How to entertain guests. Games from the collection "How to entertain guests" (various numbers)

If entertainment is usually attached to events outside the home, then hosting guests on their territory usually confuses the hosts. How to make the holiday fun? How to entertain guests - we have included quizzes, contests and other entertainment in the universal list. This will certainly help brighten up the leisure time for you and your guests. After all, not a single salad ...

Where to start preparing? Of course, with analysis. Decide: who are your guests (their age, gender, degree of activity, number). Depending on the results, you will have a family feast, a bachelorette or bachelor party, a mixed youth company. Well, now it's time to act!

FAMILY Feast

So, you have a bunch of relatives of all ages and genders visiting you, from a three-year-old niece to a 90-year-old grandfather. How to entertain them? Olivier salad, chicken, photos from the family archive and a discussion of the aunt's second cousin will probably not be enough for a "killer" party.

Bingo. This game is considered a win-win option for a company of different ages. Improvised material can be cards and kegs from the usual lotto. The game is divided into three rounds: in the first round, the one who closes the first row of numbers in the card wins, in the second - the participant who closes two rows, and in the third - the one who closes all the numbers in the card. Don't forget about music and dance routines between games and treats to signature cocktails "Bingo" and "Bird of Happiness" that bring good luck (that's what you can call any alcoholic drinks, juices and lemonade). Prizes to be drawn must be announced in advance. Win-win quiz options: good wine, a gift set of sweets, movie tickets, a dummy, a notebook.

Guess the melody. A great alternative to drinking songs and karaoke. Beginning music lovers are divided into two teams and listen to 10 well-known songs in turn (music sounds for 15-20 seconds). If guests from one team find it difficult to answer, the right to vote passes to their opponents. The correct answer is one point. Those who score the most points win.

Advanced music lovers also need to be assigned to teams. One person from the team approaches the leader and receives the name of the song, which he must gurgle (mumble, whistle, knock, etc.) to his comrades. If they guessed right - one point, if not - the right to answer goes to the opponents.

"Fantas". Great game for any company. Each guest puts some small thing (hairpin, pen, key chain, etc.) into a hat or an opaque bag. This is the fan. One person becomes the back, and the host takes a random item from the hat and asks: “What is this phantom doing?” The one who turned away comes up with a task: crow under the table, tell a joke, dance, sing, show a striptease (the younger the company, the freer the actions can be). This continues until the hat is empty. Then the most fun begins - the execution of tasks.

"Nonsense". Guests are divided into two teams, each of which delegates one person. The leader tells them two different words (the rest should not hear him). The player must explain the word to his team without uttering a sound. For each guessed concept, the team gets a point. Whoever scores ten points faster is the winner. It is better to start with a simple one: the names of animals and vehicles. Then move on to more complex concepts (love, friendship, dream, diffusion), names of cities or countries.

"Pygmalion". All guests must be divided by gender into two teams. Everyone is given balloons of different sizes and shapes, colored paper, scissors, adhesive tape. The task for men is to create an ideal woman, for women - an ideal man. The next step is to make a statue of love (the degree of frivolity of the pose depends on the imagination of the guests).

There are a huge number of variants of this game: you can call a husband and wife and instruct them to create a statue of their half; if the company is predominantly female or male - sculpt a snowman, Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. In general, the main thing is not the task, but the process of joint creativity.

YOUTH COMPANY

Peers don't need a reason to have fun. With people close in age and spirit, you can laugh for no reason, chat incessantly, and even dance without music. However, this does not prevent us from holding a couple of fun contests and, remembering our childhood, playing something.

"Checkers". This game is categorically unsuitable for a society of teetotalers and ulcers. So, if everything is in order with your health, you will need a chessboard and twenty stacks - ten with red wine and ten with white (for especially persistent ones - with vodka and cognac). The piles are placed through the cage: on the one hand - red, on the other - white. The rules are the same as in checkers, only the “figurine” of the opponent must not be “eaten”, but drunk. Stacks can also be arranged not through one, but in the corners and play "corners". If there are checkers lovers among the guests, then you can arrange a session of simultaneous play with several opponents. The main thing is not to harm the grandmaster's health!

