Teenage party games?

[SecretSquirrels]

DS1 will be 16 and I have agreed to a house party....
I'm nervous already
I instinctively wanted to say no to the party but he has worked so hard and never puts a foot wrong so I made myself say yes. Now I need to relax and let them enjoy it. I won't find it easy though.
There will about a dozen boys and girls.
Food is no problem but I think a couple of games might come in useful if there is a lull.
Twister is always a favourite - lots of opportunities for boy/girl contact .
His friends are quite a bright / geeky bunch if that helps?

Have you played round-the-house pictionary? Split into two groups (or more if loads of people and a big house) who sit in different rooms, each group has pens and paper. The rooms need to be far enough apart so that from one room you can't hear what people are saying in the other room. Game master sits in the corridor halfway between the two rooms, with a list of about 10 words that would be challenging/ fun to draw - you don't need to buy the official game, the gamemaster can just write their own list. At GO, one person from each team runs to the gamemaster and gets told the first word. Then each person runs to his own team and draws the word, as in normal pictionary. As soon as someone in his team guesses it correctly, the person who guessed runs back to the game master to get whispered the next word, and then runs to the team again... The winning team is the first team to reach the end of the list.

Hope that makes sense! It's harder than i thought to explain. Its fun cos it involves a lot of racing around and a challenge of drawing creativity. You do have to trust the other team not to cheat (or else have an observer in each room!).

Not a game, but a friend had a fondu set that was good for teenage parties - yummy and more interesting than just nibbles.

If they enjoy it they can have a new gamemaster and play again - being the game master is rather fun, they can use in-joke words to make it more personal.

Thanks MMM will run that one past DS.
I think we have a fondue somewhere........