10 fun-filled games for the New Year
Holidays Recreation / / December 19, 2019
At New Year's parties there is one problem: they are too long. It begins with the wires of the old year, and in fact in front of the whole night, which must be something to do. You can think of a few contests, but let's be honest: all these festive relay with related laces long been bored. Layfhaker together with the shop "Mosigra"I prepared a selection of board games that are suitable for the New Year. Only one inexpensive game will save the most melancholy party.
Jackal: Archipelago
Number of players: 1 to 4.
Age of players: from 6 years old.
Time: 60-120 minutes.
For whom: for a family holiday.
If you meet the New Year in a small company, this game will be very useful. Strategy pirate piastres and is ideal for a party, where guests love to entertain for the benefit of the mind and with pleasure. By the way, "the Jackal" - domestic development: the game was invented in the Moscow State University in the 70's.
What is the essence: you are the captain of a pirate ship with a small (just three people), but the brave team. Traveling on the open sea, you met on the way the island, where there may well be a buried treasure. Oh yeah, one more thing: in this same island close three more pirate vessel. Wins the player whose team before anyone else finds a treasure and will forward it to the ship. Coped? Go to the next island!
Each island is made up of cells. Tread on them, turn over and see what's there. During the search of treasure, you can come across a crocodile, wake furious bear get into the labyrinth or hot air balloon rides. Whatever the course, the surprise, so it will be interesting for both children and adults.
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Answer in 5 seconds
Number of players: 3 to 6.
Age of players: 8 years.
Time: many times for 5 seconds.
For whom: for all who are too lazy to understand the rules.
Speed quiz where you have to think quickly and speak more quickly. The game is suitable even for large companies - will only play teams, not every man for himself. On the morning of the first of January it will be the most reasonable solution: a sleepless night already will have an effect of delayed reaction.
How things work: there is the playing field, to get through to the end. Who are the six players will be the first at the finish line, the fellow. To make a move, to pull one of the 385 double-sided cards with questions and for 5 seconds until the roll-down timer balls, to give an answer.
On yellow cards trivia questions on the red - is more difficult. Three tea brands, three national flag, which has a red color, three of your favorite site (careful here, and then you never know) - answer without any hesitation. If nothing comes to mind, it is possible to replace a question or pass it to the next player.
In case you are planning a children's party, a version of "Answer for 5 seconds" for children. There's a simpler question: two reasons to eat cake, two round objects, three ways to say hello, the three team sport.
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Monopoly: Game of Thrones
Number of players: 2 to 6.
Age of players: 18 years.
Time: 30-90 minutes.
For whom: for fans of "Game of Thrones" and the costume party.
"Monopoly" - a classic board game. It exists since 1934 and surely will outlive other nastolki. Especially for fans of "Game of Thrones" in "Mosigry" is a version of "Monopoly", where the action takes place in Västerås.
This collector's edition with an elaborated figurines and cards. The goal - to find financial supremacy, subjugating the whole of Vasteras. You move around the map and buying a property: Craster castle Winterfell, or, say, the Stronghold of the Night. To make money, you can participate in the royal tournaments, fight with wild or use the spell "Drakaris".
Familiar from the series location creates a special atmosphere, from which emerges not want. This is one of the best entertainment for the party in the images from "Game of Thrones" - the struggle for the Iron Throne, during which no one gets hurt.
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Imadzhinarium
Number of players: 4 to 7.
Age of players: of 12 years.
Time: 40-60 minutes.
For whom: for good friends and creative mind.
"Imadzhinarium" for cohesive companies, because in the game you need to guess the thinking of the other person. The better you know each other, the easier it will be to play.
The rules are simple: each player gets six cards. Leading puts one of his cards on the table face up and calls associations with this card. Each player chooses from its available cards most, as he seems to be right, and also places it on the table face down. Cards are shuffled and open. It comes the fun part of the game: it is necessary to guess which of the cards belonged to the master.
Invent ingenious association guess other people's imagination and move the figures of flying elephants on the playing field. The winner is the player whose elephant went furthest.
For not quite sober company is one of the most suitable games. As soon as all will understand who and what to guess, you will begin to share with each other associations. Do I need to explain why after a couple of glasses of champagne the game becomes complicated, but terribly exciting?
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Friday
Number of players: 2 to 6.
Age of players: 10 years.
Time: 45-90 minutes.
For whom: for the noisy companies and colleagues.
Games with a similar mechanics lit in "Inglourious Basterds", in "Sherlock" and dozens more movies and shows. If still you are in anything like that we did not play, it's time to finally try it. It's simple: attach a card on the forehead with an unknown word and try to guess it by asking leading questions to others. Who you are: Princess, rutabaga or hang gliding? To find out, you have one minute. Who guessed the most words is the winner.
