传话游戏是一个古老的多人游戏，为从队伍首端通过耳语或肢体语言传达一句话至队尾，通常游戏结束时最初的那句话已变得面目全非。游戏过程中的注意事项是，两人在进行传话时，不能有第三方听见。这个游戏旨在说明谣言或者是传说在扩散中因传播者误听或添油加醋所产生的效果。

Chinese whispers (or telephone in the United States) is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another, which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first. Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, the difficult-to-understand mechanism of whispering, and that some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line.