Free Party Games, Part 1: 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?

You’ll need some tape, scraps of paper and some pens. Give each person a scrap of paper and pen, and tell everyone they need to pick someone famous to write down on their piece of paper. It can be someone living or dead, fake or real (Scooby Doo, Bill Clinton). Just make sure that they keep it a secret. Then, collect all of the scraps and put them in a bowl.

Approach each person and, using your tape, attach one piece of paper, writing-side up, on his or her forehead. Be sure that he or she cannot see it!

After everyone has their new “identity,” sit in a circle. Going around the circle, each person gets to ask one question on his or her turn and try to guess who he or she is. Keep going around the circle until everyone has been able to guess who they are—this may take several turns!

Some questions people might ask include: Am I male or female? Am I human, animal, or something else? Am I alive or dead? Am I on TV or in the movies? Do I sing? Do I have kids? Is my hair brown?

To make it even more difficult, you can make it where each person can only ask yes-or-no questions. To make it into a drinking game, you can choose a word that everyone has to drink on when someone asks it—such as “Hollywood” or “dead.” Or, you can make everyone who has not yet guessed his or her identity drink on his or her turn, after either making an incorrect guess or still being unable to guess.