Really anything but preferably something where I don't have to buy a dedicated game. So like Monopoly is cool, but you can only play one game with it and you can't play it without buying it. But if it's a card game, I already have cards. Drinking games work too.
King’s Cup is a fun, fairly low key drinking game. I usually play with the alternative rules described in the link (specifically 4 is whores, 5 is drive, 6 is dicks, Jack is never have I ever, everything else is the same as what’s described as the normal rules there).
Rage Cage is a fun but more intense drinking game.
Mafia is a fun non-drinking party game. However, One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a way more entertaining version of Mafia. It requires buying the dedicated game but it’s so worth it imo. I’ve been playing this for years and it’s always a hit. It has a complimentary app for narration so that one person doesn’t necessarily need to sit out to be the narrator.
I'm gonna describe two noncommercial party games I've played in the US and hopefully someone can name them so you can find full rules:
there's a game where everyone writes down the names of three real or fictional figures (like George Washington or Sherlock Holmes, ideally ones most people know) and puts them in a hat. Then for round one people on two sides take names out of a hat and are allowed to describe the figure with words as folks guess the name. Scores are taken, second round same idea but you are silent and use body motions to indicate the person. Then, with all the same names that you somewhat know by now, for round three the presenter stands perfectly still and can say only one word.
for the next game you take a piece of paper and fold it into several pieces. Then on the first piece someone draws a picture, the next person describes the picture and folds the paper so only the description is seen but not the original drawing, then the next person sees the description (not seeing the original drawing) and makes a drawing, and so on until you run out of paper. It can be a just for fun game, or you can have two teams do it and then a referee decides which game has the final description or drawing closest to the original drawing.
So for the first game you would want household names like Roy Donk or Jack Marshall who wrote the Munsters theme song or would anyone who's been on the Colgate comedy hour be good enough?
Boom cup. Requires 4-8 people, though it is possible with more than 8 (you just get to drink less)
You fill several solo cups with a few ounces of beer or other light alcohol. A single “boom cup” is filled all the way up with a harder alcohol. Usually this is just a combination of everyone’s drinks. Place all of the cups in a blob in the middle of a large table with the boom cup in the center. Players space themselves around the table and players from opposite sides take one cup each. When the game starts the two players each chug their cup and attempt to bounce a ping pong ball off the table and into the cup. Once the ball is successfully bounced in, the player moves the cup to player on their left, who repeats this process. If a player to their left currently has a cup, the first player can “boom” them by slamming their cup into the second player’s cup. The second player passes the two cups to the left, grabs a beer cup from the middle, chugs, then repeats the bouncing process. If you successfully make a ball into a cup on your first try, you can move your cup to any player in the circle. You can give it to players immediately before or after the other cup to fuck people over.
By the end, one of the cups becomes a stack and the other is just a single cup, which creates some fun asymmetry between the bounces needed between the two cups. Last player to get boomed has to drink the boom cup, which creates a lot of pressure to get the two cups away from you during the last few cups.
Too real lol. We just got to roughly "Make the ball in, drink and pass right. If left not done, slam cup in."
I feel like Boom/Rage Cage is so fun because of this energy. It snowballs so quickly as you play it and people have been drinking. The more people drink, the worse everyone does and the more dramatic and disastrous the gameplay is because its so physical. Just full-on escalating chaos.
You start with everyone writing down a phrase, they pass to the next person around the table. Then you draw a picture describing what was written down. You fold the paper and the next person writes down what you drew. Then you fold the paper and the next person draws a picture of what the person saw.
Edward Forty Hands. Tape a forty of beer to each hand, and you don't get the use of your hands back until you finish your 40 ouncers. The only "winners" are the spectators, who win an evening of laughs.
This game called The Resistance. It needs 5 to 10 players. You can play it with a regular deck of cards (you don't even need a whole deck). There's some board game company that sells a boxed version with a bunch of cheap, unnecessary pieces, but that's bullshit. It's way better if you just use regular playing cards.
