I chose Mafia/Werewolf despite not liking Mafia/Werewolf much, but with a little interpolation I’d go with Coup or Deception: MiHK making that the best choice on the list.
Wotzit. Or mau. Or any of the other names I’ve heard. It is a “card” game, usually. Every round, the winner changes or adds one rule, but doesn’t tell the other players. We had a running game for 2 years that had players running round the block if they said tangerine, trying juggle if the didn’t wolf whistle after the Queen of Hearts was played, shoved a closet for the rest of the round if they asked if it was their turn when it was not, and countless other rules. Good fun if you have an imaginative group.
Just played a new one, I think it’s called “What do you Meme?” It’s like CAH but the cards you play off of are meme photos and you play captions for them. It’s a lot of fun.
I don’t know if it qualifies as a party game, but whenever we have a family party we play Ticket to Ride. Like hours and hours of it. Followed by much yelling while playing Pit.
@mvalleeis Catan is 4 player, 6 with expansion. I like all those you mentioned. Dixit also takes a lot of players and is a very atypical game. There’s another boxed party game called Scruples and one called Inkblots we used to play a lot. We used to play a game called Murder in the Dark. You get a number of cards equal to players, one Ace of Spades, one Suicide King, the others numbers. Shuffle and deal. The Ace is the detective, they leave the room. Turn off the lights, the King murders someone (or more than one) by touching the back of their neck. That person screams and falls/lies/slumps down. Survivors flee, the killer tries to blend in in the seconds it takes for the detective to burst in and turn on the lights. The detective examines the scene, questions witnesses, and guesses who is the killer. There’s not a lot of win or lose, it’s just fun.
@TheCO2 It depends on which team you play the game. Each team gets to take a shot when they win a round. The Home Team gets a shot of Kentucky whiskey, the French Team gets Bourbon, the Russian team gets vodka. Losers get covfefe. The Afghan team always gets the negative press covfefe, because they never win.
When my family gets together (up to 15), those who like games play marathon sessions of Cribbage, Skipbo, Sequence, and Candy Land. There might be a few other games thrown in on occasion. The non-game-players (2) groan at us.
@sammydog01 I have a soft spot for Fluxx but I think I’ve been playing it for upward of ten years now, and I’m both a bit burned out on it and generally into thinkier games these days. So I never bothered to replace my copy when it drank a bit too much rum. Math Fluxx looks really interesting to me because of the different ways you can use the numbers to meet the goal - but I haven’t yet determined if this is really more substance or gimmick.
@sammydog01 Been playing various Fluxx decks for many years. It’s a great “waiting for the last player to arrive” time killer. I got the Fluxx board game for XMas, it’s a fresh twist on the theme.
I prefer the Beat the Crap Out of Anyone Suggesting Stupid Games game. Even my elderly relatives love that one, as long as they can use their canes and walkers as tools.
i picked CAH because i have enjoyed playing that a time or two at parties. but generally speaking, if i arrive to a party and someone says ‘okay, time for party games!’ or anything remotely similar i am straight up leaving.
i do remember my mom’s side of the family playing scategories on occasion when i was little and my gramma was still around and how fun that was. i always picked my dad to be on my team because he always won. (i don’t think i contributed much of anything.) and one time my mom got mad because it was ‘things in a purse’ and the letter was C and my dad wrote ‘condom.’ didn’t have a clue what that meant but i loved that it made my mom mad and everyone else laugh like crazy.
There’s so many board games, there’s so many different different titles. You know what I mean? Sometimes I feel they could have the same title - which one of my friends is a competitive asshole? Tonight we played ‘Steve’.
Cards Against Humanity is the obvious winner for me, but Joking Hazard is definitely in the running.
That is only if you stipulate that it has to be of the specific genre of party games. If you open it up to board games in general Battlestar Galactica and Chaos in the Old World are near the top of the list.
I find that “Cards Against Humanity” can be fun with the right set of people. However, my family seems to eschew clever answers and deems the answer that makes the least sense as the “best” (funniest).
