Game On!

Originally posted February 22, 2009

Last night, we had a great evening/late night with 7 other couples! And the best part, NO KIDS!

We hosted everyone over here for our highly requested game night. This was the third time we have done it. We have munchies and BYOB. The party got started around 7pm and after some socializing, we got down to business. We played the ever popular "Salad Bowl". It is a blast and gets everyone involved.

Would you like to know how to play it?

Everyone writes down the name of 4 to 5 celebrities, real-life or fictional character (ie, George Washington, Julia Roberts, James Bond, Mickey Mouse), on slips of paper. Fold them up and put them in a salad bowl (hence the name).

Break up into teams (at least 2-3 people per team).

Round 1 - one person from a team goes up to the front with the salad bowl and draws a name and tries to get the other team members to guess it by using as many words to describe that celebrity without saying the name on the paper. There is no passing. You try to get as many names from the salad bowl as you can in one minute. The ones that are guessed...hold on to those slips of paper (DO NOT put them back in the bowl). Then the next team goes for one minute, then the next team goes...until all the slips of paper have been guessed. Some teams may go up more than once. Then tally your score on how many celebrities were guessed. NOW...you fold up the pieces of paper and put them back in the salad bowl!

Round 2 - you do the same thing as before, but this round instead of speaking freely you can use only ONE WORD. There is still no passing, so after you choose this word, if it isn't getting your team anywhere, you are STUCK with it and cannot move on to another word or name in the bowl. You cannot use initials or numbers, only one word! Do you see that the key is to remember the names from the first round, even if they weren't the names that your team guessed! Now, tally the score from this round and again, put the names back in the bowl!

Round 3 - this round is charades! Same rules, no passing, no mouthing, etc. After this round is done, tally the score and add up the three rounds. The highest score wins!

It is an extremely fun game in our book, but we like to play games. When deciding on your guest list, remember to invite people who would be high energy and enjoy doing this. Sometimes, more reserved people or people that don't like to "make a fool out of themselves" would not enjoy this at all!

Game On!!!