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Oh wow, why couldn't I have found this place months ago!!

We've done party games for the last two years, and have posted the complete games at http://home.comcast.net/~fenugreek/H...ween_games.htm.

The Newlydead Game has been EXTREMELY popular, but it's tough coming up with questions for it. This year we're going to play Halloween Match Game, and I'm introducing the 25,000 Spirits Pyramid (still being written).

It's so great to see somebody came up with a Family Feud version. We did a wedding-themed one for our wedding this year, and I was hoping to do a Halloween next year -- the amount of work needed just went WAY down.

Adam

We are doing a Murder Mystery of sorts! We have our party outside in a large yard. With a large bonfire and a heated garage if its too cold.

This year I put together a Murder Mystery similar to the clue game. it took me lots of hours to put it all together and I am not even totally finished yet! Basically we are going to ask for 6 teams. Each team will get a bag filled with misc. stuff-paper, pens, flashlights, candy, magnifying glass and some goofy stuff. And each team will get a scorecard. We are telling a story about a boat that sunk in the river (since we have a small river in the back of our yard) then we believe the passengers are all around here somewhere-then a dead body floats to shore-coroner discovers it was murder blah blah blah.

Then the game begins. Each group will be given 1 clue to begin. Each clue is a riddle or puzzle of some kind, they need to solve the clue in order to find their next clue. (There are 14 clues in all)

EG: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

They need to solve this riddle and then go to where they believe the clue takes them to get their next clue. In this case-the answer is corn-so they need to go find the corn and look for their next clue. When they find a clue they will also find three "pcp cards" either a passenger, cause of death or place. These they can then cross off their scorecard as they have been found so we know they didnt do it. They will also get a few puzzle pieces at each location, they dont know what they are going to do with these puzzle pieces but we hope they save them in their bag, as they are going to need them to solve the last clue. (I bought blank jigsaw puzzles which can be printed on a computer-they must be handfed however-they are called compoz-a-puzzle)

Then the first team back to the "Cruise Director" with the passenger killed, the cause of death and the place (In proper english)will be declared the winning team.

Each of the clues are written in mad gab form-as is the scorecard. For instance here is a person, cause of death and a place.

MY ARE THUS TO WART
HUFF INK EARN ELF AISLE
LAW SAND JEALOUS

Keep repeating the words until you get it right.

Each team has been assigned a color-Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple. They will each have a dolphin necklace in that color, their bag is that color, paper, pens, flashlights etc.(whatever I could find at www.orinteltrading.com or dollar stores in those 6 colors. The name of the game is "Dolphin Dilemma" The host and hostess will play the Captain and the Cruise Director and tell the story.

Each set of clues will be numbered and color coded for each team. I put each clue in an envelope along with puzzle pieces and the "pwp" cards.

The clues will lead then to different rooms in the house and all around the front and back yard. Each team will have a different answer to the end of the game and they will each arrive at the clues in a different order. (But they will all go to the same places eventually)

I had a friends family do a dry run of the game and they LOVED it! I dont want to give any more away here because there could be spys. My sister would like me to publish it so I might do that. But since I got so many great ideas here I thought I would share the idea and perhaps someone else could make up their own game based on these ideas.

Wow, pad, I have to say that it sounds awesome! We do quite a few "Clue Hunts" here but yours sounds like an interesting twist on what we normally do. Why do you call it "Dolphin Dilemma"? Is it to go along with your murder theme? And I cannot get your mad gab examples! aargh! Can you give me the answers?

HHH

LOL The only reason for the title "Dolphin Dilemma" is that I found necklaces with a dolphin on them in the 6 colors I needed. The story then played around a boat which had sunk-so I named the boat the "Dolphin"

And the mad gab answers are: Martha Stewart, A finger nail file and Los Angeles. No go back and see if it all makes sense now :-)

OH WHAT FUN!!!!! Think we're gonna do the [u]Family Feud</u> game. We also have 20 cloth, drawstringed bags in different types of halloween fabrics (thanks to my sister-in-law) and play a "FEELY BAG" game. They have to feel the objects through the bag and guess what it is. I still have to buy prizes, I'm on a limited budget so it's tuff. Any suggestions for other prizes than have been listed above????? I'm also going to make trophies for costumes, using PVC connectors and skulls and pumpkins.

A couple of years ago we played "Survivir--Transylvania" where we had one vampire (me) and had to go around and "bite" victims. Everyone had random cards with "holy water", "stake", "garlic" written on them. Each guest got one of those cards drawn out of a cauldron. The vampire got to pick a "resistance" card. So if he goes to bite a victim and has "resistance to holy water", the victim can't replel him. Otherwise, he gets bitten. There were also "dust" cards. If a victim had a stake card, they could stake the vampire, killing him. He then had to wear a "dust" card. The bitten victims of course turn into vampires also, get a resistance card (found in a box in the bathroom) and continue to create more blood sucking minions. We printed cards out with the "Survivor" logo on it, but changed the background pic to look like a barren tree with a corpse hanging. (My husband did some handywork in Photoshop on it.) These were printed out on orange cardstock. The words were printed on the other side of the cards.