Since I don’t really care about who wins or lose, that would be okay, but this causes everyone just to play the dumbest answer possible, so rarely do I even get to hear an answer that I find remotely humorous.
"The downfall of western civilization can be attributed to _____" Hot potato.
Maybe that is just hilarious. If you are in a roomful of 6 people and you are the only one that doesn’t find it funny, it is probably you, but I stubbornly refuse to accept that in this case.
It’s a matter of mood and attitude perhaps? Some groups just work best is an “absurd humor” mode, while other groups work better with more conventional wit?
I tend to switch all around with this stuff; humor is a place of infinite variety.
@DrWorm ah yes, the ‘mad libs’ crowd. i’ll still take that over the ‘i can and will make absolutely EVERYTHING sexual, even if it makes no sense, because that’s hilarious and edgy! please love me!’ types.
@f00l When my Grandma was still alive we use to play a card game called “Oh Hell” but in my grandmas case it turned to “Oh Shit”. Haven’t played it since but it was fun. I think the rules are still searchable. But I no longer go to parties either.
jackbox.tv has some okay ‘party’ games that i play with streamers on twitch sometimes. my favorite is the horror trivia game. (takes place in a ‘scary’ house you have to escape without being killed, not trivia on the subject of horror.)
Covfefe. It’s the latest rage. In fact I’m playing right now!
EDIT: I apologize for this post and hope that I will be forgiven by the mehunity. It’s just that I don’t get to participate in much social media banter and I really don’t have any strong thoughts for or against political tweets. Okay, I don’t have a twitter account. I don’t “tweet” Geez, I’m a total social media loser.
Anyway, a game called Covfefe could be a blast. Just sayin’
I recently got a game called Saboteur that was pretty fun. The last round we played we figured out who all the saboteurs were, but they’d positioned themselves so strongly it was still impossible to beat them, even when we thought we’d figured out a way.
So this game doesn’t have a name but basically, you make teams and the goal is to move as many blueberries as you can in 5 minutes using only your feet. then 3 judges score on the following categories: most intact, most berries, and the least amount of mess on the floor. The blueberries have to be a little old but not so old that they instantly squish between your tows.
Quarters!!!
@Mehrocco_Mole like bloody knuckles quarters?? Hell Yeah!
Pin the tail on the donkey
I chose Mafia/Werewolf despite not liking Mafia/Werewolf much, but with a little interpolation I’d go with Coup or Deception: MiHK making that the best choice on the list.
/giphy Naked Twister
Wotzit. Or mau. Or any of the other names I’ve heard. It is a “card” game, usually. Every round, the winner changes or adds one rule, but doesn’t tell the other players. We had a running game for 2 years that had players running round the block if they said tangerine, trying juggle if the didn’t wolf whistle after the Queen of Hearts was played, shoved a closet for the rest of the round if they asked if it was their turn when it was not, and countless other rules. Good fun if you have an imaginative group.
@simplersimon how does the new rule get enforced if no one knows what it is?
@tightwad the rule’s creator tells people what the punishment is when they set it off, but doesn’t explain what caused them to be punished.
1000 blank white cards.
I loathe party games. Especially bridal and baby shower games.
Just played a new one, I think it’s called “What do you Meme?” It’s like CAH but the cards you play off of are meme photos and you play captions for them. It’s a lot of fun.
Exploding Kittens! 2 decks strong.
@reddinghill I have 2 expansions with the original deck.
@PocketBrain @reddinghill I can’t wait for bears vs babies
@PocketBrain Is there more than the “Dirty” deck and the “Clean” deck? Also, I have never used Google.
@reddinghill There’s at least one expansion, ‘Imploding Kittens’.
@reddinghill
Clean deck, dirty deck, expansion pack.
@PocketBrain Links:
Exploding Kittens.
Exploding Kittens, NSFW edition.
Imploding Kittens, the first expansion pack for Exploding Kittens.
