Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
This is a capital game for a large party, for it is both instructive and amusing. One player is selected who has to guess what word or sentence the remainder of the company has chosen. He goes out of...
View ArticleActing Rhymes
For this game, half the players go outside the door, whilst those who stay in the room choose a word of one syllable, which should not be too difficult. For instance, suppose the word chosen be...
View ArticleThe Cook Who Doesn’t Like Peas
One of the players commences the game by saying to his neighbor, “I have a cook who doesn’t like peas (p’s); what will you give her for dinner?” The person addressed must avoid the letter P in his...
View ArticleBirds, Fruits, and Flowers
In this game every one in the company has to describe in a riddle, First a bird, then a fruit, and finally a flower. The others must guess. Whoever guesses the most is the winner of the game. Here are...
View ArticleCities
Materials required – As many sheets of paper and pencils as there are players. The players seat themselves round a table, and each one is provided with a sheet of paper and a pencil. The hostess then...
View ArticleGuessing Groceries
Into bits of muslin should be tied samples of groceries-tea, coffee, starch, rice. beans, spices, etc. The player: are allowed one guess for each sample, depending entirely upon the sense of feeling,...
View ArticleHow? When? Where?
One of the players goes out of the room and the players decide upon an object. Let us suppose that the word chosen is chest. The word being agreed upon, the other player is called in. The game is for...
View ArticleI Love My Love with an “A”
To play this game it is best for the players to arrange themselves in a half-circle round the room. Then one begins: “I love my love with an “A,” because she is affectionate; I hate her with an “A,”...
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One of the players is asked to go outside whilst the company think of some person in the room, and on his return he has to guess of whom the company has thought. The players then arrange themselves in...
View ArticleThe “Mimic” Club
This is a game which causes much amusement to a company of children, and even grown-ups may join in. All the players, with the exception of two, leave the room. One of the outside party is then called...
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