Format
Mad Libs consist of a book that has a short story on each page with many key words replaced with blanks. Beneath each blank is specified a lexical or other category, such as "noun", "verb", "place", or "part of the body". One player asks the other players, in turn, to contribute some word for the specified type for each blank, but without revealing the context for that word. Finally, the completed story is read aloud. The result is usually comic, surreal and somewhat nonsensical.
Stern and Price's original Mad Libs book gives the following sentence as an example:
"_____________! he said ________ as he jumped into his convertible exclamation adverb ______ and drove off with his __________ wife." noun adjectiveAfter completion, they demonstrate that the sentence might read:
"Ouch! he said stupidly as he jumped into his convertiblecat and drove off with his brave wife."
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