Party Games
 
 
  1000 Blank White Cards  
1000 Blank White Cards is a party game played with cards in which the deck is created as part of the game. Since the bulk of... 1000 Blank White Cards
  Catch Phrase  
A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is spontaneously popularized after a critical amount of widespread... Catch Phrase
  Charades  
Charades or charade is a word guessing game. In the form most commonly played today, it is an acting game in which one player acts out... Charades
  Cranium  
Cranium™ is a board game manufactured by its own company, Cranium, Inc. Cranium is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain... Cranium
  Mafia  
Mafia is a party game modelling a battle between an informed minority and an uninformed majority. Mafia is usually played in... Mafia
  Taboo  
Taboo is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro. Equipment: A few hundred cards with words on both... Taboo

Party games are games which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size.

  • The number of participants is indefinite and fairly large. Traditional multiplayer board games tend to accommodate four to six players at most, whereas party games generally have no fixed upper limit. Some games become unwieldy if more than twelve or fifteen play, but even for these the upper limit is flexible. Many party games simply divide everyone into two roughly equal teams.
  • The players can take part at varying levels. Not everyone enjoys straining themselves to the utmost to win, so good party games have multiple ways to play along and contribute to everyone's enjoyment. For example, in Fictionary not everyone needs to create plausible dictionary definitions; humorous submissions are at least as welcome. In Charades, players can actively participate in guessing without taking a turn at acting.
  • Player elimination is rare. Monopoly makes a poor party game, because bankrupt players must sit out while the remaining players continue. In contrast, no matter how far behind a team is in Pictionary, all players can participate until the very end.
  • Some games are largely non-competitive, e.g. Murder mystery games which are mainly group roleplays. Some party games, particularly lighthearted or adult games, introduce forfeits for losing players.

Common party games include

  • 1000 Blank White Cards
  • Apples to Apples
  • Are You a Werewolf?
  • Articulate
  • Botticelli
  • Bobby's World
  • Catch Phrase
  • Categories (related to the commercial Scattergories and Facts in Five)
  • Celebrity
  • Charades
  • Consequences
  • Couch Of Power
  • Drinking Games
  • Cranium
  • Eat Poop You Cat
  • Fictionary (related to the commercial Balderdash)
  • Guess Who's You
  • Humpfest
  • Mafia
  • Murder Mystery Games
    • A Village Murder Mystery
    • Host-Party Games
  • Nuclear Name Game
  • Outburst
  • PervArtistry
  • Pictionary
  • Scissors
  • Seven minutes in heaven
  • Shout about movies
  • Snaps
  • Spin the bottle
  • Taboo
  • Truth or Dare? and related games such as "Strip or Dare?" and "Drink or Dare?"
  • Stupid Ninja Game
  • Trivial Pursuit
  • Twenty questions
  • White Elephant Gift Exchange
  • Why Did the Chicken...?
  • Wikipartia
  • Wink

Children's party games

Not all of the above are suitable for children's parties. Traditional children's party games (some of which are also popular with teenagers and adults) include:

  • The Bear and the Honeypot
  • Blind Man's Bluff
  • The Farmer's In His Den
  • Hunt the Thimble (or slipper, or other object)
  • Oranges and Lemons
  • Pass the Parcel
  • Pin the tail on the Donkey
  • Poor Jenny
  • Poor Pussy
  • Postman's Knock
  • Spinning the Plate
  • Wink Murder

Party games are also used to define videogames like Mario Party and Sonic Shuffle, that resemble board games and meant to be multiplayer.
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