"Eiffel Tower". This quiz is also designed for brave and healthy people. All participants in the game build an analogue of the French sights from plastic dominoes - two are placed vertically, one - the upper one - horizontally. The one whose fault the tower is collapsing should drink a glass of champagne or wine (a glass of vodka).

"Default". 3-4 pairs are called in the competition. The girls are given money (5-7 banknotes of small denominations), an incendiary melody is turned on, and while it sounds, they make deposits, that is, they hide money from their young man in clothes. After that, the host blindfolds the girls, and swaps the young people. Then someone shouts loudly: “Default! Withdraw deposits! The same melody is turned on, and while it sounds, the girls must have time to find money and “withdraw deposits”.

BY GENDER

The main entertainment at hen and stag parties, of course, is intimate conversations and drinking (sometimes in very large quantities) of alcoholic beverages. However, no one is stopping you from doing some homework. Karaoke, board games like Monopoly and White Crow, movie cassettes, and electronic darts and a video game console are great, but why not have some fun without the aids? Remember: literball is not the only way in the world to entertain guests.

"I never". This entertainment is perfect for a bachelorette party. Girlfriends sit in a circle and take turns admitting to something they have never done. “I have never tried oysters”, “I have never cheated on my husband”, “I have never kissed Petya”... The cherished phrase can be changed to “Once I ...”, “Most of all I am ashamed of ... ”, “I love ...”, “My mother-in-law said ...”

"Papers". In fact, this game is just a more relaxed version of Nonsense. Participants write words on pieces of paper, put them in a hat, and then take turns explaining the option they got. For example, if the piece of paper says "cow", you should say: "This is an animal that mooes and gives milk." The main thing is to keep within 10 seconds. Either friendship wins, or the one who is most often understood the first time or words.

Now you know exactly how to entertain guests - there are a lot of quizzes, competitions. The main thing is not to overdo it and not “load” guests with them to the very “I can’t”. After all, no one has canceled the importance and value of a simple sincere table conversation ...

REMINDER TO THE ORGANIZER

Do not forget:

1. Buy small prizes for contests. The funnier they are, the better.

2. Come up with names for teams (for example, Accounting Buffalo against Blondes, Beauty and Beasts, etc.).

3. Offer alternative entertainment for those who do not like to participate in contests. Put family albums and videos in a prominent place, or put a hookah in the kitchen.

Maria Sittel,

An official date is approaching? How to celebrate the anniversary so that it will be remembered by both the hero of the occasion and all those invited for life? Of course, you need to be very well prepared. And this applies not only to the festive table! for an anniversary should be carefully thought out. The facilitator will have to do their best in preparing them.

Games for adults

So, not a single feast will be cheerful and bright without some entertainment. Celebrating a birthday at home, people sing songs, tell funny jokes and anecdotes, and solve riddles. In a word, you don't get bored. Table competitions for an anniversary are an even better way to defuse the situation, to feel lightness and ease.

Games for adults are entertainment intended for a cheerful company sitting at a festive table. By choosing exactly what you need for your celebration, you can make your anniversary simply unforgettable!

Games and competitions are not only for children. The main thing is the state of the human soul. Therefore, at the festival, adults will be able to regain the joy of childhood and the enthusiasm of youth. Do not be afraid to be funny and eccentric, because, completely relaxed, surrendering to the general fun, a person will receive great pleasure and enjoyment.

Sense of humor is the most important

Laughter is known to prolong life. Therefore, the whole 55 years, 65 years or more must be accompanied by funny jokes. Guests will have a chic rest on such a holiday, which will doubly delight the hero of the day.

