Re: Correspondence Games
When I was a kid, I used to play correspondence games with my friends (yes, I was a dork, and later, a Goth). I figure these are pretty much dead, since nobody sends personal correspondence anymore (unless it’s birthday cards), and kids especially will never again write letters.
Here are some of my favorites, for posterity’s sake:
Letter book: Instead of writing letters on individual pieces of paper, you send a book back and forth, writing in the next blank pages. So I’d buy a small blank book, write a letter in it’s pages, and send it to my friend, who would write a response in the next pages, then send it to me again, so our letters were collected in a bound journal. The person who writes the last pages sends it to the other, who gets to keep it and starts with a new book.
Penpal pads: A person takes a bunch of small slips of paper and attaches them together. This could be in some artistic way, or just a bunch of cut-up college-ruled paper stapled together. You take the first blank sheet, write your address on it and a list of your interests, usually including some kind of cute/cool artwork. Then you mail it to a friend of yours, who does the same thing to the next sheet, and so on. After as few sheets get built up, when you get the pad in the mail, you look through the sheets and pick the people you’d like to write to, while including your information to send on. This was very popular with Goth kids stuck in the Midwest.
Psychograms: This one, inspired by a series of animations, is for long boring car trips. You go to the cheesiest truck stops you can find and buy the tackiest postcards in the worst possible taste, like the one I found in El Paso of a dead cowboy being picked apart by buzzards. Then you write something bizarre and disturbing and send it to your friend, always starting the letter with “Dear Mum” e.g., “Dear Mum: Finally tracked down that pickup that ran over Poopsie. Had a long talk with the driver. He’s terribly sorry.”
Round Robin: Rather than letters back and for the between two people, these letters are sent to a group of people. One person sends a letter to the next, and that person writes a reply, then sends it to another person, who writes a reply to both letters, and so on until the last person sends it back to the first person, and she or he has several letters to read, and reply to, and so on.
Round Robin Story: This is the same as the round robin, but instead of writing a letter, the first person starts a story, and the other people continue it.
And of course:
Audio letter: Instead of sending a letter, you record what you want to say on an audiotape, and then sends it off. Your friend records her letter on the same tape, and sends it back.
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