[TopChuckie]

Does anyone have any good ideas for party games for a Christmas party for approximately (40) 20 to 40 year-olds, mostly couples.

For the past couple years we've been playing the celebrity game where the host puts a different celebrity's name on a bunch of labels and then puts them on the back's of the guests so they don't know who they are. Then the guests have to ask yes or no questions to find out who they are. If they figure it out they usually move the label to their chest and get a new celebrity. The guest with the most labels gets to strut around and show off his celebrity knowledge. No big deal, just something to do.

It's a fun game, good for mingling and breaking the ice with strangers, but after a couple years it's getting kind of old.

I'm looking for similar ideas. Games that promote mingling, not games that require sitting in a group or maintaining everyone's attention.

Any ideas?

[Bob Kohm]

Naked Group Twister?

Pillow Fights?

Whose Penis Is This?

Enjoy!

[steve]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Naked Group Twister?

Pillow Fights?

Whose Penis Is This?

Enjoy!

[Atrahasis]

Maybe some of the icebreaker games on this site might be worth a try?

http://www.funattic.com/game_icebreaker.htm

[TopChuckie]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Naked Group Twister?

Pillow Fights?

Whose Penis Is This?

Enjoy!

You know, I was gonna say, "Keep it clean guys." but I thought, "Nah, everyone's mature enough around here, and if not Bob will step in a straighten them out."

I guess I'll know better next time.

[steve]

Have a 2004 fantasy baseball draft.

[TopChuckie]

Here's a good one I found while checking out some websites with some details I've added myself.

Have everyone bring a baby picture of themselves, hang them up so everyone can see them and assign a number to each picture. Give everyone a numbered list with a spot next to each number to write down the name of the person who they think corresponds to the baby picture. At the end of the night, or after some period of time, the person with the most correct wins some sort of prize, most likely booze.

This will force everyone to interact and learn everyone's name. I like that one.

[Craig Bezom]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm


Whose Penis Is This?

:confused:

[B-Fly]

Originally posted by Craig Bezom
:confused:

See, Bob, they don't know how to play Whose Penis Is This? in flyover country.

[Craig Bezom]

Originally posted by B-Fly
See, Bob, they don't know how to play Whose Penis Is This? in flyover country.

I'll accept that.

[Funkley]

Just like from The Cable Guy...adult password.

Using his best cable guy lisp, "The password is.....nipple"

[Mr. Met]

Taboo is a great game for around 20 (you could play with anywhere from like 4-25) people. Lots of fun.

[Judge Jude]

"Podunk Series of Poker," substitute your town name for Podunk.

Texas Hold 'em. rules pretty easy, and folks'll gather round as the stakes get higher, even if you're playing with Cheese Nips instead of moolah..

[Mr. Met]

Originally posted by Judge Jude
"Podunk Series of Poker," substitute your town name for Podunk.

Texas Hold 'em. rules pretty easy, and folks'll gather round as the stakes get higher, even if you're playing with Cheese Nips instead of moolah..

Yeah, my family used to do that on Christmas Eve. I would win a lot of money back then.

[BC...]

Originally posted by Funkley
Just like from The Cable Guy...adult password.

Using his best cable guy lisp, "The password is.....nipple"

You beat me to this, it was the first thing that popped into my head.

[Pogues]

A few years ago I went to a school's party for the staff (wife is a teacher) and they played "the NO game".

Simple rules. When guests arrive, you give them a piece of paper with the rules typed on it and a safety pin clipped to the paper.

The rules are such (phrase as you wish, because this is from memory)

The object of the game is to collect the most safety pins. You collect safety pins by pointing out when someone says the word "NO". If you are the first to point this out, you take all of that person's safety pins. The safety pins must always be on your person, visible to everyone else.


Simple rules, eh? Remind the guests it is only the word "NO" that cannot be said. Negative, not, never, and even "know" are okay to say. It's a self-judging game.

You might be scoffing at the game, but trust me it does get people talking to each other. After a short time, people will start realizing that everyone is watching what they say so they don't say the word NO, so they start conversations about the dumbest crap just to see if they can trick them into saying "no". Some will be very good at it, others BAD.

Oh, and offer some prize to the winner. Your decision when the game ends.

[TopChuckie]

Thanks pogues. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for, mingling games, conversation starters, not games where you need to sit around in a group. The game is sort of a background activity, not the main focus of the party.

[TopChuckie]

Originally posted by Bob Kohm
Whose Penis Is This?

Enjoy!

I found this at a website. I guess it combines Bob's and pogues' ideas:

Penis Pin Game
Purchase some clothes pins and fuzzy balls. Draw a penis on the clothes pins and hot glue 2 fuzzy balls onto the end. As the guests arrive pin the clothes pin on them and tell them they can not do something (such as touch their hair). When someone does this tell the guests they may take the persons "penis". The one with the most "penis'" at the end of the party wins.

[Smell The Glove]

Originally posted by TopChuckie
I found this at a website. I guess it combines Bob's and pogues' ideas:

Penis Pin Game
Purchase some clothes pins and fuzzy balls. Draw a penis on the clothes pins and hot glue 2 fuzzy balls onto the end. As the guests arrive pin the clothes pin on them and tell them they can not do something (such as touch their hair). When someone does this tell the guests they may take the persons "penis". The one with the most "penis'" at the end of the party wins.

that ones gotta be a joke, just to see if you can get people to walk around w/ a bunch of peckers pinned to themselves.

the no game sounds funny.

like i poster somewhere earlier in a thansgiving thread, we play cranium w/ 4 teams of 5 or 6, so there's plenty of mingling and wandering away from the game, but there's always some folks that are intense into the game and it does command the den.

[Bob Kohm]

The "No" game reminds me of a game we used to play in high school called "Buffalo".

It was very simple-- the only rule of Buffalo was that you can't drink using your right hand. If anyone saw you with a drink in your right hand and shouted "Buffalo", you had to chug it. If you failed, you were forced to perform some sort of forfeit, from buying the next two rounds to smiling at a fat girl (oh wait, that was another thread...).

The most amazing feat in recorded Buffalo history was when my brother Brian got caught and called out with a two liter bottle of Diet Pepsi in his right hand. He chugged the %^%&%*$ thing, which nonoe of us thought he could do. Think about it-- I can't believe he didn't rupture something, lol.