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Help! Have you ever played a really fun grown up party game at a party that wasn't too rude?

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Shamoogren · 07/03/2019 10:15

Just that really - promised I'd organise party games for a friends do, about 8 couples in total- people don't know eachother that well, what would go down well?? Thank you!!!

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tillytoodles1 · 07/03/2019 13:11

Mindreading. You decide earlier on what colour to chose as a clue. The next item is the oen you've chosen e.g. You pick a black shoe, then you go through the is it the clock, phone etc. Then you say is it your shoe (example), then the one after that is the one you've told people while the other is out of the room.

Drogosnextwife · 07/03/2019 13:13

A quiz night is always good. Swap couples though.

Fredathetortoise · 07/03/2019 13:21

A bit similar to Mitzgerald's game. Lots of slips of paper - number of guests x 4 or 5, however many you want. Each guest gets a bunch of slips, write on each one a thing/person/concept - can be as broad as you like. When I played it we were at a cheese and wine and snacks evening, so some people wrote things like 'hummus' or 'breadsticks', some people wrote the place where we were, or stuff related to the project we were working on, others wrote famous people, or concepts such as 'watching the tv' or 'failing your exams'.

All slips go in a pot. Players divided into teams, we had teams of 3. Take turns, first person from each team, second person, third person etc. If a person in a team doesn't get a turn in one round, they start the next round. Each player has one minute to grab a slip out of the pot, describe the concept to the rest of the team, they guess it. Do as many slips as you can in the minute. Any that the team can't guess go back in the pot.

After the first round where the things on the slips are described and guessed, put all the slips back, and the next round you have to act the same slips, silently. Third round you have to act them only using sound effects (we had the players stand behind a door so they couldn't be seen). So the teams have learned what is on the slips, so you have a head start on the third round, but trying to act out 'hummus' using only sound effects, after partaking of wine, can get very silly.

5foot5 · 07/03/2019 13:31

Played both Linkee and Heads Up recently. Very good.

Layza101 · 07/03/2019 15:00

This is more of a Christmas game I think, but you wrap up some empty boxes and a group of people have to try and open the present while wearing oven gloves. Obviously the first person to unwrap the present is the winner!
I saw it on Facebook and it looked like so much fun Grin

FizzyGreenWater · 07/03/2019 16:44

Good God NOT cards against humanity if it's a group that you don't know that well.

gingergiraffe · 07/03/2019 17:33

One not to play that my dh was told about many years ago. Everyone writes a ‘secret’ on a piece of paper and puts it into a hat. Supposed to be something they have never told anyone else about so no one should know the person who actually wrote it. Each person takes it in turn to read out a secret and guess who said it. I’m not sure after that what happens but a colleague of his wrote that she had once given her then husband an STI. The ex husband was not actually at the party but everyone knew him as he was their colleague. Very embarrassing and a conversation stopper! Obviously alcohol involved.

Shamoogren · 07/03/2019 18:23

Good lord!! One to avoid!!! Great suggestions! Love the telestations handmade version!!

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MissionItsPossible · 07/03/2019 18:41

@gingergiraffe Omg 😱

I can’t remember if this happened at my school or if I was told this or heard it or read it somewhere whilst I was in school but a teacher gave the pupils in her class a bit of paper and asked them to each anonymously write what they truly felt about the school, teachers, lessons etc but she’d secretly faintly numbered them on the back so knew who wrote what Shock Can’t remember the outcome.

DrBuckles · 07/03/2019 18:45

We got ‘Game Off’ at Christmas- lots of different cards with tasks on, easy to play and lots of fun, nothing too embarrassing and not rude but lots of laughs

Teatimeted · 07/03/2019 20:25

How has no one mentioned the cardboard box game?!

You get a cardboard box (preferably a cereal box) and each person has to bend over and pick it up with their teeth. When everyone has completed it, you rip a strip off and start again. Whoever can bend over and pick it up without touching the floor with their hands with as many strips torn off as possible is the winner.

Stretch well beforehand!!!

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