So, we're The Resistance, and we're trying to take down the government. But our organization has been infiltrated by government spies.
The way we take down the government is by doing missions. If we can do 3 missions successfully, the government will collapse, and The Resistance will win. But if the government Spies sabotage the missions, we lose. We only get 5 chances.
Every player is either a loyal member of The Resistance, or a government Spy. The first step is determining which player is what. Get one card for each player— a red card for loyal Resistance members, or a black card for Spies— shuffle them up, and deal one, face-down, to each person. The cards you pick out depend on the number of players:
5 players - 3 red, 2 black
6 players - 4 red, 2 black
7 players - 4 red, 3 black
8 players - 5 red, 3 black
9 players - 6 red, 3 black
10 players - 6 red, 4 black
Everyone looks at their card, to see what they are. Then, everyone puts their cards face down again, and closes their eyes. Whoever dealt the cards says, "Spies, spies, open your eyes.", and the spies look up and identify each other, while the loyalists keep their eyes closed.
Deal out one red card to each person. So now everyone has 2 cards. Resistance members have 2 red cards, and the Spies have 1 red card and 1 black card. These are for going on missions.
The next step is to plan our first mission.
The person to the left of whoever dealt is the first Leader. They decide what the mission is going to be. Make up something creative, like "We're going to bomb the CIA headquarters" or "We're going to orchestrate a jailbreak, to free our comrades who have been imprisoned." (This is the fun part.)
The Leader also decides who is going to go on the mission. The team is a different number of people, depending on which mission it is, and depending on the number of players.
We discuss what we think of the Leader's plan, and then we vote on whether to go ahead with it, or to re-think it, and do it with a different team. The vote is open, by show of hands. If we vote "yes", the selected team will go on the mission.
(If we vote "no", or if it's a tie, the player to the left of the current Leader becomes the new Leader. The new Leader proposes a different team (and, optionally, a different mission). We discuss that and openly vote it it, just like before. This continues until we arrive at a "yes" vote, and finally go on a mission.)
The way you go on a mission is:
Every player who was selected for the team chooses one of their cards and puts it face-down on the table.
The Leader shuffles up the cards, and then reveals them to everyone. If the cards were all red, the mission was a success. But if any of the cards are black, that means the Spies sabotaged us.
The second mission is planned the same way as the first mission, but with a bigger team.
The player to the left of the last Leader is the new Leader now. They make up a mission ("We're going to airdrop living plague rats on the inauguration ceremony, so the entire senate gets sick and dies.") and select a team.
Again, the players discuss and openly vote on the plan, and if it's a "no", leadership passes on like before.
You keep going on missions, until either 3 missions succeed, or 3 missions are sabotaged.
That's all there is to it.
(The only other detail to note is: if there are more than 7 players, then Mission 4 needs to be sabotaged twice; if there's only 1 sabotage card, it still succeeds. But, every other mission, it only takes 1 sabotage card to make it fail.)
No More Jockeys. Any number of players, 2-arbitrarily many. It's a game where someone says a person, then "no more [characteristic of that person.]" The next person then has to name someone else who isn't that characteristic, then "no more [characteristic.]" The next person names someone who isn't either of those things, and so on. If someone names a person who's one of those characteristics, and is called out on it by someone else before the next person goes, they're out and it moves to the next person - last person standing wins.
An example of a game might look like:
"Tom Kenny. No more voice actors."
"Taylor Swift. No more musicians."
"Albert Einstein. No more scientists."
"John Cena. No more wrestlers."
"Pat Mahomes. No more athletes."
"Wait! John Cena was a voice actor who voiced himself in that Scooby Doo movie."
"Too late, the next person already went."
You're not allowed to write down the rules - the challenge is to remember all of the rules once you're 20 rounds in, both to make sure you don't break them and that you can call out anyone else who does.
