“They looklike whiteelephants,”she said.”"Can’t wemaybestoptalking?""Would youplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease stoptalking?"“They’re lovely hills,”she said. “They don’treally look like whiteelephants. I justmeant the coloring oftheir skin through thetrees.”"I think it’s thebest thing to do.But I don’t wantyou to do it ifyou don’t reallywant to."“Well,” the man said,“if you don’t want toyou don’t have to. Iwouldn’t have youdo it if you didn’twant to. But I knowit’s perfectly simple.”"Then I’ll doit. Because Idon’t careabout me."“It’s really anawfully simpleoperation, Jig,” theman said. “It’s notreally an operationat all.”“They looklike whiteelephants,”she said.”"Can’t wemaybestoptalking?""Would youplease pleaseplease pleaseplease pleaseplease stoptalking?"“They’re lovely hills,”she said. “They don’treally look like whiteelephants. I justmeant the coloring oftheir skin through thetrees.”"I think it’s thebest thing to do.But I don’t wantyou to do it ifyou don’t reallywant to."“Well,” the man said,“if you don’t want toyou don’t have to. Iwouldn’t have youdo it if you didn’twant to. But I knowit’s perfectly simple.”"Then I’ll doit. Because Idon’t careabout me."“It’s really anawfully simpleoperation, Jig,” theman said. “It’s notreally an operationat all.”

Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. E-“They look like white elephants,” she said.”
  2. C-"Can’t we maybe stop talking?"
  3. C-"Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?"
  4. E-“They’re lovely hills,” she said. “They don’t really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees.”
  5. C-"I think it’s the best thing to do. But I don’t want you to do it if you don’t really want to."
  6. E-“Well,” the man said, “if you don’t want to you don’t have to. I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple.”
  7. G-"Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me."
  8. G-“It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” the man said. “It’s not really an operation at all.”