Guess the Month: Go through old magazines from the past year, or to
your local library (this is fun research though) to search through old
news articles. Find many events that took place in the past year. Make a
list of these events, and have your guests guess which month the event
took place in. For example- "During what month did Hillary Swank
win her best actress award"? Whoever guesses the most right wins a
prize.
Charades of the Past:
Go through magazines and newspapers to pick out events from the past
year. Use these events as "titles" to act out for Charades or
"Win, Lose or Draw". For tons of fun, make each of your guests
team up in two’s and act out whichever past year’s event that they
have randomly drawn.
Guess Whose
Resolution: Make each of your guests write down 5 resolutions, each
on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a hat at a time
and read it out loud. Everyone has to write down who they think made
each resolution. At the end of the readings, the person who guessed the
most correctly wins a prize. Read some of the wrong guesses out loud for
fun!
Find Your Prediction:
Make up some phony generic predictions like, "In the New Year you
will shave your head", and attach it to a corresponding item (a
wig). Hide predictions with their corresponding items. Tell guests that
predictions are hidden around the room with corresponding wrapped items,
and that they each need to find one, read it aloud to the group, and
open it (these make nice funny favors too).
"Can't
Say:" This is a game that is patterned after the game
"Taboo." Before the guests arrive write down the name of a
person who was big in the news in the past year on each index card. On
the back of the card (or somewhere on the front of the card) write down
four words that the person who chooses the card cannot use to describe
the name on the card to the other guests. Split into two teams. The
other guests have one minute to figure out what the name is without the
"chooser" of the word using any of the four words that are not
allowed. If the "chooser's" team cannot guess the name then
the other team gets one chance to guess the correct name. The team who
guesses the most names correctly is the winner. For example: The name is
"Al Gore". The four words that cannot be used to describe him
are vice-president (ok, so that's 2 words), Tipper, Democrat, and
election. So the "chooser" could tell the team that "he
was in a monumental court battle this last year, he is close with Bill
Clinton, he works in politics, etc.".
"New Year's Eve
Word Mix:" Everyone is given a word that has to do with New
Year's Eve (everyone uses the same word) and make as many other words as
they can in 5 minutes using only the letters in the original word.
Repeating a letter is not allowed unless it is repeated in the original
word and proper nouns do not count as words. The guest who writes down
the most original words is the winner.
"Guess Which
Guest:" Before the party, write down a statement about each guest
from the last year. For example, you could write, "Gave birth to
twins." "The name of the person______________". "The
names of the twins_________________ and __________________". Or a
statement like, "Wore the same outfit every day for 2 weeks".
"The name of the person_________________". "A description
of the outfit __________________". Put all of the statements
together on one piece of paper, and give each guest a copy. Have all of
your guests mingle, and ask each other questions to determine whose name
belongs with each statement. Whoever has the most names filled in
correctly after about
10-15 minutes wins.
Who Wins a Prize?:
Every 10 minutes or so (or longer, depending on how long the party is
supposed to last) call out a question that relates to guests at the
party, such as "Who’s the youngest here?" "Who brought
the best food?" "Who said the last word?" "Who
laughs the loudest?" "Who’s sitting next to the
hostess?" and so on. Award a prize each time you call out a random
question. Soon lots of people will have prizes- and they won’t have to
stay for the entire party, or worry about missing all of the games
because they are party hopping.
True or False: Write the
names of each guest at the party on a piece of paper. Next to each name write
several different statements that can be true or false. Give each person the
paper about an hour into the evening. Next to each statement each guest must
either write "true" or "false". The person who answers the
most statements correctly wins a prize. When everyone has handed in their
papers, tally up the true and false votes too. It's pretty funny to see what
others think is true. |