When you have a group of people who don’t know each other assembled for an event—a birthday party, a family reunion, your uncle Larry’s bris—things can seem rather awkward at first. Nobody knows each other, people are wondering if they can legally ask someone out—or do so without crossing bloodlines—and it’s like a seventh-grade dance.

You don’t want to resort to name tags because, let’s face it, they don’t help because when you look down at Barbara’s name you think she thinks you’re looking at her boobs. And maybe you are—and why shouldn’t you be? There’s a big sign with her name on them! How can you not stare at that?

There are easier ways of making people get to know one another. Here are some free (or nearly-so) games geared at doing the thing Julie Andrews was so good at doing—getting to know you.

Though today’s free games are of a rather innocent nature, and perhaps more suited for kids and teens, feel free to modify with adult versions (substitute M&Ms with half-shots, for example).

M&M Pass: Buy a bag of M&Ms or similar small candy (skittles, red hots, you get the idea). If you have a larger crowd, buy a few bags. Don’t tell the partygoers what they’re for; instead, pass them around and ask them all to take “the number you think you will need.” Once everyone has M&M’s, everyone has to share something personal about themselves per the number of M&M’s they took. If Mike took 20, sure, he’s going to bore everybody to pieces, but he can’t cheat by eating any until he’s done talking. If you really want to get people talking, substitute toilet paper for M&M’s—they’ll take a lot more thinking they have to “take what they need”!

Name Game:  Assemble everyone in a circle and tell everyone that they have to think of a word to describe them that starts with the same letter of their first name. For example, Tim might be “Testosterone-Packed Tim!” while Mandy might be “Makeup Mandy.” You can make it a theme if you have a theme party (a pirate word, for example, or a spooky Halloween phrase), or more adult-oriented (“Testicled Tim” or “Masturbating Mandy”). You could also have people substitute their name in a song, or provide a song that starts with their names, to make it more memorable.