You should know by now that we love a bit of organised fun. From the best drinking games to house party games for adults, anything that involves forcing something competitive on our friends and family? We’re into it.
Which is where these dinner party games come in. Once you’ve got the eating out of the way (have we mentioned we love games?), turn your attention to something fun and silly. Whether you’re up for a 1920s themed murder mystery or a good old fashioned Post-It-on-the-head situation, we’ve got the dinner party game for you.
1. Great Minds Think Alike
Give every member of your party a chunk of Post-It notes. Take it in turns to ask a question, which everybody writes their answer to on one of the Post-Its. The aim of the game is to try and match your answer to other people in the group, a bit like the opposite of Pointless. Every time you get the same answer, you win a point, and the person with the most points at the end, wins. Questions can be anything from the celebrity you’d like to hang out with to the person in your group who sucks at karaoke – the more obscure, the better!
2. Categories
Each member of the party gets to pick a category, and then players take it in turns to name something that fits into that category around the table, working through the alphabet. For example, if someone says Animals, going around the table would go something like – Anteater, Bear, Cats, Dogs… until someone fails to think of one.
Another version of this game doesn’t follow the alphabet, but rather players must think of something that fits the category that starts with the last letter of the previous player’s word. Using the Animals example, this would go something like – Anteater, Rattlesnake, Elephant, Tadpole.
3. Who am I?
For some good old fashioned fun, all you’ll need is some sticky notes and a sharpie pen. Every player writes the name of a celebrity down on their sticky note, and sticks it on the person to their left’s head. Going around the table, each person gets to ask a ‘Yes or No’ question in a bid to guessing who is stuck on their head.
4. Make A Rule
Upon arrival at the dinner table, ask every member of the party to make a rule. This can be anything from ‘not using first names’ to ‘only drinking with your right hand’. Every time someone breaks a rule and gets called out, they have to do a forfeit. The trick is to make your rule hard, but not so hard people don’t actually do it. E.g. ‘don’t make eye contact’ or ‘no one can use cutlery’ sounds hilarious in theory, but will be scrapped within the first minute.
5. A good old fashioned quiz
Whether you’re celebrating someone’s birthday or the festive season is upon you, appoint a quiz master to come up with a good old fashioned quiz. Create ‘themed’ rounds so that everyone can feel involved – whether that means questions about people at your party, the year gone by or trivia based on shared memories. Side note: we are not responsible for any competitive outbursts.
6. The Voting Game
The Voting Game poses questions to your party, who are then given the chance to anonymously submit their answer. The sneaky bit? The questions will be about the other people at the table. Example questions include: Who will be the hardest to recognise in 10 years? Who would lose an election because of something they did in high school? Whose Google search history would you most like to see? This is bound to get the conversations started. Dhs102 on Amazon.