Printable MASH sheet
A blank chart with the four houses, the usual lists, and a circle for the spiral. Download the PDF, print it, play with a pen. The how to play MASH page is the counting. This page is the paper.
What's on the sheet
The four letters across the top: Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. Blank lines under each category. A circle at the bottom. That circle is where you draw the spiral. Four categories, which is the original joke of the acronym.
Need a longer story? Write extra lists in the margin, or pick them first from the MASH categories page. The PDF will not grow more rows. A notebook page will.
Color or black and white
The two files are the same worksheet. Color is the one to print at home when you want the houses to look like the site. Black and white is the one you send to a copier. A stack of 30 color pages is how you empty a classroom cartridge before lunch.
Fill it, then count
Write four options in each list. Put one disaster in every category or the shack reveal has nothing to land on. A friend closes their eyes, you draw in the circle, they say stop. Count the loops. That number is the count. The paper walkthrough is the rest, with photos of a real round.
A class set
Print the black-and-white file. One sheet per kid. One person draws the spiral for the room, or each pair draws their own. Language teachers have a 15-minute plan on the ESL classroom post, including the future-tense sentences the leftover options write.
No printer
The browser game draws the spiral and writes the story. No account. The iPhone app keeps Saved Stories so you can prove later that the sheet really did promise a mansion.
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Find MASH on the App Store for iPhone and iPad:
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