I don’t know if it qualifies as a party game, but whenever we have a family party we play Ticket to Ride. Like hours and hours of it. Followed by much yelling while playing Pit.
@Club33NOS I’ve forgotten about Pit! We have it and when we use to play it was a lot of fun!
@Club33NOS two great games…except TTR is only 5 player.
@Club33NOS Pit the character in Super Smash Bros. Mele? Because I love me some SSB.
Code Names, Organ Attack, Evolution, Catan, Scrabble, Resistance/Coup, and others like those.
@mvalleeis Organ Attack is usually the game Taco Bell plays with my body…
@mvalleeis Catan is 4 player, 6 with expansion. I like all those you mentioned. Dixit also takes a lot of players and is a very atypical game. There’s another boxed party game called Scruples and one called Inkblots we used to play a lot. We used to play a game called Murder in the Dark. You get a number of cards equal to players, one Ace of Spades, one Suicide King, the others numbers. Shuffle and deal. The Ace is the detective, they leave the room. Turn off the lights, the King murders someone (or more than one) by touching the back of their neck. That person screams and falls/lies/slumps down. Survivors flee, the killer tries to blend in in the seconds it takes for the detective to burst in and turn on the lights. The detective examines the scene, questions witnesses, and guesses who is the killer. There’s not a lot of win or lose, it’s just fun.
I must go to the wrong parties.
How is Beer Pong not on this list?
@2many2no clearly you go to the wrong parties
@2many2no there would have to be a whole separate poll for ‘favorite drinking game’ imho. in which i would pick either kings or never have i ever.
@2many2no I thought drinking games and party games were the same thing. Apparently I’m just an alcoholic.
@RuralNinja
/image yeah baby
Staying at home.
Strip Yahtzee!
Right, Left, Center
Covfefe
@TheCO2 That can be okay if you use genuine French Press covfefe as the base, but that Negative Press covfefe leaves a bitter aftertaste.
@rockblossom It seems to have some Russian undertones, with a hint of Afghan, for the wealthy.
@TheCO2 It depends on which team you play the game. Each team gets to take a shot when they win a round. The Home Team gets a shot of Kentucky whiskey, the French Team gets Bourbon, the Russian team gets vodka. Losers get covfefe. The Afghan team always gets the negative press covfefe, because they never win.
@TheCO2
Magic the gathering.
Spinners and Jason Anarchy games.
When my family gets together (up to 15), those who like games play marathon sessions of Cribbage, Skipbo, Sequence, and Candy Land. There might be a few other games thrown in on occasion. The non-game-players (2) groan at us.
@mollama i love skip-bo. i could (and have) play(ed) that for hours. also spent many a morning with my grampa when i was very small playing gin rummy.
We have been playing varieties of Fluxx.
@sammydog01 Have you tried Math Fluxx yet?
@brhfl I haven’t yet. Sounds like too much thinking. I prefer the Holy Grail version where I get extra points for singing “Sit On My Face”.
@sammydog01
I have a soft spot for Fluxx but I think I’ve been playing it for upward of ten years now, and I’m both a bit burned out on it and generally into thinkier games these days. So I never bothered to replace my copy when it drank a bit too much rum. Math Fluxx looks really interesting to me because of the different ways you can use the numbers to meet the goal - but I haven’t yet determined if this is really more substance or gimmick.
@sammydog01 Been playing various Fluxx decks for many years. It’s a great “waiting for the last player to arrive” time killer. I got the Fluxx board game for XMas, it’s a fresh twist on the theme.
I voted for Werewolf, but really our favorite is Munchkin. “Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment”, anyone?
I prefer the Beat the Crap Out of Anyone Suggesting Stupid Games game. Even my elderly relatives love that one, as long as they can use their canes and walkers as tools.
i picked CAH because i have enjoyed playing that a time or two at parties. but generally speaking, if i arrive to a party and someone says ‘okay, time for party games!’ or anything remotely similar i am straight up leaving.
i do remember my mom’s side of the family playing scategories on occasion when i was little and my gramma was still around and how fun that was. i always picked my dad to be on my team because he always won. (i don’t think i contributed much of anything.) and one time my mom got mad because it was ‘things in a purse’ and the letter was C and my dad wrote ‘condom.’ didn’t have a clue what that meant but i loved that it made my mom mad and everyone else laugh like crazy.
