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Posted 27 October 2008 - 09:57 PM
So I'm thinking of holding a Christmas party and wanted to know what fun games could we play that can cater to a fairly large group of people (>10). Last time we played Mafia and that was pretty fun. I heard Bang is fun too. But what else is there? And what kind of board games would be fun? Any other games you like would be helpful too.
Oh and please say what's your favorite party game
Oh and please say what's your favorite party game
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 06:13 PM
What is royal rumble?
Anybody else?
Anybody else?
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 06:39 PM
A few games that I know would work with large groups would be:
Loaded Questions
You have a questioner, reader, and writers. Basically you have one person asking the group a question like "What is the most disgusting thing you know?" and then everyone in the group writes on a piece of paper their answer. A reader would collect all the papers and read the answers outloud. The questioner would then try to guess who said what answer.
Then after that questioner asked their question, move in a clockwise direction and the next person ask a question and the cycle repeats.
The questioner does not write when they ask the question. The reader is also the writer so they have to write something. There can be different readers as well.
This game becomes interesting when people put down something like:
Q: "What do you think of the person on your left" (this doesn't necessarily have to be truthful so you don't figure out people so easily).
A1: "They're too Asian"
A2: "Computer nerd who likes to kiss their stuff cow at night"
Just random stuff like that.
Example questions:
If you could give <insert name here> a movie title, what would it be?
If you can marry any Disney character, who would it be (or what would it be...) and why?
Who's your role model and why?
Your superhero ability and why?
The point of this is to know how people think and also you give a point if the questioner can correctly guess whose answer is whose.
Shake your tailfeather
It's ALMOST like musical chairs. You grab x amount of chairs minus 1 and put it in a circle. So let's say you have a group of 9 people. Grab 8 chairs. Everyone sits on a chair and then that extra one person goes in the middle and reveals something that other people could have.
So a person would say:
"Shake your tailfeather if ________________"
That _________________ could be "If you like Final Fantasy"
Then anyone who agrees with that statement, stand up from their chair and has to switch seats with another player (basically you can't get the same chair). The person from the middle has to scurry to find a seat or else they're in the middle again. Then the person leftover repeats the phrase.
If a person doesn't agree to that statement, they just stay in their chair. If no one stands up, well the person in the middle has to go again.
It can be intense if everyone has to get up.
Example phrase:
"Shake your tailfeather, if you are wearing jeans"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you LOVE volleyball"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you are a math nerd"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you believe Nicholas Tse is the hottest guy ever"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you're on SOOMPI!"
Catchphrase
Go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Phrase_(game)
Electronic
Great way to see how people describe things and what not.
Also
Pictionary
Taboo
Scattergories
The board game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatergories
Slapping games:
I think most of these games are pretty familiar and they just have different names. In the end the punishment is brutal nonetheless =]
Watermelon
Everyone sits in a circle and does a hand motion with their left or right hand that swerves across their mouth, while making a "slurping" noise. Basically your right hand will swerve across the mouth in the left direction and the left in the right direction. There's another direction which is swerving up, which means SKIP. When it swerves in a certain direction, the person in that direction has to give another hand swerving signal, whether it is left or right. And the cycle continues till someone messes up (like moving their hand because the swerve wasn't in their direction or wrong timing). When someone messes up (someone has to catch them) the people on their side gets to slap them on the wrist (BOTH OF THEM SLAP THE PERSON).
It's really hard to explain online, but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
ABC
Apparently this was taken after a Korean game. We just call it ABC. It's where you have certain hand signals for certain letters. So for the letter A, your hands are clapped together, B, your hands clapped together is turned slightly, C is when your hands are open PALM UP, D is when your hands are open PALM DOWN, and E is where both hands make a peace sign.
Everyone is in a circle and there is a caller, callers will rotate in a counterclock-wise direction. The caller calls out a letter, A,B,C,D,or E and does the hand signal for it. Everyone else in the circle will have to do a hand signal. If someone does the SAME hand signal as the caller, they get slapped to whatever letter amount it is. So if the caller calls out A and someone else has the A hand signal, they get slapped 1 time. (b=2 slaps, c = 3 slaps, d = 4 slaps, e = 5 slaps).
The punishment is that the people who aren't the caller leaves their hand in a clapped position and the caller slaps them by clapping the outsides of their hand.
Totally hard to explain without pictures, but maybe someone will understand me...
007
I think this might be similar to the game BANG? Not sure.
You point to someone and say "0" and they look at someone else right away saying "0" then the last person looks at another person saying "7" finally that last person say "BANG". The two people next to the person who was "bang" has to raise their hands saying "AH!" If they have a slow reaction, they get slapped by the two people around them.
Loaded Questions
You have a questioner, reader, and writers. Basically you have one person asking the group a question like "What is the most disgusting thing you know?" and then everyone in the group writes on a piece of paper their answer. A reader would collect all the papers and read the answers outloud. The questioner would then try to guess who said what answer.
Then after that questioner asked their question, move in a clockwise direction and the next person ask a question and the cycle repeats.
The questioner does not write when they ask the question. The reader is also the writer so they have to write something. There can be different readers as well.
This game becomes interesting when people put down something like:
Q: "What do you think of the person on your left" (this doesn't necessarily have to be truthful so you don't figure out people so easily).
A1: "They're too Asian"
A2: "Computer nerd who likes to kiss their stuff cow at night"
Just random stuff like that.
Example questions:
If you could give <insert name here> a movie title, what would it be?
If you can marry any Disney character, who would it be (or what would it be...) and why?
Who's your role model and why?