Fun table contests can be held using a variety of paraphernalia (writing utensils, paper, dishes, sweets, etc.) or by listening to the host's tasks. Such activities not only distract guests from drinking and eating, but also give them the opportunity to get some nice souvenir from the hosts as a keepsake.

Many are famous today. However, you can come up with new ones by combining two or three into one. The result is something even more original and interesting.

Table contests for the anniversary - nowhere without alcohol!

Of course, no holiday is complete without alcohol. That is why many drinking contests for the anniversary are somehow connected with alcohol.

For example, you can conduct the so-called "sobriety test". It is necessary to ask the guests to say in turn “lilac tooth picker” or “deoxyribonucleic acid”. Even a sober person can easily stumble here! The laughter of the whole company when performing this task is guaranteed!

Another version of the "alcohol competition" is "Happy Well". A little water is poured into the bucket, and a glass of alcohol is placed in the center. Players take turns throwing coins into the well. As soon as one of the guests gets into the glass, he drinks its contents and takes all the money from the bucket.

Rough fun alternates with calm contests

You can make it even more interesting. Some cards are designated as special. For example, a team that draws an ace of a suit not of its color has the right to pay off the penalty if it fulfills the wish made by the opponent. The Joker can bring players three chips instead of one, and so on. Of course, the team that loses all their matches loses.

It's always nice to get a surprise

There is another cool table competition. Its essence lies in the transfer of guests to each other boxes with surprises to the music. Suddenly the music stops. The person in whose hands the box turned out to be must get the first thing that turns up from the “magic box” and put it on. Among such surprises may be a children's cap, and large pantaloons, and a huge bra. The competition always amuses the participants. Each of them tries to get rid of the box with a surprise as quickly as possible, and each elongated thing makes others unusually happy.

Contests for attentiveness and ingenuity

You can not only laugh at such tasks. Fulfilling them, you can also fully show your ingenuity and attentiveness.

Table contests for the anniversary, revealing the ingenuity of the participants, can be very diverse. One of them is called "The Alphabet in a Plate". The host must name a letter, and the participants need to find something in their plate that begins with this letter (spoon, fish, onion, potatoes, etc.). The one who names the item first, guesses the next one himself.

The competition for attentiveness is also quite interesting. It is carried out at too large feasts. Having chosen the driver, the guests blindfold him.

After that, someone from those sitting in the hall goes out the door. The task of the driver after removing the bandage is to determine who is missing, as well as what exactly he was wearing.

"Value" contests

The scenario of the anniversary of 55 years (and more) must necessarily include tasks focused on a variety of life values, because at this age a person has already learned, understood, and felt a lot of things. So, what is the essence of such competitions? The facilitator may invite the participants to draw on a piece of paper what they consider the most valuable thing in their lives. Moreover, the left-hander should do it with his right hand, and the right-hander with his left. The winner is the author of the most original drawing.

However, you can immediately dwell on specific values ​​that are important for all those present - money. Competition "Bankers" - great fun! To do this, you need a large bank, in which bills of various denominations will be folded. Players should try to calculate how much is there without taking out any money. The prize goes to the one closest to the truth.

Eat and have fun...

If a birthday is celebrated at home, only among “their own”, you can hold a particularly funny contest called “Chinese”. To do this, you will need to give each participant one set of Chinese sticks. Next, a saucer with green peas or canned corn is placed in front of them. Guests will need to show all their skill to eat the served dish with chopsticks. The prize will go to the one who completes the task the fastest.

Products can be used for other purposes!

You can pay attention to completely non-standard games. Table, for example, very often involve the use of the most ordinary products.

Let's say you can give the participants half a potato and a knife, offering to play real sculptors. The task of each author is to carve the best portrait of the hero of the occasion.

You can divide the guests into two teams, giving them as many candies as possible. Participants must build castles for the birthday girl using nothing but the sweets given out. The prize is given to the team that will erect the tallest structure.

