storrisi/english_talk_games

Small programs to encourage english conversation

English Talk games

Each script is a different game that makes you practice english by playing with words, expressions, sentences.

The files folder contains several txt files with the information needed to make each game work. You can recognize by the initials.
For example, all files named mw are the input files for the mystery word game.

How to play?
Just launch the game script and enter the name of the input file you want to use for the game, if asked. For example. if you want to play mystery word, first launch mystery_word.py, then enter, for example, mw2.txt in order to retrieve the information from that file.

List of games:

• explain the word: the purpose of the game is to randomly assign english words to players, making each player explain the meaning of the word they have been assigned, if they do know it, or to pass it to the next player, if they don't.

• mystery word: this is an english version of a game called ghigliottina, which is the final step of the Italian Quiz Show "L'Eredità". The purpose of the game is to find a word which ties 5 other words.

• guess the word: the purpose of this game is to guess a word based on a description. The words are related to specific themes, for example they might be companies or english professions, depending on which input file is chosen.