The Name Game (other folk may have different names)
Everyone gets some paper slips and writes names on them. These can be anyone, celebrities, sport stars, teachers at your kids school, someone you were friends with in the 80’s, your mate’s fit mum, anything. As long as it’s a person (or animal or cartoon character…. it’s a fair choice)
All the names are shuffled / mixed in a hat, and then in teams of 3 or 4 usually you take 30-60s (keep it moving fast) to pull a name out and:
Round One – describe them; as soon as it’s guessed pull another and keep going
eg: Wizard with a scar, went to Hogwarts
– usual rules, no sounds like, etc., but OK to do eg: first name same as Secombe, second name a man that makes things out of clay….
Once all the round one names are done, (including the “impossible” ones because it’s only you and your mate that know the name of Luke’s fit mum) all the names go back in for R2. If you’ve been paying attention you now know what’s in there which makes it a bit easier…..
Round 2 – mime them
easy enough to mime a spell being cast, less easy to mime Luke’s fit mum…….in front of your granny.
same again, once all done then back in for R3
Round Three
One word. Would you go with Wizard (maybe Merlin or Gandalf’s also in there….) or Scar (maybe Simba’s in there, or Al Pacino…)
Sounds dull written down but I’ve seen families in tears of laughter playing it..