Each player has a Challenge - this is used both for challenging that someone broke a rule, and can be used for "Name Another." If someone uses a really narrow category, you can challenge them to Name Another person who falls into that category - if they can't, they're out, but if they can, you're out. Similarly, if you accuse someone of breaking a rule but they can prove that you're wrong and they actually didn't, you're out.
Salad bowl. It’s a mix of scatagories, charades, and then 1 word scaragories. It’s super fun and the group naturally builds inside jokes.
Here’s how it works:
You can play with min of 4 people and probably max of 8. You can play with more people but it gets hard to keep everyone’s attention.
To start, everyone writes a noun on a slip of paper. The noun can be a mix of adjectives and adverbs but it ultimately has to be a noun. Ex. Blue fox or scrumptious scorpion. Then fold the slip of paper in half once (this is important) then they put it in a bowl. Everyone puts their slips into the same bowl. Have everyone repeat this step 3-5 times. Decide how many times as everyone should have the same number of slips in the bowl. I recommend doing an absolute max of 30 slips in the bowl. Aim for 25ish.
Now when everyone has words in you split into teams. This should happen after everyone writes words to avoid cheating and planning. Keep teams even if possible.
Once teams are decided round one starts which is scatagories. Each team goes one at a time. What happens is one person on the first team picks a slip out of the bowl. They need to explain the noun without ever saying any of the words on the slip. The rest of the first team needs to guess the exact words on the slip. If the team gets it, they get a point.
Now something I didn’t mention, each round is 20 seconds. This game moves fast. But that’s the fun. The team can guess until time is up. If they get a slip correct, the person doing the scatagories can pull another slip out and explain it. If nobody on the team guesses the word before time expires (20 seconds) the slip goes back in the bowl.
After the first team goes, the second team goes for 20 seconds. Then the first team goes again but a new person on that team does the describing. You go until all the slips are out of the bowl.
Count points then fold the slips back in half and put them all back into the bowl.
Now round 2 starts which is charades. Some basic format with 20 second rounds and new actors for each team for every round. However, this time the actor must act out the word until the team guesses the word. No words can be spoken by the actor but some sound effects are ok. No pointing at objects.
After all slips are guessed, count them for each team, fold the slips in half and put them back into the bowl.
Now round 3. Again, 20 second per round and teams rotate the speaker. This time the speaker only gets to say one word to describe the noun.
The speaker can only say that one word until the team guesses the words on the slip. If the speaker says “um” that’s their word. They can say um as many times as they’d like. But they can’t say any other word until the round is over or the slip is guessed. You can say the one word you chose in multiple tones. The word also cannot be any word on the slip. If the speaker says more than one word or a word on the slip, the team guessing forfeits their turn that round.
Once all the slips are guessed, count up how many correct guesses each team got. The team with the most guesses wins.
This got way longer than I thought but it’s a fun game! Moves quick and it makes people act out some pretty funny things.
My family does it but we don’t limit it to just nouns and adjectives. It can be whole phrases.
My favorite one ever is one of my cousins (and I don’t know who) put in “the biggest blackest clock” in the bowl. Now imagine a group of teens to elderly doing that one.
My friends and I were very competitive when we played a lot. Someone put “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.” Which yes, is a series title, but we put a cap on max 4 word slips.
It starts off with everyone drawing something, but not too simple. 'Bill Clinton jumping a skateboard over a couch', something like that.
Then everyone passes the pad of paper to the right, and the next person writes down what they think it's a drawing of. Maybe it's not a very good Clinton drawing, so the next person draws Conan O'Brien jumping a skateboard over a table or something. Then you pass it again, and the next person writes down what they think it's a drawing of, etc etc. Eventually the drawing will turn into something like, C-3PO dumpster diving.
And when the drawing pad makes it all the way back to the original person, you all present the series of drawings and written down guesses.
There is a game you can buy off the shelf called Telestrations, but really all you need is paper and pencils.
