To ask for help with Christmas games?

[SugarPlumLairy2]

I am hosting Christmas lunch this year and am looking for a fun game that can cope with 8 players. Everything I own is 4-6 players or trivia based and has been done to death.

There’s not tons of room for charades, and we tend to congregate around the dinner table so obviously Spoons is already on my list, but what else!?

Is there anything fun, easy, can play from ages 13 +, reasonably silly, ice-breaking etc. Not a sit down at a board for 40 minutes type game?

Is that asking too much?

Weve got a lovely bunch of peeps, for a limited time only, all like games etc. I was hoping for something to liven up the table ?

What is your idea of a fun Christmas game?

Another vote for Chameleon. Quick to play, easy to pick up, and can be played with something like 3-8 players. Good if you have people dipping in and out.

My favourite game is cards against humanity. You really have to gage your audience for that one though!!

The present game is always fun, but needs a bit of forward planning. Everyone buys cheap Poundland gifts and wraps them up. The sillier the better. You need two packs of playing cards. Put the presents in the middle and divide up the cards from one pack between the players. Turn over the cards from the second pack one at a time. If you have the card you take a present. You carry on this way until all the presents are gone form the pile. Once they are gone you start stealing gifts from other players if your card is turned over.
Players then unwrap their hilarious presents! It’s our favourite Christmas family game.

I used to do a Christmas party, and one game I used to set up was a picture game - I got pictures of celebrities, sports people, politicians, book characters, cut them out and stuck them onto sheets of plain paper, and numbered them. Then people wrote down as many names as they could - best list wins.

I bought this game last Christmas.
Really just a few sheets of printed card and paper, for £3.99 but such good fun! Everyone in our mixed age family loved it.
Infuriatingly, I packed it away so carefully after Christmas that I now can't find it and will have to buy another,

Good idea @TrickyD

Does anyone play Exploding Kittens? Was thinking of getting it for DD but reviews are quite mixed.

We bought both Exploding Kittens and RatatatCat last year, Kittens much less popular than RatatatCat. Sleeping Queens from the year before is still loved..

The wrapping paper game!

You wrap a small box in layers of wrapping paper. Players sit in a circle and take turns rolling two dice. If you get a double six, you have to put on oven gloves and then a Santa hat and try and get the wrapping paper off. All the while, the dice are being rolled by the other players. When someone else gets a double six you have to swap the oven gloves and hat and it’s your turn to try and get the paper off.

We usually put a little prize in the box (chocolate etc)

This game is absolutely hilarious and usually impossible to finish because everyone is laughing so much 😂 This is especially fun if you’ve had a couple of drinks and your hand eye coordination has gone

You each put an after eight mint on your forehead and have to get it to slide down your face into your mouth.

It’s difficult and messy.

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a lot of fun and doesn't take ages to learn. We like Linkee as well.

These are great thanks👍😃

I LOVE the after eight game 😍

Does anyone play Exploding Kittens? Was thinking of getting it for DD but reviews are quite mixed

I dont think its been played with since we got it.

Bedlam card game is excellent

There are rules...most of them are secret

The idea is that you get rid of your cards...but you can be punished for not knowing a secret rule

Rules can be you have to say ‘ yolo’ when you lay a yellow card or you have to speak in a foreign accent

Very funny...and fucking irritating when you cant figure out what the rule is

@shambhala76 my friend recommended it but I read the rules on Amazon and couldn't make head nor tail of them! Is it really simple enough for kids to get?

Beetle Drive or buy everyone a kazoo and play name my tune! Everyone laughs when playing a kazoo!

Crystal Maze

ifwishes

How old are the children? We must have been playing when the youngest was 13

My teens love Exploding Kittens and we've bought them a similar one for this year (something to do with a T. Rex).

My mum has a really old game that she brings out at Christmas called "Tell Me" -- has cards which say things like "name an animal that starts with...." then you spin a wheel to get a letter and everyone has to shout out their answer - winner is first to give an answer that is more-or-less relevant. Can't buy it any more but lots of old ones on Ebay. We made some new cards to update it a bit and appeal to family member's interests.

@IfWishesWereFishes do you mean the Werewolf game? The youngest child at the table was 11 when we played it and she enjoyed it. It was initially confusing but you pick it up very quickly.

The kids were not so keen on Linkee, though - they preferred Dinkee, which is the kids' version of the same game.

Ah they're only 8 and 9 - maybe will wait until next year.

We usually buy a load of cheap gifts and separate into boys and girls gifts then play bingo , just silly things really - last year we had a beer pong set and the kids loved that , us adults had to do the drinking though obviously !

Great ideas👍 I think little prizes make any game better so def going downthat route😊