# Salad Bowl - Family Game Night

### Combine the fun of Charades and Taboo all in one.

My friends and I love a good game night and one of our favorites is Salad Bowl
(I've also heard it called Celebrities).  It's a word game where all players
contribute three words that start with the same letter.  In two 
teams, players go back and forth guessing as many 
words as possible from a teammate's clues.  While this is similar to games like Taboo and charades, 
it is played in three rounds.  

####Round One
The rules of this round are like Taboo where you can do anything to get your team to 
guess the word other than saying the word.  Teams
go back and forth getting as many words as they can in a minute until all words 
have been guessed.  This signals the end of each round.
 
####Round Two 
Now you can only use charades to get your team to guess the words.  Although the words 
have not changed so if you were paying attention in round one this should help.

####Round Three 
The most challenging round, where you are only allowed to give
a single word as the clue.  Hopefully your teammates have a good memory
 from the previous two rounds!
 
####Why an app?

The advantage of doing this as an app is to combine **time keeping**, **scoring**, and
**word storage** all in one place.  It will also layout the rules 
for each round, which is often a debate.  Only one phone would be required 
and could be passed to whomever's turn it is.  Additionally the app could 
randomly select the letter for you to choose from, and even have a feature to
generate words if you prefer that over player input.

* Lauren Green