Mad Libs

This article is about the game. For the hip hop artist, see Madlib. For the list game show, see Mad Libs (game show).
Not to be confused with ad libs in music.

The cover of the first Stern and Price Mad Libs book

Mad Libs is a word game created by Leonard Stern[1][2] and Roger Price.[3] It consists of one player prompting others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story before reading aloud. The game is frequently played as a party game or as a pastime. It can be categorized as a phrasal template game.

The game was invented in the United States, and more than 110 million copies of Mad Libs books have been sold since the series was first published in 1958.[3]

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