antedating "word game" (1885)

[Stephen Goranson]

ads-l archive has 1899

1885 The Congregationalist, (Boston, MA) Thursday, April 23, 1885; pg.
6; Issue
17; col E [19th C US N]
     Our Young People A Little Blue Pitcher Mary E. Wilkins.
Category: Arts & Entertainment [col. F]
This and That
A very pretty word-game for young people is one known as "Crambo."
Somebody asks
a question and, at the same time, gives a word which must be wrought into the
answer in the form of a rhyme.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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