Make Your Own Mad Libs

By NanoGirl on 6/19/09 5:39pm
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Fun by all!Fun by all!This is a fun thing to do when you are bored with a group of friends or even on a road trip.  Take any story, for instance write down a simple story about your last camping trip, what you did for Halloween last year or even use a nursery rhyme or fable:


 


_____________________ and the Three Bears


(Name)


 

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Basic Rules to Blackjack – Don’t play if you don’t know how!

By NanoGirl on 6/10/09 9:19am
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2121I get so tired of going out to the casino and sitting down to play a good round of blackjack when a fly by (someone who is not intending to stay and play, they just bet a round or two, which throws the whole table off) or a person with no clue how to play.

If you are going to play Blackjack, learn the basic rules.  First off you are always playing against the dealer, not against anyone at your table, in fact you want to help and support the people at your table, because one great move or one bad move can win or ruin the whole hand for everyone. 

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Hand and Foot

By NanoGirl on 6/9/09 10:28pm
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This is a great card game, especially for family (we play it whenever family is visiting or on the holidays). In our family it has been passed down from generation to generation.  My grandma was taught this card game in England and her relatives in Australia also play it.  Each family seems to change the rules slightly, but here are the rules and the way the game is played from what I know.

The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible and go out, leaving your opponent in their FOOT, stuck with negative points.  The person with the highest amount of points by the end of round 4 wins.

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Battleship for Long Distance Relationships

By NanoGirl on 6/8/09 6:53pm
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BattleshipBattleshipSince my boyfriend is in the military and has been stationed all over the US, a way for us to feel close together is to have our own little game that we play, Battleship.  We bought one game, but we each have our own “game board” or “console” or “battle ship container” or “blue box will all the white and re

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Balderdash

By NanoGirl on 6/8/09 6:23pm
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BalderdashBalderdashI must say that this is one of my all time favorite party games, ever!  Balderdash is the “classic bluffing game” and who doesn’t love to bluff on occasion?!  I remember playing this game with my siblings and my oldest brother’s answers would always make me crack up so hard &ndash

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Free Party Games, Part 2: Scavenger Hunt

By sarajean on 6/7/09 9:45pm
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Yet another no-cost (or little cost; you’ll need paper, and a printer if you your writing skills resemble a second grader’s) game that everyone’s sure to have fun with is a scavenger hunt. Sure, you could go with the normal scavenger hunt, with a list of things people have to find (remote control, pine cone, tube of Preparation H). You could even give it a twist by making it into a grid where people can “bingo” their finds to win.

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Ziploc Ice Cream

By lisala on 5/31/09 10:13pm
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It's summer time, it's hot, and you've got to entertain the troops kids. Making ice cream in a ZiplocTM bag is fun and Ice cream in a disheasy. I used make ice cream this way fairly often when I lived in a graduate dorm and didn't have a freezer. Later I discovered I could tame the ravenous hordes entertain little kids by making ice cream as a group activity at kid's parties.

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Free Party Games, Part 1: Who Am I?

By sarajean on 5/23/09 8:41am
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Who Am I?Who Am I?Not everyone has the money to fork out for the various games-in-a-box on the market. When you’re planning a party, there’s food, music, booze, vomit cleaner, and loads of other things to pay for—why spend more money on games?

Not to mention, people tend to forget “the seventeenth time we played Scene It at Dave’s house.” By offering a unique game that your friends have never heard of, you’re more likely to create lasting memories (at least for the ones who are sober). You may even end up at so-and-so’s house sometime and find that nobody wants to play the Jenga she’s got on the table; they want to play one of the games they learned at your party!

Here is a fun, basically free game you can play (it does require things you have on hand at home).

Who Am I?

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Strip Apples to Apples TRULY "The Game of Hilarious Comparisons!"

By colormejosh on 4/27/09 8:55am
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Apples to Apples

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Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

By roskopp on 4/2/09 2:13am
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The Board GameThe remake of Battlestar Galactica has proven to be one of the most popular sci-fi shows on television and it has attracted a huge audience. Much of the draw surrounds the mystery over who the hidden cylons amongst the humans actually are. If you’ve ever wished you could be a part of the action then you might want to check out Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. It recreates some of the subterfuge and action of the show and is a lot of fun.

This is an engrossing game with a choice of 10 characters. The action is set during the first series so the aim is for the humans to reach Kobol. In order to do this they need to make a series of FTL jumps and they have to pass eight worlds before they can reach their target. Each player is dealt a loyalty card at the beginning of the game and it tells them whether they are really human or are in fact a cylon agent. Another set of cards is dealt out again at the halfway stage.

If you are human the object is to protect the Galactica and reach Kobol.

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