Your superhero ability and why?
The point of this is to know how people think and also you give a point if the questioner can correctly guess whose answer is whose.
Shake your tailfeather
It's ALMOST like musical chairs. You grab x amount of chairs minus 1 and put it in a circle. So let's say you have a group of 9 people. Grab 8 chairs. Everyone sits on a chair and then that extra one person goes in the middle and reveals something that other people could have.
So a person would say:
"Shake your tailfeather if ________________"
That _________________ could be "If you like Final Fantasy"
Then anyone who agrees with that statement, stand up from their chair and has to switch seats with another player (basically you can't get the same chair). The person from the middle has to scurry to find a seat or else they're in the middle again. Then the person leftover repeats the phrase.
If a person doesn't agree to that statement, they just stay in their chair. If no one stands up, well the person in the middle has to go again.
It can be intense if everyone has to get up.
Example phrase:
"Shake your tailfeather, if you are wearing jeans"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you LOVE volleyball"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you are a math nerd"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you believe Nicholas Tse is the hottest guy ever"
"Shake your tailfeather, if you're on SOOMPI!"
Catchphrase
Go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Phrase_(game)
Electronic
Great way to see how people describe things and what not.
Also
Pictionary
Taboo
Scattergories
The board game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatergories
Slapping games:
I think most of these games are pretty familiar and they just have different names. In the end the punishment is brutal nonetheless =]
Watermelon
Everyone sits in a circle and does a hand motion with their left or right hand that swerves across their mouth, while making a "slurping" noise. Basically your right hand will swerve across the mouth in the left direction and the left in the right direction. There's another direction which is swerving up, which means SKIP. When it swerves in a certain direction, the person in that direction has to give another hand swerving signal, whether it is left or right. And the cycle continues till someone messes up (like moving their hand because the swerve wasn't in their direction or wrong timing). When someone messes up (someone has to catch them) the people on their side gets to slap them on the wrist (BOTH OF THEM SLAP THE PERSON).
It's really hard to explain online, but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
ABC
Apparently this was taken after a Korean game. We just call it ABC. It's where you have certain hand signals for certain letters. So for the letter A, your hands are clapped together, B, your hands clapped together is turned slightly, C is when your hands are open PALM UP, D is when your hands are open PALM DOWN, and E is where both hands make a peace sign.
Everyone is in a circle and there is a caller, callers will rotate in a counterclock-wise direction. The caller calls out a letter, A,B,C,D,or E and does the hand signal for it. Everyone else in the circle will have to do a hand signal. If someone does the SAME hand signal as the caller, they get slapped to whatever letter amount it is. So if the caller calls out A and someone else has the A hand signal, they get slapped 1 time. (b=2 slaps, c = 3 slaps, d = 4 slaps, e = 5 slaps).
The punishment is that the people who aren't the caller leaves their hand in a clapped position and the caller slaps them by clapping the outsides of their hand.
Totally hard to explain without pictures, but maybe someone will understand me...
007
I think this might be similar to the game BANG? Not sure.
You point to someone and say "0" and they look at someone else right away saying "0" then the last person looks at another person saying "7" finally that last person say "BANG". The two people next to the person who was "bang" has to raise their hands saying "AH!" If they have a slow reaction, they get slapped by the two people around them.
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 08:13 PM
wow for more than 10 people huh?
i know some drinking games but i guess your point doesn't lie in gettin drunk and happy?
i can't really think of any good party games to be played inside with 10+ people...
my suggestion is don't...
this requires too much coordination, and if you play organized games with that many people, one or two people are bound to not like it.
mafia, taboo, pictionary, cranium... those games can be played with many people or in teams.. but i think you are over doing it if you go
over 8.. loses some flavor. But if you had to choose, i'd say mafia is the best bet.. according to how many ppl u have just throw in police, doctor, sniper, etc.
with a lot of people gathered together like that.. i'd say just eat/drink/chill/socialize is the best thing instead of putting too much effort to coordinating praty games.
i know some drinking games but i guess your point doesn't lie in gettin drunk and happy?
i can't really think of any good party games to be played inside with 10+ people...
my suggestion is don't...
this requires too much coordination, and if you play organized games with that many people, one or two people are bound to not like it.
mafia, taboo, pictionary, cranium... those games can be played with many people or in teams.. but i think you are over doing it if you go
over 8.. loses some flavor. But if you had to choose, i'd say mafia is the best bet.. according to how many ppl u have just throw in police, doctor, sniper, etc.
with a lot of people gathered together like that.. i'd say just eat/drink/chill/socialize is the best thing instead of putting too much effort to coordinating praty games.
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Posted 28 October 2008 - 08:17 PM
We love playing Guesstures (Charades type of game) and Pictionary.
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Posted 30 October 2008 - 09:35 PM
taboo. i love that game.
cranium, its a mixture of pictionary, charades, and trivial pursuit. theres even performance parts where someone might have to sing/hum, or even imitate celebs. it takes a long time to play one game tho.
cranium, its a mixture of pictionary, charades, and trivial pursuit. theres even performance parts where someone might have to sing/hum, or even imitate celebs. it takes a long time to play one game tho.
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 06:25 PM
OMG... I could have used this thread yesterday for my Halloween party *sigh*
oh welll.. this will go down for my bday =)
oh welll.. this will go down for my bday =)
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 02:57 AM
poker...LOL.....or....if you have a big backyard... hide and seek XD haha.... otherwise...monopoly... or...richman (chinese monopoly computer game)....if you want 10+ crowding around the computer....but seriously...a case of beer is probably the best ice breaker XD
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