<p>What is your funniest gut-splitting party game? </p>
<p>We are entertaining more now that our kids have gone, and sometimes the party could use a little livening up…once in a while I will jump on the piano and start a crazy song session, or we pull out karaoke, which surprisingly lots of people enjoy. But I do like a wild game once in a while, that gets everyone laughing. I have a few, but looking for new ones. </p>
<p>Have you ever watched the TV show Hollywood game night? I often think some of their games would be a hoot at a party and everyone is involved.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I went to an office party where they had devised games based on the show minute to win it. They consisted more of people making asses of themselves while others watched. Not my cup of tea. (a couple of them people flat out refused to do).</p>
<p>Ah. You gotta be careful what you play at an office party. Could be disastrous.
But, no, I have never watched that show…I should look it up. Anything specific that stands out in your memory?
I did a really dumb game at a ladies only party, and it was hysterical, ladies were on the floor laughing…mostly because we had already had a few cosmos :)</p>
<p>We’ve had an icebreaker where everyone gets a famous person’s (dead or alive) name taped to their back. They can only ask people ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions and can only ask 1-2 in a row to the same person. Prize to first and last person. </p>
<p>Bite the bag…we play it with the “kids”…some of the old-timers are better than the younguns. Since youtube is not against tos…here’s the rules.</p>
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<p>Oh wow You Tube embeds and opens in the posts…OMG.</p>
<p>Any games involving bending and swinging my head are out for me (I get dizzy very easily)</p>
<p>YESSSSSSSSS</p>
<p>Charades. Divide the group into two, and have everyone come up with two or three things to act out. Put them on slips of paper and reach in to grab one when it’s your turn. It’s great to see professional adults try to act out “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” or “Civilization and its Discontents.”</p>
<p>Catch Phrase. </p>
<p>We played toilet plunger/toilet-roll relay at a ladies only party. Hysterical. We were were on the floor laughing and sputtering</p>
<p>Head’s Up, used with an iPad, it’s a modern day charades, only you can shout (loudly!). I am amazed at how quickly people get into the game (myself included). It has shown up at our last 2 family events. </p>
<p>Cards against humanity is pretty darn funny </p>
<p>Can be played by all ages–we played this at a family reunion. You sit in a chair with your head tipped back. An Oreo cookie is placed on your forehead. You then have to move the cookie down your face and into your mouth by moving different parts of your face/no hands allowed. It was funny to watch, and depending on the shape of your face, hard to do. If you drop the cookie, you’re out. I think we just had prizes for anyone who could do it in a certain time limit because not many people succeeded. (You can find lots of videos of this game. . .)</p>
<p>Another game that is sort of like “telephone” with pencils and paper(there is a board game of this, but I don’t know what it is called) that my teenagers find hilarious for bigger groups at parties (10-12 is good–too few people and it isn’t as funny): Players are seated in a circle on the floor, or around a big table. You start with little booklets of blank paper with the same number of pages as players (I cut up/staple printer paper–3X5 or smaller is good–they have to be small so people can’t see others’ work). Each person gets a blank booklet and a pencil and writes a short saying/cliche/phrase on the front. Then everyone passes their booklet to the next player in the circle. The second player reads the phrase, turns over the first page (so the phrase is no longer visible, and he is writing on the front of the second page–NOT the back of the first) and draws a picture of that phrase. Then everyone passes to the next player, who looks only at the picture, turns over that page so the picture is no longer visible, and writes down (on the third page) the phrase he thinks is depicted. You go through all the players around the circle alternating drawing/writing/drawing/writing until each player gets his own book back. (I don’t know if I’m making this sound like “fun”–but we have been in tears reading some of these.) You can vote on the funniest one and give a prize to the owner.</p>
<p>Variation on “two truths and a lie,” each person writes down two “Hidden Talents,” one true and one made up, and everyone has to guess who they belong to and which ones are true. I think everyone wrote them on strips of paper and put them in a bowl, and someone pulled them out and read them. They weren’t written in pairs, so each talent (or non-talent) had to be identified individually as true/false and by writer. (For adults, we said these could be former talents–like if you USED to ride a unicycle. . .) Most correct matches wins.</p>