Last year we did a "clue treasure hunt" type game where we had packets of clues in envelopes scattered throughout the house. They had to read the clue and figure out where to get the next clue. The winner was the one who got all the clues first. An example of what we did, was to have a clue that read, " Vampire's bane on a chain." This refered to the fake garlic I have hanging in my kitchen. That clue was in a packet in the livingroom. They had a riot with this. It's pretty cold here at the end of October, so we don't do outdoor games, but this fit the bill.[]

wahahaha!!!
boogiebarb

We do a huge scavenger hunt every year. This year we did a mad scientist theme. We sent out preinvites with only the time and date. They had to RSVP to get the party location which for the first time ever was not our home. The object of the hunt was for the players to locate the clues to take them to the laboratory. Each of the clues was hidden in country cemeteries. We rented 4 passenger vans and each team had a driver (who was not privy to the locations) since we did have alcohol at the party. Once a clue was located it would send the teams to another location to do a challenge we named Scare Factor. First team done received their next clue and they were off again to a cemetery. The last clue sent them to our house.

We have done every type of scavenger hunt imaginable but it takes a lot of work and planning to pull off. Next years hunt will be based on the game Clue. Not sure of the details yet but already working on it!

bumping this up

This year our game will be called "The Birds" Hidden around the house and yard will be 16 birds. Attached to each bird is an egg and in the egg will be letters. The letters will be collected from the birds and then used to form where the final clue is hidden. So the same letters will be at each bird. The 16 letters will need to be unscambled to read LOOK IN THE MAILBOX a winner card will be there and the first team to get the winner cards will be the winning team.

We usually have a small prize for the winners. This year its a shotglass. Anyways the winners always get to be the judges for the costume contest also.

Its a simple game which will be made fun by making an ice breaker game to start the whole game. We ask all players to form a circle. They will then choose a paper from a hat telling them what bird they are and what sound the bird makes. We plan on having four teams so they will be TURKEY (gobble), WHIPPORWILLS (whippor will), CROWS (caw) , OWLS (whooo). Once everyone has the paper with their name on it they will do their bird sound and start to gather with others making the same sound. when everyone has formed their groups then the game will begin.

I love a lot of these ideas.

We play games too. The only compliant I get is that I should plan even more. It really is a night for adults to be kids again and get goofy. Add alcohol to that mix and we've had some entertaining times!

A different games we did last year was "Free The Victim".

You need chains in a long enough length to wrap many times around a person. You also need it light enough that it doesn't get too heavy.
10 padlocks. Two groups of 5 numbered 1 to 5.
5 bowls of various items; eyeballs (peeled grapes mixed in lime jello) brains (uncooked mixed oatmeal coloured red), etc.
Garbage bags with neck holes cut out to protect costumes.

There are two groups of 6. Each group picks one person to be the Victim.

Each group goes to the opposite groups victim and wraps the chain around the other groups victim and padlocks it in 5 places.

Groups return back to their victim and number themselves 1 to 5. They line up. Set a timer - we did 5 minutes. You don't really need a time for this, but we decided the "Bad Guy" would be coming back for the victims and the added pressure of the time sends people into a hilarious panic.

The 5 bowls of stuff are lined up on a table. Before hand (MUST BE DONE FOR GAME TO WORK) when you labelled the padlocks you also seperated the keys so two keys go into bowl 1 that will work with padlocks 1. We added extra keys to each bowl that fit neither padlock to add to the drama.

Player 1 goes to bowl 1 and searches for the key. They race back to get the padlock open. If it doesn't work they replace the key and go to the back of the line. Player 2 goes to bowl 2 and tries for the 2nd padlock. This repeats until all padlocks are open and the victim is freed.

When players get a padlock open the key does NOT return to the bowl.

Fastest one to get the victim free is the winner.

People had a laugh with this one. The funniest part was standing back and watching everyone freak about the time and everyone yelling at the players to hurry up!

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We always do Wrap The Mummy - you can figure out this one - toilet paper, wrap the mummy.

Don't Drop Igor's Eyeball: You need couples for this and plastic eyeballs. Players put the eyeballs against their foreheads and have to keep it there. You can either play music and they have to dance and keep it there or you can add instructions, hop to the right, slide to the left, etc.

Remove The Stake From The Vampire: You need spring loaded clothes pins. Again you need pairs. One player is blindfolded, the other has clothes pins placed all over them by the leader. Then the blindfolded player has to remove all the "stakes" from their partner first to win. We had one male player get out of hand and he was disqualified. It's probably better to put couples together for this. Men don't seem to mind a woman groping all over them for stakes the way some women mind the men doing it!!!

We do some others but they are just the regular ones, like Pass The Pumpkin (small pumkins under the chins) and Pass The Vertebrae, everyone gets toothpicks, places them in their mouths and they have to pass a lifesaver (white ones) to each other. If it drops it has to go back to the start. For even more fun with this one we alternate tall and short people.

I'm always looking for more ideas for games. You always need to add something more than what you did the year before.

Sharon.

A game we are doing this year for our pirate party is "Ship Race". We built a ship race board that has a route for the ships to race. There is a list of events and each event is a mini-game. Each time a team wins a mini-game, they get to move their ship so many feet. First team to the finish wins the race.

Events include:
* Hurricane a'comin! Secure the rum!
* Leaky hull! And we're losin' rum!
* The cap'n is missing! And he's got the rum!

You get the idea - the events are all centered around 'disasters' at sea (and, of course, rum!) Sirens, whales, and rocks - oh my.

The mini-games include trivia, pictionary, mummy wrap, cluck hunt, pirate insult contest, etc. And we'll definitely be adding the livesaver pass for our "Man overboard!" event.