The best road trip game ever. A friend learned this game from my cousin and passed it on to a group of us as we drove through Canada. I love it. It is called ‘Hink-Pink’. A game of syllables, rhymes, and synonyms. The person whose turn it is has to think of a rhyming adjective and noun with the same number of syllables (but keep this part secret). For example ‘big pig’, then they figure out a clue phrase to describe the rhyme. Such as, “obese porcine” or “large hog” or “rotund sty occupant”. Each clue phrase is proceeded by the words, ‘hink-pink’ if the words are one syllable, ‘hinky-pinky’ if they are two syllables, ‘hinkity-pinkity’ if they are 3 syllables and so on adding more syllables as needed for the clue. Then everyone guesses until it is correctly guessed, and it is then the turn of the correct guesser.
“Hink-Pink”, “depressed foot attire”. Then the guessing begins…….with the correct answer being ‘blue shoe’.
Example two:
“Hinky-Pinky”, “fortunate waterfowl”……with the answer being ‘lucky ducky’.
Example three:
“Hink-pink”, “intelligent illumination”…..with the answer as ‘bright light’.
Variation: I tend to love homophonic combinations. So I have created a variation where you say ‘hink-hink’, if it’s homophonic.
Example Four:
“Hink-hink”, “paying individually Nederlanders”……with the answer being ‘dutch Dutch’.
Example Five:
“Hink-hink”, “unweighty illumination”……with the answer being ‘light light’.
Example Six:
“Hink-hink”, “ticketed treasure”……with the answer being ‘fined find’.
Example Six:
“Hink-hink”, “disgusting bird”……with the answer being ‘foul fowl’.
Example Seven:
“Hink-hink”, “initiate wildebeest”……with the answer being ‘new gnu’.
OK, enough examples. You see how I love it? I play it all day with myself.
