How to play bonga Charades

Bonga Charades is a Kenyan parlor or party word guessing game. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out
each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed

Rules of the game.

• Two teams divided into equal players
• A time and score keeper is selected, usually a person not taking part or else one person from each team can take turns
• No words. No pointing at objects in a room. No lip movements.
• Only "acting out" words or pantomiming similar sounding words.
• The team demonstrating the act choose their actor, no actor may act more than once until all team members had a chance to be the actor.

How to beat your opponent.

A cheatsheet of sorts!

• “A” is signed by steepling index fingers together. Following it with either
  the stretching rubber band sign or “close, keep guessing!” sign, will often elicit “an” and “and”. (sometimes “and” is signed by pointing at ones palm with the index finger)
• “I” is signed by pointing at one’s eye, or one’s chest.
• “The” is signed by making a “T” sign with the index fingers. The “close, keep guessing!” sign will then usually elicit a rigmarole of other very common words starting with “th”.
• Pretending to paddle a canoe can be used to sign the word “or.”
• Pointing to the ear means “sounds like”
• The actor has limited time (2-3 minutes) to act out the phrase to his own team.
• The actor can make any gestures to act out the word.