Play Chinese Whispers

The point of this game is not to have a winner, but a good laugh.

Steps

Get at least five people, preferable 10 plus people. They need to be ages 6 upward to be able to participate properly. The more people involved, the better, because the message being passed around is likely to become very distorted and even funnier.
Prepare. Write a few Send a Message in a Bottle down on paper that consist of at least ten words. The message can be serious or downright silly. Be sure it is legible.
Sit the Become a Football Player down on the floor in a circle or a line.
Give the first player the message note. Have that person explain the message to the next person by whispering it in their ear. They cannot pass on or show the message; that must go back to the person organizing or monitoring the game.
- Have them repeat the message very quickly in a whisper to the person sitting next to them. No one else must hear.
Request that the next person say whatever they heard, also fast in the same manner, to the next person.
Continue on around the Make a Pie or Circle Graph or down the line. The game goes on until the last person says whatever they heard aloud and the first person reveals the real message. Compare them and have a great laugh!

Play music in the background to help cover up the whispering and to make it harder for anyone else to hear what is being whispered unless they're the recipient.
If the outcome sounds too weird, go around the group in the opposite direction to see what everyone heard; perhaps someone changed it a bit.
When you whisper try not to whisper it too loud because the recipient may hear it.
This game is also known as Telephone, Grapevine, Broken Telephone, Gossip, Secret Message, etc.^[1]

Paper and markers, ability to make separate notes for each message you're going to pass on

Checked against Sean Callery, Party Games, p. 162, (2006), ISBN 0-00-721397-2.