Hobbies And Interests
Twister
Twister is a game for two to four players that uses a small, foldable mat and spinner board. The spinner has a color wheel of four colors which correspond to the colors on the mat, and four body parts -- the left and right hands and feet. Players take turns spinning the wheel and then placing whichever body part on whichever color, as determined by the wheel. Players generally end up twisted up with each other as each attempts to place their left or right hand or foot on the four colors, hence the the name of the game. The winner is the player who can best twist and turn around the other players without falling.
Pictionary
Pictionary can get a group's creativity flowing. Best played with six to eight players, but possible with three to 16, the game is akin to visual charades. Players take turns drawing a word that only they know, and other members of the party have to guess what that word is based on the drawing. The person drawing is neither allowed to talk, nor to write words on the paper. You don't have to be an artist to play, but your team might appreciate it as they rack up points.
Apples to Apples
Apples and apples is a card game best played by four to 10 players using two decks of cards. These decks are officially labeled as the "things" deck, and the "descriptions" deck. One player acts as the referee who is on neither of the two teams and behaves as an impartial judge in the matches. Each round, a "description" card is flipped over for all to see, and players must select a "things" card from their hand that best matches the "description" card on the board. The referee then decides which player has best matched their thing to the description and points are awarded. More often than not, the winner will be the person who has paired the most outrageous or funny "thing" with any given "description" and, as such, the game tends to result in quite a bit of laughter.
Jenga
Jenga, the classic tower building game, involves a set of 50 or so rectangular wooden blocks. The game starts with these blocks stacked in rows of three stacked at an alternating 90 degree angle. Players from a group of two to eight take turns poking, wiggling, and gently pulling the blocks out of the tower and then stacking them, one by one, on top of the tower. The last player to successfully put a block on top without causing the tower to topple is the winner. The usual prize for winning, of course, is that you get to watch the losers reset the tower for the next round.