There comes a point at every gathering when the small talk subsides, and everyone stares blankly at one another. This is when ...

Hear the phrase “parlor game” and you may conjure up a mental image of men and women in straight-laced, Victorian-era duds gathered around a fire in a stuffy, overly formal sitting room. You wouldn’t ...

There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last ends it. Collier’s ...