It started snowing while I was running on BMBlvd.
A genuine Tennessee snow flurry. Actually more than a typical snow flurry, because there was a pretty high density of flakes. Not enough to stick on the ground but for a winter that has been warmer than I can ever remember, its a bit of a surprise.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Exciting Group Game
At the big New Year's Eve party yesterday, we played a game for the first time that was a lot of fun for really large groups. I'm not sure if it has a name but its a bit of a variant on Charades.
-Everyone gets 2 (or 3) blank pieces of paper and writes down the name of a famous person or character on each paper.
-All the papers are put in a hat.
-Divide into two teams.
-On the team's turn, one player from each team draws a name from the hat and tries to get their team to guess it according to the rules from the round (see below.)
-If the team guesses correctly, the name goes into that teams scoring pile and the player draws another name, and continues until their time runs out (we used 30 secs per turn.)
-A player can pass on one name per turn, and returns the passed name to the hat.
-Play alternates between teams until all the names have been drawn, which ends the round.
-The score for each team is recorded and all the names returned to the hat.
The game is played in three rounds
-In round one, the speaker can say anything they want except the name, or sounds like..., or begins with....
-In round two, the speaker can only say two words for each name. Use of more words and the name is forfeited to the other team (we were not super strict on this if it seemed accidental.)
-In round three, the speaker can only pantomime using Charade rules.
As you can imagine, being able to remember the names from the first round is critical to success. We played 2 games, both men versus women and for some reason, the men would lead through the first couple of rounds and then would get killed in the pantomime round.
-Everyone gets 2 (or 3) blank pieces of paper and writes down the name of a famous person or character on each paper.
-All the papers are put in a hat.
-Divide into two teams.
-On the team's turn, one player from each team draws a name from the hat and tries to get their team to guess it according to the rules from the round (see below.)
-If the team guesses correctly, the name goes into that teams scoring pile and the player draws another name, and continues until their time runs out (we used 30 secs per turn.)
-A player can pass on one name per turn, and returns the passed name to the hat.
-Play alternates between teams until all the names have been drawn, which ends the round.
-The score for each team is recorded and all the names returned to the hat.
The game is played in three rounds
-In round one, the speaker can say anything they want except the name, or sounds like..., or begins with....
-In round two, the speaker can only say two words for each name. Use of more words and the name is forfeited to the other team (we were not super strict on this if it seemed accidental.)
-In round three, the speaker can only pantomime using Charade rules.
As you can imagine, being able to remember the names from the first round is critical to success. We played 2 games, both men versus women and for some reason, the men would lead through the first couple of rounds and then would get killed in the pantomime round.