We used to play a brilliant game I was a teenager, which we called The Jane Austen Game, although I'm sure other families have different names for it, but it's a bit of literary fluff that makes people laugh and can sharpen your writing skills as well....
The person who is "on" chooses a quote from the dictionary of quotations and reads out the name of the person who said it and the date, to provide some period context. All the players have a few minutes to write down a sentence or two that they think the chosen writer might have said, while the person who is "on" copies out the original. Everyone hands in their offerings to her and she shuffles them and then reads them out and the players have to vote on which they think is the genuine article.
As far as I remember - it's too long since I've played it - anyone guessing the real quote gets a point, and if someone votes for yours, you get a point as well.
So if you are splayed out in post-turkey euphoria and you've opened all your presents and are wondering what to do next, have a go at this one
J.E. Crawford Flitch 1913...
Merry Christmas!
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