The Exquisite Chicken - Notes

Notes on Writing

• If you want to provide stage-directions or other special instructions for the reader, enclose them in brackets <like this>.
• Write legibly!

Notes on Judging

• Before the round begins, you may (but need not) disclose your judging preferences to the other players.
• Feel free to submit your own entries. But, of course, this is just for fun; you're not allowed to select them.
• Separate the entries into "maybe" and "no" piles as they're being read, and then winnow the "maybe" pile until it contains just two entries.
• If two or more entries are word-for-word identical, judge them as though they were a single entry. If you select that entry as one of the two winners, each player who wrote it gets a point.

Notes on Reading

• If the group is willing to wait, take a minute to read through all of the entries silently before you read any of them aloud.
• Don't read text in <brackets> aloud. Do your best to follow whatever instructions writers provide.
• Try to give each entry a good showcasing, even if you don't understand it or don't think it's funny.
• All of the entries should remain anonymous until the judging process is complete. Since some people have recognizable handwriting, don't let the Judge see any of the actual writing.

An Additional Option

Some groups might enjoy the following option: whenever you write an entry, you may specify a reader for it. Simply write any player's name (including your own) in the top-right corner. The Judge still designates one player as the default reader; that player gathers all of the entries and hands them out to the specified readers. The default reader reads any entries that don't have specified readers. Read all of the entries in a round-robin fashion.