The Priest of The Parish - Another Variation

Another Variation

Accusations and denials fly around the room in an orderly patterned sequence as to who may have taken the hat. Each respondent must reply within the count of 5:

Leader: "The priest of the parish has lost his considering cap. Some say this, and some say that, but I say name X, 1 2 3 4 5”

X: “What I sir?”…

L: “Yes you sir!”…

X: “No not I sir”…

L: “Who then sir?”…

X: “ 1 2 3 4 5”…

starting the whole cycle all over again.

The trick of the game is that while the first chair in the circle is The Priest and next to him is his lieutenant Man Jack, each subsequent chair around the circle is named after the person sitting in it at the beginning of the game. When someone fails to respond or mixes up the sequence of bantering words they are sent to the ‘bottom’, or in other words the last chair and the others move up, thereby assuming the name or title of the new chair they occupy.

As an example if Jeremy moves up to Bridget’s chair he has to respond to the name Bridget until he moves up to the next seat or is sent to the bottom. The object of the game is to move up to be the priest.

Of course there can be liberal interpretation as to what constitutes a violation of the rules such as inexact responses or delays in responses or untimely responses, but it can be left up to the Priest to make a decision (or mob rule in the case of Priest violations since Man Jack in unlikely to be trusted).