My friends and I LOVE to play "Don't get me started". Nothing everyone goes around and says "oh man don't even get me started on _____". It can be any topic, but by the end you need to have a convoluted theory that relates the thing you are started on to an unrelated conspiracy theory.
For example, the last time we played I said "man don't even get me started on house centipedes" and ended up with "and that's why I don't trust house centipedes, because they're nothing but spies for Bigfoot, and if you smash them that's why the deer eat your plants because they reported back to bigfoot and he commands the deer. "
Its fun to just go off on weird funny tangents and we all push each other by throwing out wild theories. You can also make it serious if you all have things you want to bitch about. Things like "don't even get me started on those customers that just put stuff they don't want back on a random shelf and then I have to stay 30 minutes late organizing it instead of doing my other closing tasks and that's why I was 75 minutes late to the party."
i liked cards against humanity. we played a bunch of different versions of it, but basic one is that you pick a person to be the card "czar" who is in charge of drawing the black "fill in the blank/question card and the other players all draw 10 white cards each. every player must answer the question/fill in the blank on the black card by passing one white card to the card scar, and the funniest one (chosen by the card czar) wins basically (the winner gets to keep the black card and a new person becomes the card czar in the next round). whoever ends up with the most black cards wins, and we sometimes had the "losers" of each round drink a shot, or the winner drink a shot.
Ruffies, anyone with a dime tries to slip it into another person's drink and then you call them out and they have to chug it. Honestly good practice because people start protecting their drinks.
It’s been awhile since I played, but I believe it’s called Vikings.
Everyone has their own hand gesture and facial expression. Let’s call them disguises for simplicity.
The leader is chosen randomly to start. Sitting around a table, everyone frantically rows their boat then chooses someone’s disguise to mimic. He stops and slaps his hands together pointing at that person with a “whoosh”. They must show their own disguise before mimicking that person’s disguise. That person must show their disguise before mimicking another person’s. On and on it goes until someone gets tripped up on disguises and can’t decide whose was who’s.
theromanempire1923@reddit
Do you mean like group board/card games or drinking games?
whyvalue@reddit (OP)
Really anything but preferably something where I don't have to buy a dedicated game. So like Monopoly is cool, but you can only play one game with it and you can't play it without buying it. But if it's a card game, I already have cards. Drinking games work too.
theromanempire1923@reddit
King’s Cup is a fun, fairly low key drinking game. I usually play with the alternative rules described in the link (specifically 4 is whores, 5 is drive, 6 is dicks, Jack is never have I ever, everything else is the same as what’s described as the normal rules there).
Rage Cage is a fun but more intense drinking game.
Mafia is a fun non-drinking party game. However, One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a way more entertaining version of Mafia. It requires buying the dedicated game but it’s so worth it imo. I’ve been playing this for years and it’s always a hit. It has a complimentary app for narration so that one person doesn’t necessarily need to sit out to be the narrator.
iftair@reddit
I love King's Cup & Mafia.
ITrCool@reddit
Second vote for One Night Werewolf. That game is amazing!! That and Avalon.
TapTheForwardAssist@reddit
I'm gonna describe two noncommercial party games I've played in the US and hopefully someone can name them so you can find full rules:
there's a game where everyone writes down the names of three real or fictional figures (like George Washington or Sherlock Holmes, ideally ones most people know) and puts them in a hat. Then for round one people on two sides take names out of a hat and are allowed to describe the figure with words as folks guess the name. Scores are taken, second round same idea but you are silent and use body motions to indicate the person. Then, with all the same names that you somewhat know by now, for round three the presenter stands perfectly still and can say only one word.
for the next game you take a piece of paper and fold it into several pieces. Then on the first piece someone draws a picture, the next person describes the picture and folds the paper so only the description is seen but not the original drawing, then the next person sees the description (not seeing the original drawing) and makes a drawing, and so on until you run out of paper. It can be a just for fun game, or you can have two teams do it and then a referee decides which game has the final description or drawing closest to the original drawing.
