Got a hankering to play Mad Libs? Leonard Stern created one just for TODAYshow.com. If you’re not familiar with the game, here is how to play:

Mad Libs is a game for people who don’t like games! It can be played by one, two, three, four, or 40.

Ridiculously simple directions:
Below, you will find a story containing blank spaces where words are left out. One player is designated the reader, while one or more players are the writers. The reader does not tell anyone what the story is about. Instead, he/she asks the other players, the writers, to give him/her words. These words are used to fill in the blank spaces in the story.

To play:
The reader asks each writer in turn to call out a word — an adjective or a noun or whatever the space calls for — and uses them to fill in the blank spaces in the story. The result is a Mad Libs game.

When the reader then reads the completed Mad Libs game to the other players, they will discover that they have written a story that is fantastic, screamingly funny, shocking, silly, crazy, or just plain dumb — depending upon which words each writer called out.

Quick review:
In case you have forgotten what adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs are, here is a quick review:

An adjective describes something or somebody. Lumpy, soft, ugly, messy and short are adjectives.

An adverb tells how something is done. It modifies a verb and usually ends in “ly.” Modestly, stupidly, greedily and carefully are adverbs.

A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. Sidewalk, umbrella, bridle, bathtub and nose are nouns.

A verb is an action word. Run, pitch, jump and swim are verbs. Put the verbs in past tense if the directions say past tense. Ran, pitched, jumped and swam are verbs in the past tense.

When we ask for a place, we mean any sort of place: a country or city (Spain, Cleveland) or a room (bathroom, kitchen).

An exclamation or silly word is any sort of funny sound, gasp, grunt, or outcry, like Wow!, Ouch!, Whomp!, Ick! and Gadzooks!

When we ask for specific words, like a number, a color, an animal, or a part of the body, we mean a word that is one of those things, like seven, blue, horse or head.

When we ask for a plural, it means more than one. For example, cat pluralized is cats.

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