TO FILL THOSE IDLE MOMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 159, 6 July 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

TO FILL THOSE IDLE MOMENTS

TWO GAMES FOR A PARTY

CAN YOU RECOGNISE YOUR FRIENDS? This is how you play the game: All the guests .except five or six sit down i|i a- row ip front drawn curtains and are given paper and pencils, The remaining five or six go behind the curtains and in turn they put through the opening a hand. The people in the room then guess and write dqwn whom t[iej' thjnk the liapd belongs to. If you want to play it again, you can show a nose or shoe or chin or any other suitable P9?l of the body. If you have ijo convenient cijrtftins in the room, the five or six people can go out of the room instead and show the hand, or otlier part of the body, round the edge of the doqr. A sip?»ll prize may bp given to the person who the most correctly, or you can play the gam® in sides." You may'thinjc

you knpw your friends very well until you play this game. r •• r • Blowing Out the Candle. This ie a game which wae played first in Elizabeth's time. One person is blindfolded and then «- _

the lighted candle is pet down op a table. The blindfold persqij iis then tumod round several tjineg and ics told to blqw put the candle. Usually they will start blowing in quite tfye wrong direction, greatly to the amusement of everyone eke. - »_