PARTY GAMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1932, Page 14

PARTY GAMES

NEW AND OLD. Here are some games which may help to make tho Christmas party go with a swing. . Each player requires pencil and paper. The items to be written out are as follow: (1) Title of book (real or imaginary); (2) Sub-titie; (3) author; (4) illustrator - } (5) preface by; (6) publisher; (7) criticism (with name of the paper it appears in); (8) another criticism. After each item has been written down, the papers are folded over the writing, and passed on. The results are read aloud. This time the items are as follow: a) Name of some advertised article; (2) a well-known slogan; (3) directions for use; (4) testimonial from a ■user; (5) signature of some celebrity. A game on somewhat similar lines. Each person writes 3i lines of a story and then turns back the paper, leaving only the last half-line exposed. He then passes it to his neighbour, who completes the half-line and writes 3J more lines. And so on. There is great scope for ingenuity in the phrasing of the exposed half-line. Ambiguity and false trails will lead to gloriously funny stories.

Divide into two equal teams and give everybody pencils and paper. Each team decides on a well-known quotation. Suppose Team A selects: Kind hearts' are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood, the A leader dictates this to the other team in this way: 4,6, 3,4, 4,8, comma, end of line, 3,6, 5,4, 6,5, full ttop, these figures corresponding to the number of letters in the words. Team B takes this down by mnking sets of dots on their papers," corresponding to the number. Team B then gives out its quotation in the same way. Each team then asks where one letter occurs. If, by a lucky shot, B asks for “n,” they can fill in three dots in the first line and four in the second. Capitals must be indicated, and probably from the clue N n someone will get the solution. The team which guesses the other’s quotation with the help of the fewest requests for letters scores.

The more the merrier, and all sit close together, with pencils and paper, No. 1, who should be able not only to draw, but to visualise a picture and to do it in disjointed fragments, makes a stroke on his (or her) paper. No. 2 copies this stroke; No. 3 copies No. 2’s, and so through the group. No. 1 makes other strokes on different parts of tho paper, to be copied as before, and continues until the picture (the subject of which is known only to No. 1) is complete. The final production will be found to differ very widely from

the original. If the sheets are numbered, the evolution of striking differences can be traced. Prepare a winding course among tables and chairs by marking it off on the floor with empty bottles. Players are paired off, the lady being blindfolded. By means of reins of ribbon tied to the lady’s arms, her partner guides his “steed” over the course, knocking down as few bottles as possible.

Make lines and hooks with a matchstalk, thread, and a bent pin, and then fish with these for boot-buttons placed in a saucer.