Sound impossible?

Not if you're playing a new board game sweeping the nation.

The hot new game has been selling fast and wowing critics, and its inventor is from Lynnwood.

The game is called "Who? What? Where?" It just debuted last week, but it's already selling off the shelves.

"I have a lot of calls for it, a lot of demand for it," said game store Manager, Jeffery Blackburn.

When the San Francisco Chronicle reviewed the best board games of 2003, Who? What? Where? rated number one. In the Chicago Tribune, it came in second.

"Not only was I surprised, I was floored," said Craig Parsons, the game's inventor.

It's a dream come true for Parsons, who came up with the idea 10 years ago.

The object is simple. A player picks three cards, depicting who, what and where. The player then draws one scene including all three.

For example: King Kong, changing a tire, on the Great Wall of China.

Just think Pictionary times three.

"The scenes where someone is drawing something so outrageous, generally you just start giggling when you guess what it's going to be," said Parsons.

He has hundreds of rejection letters for his game, dating back to 1995.

One reads: "However, at this time we don't wish to add your idea to our line."

But then a start-up game company called Pazow gave Parsons his big break last month. His wife still can't believe it.

"It's a real game. It's all shrink wrapped...nice... it's exciting," said Kelly Parsons.

With one foot in the door, one day Parsons may even be able quit his day job as King County computer programmer.

"Oh... I can only dream of it," Parsons laughed.

Picture it. Craig Parsons, making it big, across the country.

The game is available at all Wizards of the Coast stores. It sells for $32.