WIBU to ask for your help with Boxing Day dilemma...?

[charleyfarleysaunt]

Not as exciting as it sounds, sorry!

But for the last few many years I have hosted a family-friends get together where all congregate, drink far too much, play random games and generally behave like six year olds

Problem is I have run out of ideas for games

We usually play jenga, Lexicon, charades, Trivial Pursuit, but NEVER Monopoly following the 2011 tiff and I could really do with some new games this year

Any ideas please?????

(Oh and we are all allegedly adults - late middle aged to early-twenties, no under agers here yet, though I still live in hope of grandkids one day! )

Funemployed is great fun

Meant to add Dixit too

Twister

Articulate is a firm favourite.

There's a game that I don't know the name of where you have a heap of small presents, wrapped. You roll dice to choose a present, and to swipe them from people. Guests can bring presents to make it more fun, with a low monetary value.

Pie face!! Fecking hilarious

Fluxx

Pick up sticks, shit head (card game)

Twister and the game where you roll a 6 then put hat scarf and gloves on and try to eat a bar of chocolate with a knife and fork. Also fluffy bunnies with marshmallows

Cards against humanity, or dirty minds

Snorta. Animals hidden in kennels, snap cards but you have to make the noise of the other person's animal instead of saying snap.

It's ridiculously hard to think what their animal is, because you get distracted by your own animal and the animals on the snap cards. Little kids are about in a level with a drunk adult or sober more eldely adult. My respectable PILs staring at each other in a final showdown, desperately shouting out animal noises before one of them finally got it right, omg, I nearly wet myself laughing.

It is the funniest silliest game ever, and we have a LOT of games.

Also pictionary, played with two big teams where you do the drawing on a giant paper pad or whiteboard style thing. The big paper means you can play in large teams but still be comfy. And shout a lot.

Hide and seek

Recognise the famous person is the compulsory opener for any party here - stick pics of a variety of folk ("slebs", politicians, sports stars, older film or pop stars, tv presenters, etc) around the house and people have to see how many they recognise.
Useful as people can be playing from when they arrive and can stop to greet people etc, don't have to all start together

We also had a Great Monopoly War. Never again.

Pass the Pigs was good fun - haven't seen it for a while though.

Consequences used to be a winner when I was younger!

Cant you ask people to bring their favourite games

Many late teens/twenties have cards against humanity I think

A good game is to bring a crap Christmas gift or awful item that you own that you got and something that is decent (ish and low value). Each time you win a game you can swap 1 item with the loser. You can do a series of quick pair games

UNO... easy to understand (once played it with five foreign nationals... some games like trivial pursuit etc are no-gos)
Go very retro with snakes and ladders and checkers?

Same dilemma as you- I've opted for Exploding Kittens (£14 on Amazon the other day) and am writing my own Big Fat Quiz of the Year- range of questions, including some retro guess the song based on musicians who've been in the headlines this year (for the older generations), and a name that meme round (extra points for correct usage) where the younger generations can ramp up points. The youngest at our get together is 19 though, so perhaps not suitable for every party.

In the past we've played the cereal box game (requires a little flexibility, might be one for the younger family members), cards against humanity, yahtzee (a weird hit!), articulate, bullshit, and pictionary.

Oh forgot our favourite- the one where your neighbour sticks the paper on your forehead and you have to guess who you are!

The one where you put the mouth expander thing in and have to guess what the person is saying!

Ratuki - absolutely mad card game. We get so competitive with it, it becomes very physical!

Cranium is ace.

Also the cereal box game for those who can manage it. Standing on your feet, pick up the empty box from the floor with your teeth without using hands. Each round eliminate anyone who couldn't do it then tear off a couple on inches of box so it gets lower and lower. It's very funny and someone will be bendy enough to pick up flat cardboard from the floor.

"Don't show Keith your teeth".

This is the game that Keith Lemon plays on Celebrity Juice. It's ridiculous but I've laughed so much playing it even the thought of it makes me smile. Just choose a category; for example, films, countries, boys names, it can be anything. Each person thinks of a word in the category, then you take turns to say your word - but you have to cover your teeth, top and bottom, with your lips. The others have to guess what you're saying.

It's funny sober, but even better after a few drinks

How the fuck does one illustrate 'kosher' in pictionary?

Pit

Been playing this since Noah was a boy. It is noisy but sat down so works for all levels of fitness (and sobriety).

Definitely cards against humanity, and the after eight game - have to get an after eight from the middle if your forehead to your mouth without touching it. Funnier than it sounds after a few drinks!!