A SURPRISE SPELLING MATCH
Recently at a banquet at one of our churches I arranged what I called a “Korean Spelling Match” as a feature of entertainment. It’s a merry game that will fit into almost any gathering. All the guests remain seated at the table and —■ without choosing up in the regular spelling match manner you announce that all on the left are to spell the words called out to them, and those on the right are to define the words given to that side. If anyone misses a word and, of course, has to drop out of the game, a new word is given to the next in turn. This gives everyone an equal chance. The fun in the game is that all the words to be spelled are the simplest ones possible, such as at, go, cat, is, in, up, and so on. But the words given to the other side are words not in common use and hard for most people to define. It is easy to go through an unabridged distionary and find plenty of such long words. Make two lists long enough so that after going down both lines the order can then be reversed, the right side getting words to spell and the left side words to define.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 3, 23 October 1931, Page 9
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215A SURPRISE SPELLING MATCH Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 3, 23 October 1931, Page 9
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