there was a game i used to play with my class at school called "broken telephone" (or something like that) and i remember the game being about us being lined up then whispering a word or phrase to the next person, then that person would whisper what they thought they heard to the next, and then once they reach the last person, the last person will say out loud what they think the word/phrase was, its basically a game about miscommunication, kinda like what happens in chapters like this one