BlindFish Games

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Elf's shopping list". I made this card thinking of joyful chaos with people running around a space. Day 22 "Elf's shopping list" Players:  2-20 players Equipment: Stuff at hand Concise rules:  You're the judge for a scavenger hunt, split players into teams and give them the first item to find. When they return it, tell them the next item on the list.  Yes players can interpret items creatively.  Items: 1) 5 gold rings 2) Green ornament  3) Connected mittens 4) Something frozen  5) Nativity scene 6) Cookie 7) Bells  8) Holly leaf 9) Glitter 10) Red Robin  Notes: Scavenger hunt's are nothing new and this is a mainly a Christmas based list to use. In a youth club I love end of term nights where the young people are in the mood for a game. I have played many parlor games in youth clubs but a good scavenger

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "60 Seconds".  Day 22 "60 Seconds" Players:  3-8 players Equipment:  Timer Concise rules:  Players must speak on a given topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition, or deviation. Challenges are made by other players, and a point is scored for a correct challenges along with the challenger taking over the topic. Players score a point if they are speaking when the timer ends and a bonus point if they speak for the full 60 seconds without a successful challenge. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Notes: I find this game a great challenge and I don't think I have ever successfully spoke for the full minute on any topic. Personally I can avoid the hesitation often, it's the repetition that I usually fail on. If you have never played this game you can hear a famous radio game show v

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Marshmallow Snowmen". Today is a another marshmallow based family focused game. Day 21 "Marshmallow Snowmen"  Players:  2-12 players Equipment:  Dice & a big bag of marshmallows Concise rules:  1 player rolls a dice to set the target number. Then, simultaneously,  all players attempt to build the  rolled number of marshmallow  snowmen by stacking 3  marshmallows on top of each  other. First player to build the  correct number of  snowmen wins. Notes: Again we have a short little family focused game. Designed to be played and enjoyed by families especially with little hands. Of course this kind of marshmallow based sculpture can be extended with adding cocktail sticks, sweets and anything else you can find. At that point this snowman race can become more an art competition.   (Probably best to either make sure peop

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Station yard". Today is a new way to use the components of one of the most popular board games from the last 20 years.  Day 20 "Station yard" Players:  2-6 players Equipment:  Ticket to Ride and a hat Concise rules:  Shuffle blue, green, red, yellow, and black train cards into a deck, deal 5 cards face up. Mix all plastic trains into the hat. From the hat draw 4 random sets of 5 plastic trains.  On each turn a player can either pick up two train cards or buy one of the 4 laid out train sets using collected cards. Replenish cards and train sets. Players score points  based on collecting plastic trains of the same colour, combining them from multiple sets. Scoring follows  Ticket to Ride normal rule (3 trains = 4 points etc).  The first player to score 30 points wins. Notes: I made up this game after reading lots of Jam

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Categories". Lovely little word game that keeps people thinking.  Day 19 "Categories" Players:  2-8 players Equipment:  Pens, Paper and Timer Concise rules:  Everyone copies down 10 categories (examples below but you can make your own). Generate a random letter by having a player sing the alphabet in their head, say stop to pick the letter. Everyone then has 3 minutes to list answers that fit the categories and start with the random letter. Score no points if your answer is the same as another players and 2 points if your answer is an alliteration.  Example categories: Animal, City, Vehicle, Celebrity, Drink,  First name, Book, Colour, Clothing, Toy Notes: Playing the commercial version of this game as a child was one of my first introductions to party games. It was only as an adult I learnt that the game was much old

Th is year I am sharing 24 mini games over advent, where the rules can be explained on the back of a single business card. Today's game is called "Who's most likely to...". This is a perfect discussion starting game with friends or people you want to get to know better.  Day 18 "Who's most likely to..." Players:  4-12 players Equipment:  -none- Concise rules:  You ask a "Who's most likely to..." question, and on the count of 3 everyone points at who they think fits the description. The player with the most suggestions wins the round and comes up with the next question.  Example questions “Who’s most likely to...”:         ...retire to a Mediterranean island.         ...be on the front page of a newspaper         ...accidentally set their kitchen on fire Notes: It can't be described as an ice breaker or a get to know you game. It requires the players to have some ideas about each other. But it helps people to get to know each other bette