Help needed! Game suggestion needed please

We have cards for who's in the bag but make your own . The cards have a name of a well know person living , dead , imagined etc . Choose tems then the person taking out the card has to give hints as to who they are . We find all ages like this .

Pictionary?

‘I can go through the garden gate’ is fun and doesn’t require any equipment or planning. I think it works best if two people know the criteria for going through, but it works if only one does. It takes longer to explain here than to play! When you are playing, you just tell participants they have to work out and say how they can go through the garden gate, and then start.

Choose - and keep secret - something that will let you through the garden gate. Let’s say, for example, it’s something about the person to the left of the guesser. Obviously don’t tell people that.

The person who knows what the criteria is starts by saying ‘I can go through the garden gate because I am wearing… ‘ then mentions something that the person to the left is wearing, or not wearing (you might say because I am barefoot, for example); or ‘I can go through the garden gate because I have… eye or hair colour of the person to the left’. Ideally it’ll be something they share with the speaker and a few others, but it has to be true about the person in the designated position.

The person to your right now says ‘I can go through the garden gate because’ and chooses a reason. If it is something that is true about you (sitting to their left) or the person in the relevant place, you confirm they can go through. If not, you say they can’t. You keep going round like this, and the hope is more and more people will work out what the criteria is, and thus be allowed through the gate.

At any point, any one in the group can yell out if they think they know the ‘key’. If they are correct the game is over. If nobody guesses how it works, or what they is, you have to start making it a bit more obvious whenever it’s your turn.

I hope that all makes sense!

You can use all sorts of criteria. I’ve played it with groups of students where the key is something about anyone who is studying history, for example, which is really hard if you have three or four of those. I’ve done it with pierced ears as the key - obviously you never mention earrings!

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We have cards for who's in the bag but make your own . The cards have a name of a well know person living , dead , imagined etc . Choose tems then the person taking out the card has to give hints as to who they are . We find all ages like this .

Or the opposite where a person has the name of a well-known person stuck on to their forehead (yellow sticky notes are fine) then has to go round the table asking questions to find out who they are.

If it's Christmas themed, what about Rudolph's antlers?
Divide into 2 teams and appoint a leader.
Give each team a pair of tights and 8 red balloons.
The object of the game is to blow up the balloons in gradient sizes and stuff four in each leg of the tights, smallest in the foot end and getting bigger down the leg if you see what I mean. Do this in both legs to make the "antlers". The winning team is the one that completes the challenge then puts the body of the tights the leaders head and sings the first 2 lines of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

Thanks all for your suggestions. Any others please?

The ibble dibble drinking game? Maybe not 😱

There are some board games, like 5 Second rule.
But not sure that counts as silly.

Do you have to do it sitting round the table or can you move about?

Print off photos of celebrities when they were young and ask people to name them or have current photos and cut them in half so the eyes are one person and the lower half of the face is someone else.
Sit in a circle and give everyone a little notebook and a pen. Everyone writes down a word. Pass the book on and the next person has to draw the word. Pass the book on and the next person has to write whatever word they think has been illustrated and so on till the notebooks get back to the first person. It’s a bit like Chinese Whispers and it’s amazing how far from the original word you end up.

Every year I write a story with all the adjectives left blank. We go round the room with everyone suggesting an adjective - eg big, cheeky, hilarious, furry etc- and I write them in. When the story is complete and all blanks filled in, I read it out. Lo and behold its all about those present. Invariably there are shrieks of laughter as people hear about eg 'filthy Fiona cooked a dreadful meal' or 'hirsute Sam worked on his tragic golf game' etc etc. It's up to the story writer to have it all prepared in advance of course.

Oh yes, we played that one, it was very funny.

Fizz and fizz-bang.

With Fizz the group count out loud, one number per person, and you replace every number that either contains, or is a multiple of 5 with Fizz. So 1,2,3,4, Fizz, 6,7,8,9, Fizz - harder than you think, and if a person gets it wrong, it hesitates too long, they are out.

Fizz Buzz is similar but every number containing, or a multiple of 5 is Fizz, and ever number containing or a multiple of 7 is Buzz. Where a number is both - 35 for example, or 57 - the person whose turn it is has to call FizzBuzz. If it’s 75, if you get that far, it’s obviously BuzzFizz. Same rules on being knocked out.

Fizz Buzz, not bang. Must stop pretending I can multitask.

Jackie B - it could be sitting round the table, or on arm chairs or moving around.
Some great suggestions! Thank you so much. Any others please ?

Siope I like your game but we have Ukrainian guests too and I think we would totally confuse them but I will keep it up my sleeve for another occasion. Thank you for the trouble you took explaining.

The logo game, simple and quite easy to play.

A variation on the ‘who am I?’ game. Think of enough pairs for everyone to have half of one each - it could be famous couples (real or fiction), or things like ‘cup’ and ‘saucer’, or a mix. If people’s language sills aren’t great, you can draw (or download pictures of) the things.

Put one half of each pair on a card/sheet of paper that is then pinned or taped to each person’s back. By showing their card to others, and asking them only ‘yes/no’ questions, they have to identify themselves and then find the other half of their pair

To encourage mingling you can limit the number of questions each person can ask another before they have to move on.

Thanks everyone

Try a “ would I lie to you” quiz.

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I always liked ‘Killer’ - at the table with enough guests - you do need quite a few. Preferably a bit tiddly!
All you need is enough cards from a pack for one each, but only one King.

The King is then the Killer, and has to surreptitiously manage to wink at guests, without anyone else noticing. That guest then ‘dies’ and the rest have to guess who is the Killer.

One round-the-table game I’d never do, since I remember one guest (at someone else’s house) being really mortified that she took ages to ‘get it’ after everybody else had. It took me quite a while, so a case of ‘phew’ when I eventually did.

It was ‘My Aunt Sal from Mississippi’ - you then add a thing she likes, and a thing she doesn’t like.

So she likes coffee but she doesn’t like tea.
(She likes anything with double letters, so likes e.g. running, but she doesn’t like walking.)

The names game for example start Erica, Anne, Elizabeth, Harriet,and then what’s next? some people twig, but you go round until they all do. It can take ages!