It is also quite interesting. Each of those present needs to be given a banana, as well as a wide variety of improvised means - adhesive tape, colored paper, fabric, ribbons, plasticine, etc. Guests must make a real masterpiece by decorating the “source material”. In this creative competition, the most extraordinary approach will be evaluated.

By the way, you can use not only products. For example, you can compete in the manufacture of paper napkin boats for a while. The winner will be the one who creates the largest flotilla. In a word, there are a lot of competitions. The main thing is to decide on the use of attributes.

Toasts and congratulations

The following contests are often arranged. They are connected directly with toasts and congratulations.

For example, the host may invite each guest to remember the alphabet. That is, people sitting at the table should, in order, pronounce a toast for each letter. The last one starts with "A". It turns out something like: “What a joyful day today! Our anniversary is born! Let's raise our glasses to him!" His neighbor gets, respectively, the letter "B". You can make the following speech to him: “Be always the same kind, cheerful, healthy and happy! We support you in all your endeavors! Coming up with a toast, of course, is not so difficult. However, some guests get those letters that are still not easy to come up with words on the go. The prize should be given to the author of the most original toast.

And you can hold another interesting competition. Each guest is given some old newspaper and scissors. In ten minutes, they need to cut out words or phrases from the press to create a laudatory description of the hero of the day. The most important thing is that everything turned out very original and fresh.

Adults also like to solve riddles

There is a huge variety of competitions for adults. Table riddles stand out among them as special. You just need to present them correctly.

For example, the game "Tricky SMS" would be an excellent option. Right at the table, without leaving their seats, guests can laugh heartily and have fun. The competition consists in the fact that the presenter reads out the text of the SMS message, inviting those present to guess who exactly the sender is. The most interesting thing is that addressees are not ordinary people. The senders are “hangover” (already on the way, I’ll be there in the morning), “congratulations” (only us will have to listen today), “toast” (don’t drink without me), etc.

Competitions for speed and imagination

You can invite the guests of the holiday to show their imagination. Each of those present, of course, is familiar with Andersen's fairy tales. Among them are the famous "Thumbelina", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Ugly Duckling", etc. Very funny drinking competitions will turn out when the task set for the guests is to tell these tales using the most special vocabulary - medical, political, military, legal .

Those present at the festival will be able to reveal the speed of thought in the "Answer for your neighbor" contest. The facilitator asks the players various questions. The sequence is not respected. The one to whom the question was addressed should remain silent. To answer for him is the task of the neighbor on the right. The one who is late with the answer is out of the game.

We keep silence

Guests will be delighted with especially original contests. For example, in between noisy games, you can afford a little silence.

Here is an example of one of these games. The guests choose the king, who must call the players to him with a gesture of his hand. One seat next to him should be free. The one whom the king has chosen must get up from his chair, go to "His Majesty" and sit next to him. This is how a minister is chosen. The catch is that all this must be done absolutely silently. That is, neither the king nor the future minister should make any sounds. Even the rustle of clothes is forbidden. Otherwise, the elected minister returns to his place, and the king chooses a new candidate. The “king-father” himself is “deposed from the throne” for not observing silence. The minister who has managed to silently take his place takes the place of the king, and the game continues on.

Another competition for the “quietest” is the usual good old “silent woman”. The host forbids everyone present to make any sounds. That is, guests can communicate only with the help of gestures. It is necessary to be silent until the leader says: “Stop!”. The participant who has made a sound up to this point will have to fulfill the desire of the host or pay a fine.

In a word, no matter what table competitions you choose, they will surely cheer up all the guests and make them happy. Even rather self-contained people will be able to have fun, because such games are great to liberate.

Having rested and relaxed at the anniversary, guests will remember this beautiful day for a long time. The holiday will definitely be remembered for its originality and favorable atmosphere - there is no doubt about it!

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WE MAKE CAPS
The participants of the game are invited to look at a set of jars of various sizes and shapes from afar. You cannot take them in hand. Each player has a piece of cardboard, from which they must cut the lids so that they fit exactly into the holes of the cans. The winner is the one who has more lids exactly matched the holes of the cans.

