If you're hosting a New Year's party, organizing a game or two is a great way to get everyone mingling and break the ice. Red stag casino review. Here are six New Year's Eve party games that require almost no props or preparation, and will inspire hilarious memories for the year to come. These same prompts could also be used to play a game of New Year’s Pictionary. New Year's Eve Karaoke. Rebecca Nelson/Getty Images. New Year’s Eve parties are traditionally noisy events, where folks celebrate with everything from noisemakers to fireworks to horn blowing. What better way for kids to make some of their own New Year.
New Year Games
New Year's Eve Scramble
Write a bunch of different words on a piece of paper that have to do with New Year's Eve and scramble the letters. The person who guesses the most words correctly wins a prize.
Predict the Future: Throughout the party, present a magazine picture to each table of kids. These pictures should show something from the past year, such as a winning football game, a new toy, a political event, etc. Each table of kids must make a prediction for the next year, based on the picture. For example: The Yankees will win the pennant, Bill Clinton will become a rock star, the president will be a woman, and so on. Keep providing pictures after each course for the kids' predictions.
Predict the Future: Throughout the party, present a magazine picture to each table of kids. These pictures should show something from the past year, such as a winning football game, a new toy, a political event, etc. Each table of kids must make a prediction for the next year, based on the picture. For example: The Yankees will win the pennant, Bill Clinton will become a rock star, the president will be a woman, and so on. Keep providing pictures after each course for the kids' predictions.
Some other fun ideas that will keep the kids busy for hours until the clock strikes midnight are to have them create their own time capsule, strike a piñata, make New Year's resolutions (and guess whose resolutions they are), decorate cookies, and have a huge indoor treasure hunt with clues.
Naming of Candy
For this you need: About 6 different candies that have given names like M&M's, Crunch, Wrigley's, etc. 1 Die (or 2 dice if the crowd is very large) Everyone is seated on the floor in a circle. Packaged candy bars or candy are placed in the middle of the circle. Everyone starts by saying their own names. The leader then makes sure that everyone knows what candy is in the middle. someone begins by rolling the dice. If they roll a 6, they can take one of the candies in the middle. The die continues to go quickly around the circle while people keep picking up candy. When all of the candies are taken, people then can get other people's candy. In order to get their candy, they must state the person's first name and the name of the candy they hold. The person who rolls a 6 and matches the name of the candy and the person takes the other's candy. If they forget either name, they miss their turn and the dice goes to the next person and they continue to roll. (One person can get more than one candy and people can hide the candy behind their back). This is a great way of getting to know people's name and how to get your favorite candies!
Celebrity hunt
Everyone writes the name of a celebrity, famous person or character on a piece of paper which they stick to the forehead of the player on their left (use tape or office Post-It notes). Make sure they don't see the name. List down the activity(s) or event(s) which has made them famous( but no names). Paste the paper up on the wall so that every guest can see it. This will act as cues and give the participants a direction to make guessing. Now the game starts. Everyone else can see your forehead. The objective is to work out who you are. Going around the table, each payer takes a turn to ask the party questions about who they are - answers can be YES or NO only. If you get a YES you may continue asking, if you get a NO play moves on to the left. Last person to guess their name is the loser. Simple, but very absorbing.
The Grouping Game
This is a good game to play as a mixer. It is a fun, fast moving game. It starts out as everyone collects in one big group. The leader initially calls out a number, usually a number between two and fifteen. The number shouldn't be more than half of the number of total participants. When the number is called out everyone must try to collect in a group that contains that number of people. The group members should be latching arms or have their arms wrapped around each other so that the leader can see who is in the group. If someone cannot enter a group because the number of required members has been reached, he is out of the game. As different numbers are successively called out the number of participants gets smaller and smaller. Eventually, there are less than ten people. The last group, or winning group, should have anywhere from two to five people.
Musical Chairs
The old favorite. With one fewer chairs than people, a short snippet of music is played while the people move around the room. All the chairs are placed in the middle of the room or arranged in a corner, all facing back on the wall. When the music stops everyone tries to sit on a vacant chair. (Only one person per chair) The person who doesn't find a chair is 'out'. One chair is taken away and the game continues until only one person (The Winner) is left.
Pass It On
Sit close together in two lines facing the same direction. The person in the front of each line rolls a die. When one of them gets a six, both of them pass a small object (a jack, a ball, a bracelet) to the person behind them who passes it on until it reaches the end. When it gets to the last person, that person must get up and race to the front of the line with the object and sit down. The person who sits down first, gets to sit in the front of the line. The person who was second to sit down, goes back to his or her spot. Whichever line rotates from back to front first, wins.
Winking Murder
All except the detective sit in a circle while the detective waits outside. One person from the circle is elected to be the murderer, and then the Detective is called back to stand in the circle. When he is ready, the Murderer winks at people in the circle. Anyone who sees that they have been winked at lets out a blood-curdling scream and dies. The Detective has three attempts to guess the murderer.
Pass the Orange
Arrange for teams of about 8 to stand in a line, one behind the other (arranged - boy, girl, boy,..). Give each team an orange which the first person should tuck under his chin. This should be passed to the person behind. When the orange gets to the last person, they come to the front of the line and start again. The winning team is the first one which gets their starting person to the front again.
Guessing the resolutions
Make each of your guests write down 5 resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a basket at a time and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made each resolution. At the end of the readings, the person who guessed the most correctly wins a prize. Read some of the wrong guesses out loud for fun!
Word guessing
Write down 100 words on index cards such as stare, grin, blink, giggle, laugh, plate, shoelace, thread or any word you like.
Stack the cards and put them in the center of the room. Divide the players into 2 teams and seat them opposite each other. Set the timer or stopwatch for one minute. Have the first player from Team One draw a card from the pile and give clues to the word to his/her teammates before the timer ends the play.
So, if the word is 'laugh', the team member might say, 'What you do if someone tells you a joke?' Players from
Team One try to guess the word; if they are successful before the time is up, they get a point. If the timer runs out and the word is not guessed, the other team gets a bonus point. Take turns until all the cards are exhausted, and then add up points to see who wins.
Stack the cards and put them in the center of the room. Divide the players into 2 teams and seat them opposite each other. Set the timer or stopwatch for one minute. Have the first player from Team One draw a card from the pile and give clues to the word to his/her teammates before the timer ends the play.
So, if the word is 'laugh', the team member might say, 'What you do if someone tells you a joke?' Players from
Team One try to guess the word; if they are successful before the time is up, they get a point. If the timer runs out and the word is not guessed, the other team gets a bonus point. Take turns until all the cards are exhausted, and then add up points to see who wins.
Fun photos
Take the picture of each of your guests with the digital camera. Have them make a funny face and be sure to tell them there is a prize for the best face. After all the pictures have been taken, download them to your computer or laptop and ask everyone to gather around the monitor. The winner will be judged on the greatest laughter.
Month guessing
Go through old magazines from the past year, or to your local library to search through old news articles. Find the events that took place in the past year. Make a list of these events, and ask your guests to guess which month the event took place in. Whoever guesses the most right wins a prize.Super hearing
Play super hearing. Arrange yourselves into 2 groups. Ask one member from the group to identify the mysterious recorded sounds and the game continues thus with the teams securing a point on giving a correct answer.
When it comes to New Year’s Eve, I’m generally so worn out from Christmas, that all I want to do is curl up in bed with the husband, watch a few episodes of Parks and Recreation, and fall into a deep slumber…by 9:00. Oh, and somehow the 5 kids are all in bed sleeping, too. That’s how fun I am, at this time of the year. But, I keep hearing about all of these hilarious and fun group games, and I’m thinking I might… MIGHT…summon my inner wild-child and do the whole New Year’s thing. Midnight, pots, pans, kissing, and all. Ooooh, crazy. I know.
I’ve been getting after my friends to share with me their favorite group games, check it out…some fun stuff!
