21 games
No equipment
Nothing to find and nothing to set up. Just the people in the room.
- Wordplay · from India
Antakshari
best bit: a whole team stuck on the letter Z, humming desperately
Sing a few lines of a song. The other team's song has to start with the letter yours ended on.
- Outsmart · from Korea
Baskin Robbins 31
best bit: realizing three turns too late that you were already doomed
Count up from 1 together, saying one to three numbers each turn. Whoever has to say 31 loses.
- Wordplay
Botticelli
best bit: stumping the know-it-all with a clue they can't name
Someone picks a famous person. Stump them with clues to earn yes-or-no questions, then guess who they are.
- Draw & act
Charades
best bit: your quietest friend miming “Jaws” with total commitment
Act out a movie, book or song without saying a word while your team shouts guesses before time runs out.
- Wordplay
Concentration
best bit: blanking on a single fruit while everyone keeps clapping at you
Keep a clapping rhythm going around the circle. Name something in the category on the beat, or you're out.
- Wordplay
Contact
best bit: two friends yell the same word and the keeper groans
One player knows a secret word. Everyone else trades clues to pry out its letters until someone guesses it.
- Wordplay
Ghost
best bit: cornering a friend so they have to say the final letter
Take turns adding one letter to a growing word. Whoever is forced to finish a real word loses the round.
- Crack the rule
Green Glass Door
best bit: finally getting it, then refusing to explain it to anyone else
You can bring a kitten through the green glass door, but not a cat. Work out the secret rule by guessing.
- Get to know you
Hot Seat
best bit: the question that gets a much longer pause than expected
One person sits in the hot seat while everyone fires questions at them for two minutes. Then swap.
- Social deception
Mafia
best bit: finding out your sweetest friend was the killer all along
A few players are secretly the Mafia. Each night they take someone out; each day the town votes on a suspect.
- Get to know you
Most Likely To
best bit: the whole room pointing at you at once
Someone asks who's most likely to do something. On three, everyone points at the person they pick.
- Fast hands
Ninja
best bit: freezing in a ridiculous lunge, inches from someone's fingers
Strike a pose, then take turns making one swift move to slap someone's hand. Lose both hands and you're out.
- Get to know you
Paranoia
best bit: hearing your name and having no idea what the question was
Answer a whispered question with someone's name, out loud. A coin flip decides if the question gets revealed.
- Crack the rule
Psychiatrist
best bit: realizing everyone's been answering as the person on their left
The group secretly agrees on a rule for answering questions. One player has to work out what it is.
- Social deception
Sardines
best bit: six grown adults silently wedged into one coat closet
One person hides and everyone else searches. When you find them, you squeeze into the hiding spot too.
- Wordplay
Song Association
best bit: belting a lyric you didn't know you remembered
Someone calls out a word. You have five seconds to start singing a real song that has it in the lyrics.
- Wordplay
Twenty Questions
best bit: nailing it on question twenty with a total wild guess
One person thinks of something. Everyone else gets twenty yes-or-no questions to work out what it is.
- Get to know you
Two Truths and a Lie
best bit: learning the unbelievable one was true the whole time
Tell everyone three things about yourself, one of them made up. They grill you, then vote on which is the lie.
- Social deception
Up Jenkins
best bit: a row of perfectly innocent faces, one of them lying
One team hides a coin under their hands. The other clears hands away one by one, saving the coin for last.
- Social deception
Wink Murder
best bit: your friend dying very slowly and very loudly mid-sentence
One secret killer takes people out with a wink. Everyone else tries to catch them before they're next.
- Social deception · from Japan
Word Wolf
best bit: realizing halfway through that you're the wolf
Everyone gets the same secret word, except one player who doesn't know their word is different. Find them.