@jerk_nugget I love scattergories too! Fun!
-Demetri Martin
@DrWorm That is NOT okee dokee!
@DrWorm All of my friends are competitive assholes, as am I. We’re a pack of alphas. So it all balances out.
Cards Against Humanity is the obvious winner for me, but Joking Hazard is definitely in the running.
That is only if you stipulate that it has to be of the specific genre of party games. If you open it up to board games in general Battlestar Galactica and Chaos in the Old World are near the top of the list.
I find that “Cards Against Humanity” can be fun with the right set of people. However, my family seems to eschew clever answers and deems the answer that makes the least sense as the “best” (funniest).
Since I don’t really care about who wins or lose, that would be okay, but this causes everyone just to play the dumbest answer possible, so rarely do I even get to hear an answer that I find remotely humorous.
"The downfall of western civilization can be attributed to _____"
Hot potato.
Maybe that is just hilarious. If you are in a roomful of 6 people and you are the only one that doesn’t find it funny, it is probably you, but I stubbornly refuse to accept that in this case.
@DrWorm
It’s a matter of mood and attitude perhaps? Some groups just work best is an “absurd humor” mode, while other groups work better with more conventional wit?
I tend to switch all around with this stuff; humor is a place of infinite variety.
@DrWorm ah yes, the ‘mad libs’ crowd. i’ll still take that over the ‘i can and will make absolutely EVERYTHING sexual, even if it makes no sense, because that’s hilarious and edgy! please love me!’ types.
@DrWorm Shuffle the decks of CAH & Apples to Apples mixed together.
I know we are all just a bunch of closet first-graders.
52 Pick Up!
I am very rarely at a party, let alone a party with party games.
But when I am with family, I usually play along.
My family rarely plays games, but when we do, we just use the game as a starting point to riff, joke, and tease on every possible topic and then some.
@f00l When my Grandma was still alive we use to play a card game called “Oh Hell” but in my grandmas case it turned to “Oh Shit”. Haven’t played it since but it was fun. I think the rules are still searchable. But I no longer go to parties either.
BEARS VS BABIES!
jackbox.tv has some okay ‘party’ games that i play with streamers on twitch sometimes. my favorite is the horror trivia game. (takes place in a ‘scary’ house you have to escape without being killed, not trivia on the subject of horror.)
LAN party.
@Al_Coholic Worms Armageddon on LAN party. That’s the shiz
Covfefe. It’s the latest rage. In fact I’m playing right now!
EDIT: I apologize for this post and hope that I will be forgiven by the mehunity. It’s just that I don’t get to participate in much social media banter and I really don’t have any strong thoughts for or against political tweets. Okay, I don’t have a twitter account. I don’t “tweet” Geez, I’m a total social media loser.
Anyway, a game called Covfefe could be a blast. Just sayin’
@accelerator
Not using twitter might just make you a superior being.
Just sayin’.
@accelerator Yay for a fellow non-twit-er.
Best game? The Great Dalmuti
@tightwad I wouldn’t call it the best game or a party game, but it’s a good game.
True American!!
Heads up!
I recently got a game called Saboteur that was pretty fun. The last round we played we figured out who all the saboteurs were, but they’d positioned themselves so strongly it was still impossible to beat them, even when we thought we’d figured out a way.
So this game doesn’t have a name but basically, you make teams and the goal is to move as many blueberries as you can in 5 minutes using only your feet. then 3 judges score on the following categories: most intact, most berries, and the least amount of mess on the floor. The blueberries have to be a little old but not so old that they instantly squish between your tows.
Wizard Sticks (also called Wizard Staff.) Everyone needs to play it at least once.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_Staff
i don’t like party games, i prefer drink and chat
Find my clothes is a great party game.