Eat Poop You Cat

Quick Pitch

Eat Poop You Cat is a drawing-telephone game: you write a phrase, pass it to someone who draws it, they pass the drawing to someone who writes what they see — and so on until the original phrase returns completely unrecognizable.

Hook

You write "a cat jumping over a fence." The next person draws that — or tries to. The person after them sees the drawing and writes "dog escaping from prison." Someone draws that. By the time it gets back to you, your fence-jumping cat has become "a man fleeing an angry cloud." Eat Poop You Cat is peak group comedy — the worse the drawing, the better the game.

Equipment Needed

• Sheets of paper or small notebook (one sheet per player)
• Pencil or pen
• Enough paper for multiple rounds
• Timer (optional; helps keep pace)

Setup

1. Give each player one sheet of paper (or open a notebook to a blank page).
2. Everyone writes their name or a number at the top so the chain can be traced at the end.
3. Decide how starting phrases will be chosen — either each player writes their own, or one person assigns a phrase to everyone.

Rules

Objective

Pass a phrase around the group, alternating between writing and drawing at each step, and see how far the original meaning drifts before it returns to the person who started it.

Gameplay

Everyone starts by writing a short, specific phrase at the top of their paper — something visual and concrete works best. For example: "A wizard riding a bicycle through a rainstorm." Don't be too vague (like "happiness") or it'll be impossible to draw.

Pass your paper to the person on your left.

The person who receives a paper looks at the phrase, folds the paper to hide the original writing, and draws a picture that represents what they read. They can take a minute or two — the drawing doesn't have to be good.

Pass the paper again.

The next person sees only the drawing (the phrase is folded out of sight). They write a phrase describing what they see in the picture. Then fold the paper to hide the drawing and pass it on.

Repeat: each new person either writes (if the previous step was a drawing) or draws (if the previous step was writing), seeing only the most recent contribution and folding everything else behind it.

When each paper has been through everyone and returns to its original owner, reveal the full chain — unfold everything and read through the sequence of phrases and drawings aloud. This is the best part.

Winning

There's no winner. The point is the reveal and the shared laughter at how dramatically the original phrase transformed along the way.