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 New Year's Party Games

Just Add Guests ^TM
 

The Game Girl can answer your questions now!
Or see the Complete Party Game Guide

Guess the Month

Ingredients

• Old Magazines

To Play

• 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 Gwynneth Paltrow win her best actress award?" Whoever guesses the most right wins a prize.

Charades of the Past

Ingredients

• Magazines

• Newspapers

To Play

• 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 guest’s team up in two's and act out whichever past year's event that they have randomly drawn.

Guess Whose Resolution

Ingredients

• Pieces of Paper

• Hat

• Scissors

To Play

• Cut out slips of paper.

• 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

Ingredients

• Miscellaneous Items

• Wrapping Paper

To Play

• 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.

Who Wins a Prize?

Ingredients

• Just Add Guests! ™

To Play

• 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.

Board Game Tournament

Ingredients

• Monopoly

• Scrabble

• Chutes & Ladders

• Candy Land

• LIFE

• Other Board Games

To Play

• About 20 to 25 folks attend and everyone participates in the various board games. (Usually about 4 or 5 different games). You get points based on where you finish, i.e. 4 points for 1st, 3 points for 2nd, etc.

• Once all the games are played, a king, or a queen is announced.

• Complete with pictures and the passing of the crown! It's absolutely a blast! I highly recommend this type of event for someone looking for something out of the ordinary.

Prizes

• Champagne or Wine

• Calendars

• Truffles or Fancy Chocolates

• Stationary

• Poker Chips