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Drinks from A-Z
According to Party Game Ideas, this game is a popular choice for bachelorette parties, but it also works well for other gatherings. Split the party up into equally numbered teams, arming each group with a piece of paper and a pencil. Set a timer for five minutes and send every group off into a separate room with the challenge to write down an alcoholic drink for every letter of the alphabet. You decide whether you&'ll allow players to write beer brand names, or you only want to include mixed drinks. When time is up, teams reconvene to compare answers. The team with the most original answers wins. For example, if two teams write "Jagerbomb" for the letter "j," neither team gets to count that drink towards their final score. If this game is a hit, play additional rounds, asking players to list countries, items of clothing, people&'s names, or anything else you&'d like.
Name That Tune
For this game, every player keeps track of his own score. Make a mixed CD or play songs from an mp3 player for the entire group to hear. Players should yell out the name of the song as soon as they know it. Score 1 point for naming the song, 2 points for naming the title and artist and subtract 1 point for incorrect guesses. If a player makes an incorrect guess, he can no longer shout guesses for that song. The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.
Party Game Ideas points out that this activity is easy to customize, making it a good choice for theme parties. If you&'re throwing a luau, for example, choose summery tunes. If a birthday party&'s gust of honor was a teen in the 1980s, do an &'80s pop edition.
Sculpt It
Before your guests arrive, create cards with words on them that could be sculpted out of Play-Dough. Examples include "weiner dog," "parrot," "lamp," "car" and other object nouns. Divide your party into teams of about four people. One team goes at a time, selecting a sculptor to pick a word from the deck and mold it out of the Play-Dough that you provide. Making letters is not allowed. Other members of the sculptor&'s team shout out guesses as the player works. Give each team about a minute to sculpt and shout out guesses. Play about eight rounds. Whichever team racks up the most correct guesses wins.
Cosmetic Collection
This suggestion from Free Party Games is sure to get your group laughing. Scatter women&'s cosmetics on the floor around the room, and tell all the men to roll up their pants to their knees and collect the cosmetics with their feet. Tell the men that whoever manages to pick up the most makeup products wins. Meanwhile, have the ladies at the party secretly judge the men on the attractiveness of their legs. After the competition is over, announce its "real" purpose and hand out a medal to the winner.
Ultimate Frisbee
If you have a large group of active adults, rally everyone together for a game of Ultimate Frisbee. Divide players into two equally sized teams and mark off an end zone on each end of the play field with pylons. Players try to get the Frisbee into the opposing team&'s end zone to score, throwing it between teammates. Players are not allowed to run with the Frisbee and have 10 seconds to pass. According to the What Is Ultimate website, Ultimate Frisbee is becoming a serious sport with regulated field sizes and end zones, but party goers playing for fun can decide their own field and end zone dimensions.