masoleumofhope@reddit
These are great options. There is a digital version of that second one now, Gartic Phone
stinkyman360@reddit
So for the first game you would want household names like Roy Donk or Jack Marshall who wrote the Munsters theme song or would anyone who's been on the Colgate comedy hour be good enough?
whyvalue@reddit (OP)
I think the first one is Scategories. The second one I've played but I don't remember what it's called. It's super fun though.
eides-of-march@reddit
Boom cup. Requires 4-8 people, though it is possible with more than 8 (you just get to drink less)
You fill several solo cups with a few ounces of beer or other light alcohol. A single “boom cup” is filled all the way up with a harder alcohol. Usually this is just a combination of everyone’s drinks. Place all of the cups in a blob in the middle of a large table with the boom cup in the center. Players space themselves around the table and players from opposite sides take one cup each. When the game starts the two players each chug their cup and attempt to bounce a ping pong ball off the table and into the cup. Once the ball is successfully bounced in, the player moves the cup to player on their left, who repeats this process. If a player to their left currently has a cup, the first player can “boom” them by slamming their cup into the second player’s cup. The second player passes the two cups to the left, grabs a beer cup from the middle, chugs, then repeats the bouncing process. If you successfully make a ball into a cup on your first try, you can move your cup to any player in the circle. You can give it to players immediately before or after the other cup to fuck people over.
By the end, one of the cups becomes a stack and the other is just a single cup, which creates some fun asymmetry between the bounces needed between the two cups. Last player to get boomed has to drink the boom cup, which creates a lot of pressure to get the two cups away from you during the last few cups.
whyvalue@reddit (OP)
Boom is a classic
masoleumofhope@reddit
Too real lol. We just got to roughly "Make the ball in, drink and pass right. If left not done, slam cup in."
I feel like Boom/Rage Cage is so fun because of this energy. It snowballs so quickly as you play it and people have been drinking. The more people drink, the worse everyone does and the more dramatic and disastrous the gameplay is because its so physical. Just full-on escalating chaos.
Living_Murphys_Law@reddit
Cards Against Humanity and the like
NecessaryPopular1@reddit
That’s a fun game too
NecessaryPopular1@reddit
Pictionary (board version), Cranium, Rummy
RsonW@reddit
Ronsex!
Everyone gets a sheet of paper.
You start with everyone writing down a phrase, they pass to the next person around the table. Then you draw a picture describing what was written down. You fold the paper and the next person writes down what you drew. Then you fold the paper and the next person draws a picture of what the person saw.
It gets funny fast.
TheBlazingFire123@reddit
My favorite is Avalon. It’s a social deduction game for 8-10 players
GSilky@reddit
Edward Forty Hands. Tape a forty of beer to each hand, and you don't get the use of your hands back until you finish your 40 ouncers. The only "winners" are the spectators, who win an evening of laughs.
GreenIll3610@reddit
Flog the British kid.
paczki_uppercut@reddit
This game called The Resistance. It needs 5 to 10 players. You can play it with a regular deck of cards (you don't even need a whole deck). There's some board game company that sells a boxed version with a bunch of cheap, unnecessary pieces, but that's bullshit. It's way better if you just use regular playing cards.
So, we're The Resistance, and we're trying to take down the government. But our organization has been infiltrated by government spies.
The way we take down the government is by doing missions. If we can do 3 missions successfully, the government will collapse, and The Resistance will win. But if the government Spies sabotage the missions, we lose. We only get 5 chances.
