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Favorite Games at Holiday Parties?
An anonymous reader asks: "Somehow, I got volunteered to take care of activities for the adults at my company's holiday party. For those of you who actually go to parties, what games have you played that were a lot of fun both for the geek and just the average person?"
Wife swapping!
Anything that involves a lot of people screaming at each other usually goes down well at parties.
Charades, Pictionary, are good examples.
Also Balderdash goes down well also for smaller groups of people.
Why not get the real ultimate power?
I am the bastard of base minus 12! Turing was the ejaculate of my complete machine!
I would say that of all the holiday parties I've ever gone to, I've never even seen a game played - unless you count rampant gossiping, overdrinking and womanizing a game.
:)
What the other people in attendance do is their business.
G'luck!
Er, unless "convincing the boss to give me more drink tickets" is a game, I don't think I've ever played a game at a holiday party.
The greatest party game in the world... I'm sure everyone has one tho... It involves logic and psychological games and I think it is great for geeks.
It works best with more than 5 people people - so lets say you have 8. Take 8 slips of paper, write the letter "M" on three of them and "C" on five. The "M"s are mafia and the "C"s are citizens.
Then, on instruction (choose a games-master for this), everyone closes their eyes and when the games-master says "mafia open your eyes", the mafia do just that and see eachother. Everyone then closes their eyes, and then everyone opens their eyes at the same time. The object of this is that the mafia know who is a citizen and who is not, and that the citizens have no idea and consequently live in fear.
Then the game begins. People talk and interrogate eachother until someone announces they beleive that someone else is mafia. They can then call a vote to "kill-off" that person, and if the vote is carried he/she is out of the game and they have to reveal whether or not they were mafia. The object of the game for the mafia is to kill all the citizens, and for the citizens it is to stay alive until all the mafia are dead.
Give it a go - it really works. Lots of tension builds up and all sorts of weird mind-games happen....
Great for small groups! Discovered this game a couple of weeks ago, and am now officially obsessed.
Google it, or see the second entry on my homepage for a list of rules and materials.
Played this game until my sides hurt from laughing.
What were you expecting?
I know my opinion really doesn't count much around here, but I think that this game made for one of the most fun times I have had in recent memory. I am a bartender at a local country club nestled in the foothills of the Ozark mountains, and we have played this a few times when the nights were slow or dull. It has gained some notoriety, and is really fun. Of course, to reinforce the points made a few points up by another, if you are unsure of the dynamic of the group, set some rules that prevent overly boorish or offensive behaviors. The game I play with my friends is more open than the game I paly with the guests in my bar. Just my opinion, but I hope that you guys try this one out!
is it that bad seein a hot chick again? if i see a hot chick walkin down the hall i dont say "repost"
If you have any kind of budget, get a kareoke set up with the classics, sinatra, the doobie brothers, Nas, whatever the people in your office know.
As someone else mentioned, the office party is for gossip, debauchery, and indiscriminate photocopying, not sitting down for a game of perquacky, or Smash Bros.
The nice thing about Kareoke is you just need one or two brave souls to get the ball rolling. After that, it's cakesauce getting others to step to the mic.
Particularly if booze is on tap.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean