WFMW

My sister-in-law, Emily, has this thing on her blog called Works for me Wednesday. It's kind of a fun thing to read, so I thought I'd give it a try. Mine? fun games to play!!!

At an intervarsity meeting several weeks ago, we had a hang out night for freshman, and transfers. One of the games we played was called telephone pictionary. The idea is that each person has a stack of papers, the number of which equals the number of people playing. each person writes a word or a phrase on the top sheet, and then they pass it to the right. the next person then has to draw a picture depicting what the paper says. You pass it around the circle, and when your paper(the one that you first wrote the word or phrase on) comes back to you, the game is over. The fun part is to see what phrase is now written, as opposed to how it started. One of my friends, for example, started out with "You can't handle the truth!" and ended up with "Welcome Home!" (it works best with an odd number of players, so that as you get yours back, you have a phrase, instead of a picture)

One of my favorites is a card game I learned in Awana. It's called SPOONS. The idea is that everyone sits in a circle and gets four cards. there is a number of spoons in the middle, one less than the number of people playing. The goal is to get all four cards of the same kind(i.e. four aces, four kings, four tens, etc) the first person to get all four of a kind, grabs a spoon. once the first spoon has been grabbed, then everyone else can also grab a spoon. The person without a spoon gets a letter, and when you have spelled the word SPOONS, you're out. It can get pretty violent, especially when highschoolers are playing it, but it's easy, and a lot of fun.

Mafia. Ah, Mafia. It's easy, most people have heard of it, and it's fun to hear how the mayer has decided each person has died, or almost died, and then is saved.

so there you have it. a few games that are easy to play, without a lot of setup, or props required. It works for me. :)