Every player is either a loyal member of The Resistance, or a government Spy. The first step is determining which player is what. Get one card for each player— a red card for loyal Resistance members, or a black card for Spies— shuffle them up, and deal one, face-down, to each person. The cards you pick out depend on the number of players:
5 players - 3 red, 2 black
6 players - 4 red, 2 black
7 players - 4 red, 3 black
8 players - 5 red, 3 black
9 players - 6 red, 3 black
10 players - 6 red, 4 black
Everyone looks at their card, to see what they are. Then, everyone puts their cards face down again, and closes their eyes. Whoever dealt the cards says, "Spies, spies, open your eyes.", and the spies look up and identify each other, while the loyalists keep their eyes closed.
Deal out one red card to each person. So now everyone has 2 cards. Resistance members have 2 red cards, and the Spies have 1 red card and 1 black card. These are for going on missions.
The next step is to plan our first mission.
The person to the left of whoever dealt is the first Leader. They decide what the mission is going to be. Make up something creative, like "We're going to bomb the CIA headquarters" or "We're going to orchestrate a jailbreak, to free our comrades who have been imprisoned." (This is the fun part.)
The Leader also decides who is going to go on the mission. The team is a different number of people, depending on which mission it is, and depending on the number of players.
There's a table for how many players the Leader should pick here.
We discuss what we think of the Leader's plan, and then we vote on whether to go ahead with it, or to re-think it, and do it with a different team. The vote is open, by show of hands. If we vote "yes", the selected team will go on the mission.
(If we vote "no", or if it's a tie, the player to the left of the current Leader becomes the new Leader. The new Leader proposes a different team (and, optionally, a different mission). We discuss that and openly vote it it, just like before. This continues until we arrive at a "yes" vote, and finally go on a mission.)
The way you go on a mission is:
Every player who was selected for the team chooses one of their cards and puts it face-down on the table.
The Leader shuffles up the cards, and then reveals them to everyone. If the cards were all red, the mission was a success. But if any of the cards are black, that means the Spies sabotaged us.
The second mission is planned the same way as the first mission, but with a bigger team.
The player to the left of the last Leader is the new Leader now. They make up a mission ("We're going to airdrop living plague rats on the inauguration ceremony, so the entire senate gets sick and dies.") and select a team.
Again, the players discuss and openly vote on the plan, and if it's a "no", leadership passes on like before.
You keep going on missions, until either 3 missions succeed, or 3 missions are sabotaged.
That's all there is to it.
(The only other detail to note is: if there are more than 7 players, then Mission 4 needs to be sabotaged twice; if there's only 1 sabotage card, it still succeeds. But, every other mission, it only takes 1 sabotage card to make it fail.)
beenoc@reddit
No More Jockeys. Any number of players, 2-arbitrarily many. It's a game where someone says a person, then "no more [characteristic of that person.]" The next person then has to name someone else who isn't that characteristic, then "no more [characteristic.]" The next person names someone who isn't either of those things, and so on. If someone names a person who's one of those characteristics, and is called out on it by someone else before the next person goes, they're out and it moves to the next person - last person standing wins.
An example of a game might look like:
"Tom Kenny. No more voice actors."
"Taylor Swift. No more musicians."
"Albert Einstein. No more scientists."
"John Cena. No more wrestlers."
"Pat Mahomes. No more athletes."
"Wait! John Cena was a voice actor who voiced himself in that Scooby Doo movie."
"Too late, the next person already went."
You're not allowed to write down the rules - the challenge is to remember all of the rules once you're 20 rounds in, both to make sure you don't break them and that you can call out anyone else who does.
Each player has a Challenge - this is used both for challenging that someone broke a rule, and can be used for "Name Another." If someone uses a really narrow category, you can challenge them to Name Another person who falls into that category - if they can't, they're out, but if they can, you're out. Similarly, if you accuse someone of breaking a rule but they can prove that you're wrong and they actually didn't, you're out.
houseDJ1042@reddit
Poker, dominoes, Uno, Cards against humanity, secret Hitler, quarters, flip cup, giant connect 4, cornhole
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Is secret Hitler like mafia?
paczki_uppercut@reddit
Yeah. There's a whole genre of games like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_deduction_game
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Didn’t know it had different names
oodtoon@reddit
Salad bowl. It’s a mix of scatagories, charades, and then 1 word scaragories. It’s super fun and the group naturally builds inside jokes.
