The quiet game is a children's game where children must stay quiet and still. The last child or team to make a noise wins the game. It is usually acceptable for players to make sounds they cannot control, such as coughing, sneezing, yawning, etc., whereas talking, laughing, or giggling would cause a player to get out. The game is often played indoors, typically in classrooms. It can also be played outdoors, for instance, at summer camps. One application of the game is for parents to keep their loud children quiet for a long journey. It is often used as a social discipline.
The objective of the game is to get opponents to giggle or talk by any means necessary. This can include but is not limited to making funny faces and gentle tickling. A person cannot make another make noise by inflicting bodily harm.
There are many versions of this game, but nonetheless follow the same general rules: one who talks is immediately eliminated, eventually isolating the winner at the end.
In August 2012 San Francisco-based advertising agency Venables Bell & Partners developed a digital version of "The Quiet Game" for their client 76. The game is available as a smart phone app.
Famous quotes containing the words quiet and/or game:
“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation “alter” nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)