The Original #1 Mad Libs : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780843100556 : 0843100559 : 01 Feb 1974 : The idea is simple. Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We\'ve included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you\'ve forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks and in the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense. That\'s what you call a Mad Lib®, the world\'s greatest word game. Players have been howling with friends or laughing all to themselves for over 35 years! ...