PIRGES
For this contest, prepare some delicate dish - for example, jelly. The task of the participants is to eat it as quickly as possible using matches or toothpicks.

HARVESTING
The task of the players of each team is to transfer oranges to a certain place as quickly as possible without the help of hands.

RIP THE NEWSPAPER
With one hand, right or left, it doesn’t matter - tear the newspaper into small pieces, while the hand is stretched forward, you can’t help with your free hand. Who will do the job less.

FAIRY TALE
When you have gathered at least 5-10 guests (age does not matter), offer them this game. Take a children's book with a fairy tale (the simpler - the better, ideal - "Ryaba Hen", "Kolobok", "Turnip", "Teremok", etc.). Choose a leader (he will be a reader). Write out all the heroes of the fairy tale from the book on separate sheets, including, if the number of people allows, trees, stumps, a river, buckets, etc. All guests pull pieces of paper with roles. The host begins to read the fairy tale, and all the characters "come to life" ....

LAUGHTER
Plays any number of participants. All participants in the game, if it is a free area, form a large circle. In the center - the driver with a handkerchief in his hands. He throws the handkerchief up, while he flies to the ground, everyone laughs loudly, the handkerchief is on the ground - everyone subsides. As soon as the handkerchief touched the ground, this is where the laughter begins, and we take a phantom from the funniest ones - this is a song, a verse, etc.

ROPE
It is necessary that the majority of those gathered before this did not play it. In an empty room, a long rope is taken, and a labyrinth is stretched so that a person, passing, sits down somewhere, steps over somewhere. Having invited another player from the next room, they explain to him that he must go through this labyrinth blindfolded, before that remembering the location of the rope. The audience will tell him. When the player is blindfolded, the rope is removed. The player sets out on a journey by stepping over and crawling under a non-existent rope. Spectators are asked in advance not to give out the secret of the game.

ROLL
This game will help to get to know all your guests. Guests sitting at the table pass a roll of toilet paper in a circle. Each guest tears off as many scraps as he wants, the more the better. When each guest has a stack of scraps, the host announces the rules of the game: each guest must tell as many facts about himself as he has torn scraps.

WITH PLATES
At the entrance, each guest receives his new name - a piece of paper with an inscription is attached to his back (giraffe, hippopotamus, mountain eagle, bulldozer, bread slicer, rolling pin, cucumber, etc.). Each guest can read the names of the other guests, but, of course, cannot read the names of himself. The task of each guest is to learn their new name from the others during the evening. Guests can only answer "Yes" or "No" to questions. The first to know what is written on his piece of paper wins.

JOKE GAME
All guests stand in a circle and put their hands on each other's shoulders. The leader says "duck" or "goose" in everyone's ear (in a scatter, say "duck" to a larger number of players). Then he explains the rules of the game: "If I now say:" Goose ", then all the players whom I called so, draw in one leg. And if it is "Duck", then the players whom I called "Duck" draw in both legs. A lot is guaranteed to you.

"MYSTERIOUS CHEST"
Each of the two players has their own chest or suitcase containing various items of clothing. The players are blindfolded, and at the command of the leader, they begin to put on things from the chest. The task of the players is to dress up as quickly as possible.

COLORS
The players become in a circle. The leader commands: "Touch yellow, one, two, three!" Players as quickly as possible try to take hold of the thing (object, part of the body) of the other participants in the circle. Who did not have time - leaves the game. The host repeats the command again, but with a new color. The last one left wins.

RIDE THE BALL
All participants of the competition line up in teams of 3 people. Each "troika" of players receives a tight volleyball. At the signal of the leader, one of the players of the trio, supported under the elbows by two other players, stepping on the ball, rolls it. The group that reaches the finish line first wins.

