more, and created a visual manifestation of the idea to test on you all…

This is what I wrote in my notes: (DISCLAIMER: I haven’t edited these words at all so keep your literary and visualisation expectations low)

Tv show: teams of two, illustrations appear on screen I.e. driftwood = a car drifting around a tree trunk. and teams race to the buzzer to figure it out. Each team has 3 attempts per illustration. 

A short animated teaser (I.e somebody staring at some beans through a pair of dodgy binoculars = bean stalk) appears before commercial breaks, with the answer appearing at the start of each return. Keeps the audience involved and thinking. (Maybe this animated section is open to audience to send in their own creations? Helps expose animators/illustrators with social media tags included etc) 

Each team must then draw as many as possible in 3 minutes for their team member, like Pictionary but with a wordplay, and more literal, twist. 

Board game: each card has three options the user can pick, they have one minute to draw as many as possible per turn, and each correct guess from the team member equates to a move around the table. 

Name of game: LITERALLY.

Type of game: Word game.”

Can see this working well as a gameshow, boardgame or, probably most effortlessly, an APP…


Anyway, enough talk! See if you can figure out these LITERALLY teasers…




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