Here’s how it works:
You can play with min of 4 people and probably max of 8. You can play with more people but it gets hard to keep everyone’s attention.
To start, everyone writes a noun on a slip of paper. The noun can be a mix of adjectives and adverbs but it ultimately has to be a noun. Ex. Blue fox or scrumptious scorpion. Then fold the slip of paper in half once (this is important) then they put it in a bowl. Everyone puts their slips into the same bowl. Have everyone repeat this step 3-5 times. Decide how many times as everyone should have the same number of slips in the bowl. I recommend doing an absolute max of 30 slips in the bowl. Aim for 25ish.
Now when everyone has words in you split into teams. This should happen after everyone writes words to avoid cheating and planning. Keep teams even if possible.
Once teams are decided round one starts which is scatagories. Each team goes one at a time. What happens is one person on the first team picks a slip out of the bowl. They need to explain the noun without ever saying any of the words on the slip. The rest of the first team needs to guess the exact words on the slip. If the team gets it, they get a point.
Now something I didn’t mention, each round is 20 seconds. This game moves fast. But that’s the fun. The team can guess until time is up. If they get a slip correct, the person doing the scatagories can pull another slip out and explain it. If nobody on the team guesses the word before time expires (20 seconds) the slip goes back in the bowl.
After the first team goes, the second team goes for 20 seconds. Then the first team goes again but a new person on that team does the describing. You go until all the slips are out of the bowl.
Count points then fold the slips back in half and put them all back into the bowl.
Now round 2 starts which is charades. Some basic format with 20 second rounds and new actors for each team for every round. However, this time the actor must act out the word until the team guesses the word. No words can be spoken by the actor but some sound effects are ok. No pointing at objects.
After all slips are guessed, count them for each team, fold the slips in half and put them back into the bowl.
Now round 3. Again, 20 second per round and teams rotate the speaker. This time the speaker only gets to say one word to describe the noun. The speaker can only say that one word until the team guesses the words on the slip. If the speaker says “um” that’s their word. They can say um as many times as they’d like. But they can’t say any other word until the round is over or the slip is guessed. You can say the one word you chose in multiple tones. The word also cannot be any word on the slip. If the speaker says more than one word or a word on the slip, the team guessing forfeits their turn that round.
Once all the slips are guessed, count up how many correct guesses each team got. The team with the most guesses wins.
This got way longer than I thought but it’s a fun game! Moves quick and it makes people act out some pretty funny things.
Have fun!
CupBeEmpty@reddit
My family does it but we don’t limit it to just nouns and adjectives. It can be whole phrases.
My favorite one ever is one of my cousins (and I don’t know who) put in “the biggest blackest clock” in the bowl. Now imagine a group of teens to elderly doing that one.
oodtoon@reddit
My friends and I were very competitive when we played a lot. Someone put “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.” Which yes, is a series title, but we put a cap on max 4 word slips.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Well now that’s just cheating
cdsbigsby@reddit
Everyone needs a pad of paper and a pencil.
It starts off with everyone drawing something, but not too simple. 'Bill Clinton jumping a skateboard over a couch', something like that.
Then everyone passes the pad of paper to the right, and the next person writes down what they think it's a drawing of. Maybe it's not a very good Clinton drawing, so the next person draws Conan O'Brien jumping a skateboard over a table or something. Then you pass it again, and the next person writes down what they think it's a drawing of, etc etc. Eventually the drawing will turn into something like, C-3PO dumpster diving.
And when the drawing pad makes it all the way back to the original person, you all present the series of drawings and written down guesses.
There is a game you can buy off the shelf called Telestrations, but really all you need is paper and pencils.
