Hey all,

Every Christmas Eve, my family hosts the dinner and events. For years my Mother has come up with some simple games to keep everyone entertained during the middle-later portion of the night.

She doesn’t like anything too complicated. I was wondering if anyone has any simple party games which are fun with extended family around the holidays.

Thanks.

  • sga@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Essentially, all children games work - you can just make then hard, or raise the stakes to your taste

    musical chairs (song plys, everyone dances, song stops - you have to grab nearest seat - for n players, start with n - 1 chairs, so someone is eliminated - now reduce the chair by 1 and repeat)

    atlas - take places names - someone has to say a new place starting with last alphabet of last name.

    antakshari (consider it as musical atlas - you start with a song - next song has to start with the last alphabet/sound of lst song)

    these 2 can be played in teams, and instead of finishing game as soon as someone loses, you can have pre determined punishments (for example, they have to dance, with 1 leg in air, and a hand over their head)

    passing the parcel - song plays - you pass the parcel - when song stops, the person with parcel gets the “gift/punishment” (punishment similar to above)

    charades (or dumb charades) - you have to make someone else guess what you are acting/narrating out