Teenager Favorites

There are many games people play when they are young and still in school. A lot of them frequent the commons and libraries of high schools. West Jordan High School is the home of a few interesting games, but not many students appear to be involved overall.

"Apples to Apples", packs of regular playing cards, Magic the Gathering, and simple pencil and paper have frequented the library AIP time for months on end. Quiet laughter echoes through book shelves as a small group of students pass around paper and then reads each other crazy stories. This is a relatively new game to the group as they have spent the last several months playing "Old Maid," "Scum," "BS," and more non-time consuming games. The half an hour of reprieve from class study is much appreciated by the group of seniors. They are joined by new sophomores who are surely experiencing the same homework stress High School brings, just as the seniors did in their first year.

"Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How is a simple enough game to play and a new favorite of the group. The rules are included here.

Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
Each player is given a piece of paper and a pencil.
You first write a FEMALE "who" (i.e. actress, friend, movie character, book character, video game character, etc.) and fold down the top of the paper so what you wrote is hidden. That paper is then passed to the left and on the new piece you write a MALE "who" on the paper. Make sure it is not on top of the fold but underneath it on the blank stretch of paper. Do not lift up any folds. Fold the paper down over the male who and pass once more to the left. Write what they were doing, i.e. "were traveling to London on a plane," "were riding alpacas," "were dancing with llama's," or "were sleeping." Pass to the left and write a when (time), i.e. "in the medieval ages," "at 2:00 in the morning," "while (blank) was robbing a bank," "a thousand years ago." Pass to the left and write where it was happening, i.e. "in London," "on a pirate ship," "in Cerulean," "on the top of the Empire State Building." Pass to the left and write why they were doing it, i.e. "because they wanted to get married in Argentina," "because they were on a mission for the M16," "because their teachers had given them F's on their report cards." The final pass to the left and you write how they were accomplishing the task, i.e. "with their pinky fingers," "by riding llama's into Afghanistan," "by dancing on table tops with Katy Perry who was singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to the tune of Who Says by Selena Gomez."

Hopefully next year someone will carry on the tradition, it's a great reprieve from stress and the librarians are always friendly to students.