DRAW THE SUN
Teams take part in this relay game, each of which lines up in a column "one at a time". At the start, in front of each team, there are gymnastic sticks according to the number of players. In front of each team, at a distance of 5-7 meters, put a hoop. The task of the relay race participants is to alternately, on a signal, running out with sticks, spread them out in rays around their hoop - "draw the sun." The team that completes the task faster wins.

FAST WALKERS
Participants are invited, standing with one foot on the base of the dumbbell, and with the other, starting from the floor, overcome a given distance.

SCULPTORS
The participants of the game are given plasticine or clay. The host shows or calls a letter, and the players must, as quickly as possible, blind an object whose name begins with this letter.

EVERYTHING IS REVERSED
Players are invited to try to draw or color something, but with their left hand, and those who are left-handed - with their right.

POSTMANS
Team game. In front of each team, at a distance of 5-7 meters, there is a thick sheet of paper on the floor, divided into cells in which the endings of names are written (cha; nya; la, etc.). Another sheet of paper with the first half of the names of the names is pre-cut into pieces in the form of postcards, which are folded into shoulder bags. The first numbers of the teams put the bags on their shoulders, at the signal of the leader they rush to the paper sheet on the floor - the addressee, take out a postcard with the first half of the name from the bag and attach it to the desired ending. When they return, they pass the bag to the next player on their team. The team whose mail finds its addressee faster wins the game.

"JOURNEY IN THE DARKNESS"
This game will require skittles and blindfolds according to the number of participants. Team game. Skittles are arranged in a "snake" in front of each team. The teams, holding hands, blindfolded, try to cover the distance without hitting the skittles. Whose team will have fewer knocked down pins will win the "journey". How many pins not knocked down - so many points.

COSMONAUTS
Along the edges of the site, 6-8 triangles are drawn - "rocket sites". Inside each of them draw circles - "rockets", but always a few circles less than the players. All participants stand in a circle in the center of the site. At the leader’s command, they walk in a circle, holding hands, saying the words: “Fast rockets are waiting for us to travel around the planets. We will fly to whichever we want, to such! But there is one secret in the game: there is no place for latecomers!” After that, everyone runs to the "rocket launcher" and takes their places in the "rockets". Who did not have time to take a place - leaves the game.

IN THE FIELD GROWN ... SHIRT
Cards with drawings (a roll of fabric, a ball, a spinning wheel, a bush of flax, a spindle, a shirt) are hidden in an envelope. The participants of the game need to quickly arrange the cards so that they get the path that the shirt "passes" from the flax bush to the finished model.

WE ARE ALL FRIENDLY GUYS…
The participants of the game are invited to jump with a rolling pin as long as possible, breaking into pairs, triples, fours of players.

LITERARY SCIENTISTS
Participants of the competition are read episodes or quotes, or individual phrases from some literary work. Participants must choose from a variety of books the one about which, in their opinion, is being discussed. The first one to give the correct answer wins the title.

pedigreed
Future singers are given cards with the names of political leaders of different years (Gorbachev, Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Zhirinovsky, etc.) written on them. The task of the players is to perform the song in the manner indicated on the card. The lyrics of the songs that are offered for performance should be well known, and even better - printed on the back of the cards.

LUNG CAPACITY
Inflate balloons in the allotted time without the help of hands.

SHOP THE BALL
Competitors receive boxing gloves. They are given the task - to burst a certain number of balloons as quickly as possible in the allotted time for the leader.

HERALDRY
Drawings of coats of arms of different cities, countries are cut horizontally in half. The task of the participants is to find the correct options as quickly as possible and offer them to the court of the presenter and the audience. The winner is determined by the number of correct images of coats of arms.

BUILD A DECK
The participants in the game are two or four. The entire auditorium will help them. Players are given one card each - an ace of any suit. The rest of the cards are dealt in the hall. The task of the "aces" is to collect all the cards of their suit from the "six" to the "king" as quickly as possible. Card holders - spectators can run to the "ace" only after the previous card has already appeared next to it.

