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This is a brief introduction to the game I call Locutio. Locutio comes from the Latin and means: speech, act of speaking; style of speaking; phrase/expression; pronunciation. To be good at this game you will need to be good at both locution and elocution. Here is how it works:

Before you start playing, you will need to choose teams. You will need at least four players, two for each team. You may have up to four teams, and you may have as many players per team as you like, but the number of players on each team should be the same.

The player who starts will choose a category. Once the category is chosen, he can press the start/stop button and a phrase will appear on his screen. It is his job to get one of his teammates to say the phrase exactly. He must give clues about the phrase, but must NOT use any significant part of the phrase (article, conjuctions, prepositions are okay so long as the speaker does not say something like "The first word is THE"); Though you would be free to say "The first word is the definite article", even though you have use the work "the" twice. You may also not use "sounds like" or "rhymes with" kind of clues. Pretty much anything else is fair game. Lets look at an example:

The phrase given is: "In for a penny, in for a pound" could go like this:
Speaker: An eight word phrase. The first word is the opposite of out.
Teammate: In
Speaker: Yes. The second word is the number after three.
Teammate: Four
Speaker: Yes. Third work is the indefinate artticle.
Teammate: The
Speaker: No, not the definite article, the indefinate article.
Teammate: a
Speaker: Yes. The next word is the smallest unit of currency in the USA.
Teammate: Dollar
Speaker: The smallest coin!
Teammate: Dime!
Speaker: Not the smallest physically, but the smallest in value.
Teammate: Penny
Other teammate: In for a penny, in for a pound
Speaker: YES! (presses Next)

As you can see, you may try to guess the entire phrase at anytime. If you guess it correctly, the speaker presses the giant red "NEXT" button that is on his screen. At this point a new phrase is selected (in the same category) and a member of another team will see it pop up on their screen. Also the phrase that was just guessed appears on everyone else's screen so that they can verify that the teammate on the previous team did correctly say the phrase.

The next speaker now proceeds, and gives clues about his phrase. He will notice a rotating spiral and a blinking green/yellow/red button on his screen, and well as a clicking noise. As time runs out, the blinking button will change from green to yellow to red. The amount of time it spends in each state is random, but taken from decreasing range, so you had better get moving. It is against to rules to PURPOSEFULLY run down the time on the next team and then give good clues after the button turns red. When time runs out, all the other teams gets one point. Additionally each team get one guess as to the actual phrase, in rotation order. The first team to correctly guess the phase gets an additional point.

This completes one round of play. The person who ran out of time will now get to choose the next category and proceed. The first team to seven points wins the game. Even though this games works best if everyone is in the same room, it can be played with remote players if everyone has access to video or even just audio communication.

You will need to contact the other people you want to play with on your own, (Email, telephone, messaging app) and tell them to go to the URL you see above. Once everyone is there, one of you can press the Start Game button and proceed to play. The reason I ask you to log in is so that I can keep track of which phrases you have already seen. That way, you will never see a phrase you have seen before, at least not for the next twenty thousand phrases. More detailed help is available by clicking on the Help button above. Have Fun!