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Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free. Welcome to another summer mini-cast of Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

If you listen regularly, you know that Grant and I love to play those word games with our quiz guys John Choneski and Greg Pliska.

Each week one of them drops by and tries to trip us up with a puzzle.

But few word games have been as much fun as the time they both showed up.

They divided us into teams, and they told us that the object of the game

is to take a list of words and make your partner guess them one by one but here's the catch you're only

allowed to give one syllable clues it's harder than you might think this game is

called small talk so you guys are ganging up on us think this game is called Small Talk.

So you guys are ganging up on us this week?

Yeah, we just like couldn't, uh, we need help.

This must be a special occasion.

What do you got there?

Well, you know, we don't want to take up too much of your time, so we brought with us a game called Small Talk.

Uh-huh. Yes, it's based, it's based on a game from my book, Super Party Games, fun and original ideas for 10 or more. That's John's book, Super Party Games, Fun and Original Ideas for 10 or more.

That's John's.

Super Party Games, Fun and Original Ideas for 10 or more.

John Chenesky.

And we'll have two teams.

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