Some friends introduced our family to a smashing game. It's called Family. Here's how it's played...
Everyone writes a name on a piece of paper. Make sure it's a name that isn't one people would expect from you (Grandma may want to write down MC Hammer for her name). A Reader reads all the names from the hat/jar. Then go around the room guessing who picked what name. Each person gets a turn (excluding the Reader). If a person guesses the correct name, that player becomes part of the guesser's "family". The one that guessed correctly is the head of the family. He will tell the team members his name. They will then collaborate about remaining players. If you guess the name of the head of a family correctly, you get the whole family, and become it's head. A turn of guessing continues until a wrong guess. Play continues around room. The next person to guess correctly becomes head of another "family". Last man/family standing wins!
This is by far one of the best crowd mixers I've ever played. Give it a go, and let me know what you think.
7 comments:
Well...I think it's a cool game.
How many people do you need? When we see you next, let's play. We'll have two extra with us.
I'm a little confused. But then, it is 2:43 a.m.!
Let me offer an illustration: the first time we played this game (at our friends' house) I made the mistake of choosing "Antipas" as my alias. Others easily associated that with me ("sounds like something Chuck would come up with"). Big mistake. So, on successive occasions I took names like "Mick Hala" (a play on my niece's name) and "Mother's Finest." It was harder to figure out who I was.
In other words, choose a name for yourself that the others wouldn't easily associate with you.
It really is a fun game that doesn't require a board, dice, drawing or clay-molding.
Okay, I think I got it now. It sounds like it would be a lot of fun.
We played Firday night and my team lost.
I hate it.
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