Practice shows that the time when you need to come up with the character, causes the most problems. "Whatever is to think of?" - think the players after three or four rounds, when imagination dried up. "Friday" will save you from suffering: the set includes 194 cards with words, definitions and six-pomogalok cards in case you do not know what you can ask leading questions.
Actually, why the game is called "Friday"? Because that's what this edition released channel that specializes in entertainment. Boring cards will not be guaranteed.
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leaders of the day
Number of players: 2 to 6.
Age of players: 5 years.
Time: 20-45 minutes.
For whom: for children and adults who want to return to childhood.
Children's game bestseller.
Before you playing field. Roll a die and move their token forwards across the field to the winning number of cells. Then you need to draw a card with the job. Perform it - remains in place, do not manage - pushes the chip on the cell as much as the arrow drawn on the card. Anyone who gets to the finish line first, get a piece of candy (or any other prize at your discretion).
Assignments seemingly simple: type in your mouth a little bit of water and say "Hello" to lick a lemon and do not wince, represent the mosquito and interfere with the next player to perform his job, buzzing and poking it nose. In fact, it turns out now cheerful madness, it will be interesting to all stakeholders without exception.
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equivoke
Number of players: from 2 to 16.
Age of players: 18 years.
Time: 60 minutes.
For whom: for large companies, colleagues and teams.
As usual at parties accepted to play in something? It gets bored, and then someone says that you can play the words:
- Maybe in the "Crocodile"? Let's pantomime.
- No, let's draw!
- No, it is better to "Boom". Let's guess the characters!
- We have nothing to write. Let's play "situation puzzle."
Around this point, the game has no one and do not want. Exit - game "equivocation". She added to the good old amusements, saying something new: in addition to the gestures, questions and pictures for explanations of words you can use the songs and explain what you mean by cobbled together from plasticine figures. What exactly do each move, decides to die. Explain the word needed in a minute, if you have time - your chip goes forward on the playing field.
In "equivocation" or you can play every man for himself, or teams of three to five people. Great fun for a large company, which hardly anyone get bored quickly.
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Zombies in the house
Number of players: 2 to 6.
Age of players: 10 years.
Time: 45-90 minutes.
For whom: for fans of the zombie theme, costume party.
Love thrills watching horror movies? Now you can feel like a hero of a horror. It will be interesting.
So, you end up in a house full of zombies and monsters. The good news: in the back yard is a car, where you can go. The bad news: the key to the car and the canister of gasoline hidden somewhere in the building. It is necessary to find them alive and escape from the lair of monsters, and ideally more and take with his entire team. Again, the good news is exploring the house, you will find a decent amount of weapons, so will you give the zombie resistance, devil dogs, spiders mutants and the main villain - Swamp dismay.
Game will appeal to children and adults who do not even have a weakness for horror movies. Unexpected details, pleasant and not so surprises - half an hour, during which time you will wander through the abandoned house, you will pass by unnoticed. Agree to fight the zombies is much more interesting than watching regular TV show New Year.
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Firewood
Number of players: from 1 to 16.
Age of players: from 6 years old.
Time: from 10 to 15 minutes.
For whom: for all, a universal game.
"Firewood" also known as "The Tower", also known as "Jenga" - is a classic game in which you need to build both high design and shatter it, pulling out wedges from the lower floors.
"Wood" is useful when some of the guests had already arrived, while the rest only on the way - take 10 minutes of fun and tune in to the holiday. Running game and in the reverse situation, when half the guests have gone home, but do not give up the most persistent.
For all its simplicity, is a game for which you need the knowledge in spatial geometry, flair and outstanding agility. We must act strictly in one hand. Chur no fraud!
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Overboard!
Number of players: 4 to 6.
Age of players: of 12 years.
Time: 40-60 minutes.
For whom: for those who have played enough in the "Mafia", cohesive teams and fans of role-playing games.
"Overboard!" - a game in which the players and their characters and actions depends more than on the dice roll or strategic calculations.
You were lucky to survive the crash of the ship on the high seas. Now you are sitting in a boat, you are your best friend, a sworn enemy and a few strangers. The goal - to get to land. It seems to be an easy task, because in the rescue of the interests of all, but there it was. Try to agree on who and in what order will be rowed, choose which way to go, and to fend off the team members, Pozar on your share of supplies.
Play with friends or colleagues to learn how to interact and work together on one big goal. New Year - a holiday when all come together for this purpose also need nastolki "Overboard!".
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Games of our list (and many others, are the same class) are sold in stores "Mosigra". Nastolki make a really exciting and New Year, and all the other holidays.
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