Chopsticks is a fun game that you can play with friends with only your hands! There are many variations of Chopsticks, but this is how my friends and I play. This post will teach you how to play, and suggest a few variations for the game. How to Play Suggested # of Players: 2+ 1) Everyone starts off with both their pointer fingers. The goal is to eliminate your opponent before they eliminate you. You are eliminated once both of your hands are out. 2) Each turn, a player may either...
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Ever since its release in 2016 from a Kickstarter, Secret Hitler has been a very popular game, especially for fans of deception-based board games like Mafia, Werewolf, or The Resistance. Secret Hitler takes you back to the Reichstag in Germany, 1933, right before Hitler comes to power, but you don't need to know any history for this game except that it is a battle between the Liberals and Fascists over power. The Fascists are the informed minority while the Liberals the uninformed majority. This post, I will briefly explain how to play the game and how I printed out their printable version online with a few additions of mine. All rights go to their respectful owners, I do not own this game. How to play Suggested # of people: 5 - 10 1) Everyone is assigned a role
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Do It Yourself at home 1) First, go to their website here to print out the templates or scroll to the bottom of this post for the PDF. 2) Follow page instructions and cut out each part. There should be ...
Suggestions As you can see, I made a few additions to the original Print and Play version. Please reference the images above for the descriptions below.
Very Helpful Links Great Youtube tutorial for Secret Hitler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbGXIDYdtas Game play example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CuIO4y4Vs Playing Secret Hitler online for free: https://secrethitler.io/observe Official Rules: http://secrethitler.com/assets/Secret_Hitler_Rules.pdf Print and Play, and Rules
The bottle flipping craze of 2016-17 where individuals try to flick a bottle into the air and have it land successfully upright was a fun past time for many. The bottle flip challenge requires plenty of skill, and many have tried to master this special toss. While Bowling with friends, I put two and two together and combined the Bottle Flip Challenge with Bowling. I'm proud to bring you Bottle Flip Bowling! Enjoy. How to PlaySuggested # of Players: 2-4 1) Find a plastic water bottle with some water left and a flat surface. A 1/3 filled bottle of water is recommended for beginners. 2) Scoring: Each bowling frame, you try to successfully land a bottle flip. There are 10 frames in bowling, with a bonus shot in the last frame if you get a Strike ("X") or Spare ("/").
3 Frame Game Example 3) Write the results of your frame onto a piece of paper. I included a suggested template at the end of this blog post that you can draw yourself or print. 4) Play! The player with the highest score wins. It is very easy to set up, so play time is usually around 5-10 minutes between 2 players. Speed Game A quicker version can be played with 3 or 5 frames. Game play is the same as normal Bottle Flip Bowling, but the last frame is like the 10th frame. Very Helpful LinksHow to do scoring in Bowling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rb_Bhvh8k4 Scoring calculator for Bowling: http://www.bowlinggenius.com/ How to do Bottle Flips (Presented by Dude Perfect): https://youtu.be/P8V_bx0L4RY?t=1m45s Bowling Score Sheet Template
Image Credit Just like my Deal or No Deal post, I found a way to do the same for Wheel of Fortune. This TV game show is a classic and I hope for this post to delight fans of the show. How to PlaySuggested # of Players: 2-6 1) Get a pencil, paper, and standard deck of cards. Feel free to substitute any of these materials if you can't find them. 2) Assign one person to be the host of the round and have everyone else be the contestants. The roles will rotate counterclockwise every round. 3) The host thinks of a phrase and tells the contestants the category, much like the rules of Hangman. On the paper, the host will underline a place for each letter of their phrase and separate words of their phrase with a space. For Example: Host thinks - "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" Host says - "The category is common sayings." Host writes - "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ " 4) Shuffle the cards and assign point values to the card values. The 13 point system works the best where Ace is 1 point and King is 13 points. If you have jokers, they will act as the Bankrupt tile. Display the cards face down on the table in front of the contestants. This will be the "Wheel." 5) Play follows the Wheel of Fortune rules.
Another example game. Image Credit 6) Scoring for the host. The host will get the number of letters in their phrase added to their score. If their phrase was, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," the host will get 29 points for 29 letters. 7) The game ends when everyone has been the host if you are playing in a group larger than 4. Otherwise, 3-4 rounds is suggested. The winner is the person with the most points! StrategyWhile it may seem advantageous for the host to make the longest word possible, it also means more points for the contestants if they can correctly guess the letters in the phrase. Image Credit Alright, this week's post is going back to card games! I included this game because of how easily it can be set up anywhere. Spoons can get very competitive, I speak from experience, but it also adds fun and excitement to any meet up. Just remember not to flip any tables (that's another story). Below is the way we play Spoons where everyone gets only one life. The original version gives everyone 6 lives by spelling out S P O O N S. Once they spelled it, they are eliminated. How to PlaySuggested # of Players: 2-10 Set Up 1) Everyone gathers around a table or in a circle. 2) Get one less spoon than the total number of people playing and a deck of cards. For example, if you have 5 people, you would use 4 spoons. Place the spoons in the middle where everyone can reach them. 3) Deal out 4 cards to everyone and leave the rest of the deck next to a designated starting player. Each Round
The goal is to get 4 of a kind of any card. Once someone has 4 of a kind, they and everyone can allowed to grab a spoon. Similar to musical chairs*, you move on to the next round if you have a spoon. Otherwise, you are eliminated. If anyone grabs a spoon before someone gets a 4 of a kind, they are eliminated. The game ends when there is one person left. Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons *Musical Chairs - a party game in which players compete for a decreasing number of chairs, the losers in successive rounds being those unable to find a chair to sit on when the accompanying music is abruptly stopped. (Google Search)
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