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Originally Posted by Tiana
Or you do it like the legendary game I used to play as a child, which involved co-creating an animal by accordion-folding paper, marking where to 'continue' the shape out on the blank, and each person does a vertical stripe. On your turn you fill in your stripe and make a base that shows where the river/lake would enter the next stage of the map, but, they're blind to what is going on, only that the river enters here, the sea starts here, and it's up to them to put whatever they want in their segment apart from obeying where the starting lines enter. Then at the end it's assembled into one magnificent strip.
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