Neaksme@reddit
Love a game of cornhole when I'm at a crawfish boil.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
You’re appropriating my Midwest culture!
Now as a fair trade if we can appropriate a crawfish boil we can call ourselves even.
Sleepygirl57@reddit
So not every one shows up and seperates?
Men go off to the video game room and us gals stand in the kitchen snacking, drinking and complaining about the ones in the video game room.
While complaining how our children are slowly killing us?
Interesting.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
Salad bowl. The rules vary a little bit and it can be played drunk or sober. It’s always a good time.
Imaginary_Ladder_917@reddit
Mafia is a fun one. It’s a lot to explain so google Mafia party game. It’s basically a group guessing game, figuring out who committed the “murder.”
BoltsGuy02@reddit
Drinking
mandela__affected@reddit
Stump is a good game, all you need is some nails, a hammer, and a stump
TacticalFailure1@reddit
Kings is fun
RastaFazool@reddit
Three Man is like Kings but with dice and ends up being even more of a shit show.
rules are pretty varied depending on who you play with though.
Flossthief@reddit
Kings got me in trouble a few times
StarSines@reddit
My friends and I LOVE to play "Don't get me started". Nothing everyone goes around and says "oh man don't even get me started on _____". It can be any topic, but by the end you need to have a convoluted theory that relates the thing you are started on to an unrelated conspiracy theory.
For example, the last time we played I said "man don't even get me started on house centipedes" and ended up with "and that's why I don't trust house centipedes, because they're nothing but spies for Bigfoot, and if you smash them that's why the deer eat your plants because they reported back to bigfoot and he commands the deer. "
Its fun to just go off on weird funny tangents and we all push each other by throwing out wild theories. You can also make it serious if you all have things you want to bitch about. Things like "don't even get me started on those customers that just put stuff they don't want back on a random shelf and then I have to stay 30 minutes late organizing it instead of doing my other closing tasks and that's why I was 75 minutes late to the party."
tarallelegram@reddit
i liked cards against humanity. we played a bunch of different versions of it, but basic one is that you pick a person to be the card "czar" who is in charge of drawing the black "fill in the blank/question card and the other players all draw 10 white cards each. every player must answer the question/fill in the blank on the black card by passing one white card to the card scar, and the funniest one (chosen by the card czar) wins basically (the winner gets to keep the black card and a new person becomes the card czar in the next round). whoever ends up with the most black cards wins, and we sometimes had the "losers" of each round drink a shot, or the winner drink a shot.
part of the fun was just collecting
you need at least 3 to play imo but preferably 4+
Many-Connection3309@reddit
Spin the booty
Conchobair@reddit
Ruffies, anyone with a dime tries to slip it into another person's drink and then you call them out and they have to chug it. Honestly good practice because people start protecting their drinks.
whyvalue@reddit (OP)
That's hilarious
Bobeto_@reddit
I’d really like to play twister, Monopoly and especially Jenga
raindropmemories@reddit
JustJack
FlappyClap@reddit
It’s been awhile since I played, but I believe it’s called Vikings.
Everyone has their own hand gesture and facial expression. Let’s call them disguises for simplicity.
The leader is chosen randomly to start. Sitting around a table, everyone frantically rows their boat then chooses someone’s disguise to mimic. He stops and slaps his hands together pointing at that person with a “whoosh”. They must show their own disguise before mimicking that person’s disguise. That person must show their disguise before mimicking another person’s. On and on it goes until someone gets tripped up on disguises and can’t decide whose was who’s.
Double-Frosting-9744@reddit
456 if you want to place bets
ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit
At the holidays, I like a good white elephant gift exchange, where you can open a new present or "steal" one that's already open.
TheArgonianBoi77@reddit
Twister
masterofyourmomma@reddit
Lotería
ScotchRick@reddit
Shot-glass Checkers, and Cards Against Humanity
Cebuanolearner@reddit
Root