MODEL DESIGNERS
The task of the participants is to decorate a T-shirt, a T-shirt as quickly as possible with the help of sprinklers filled with solutions of different colors - "Ala avant-garde!" Whose "project" is more irresistibly determined by the audience. All players receive these T-shirts as a keepsake.

FIND THE BRIDE
Participants of the competition are given balls, the ends of which are at someone at the end of the hall. The task of the contestants is to wind the thread as quickly as possible to get to the one who has the tip of the ball of thread in his hands.

"KITCHEN"
Each of the players chooses a name for themselves according to the name of one of the kitchen items, for example, a plate, fork, knife, poker, etc. One of the players begins to ask about a variety of objects from their environment, about himself, about the interlocutor - his appearance, habits, affections, etc. For example: "What do you have instead of eyes?" Or: "Who do you kiss most often?" or: "What do you like to treat guests to?" or "What stimulates your appetite the most?" The main task of the driver is to put such a question, the answer to which involuntarily causes laughter from both the particular interlocutor and all the players. The person answering the questions should resort, when answering, to only one word - to the name by which he called himself - a fork, a knife, etc. Additionally, only prepositions are allowed. The one who laughs is out of the game.

"OH ADVERTISING!"
To hold this competition, it is necessary to record the soundtrack of the introductions to TV commercials in advance and invite the participants to continue the text, which, in their opinion, sounds after the musical intro. The most knowledgeable - receive prizes - those things, objects, the advertisements of which they know by heart. For this competition, it is better to have soundtracks of those TV commercials that have already been forgotten a little.

"CONDUCTOR"
Players are given tickets - cards with the names of cities are the destination. "Conductor" - the presenter asks: "Do you know what country this city is in?" If the owner of the "ticket" with the named city answers correctly, his "ticket" is "composted". The one with the most "composted tickets" wins.

WHISTER COMPETITION
Whose whistle will be the loudest and most dashing? The competition can be held under a musical phonogram. The best "nightingale the robber" receives a prize.

"TRY TO GUESS"
Some informational text sounds in the recording - possibly a meteorological report. Having invited the participants to listen carefully to the text in order to be able to reproduce it later, the leader lowers the volume of the recording every fraction of a second, then again adds sound for a fraction of a second. After listening, the players pronounce their version of the text, and then listen to it the way it should sound. The most attentive and ingenious, having managed to unmistakably tell what was missed, receive a reward.

WITH WATCH
The presenter invites the audience to give him their wristwatch for the competition. Having received them, he invites the contestant to blindfold, then lays out the watch along the competitor's path and invites the player to walk the distance blindfolded without stepping on the unfolded watch. Stepping carefully, the participant moves along the distance, and the leader in front of him removes the clock. The pacing of a player trying not to step on the clock causes laughter from others. After the route is completed, the watch is returned to the owners.

WATERFALLS
The task of each team is to fill a colander with water with the help of hands. Whichever team overflows, that one wins.

When a good company gathers at the table, the party promises to be boring!

But then the guests drank and ate ... talked over the latest news from the life of their loved ones and the country as a whole ... danced ... and some prepared to be bored ... But it wasn’t there!

Good hosts always have something in stock that will not only disperse boredom, but also bring the guests of the holiday together, and will also be remembered for a long time by fun and humor - these are, of course, various contests.

They are very different:

• mobile (with and without objects),
• musical,
• drawing,
• verbal, etc.

Today I will introduce you to those that can be carried out without leaving the table.

NOTE! They can be performed in different versions, change the rules, add items, increase or decrease the number of participants - in a word, be creative in compiling a program of fun and funny table contests for an adult company sitting at the table.

We start with a simple one - what is at hand (literally and figuratively!)

"The Alphabet Beside Us"

The host calls any letter of the alphabet, except for the four Y-Y-L-Ъ (you can also agree on the exclusion of the letter Y).

Players in a circle call objects-products-things that begin with this letter, which are directly next to them and which can be reached or touched.

