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Simple Fun for Young and Old

Jun 23, 2009 Lesley Munnichs

Saturday night looming and not much planned? Gather loved ones together and share in these games.

The first game requires some pen and paper, two bowls, and a minute timer. The second game requires some card cut into the size of a playing card and a cowboy-style hat, something with a tall front (ie not a beret-style hat).

Forbidden

  • Divide players into two teams
  • each team writes down the name of ten objects, each word on a separate sheet of paper. Write these words in large print and underline them.
  • underneath them write three words that most people would connect with the first word. For example if the main word is strawberry, the other words could be fruit, red, sweet. The three words underneath the main word are the Forbidden words.
  • each team puts their pieces of paper in a bowl. The bowls are swapped and the game begins.
  • the first player of the first team draws a slip of paper from the bowl and, without using the forbidden words, they have one minute to describe the object to their team mates and for their team to correctly guess the main word. If the team manages to guess the Forbidden word they get a point.
  • when the minute is up play passes to the other team. Each team, working alternatively, work their way through all of the slips of paper in each bowl.
  • the team with the most points after all slips of paper have been used in the winner.

Who Am I

This is a simple game.

  • Players write the name of a well known person on a piece of card and all the cards are put in a bowl. The well known person could be from the past or present, could be an actor (eg Hugh Grant, Paul Newman, Helen Mirren), sports men or women (David Beckham, Stefie Graff), TV personalities (Michael Parkinson, David Letterman), politicians (Tony Blair, Margret Thatcher, Charles de Gaulle) or historial figures (Aristotle, Genghis Khan, Captain Cook). Or try Charles Dickens, Pavarotti, Agatha Christie, Al Capone
  • The first player draws a name out of the bowl and someone attaches it to the front of the hat without the player seeing the name.
  • The player is then allowed to ask questions to help establish the name on the card. For every question the player asks they get a point. They keep asking questions until they have guessed 'Who They Are'.
  • The player with the least number of points at the end is the winner.

For more suggestions try Party Games or Indoor Games for Kids.

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