Party Games
Trivial Pursuit is a popular party game.Party games are games which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size.
- The number of participants is indefinite and fairly large. Traditional multiplayer board games tend to accommodate four to six players at most, whereas party games generally have no fixed upper limit. Some games become unwieldy if more than twelve or fifteen play, but even for these the upper limit is flexible. Many party games simply divide everyone into two roughly equal teams.
- The players can take part at varying levels. Not everyone enjoys straining themselves to the utmost to win, so good party games have multiple ways to play along and contribute to everyone's enjoyment. For example, in Fictionary not everyone needs to create plausible dictionary definitions; humorous submissions are at least as welcome. In Charades, players can actively participate in guessing without taking a turn at acting.
- Player elimination is rare. Monopoly makes a poor party game, because bankrupt players must sit out while the remaining players continue. In contrast, no matter how far behind a team is in Pictionary, all players can participate until the very end.
- Some games are largely non-competitive, e.g. Murder mystery games which are mainly group roleplays. Some party games, particularly lighthearted or adult games, introduce forfeits for losing players.
Common party games include
1000 Blank White Cards
Apples to Apples
Are You a Werewolf?
Articulate
Botticelli
Bobby's World
Catch Phrase
Categories (related to the commercial Scattergories and Facts in Five)
Celebrity
Charades
Consequences
Couch Of Power
Drinking Games
Cranium
Eat Poop You Cat
Fictionary (related to the commercial Balderdash)
Guess Who's You
Mafia
Murder Mystery Games
A Village Murder Mystery
[Host-Party Games]
Nuclear Name Game
Outburst
PervArtistry
Pictionary
Scissors
Seven minutes in heaven
Shout about movies
Snaps
Spin the bottle
Taboo
Truth or Dare? and related games such as "Strip or Dare?" and "Drink or Dare?"
Stupid Ninja Game
Trivial Pursuit
Twenty questions
White Elephant Gift Exchange
Why Did the Chicken...?
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Not all of the above are suitable for children's parties. Traditional children's party games (some of which are also popular with teenagers and adults) include:
The Bear and the Honeypot
Blind Man's Bluff
Farmer Wants a Wife
Hunt the Thimble (or slipper, or other object)
Oranges and Lemons
Pass the Parcel
Pin the tail on the Donkey
Poor Jenny
Poor Pussy
Postman's Knock
Spinning the Plate
Wink Murder
Party games are also used to define videogames like Mario Party and Sonic Shuffle, that resemble board games and meant to be multiplayer.
See also
External links
Board Game Geek Murder Mystery Games Tea Party Games For Kids