You never forget your first line

Recently, I was over at a friend’s house and I was finally able to play a game I’ve wanted to play for a while. It was the perfect opportunity: it was after dinner, we were a few drinks in, and were running a bit low on small talk. My friend had a large bookshelf full of books, we were seven people, and everyone was sober enough to learn the game. I first found this game on Wikipedia under a variation of “fictionary”, but it didn’t have a name of its own.

The game works as follows: Going around in a circle, one player picks a book, shows the cover to the rest of the…