1) The Telephone-Meets-Pictionary Game
Everyone sits around in a circle and gets a blank piece of paper and a pen. Each person writes a sentence on the top of their paper, and then passes it to the person on their left. The new person “illustrates” this sentence, then folds the paper so the original sentence can’t be seen and passes it on. The third person writes a new sentence based on what they see in the drawing, folds the paper again, and passes it on. This continues until the paper gets back to where it started, by which point it is probably unrecognizeable. Much laughter ensues when the paper are unfolded.
2) “Babbies”
This game is kind of like a group-think version of Taboo. Before the game starts, each person writes 5 objects on small slips of paper and puts them in a hat. Then, people divide into two teams. On each turn, one team nominates a “guesser” who will have 2 minutes to guess as many of the clues as possible. The rest of the team collaborates to give a clue. This is the tricky part - each person on the team can only say one word at a time, and the team must create a complete, gramatically-correct question for which the answer is the object on the slip. So one person will start with "What", the next person will say "animal", then the next person says "smells", then "the", then "worst", then "Question Mark" to end the sentence. After the sentence has ended, the guesser can guess "skunk", of course. The challenging part of this game is coming up with a cohesive sentence - usually different group members will have different ideas of how the clue should go, so it gets derailed several times.
Anyway, we've had a great time playing these games in the last couple of months and thought we would share them in case anyone is looking for a fun evening activity with a large group!
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