WET WEATHER GAMES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23692, 27 December 1938, Page 17

WET WEATHER GAMES

The rainier the weatlu. the greater the necessity for a jolly .game °rtwo to help you retain your ••heerful spirits. Here are some suggestions:— TEN OBSTACLES

An obstacle race for a party, peaceably arranged for a small house! This game is more fun if you race in couples, though it can be .-rranged to be played individually. The hostess prepares 10 obstacles. Each couple must be given r list or the things they are expected to do, ahd the first couple to overcome them all wins a prize—cigarettes for the men, chocolates for the jirl, perhaps. Here is a suggested list of obstacles. 1 Thread six needles with cotton (some with very small eyes, of course!) 2 Make a short sentence from a jumble of letters: "How slow you are might be the sentence. Each letter drawn on card and cu« out. 3 Cut out and make a hat from newspaper. (Supplying each pair with eight pins.) 4. Draw a cat on brown paper Willi white chalk. . . 5. Jump 10 tiddley-wmks into an egg--6.' Cut along the centre of a length of very narrow tape, with manicure scissors. 7. Peel a potato. 8. Eat a dry biscuit. 9. Find a hidden nut. 10. Make a list of seven well-known 5 Suppose there are 10 players; 10 rows of the samo obstacles are arranged. VACUUM This is a team game, the players sitting in two rows facing each other. Two leaders, one for each team, have a cup each, with half a dozen dried peas in it. All the players are provided with a cup and - straw each. The two rival players, next to the leaders, place their straws in the leaders' cups and try, by drawing their breath through the straws, to transfer a pea into their own cups! Having succeeded, the next player does the same, and so the peas travel from cup to cup until the last player has the six peas in his cup. The first team to do this wins. THE LEMON The men sit in one circle, the women in another. Then the host hands a lemon to one of the men, telling him to pass it on to the next man when the music strikes up, and so on down the row. A little bouquet of flowers is handed at the same time to one of the ladies, asking her to do likewise to her neighbour. A gramophone record is played while this is going on, and when it is abruptly stopped those persons holding the objects must keep them. It is fun to see how quickly the lemon travels and how reluctantly the bouquet 's passed from one to the other! A pleasant little surprise is in store for the men. however, as the host changes the lemon for a box of cigarettes* '

PYRAMID PATIENCE A quiet game for a change! A new kind of patience is on the market called pyramid patience. is a most usetul thing to have about at a parly. It is composed of three pegs and a number of squares, each one smaller than the next, with a hole in the middle so that they fit over a peg and form a pyramid. The game is to transfer the squares one by one to the third peg, without placing a large square on a smaller one. It -an be done, but it requires patience!—Women's Weekly.