1. Cheetos Head
Have the group split into two evenly numbered teams, preferably with the same number of men on each team. Each team will need a can or two of shaving cream and a container of cheese puffs or bag of puffy Cheetos. Have two chair set up across the room and a line of tape on the floor several feet away (your preference.) For round 1, each team chooses one man to sit in the designated chair, across the room. That man will then get a hefty dose of shaving cream on his face, as if he had a full beard. The remaining team members have to stand behind the tape line, on the floor, and toss Cheetos at their teammates face, for one minute. Whichever team gets the most stuck Cheetos, wins round 1. Move on to round 2, with another teammate to take the chair. Obviously, the Cheetos beard could be done on a woman, but you can keep that information private, if you want. The team with the most Cheetos on the face, after totaling the rounds, wins! This is one of those games where a camera is so necessary!
2. Rain in the Face
Everyone sits in a circle, with a designated “it” person standing in the middle. Whoever is in the middle is holding a cup with a small amount of water in it. They will announce that they are thinking of something. Such as, “I’m thinking of a country,” or “I’m thinking of a famous woman,” or “I’m thinking of an animal.” They will walk around to each person in the circle, and that person gets one guess as to what “it” is thinking of. Basically, you DON’T want to guess the right answer, if you do, you get “rain in the face,” or a cup of water in the face (only fill the cup a little, unless you’re feeling crazy-nuts.) So, what’s funny is everyone will be trying to come up with the most obscure answers to be able to avoid the water. But, you never know…maybe “it” came up with an obscure thing in their mind. They keep going around the circle until someone guesses, and that person will be “it” next. You may want to have a limit of how many times “it” can go around the circle, before they have to think of something else.
3. Cookie on My Forehead
You may have heard of this one, and there are a variety of ways to set up the game. But, here’s mine…have everyone split into two teams. Each team send a member to the middle of the room and is given a cookie to place on their forehead (they will have to tilt their head back). You can just use Oreos or Chips A’hoy to make it easy. At the count of 3, the opposing team members have to try and maneuver the cookie from their forehead to their mouth. Whoever gets it first, earns a point for their team. If it falls on the floor, they can pick it up and start over. Or, you can say “they’re out,” whichever you prefer. This is another fun game to pull out the camera. You will see some crazy body contortions going on!
4. Left Center Right Dice Game
My sister-in-law was just telling me about this dice game, Left Center Right (or LCR), that sounds like a riot! It’s also a fast-paced game that is easy enough for kids to play too, assuming they know “right” and “left.”
To play, you need at least 3 players with 3 chips each. To take the intensity up a notch, many people suggest using quarters (or dimes), rather than the chips, so there is a fun reward for the winner. If you’re not into playing with money, you could even use pieces of wrapped candy. When a player has all 3 chips, they roll all three dice. The number of “L” dice that show up determine how many of the chips/quarters are passed to the left. The number of “R” dice determine how many chips/quarters are passed to the right. And, “C” means a chip/quarter is placed in the middle of the table. A player can only roll the number of dice that reflect the number of chips they have. Everyone is anxious to have new chips/quarters passed to them, because it ensures they stay in the game longer, giving them a chance to win the pot in the center. The player who is last left with chips, wins the pot. Whoo! I have seen this game sold at Target, or if you get it from Amazon, they have the two-day shipping or overnight available.
5. Mating Season
Do you like that name? I made it up. So, this is a fun game for big groups. For every person playing, you will need a piece of paper with an animals name written on it. Each animal needs to be written two times. Have everyone stand in the middle of the room and toss all the paper pieces (with the animal written on it) into the air. Once they fall, everyone scrambles to grab one. They immediately need to start acting like the animal and making their sound, while looking for their mate. Once they have found their animal mate, they hurry and sit down. The last pair standing is “out.” And, round 2 begins…
And, there you have it. I would love to hear about some of YOUR favorite party games! Casino in italian.
Here’s a couple of my very favorite party munchies:
Caramel Toffee Dip (great with cut Granny Smith apples!)
Fried Avocado with Salsa Ranch Dip (I’m obsessed!)
You can find even more group games at “Or so she says…” Is intertops legit. like Psychiatrist, Secret Adverb, Word Nerd, and M&M Pass. See you there :)
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