Option! - add adjectives to the list of nouns: B - incomparable salad, incomparable lipstick (from a neighbor), endless macaroni, C - pretty vinaigrette, sugar cake ...

The game goes on until the words are exhausted. The last one to call wins.

And here is another game with letters.

"Burime in order"

Starting with the first letter of the alphabet, the players come up with a mini-congratulation (depending on the occasion of the audience) or simply sentences that are appropriate for this holiday.

The phrase should begin first with the letter A, the next with B, then C, and so on. It is desirable that funny phrases be invented, such as:

“It’s great that we are here today!”
- It used to be...
- That's …
- Lord...

Attention! The sequence of letters in the alphabet and the meaning of the invented sentences are also important here. It is clear that some letters (b-b-s) are skipped.

The winner is the one who came up with the funniest phrase. Decided by unanimous vote.

The alphabet was - it's up to the verses!

"What's in the package, tell me!"

If there are craftsmen at the table to compose poetry (the level of poetry, of course, will be taken into account, but here the main thing is different), then offer the next competition.

A few psychics are given one item, which is packaged in an opaque cloth-box-bag. They should quietly consider what they got and compose a poem about the subject. Guests listen and guess.

Important! You can’t name what is hidden, you can only describe in verse the purpose, appearance ...

The writer of the longest and most original work wins.

Everyone loves stories!

"Modern fairy tale"

Inventory: pieces of paper, pens.

The players are divided into two teams. Usually they are divided according to the principle “we sit next to each other”. Each chooses for himself (option - the driver appoints) a profession. For example, cooks and truckers.

After 5-7 minutes of preparation, the teams should voice any fairy tale they choose (an option assigned by the driver) in a modern way, using professional vocabulary and terminology.

For example, the tale of a brave cook begins with the words: “Once upon a time my grandmother had a piece of ham for two and a half kilos ...” We advise the compiler of the program to come up with starting phrases in advance for the different professions of the participants.

Everyone has fun! Prize for the winning team: sweets, a bottle of champagne for everyone ...

Try it too! Teams do not play, but individual participants. Then more time is given for preparation, and it will be easier for the guests to single out the winner.

Beloved by everyone since childhood "Spoiled Phone"

Here, the more people, the better.

The driver (or the first person sitting) thinks of a word (phrase), writes it down on a piece of paper (for the purity of the experiment!))) And passes it along the chain, whispering in each other's ears.

Everyone remembers to whisper quietly and as close as possible to what they heard. The latter speaks the word aloud.

The funny begins at the moment when, with a mismatch between “input-output”, “showdowns” begin - at what stage, for whom, what went wrong.

Robot YES-NO

The driver prepares cards with the names of animals in advance and announces that the guests will guess them, asking any questions that he can answer only with the words YES-NO (in extreme cases, “I can’t say”).

The game continues until the animal is guessed, and the host shows the card with the correct answer.

Questions can be about wool (whether short or long), about legs, paws, about whether there is a tail (fluffy or smooth), about claws, neck, about what it eats, where it sleeps, and so on.

Game option! It is not an animal that is guessed, but an object. Then the questions will be about the size, color, appearance, purpose, presence in the house or on the street, the ability to pick it up, the presence of numbers, the presence of electricity in it ...

Another variant of the game is frivolous. You can guess items from a men's or women's wardrobe, underwear, or for the most daring - from an assortment of adult stores.

paper contests

And here's another game where the funniest thing is also a mismatch.

chipmunk speaker

Props:

• nuts (or orange, or bun),
• paper,
• pen.

Those sitting at the table are divided into pairs: “orator” and “stenographer”.

The “orator” puts nuts (orange slices, a piece of bread) in his cheeks so that it is difficult to speak. He is given a text (poetry or prose), which needs to be pronounced as clearly as possible (as far as the contents of the “cheek pouches” allow). The "stenographer" is trying to write down, as he understood, what he heard. