Here’s a fun game to play with friends and family. Give it a try:
Bag of Nouns
For this game, each player writes three nouns on individual scraps of paper and places the scraps in a bag or other container. The players then divide into two or teams, and the game proceeds in three rounds.
NOUNS: a person, place or thing. Using proper nouns is okay (e.g. Brooklyn Bridge) but it’s more fun if you don’t make the words too difficult to guess.
In round one, the team going first chooses a player to draw a noun from the bag. That player must then describe the noun to her teammates without saying the word; the teammates must guess the word. Once that word is guessed, the container with the nouns is passed to the teammate on the right, and the team keeps going, with a new player drawing new nouns every time the previous one is guessed, for three minutes. The team will set aside the words that are guessed to count up when the round is over. Then it is the next team’s turn, and the process is repeated for three minutes. Round one continues until all of the words have been used. Once the round is over, each team counts up the number of words that were guessed in round one, and records it. Once each team has had a chance to tally up their score, all of the words are returned to the bag for use in round two.
In round two, the game proceeds the same way, but players must make their teammates guess the noun without using any words at all, but by acting out the word instead. As with round one, each team collects the words they’re able to guess and tallies up the total for round two.
Round three proceeds the same way with the same bag of nouns, except players must make their teammates guess the noun simply by saying one word. Teammates should try to remember the nouns from the previous rounds to help them guess.
At the end of the three rounds, the team with the most points wins.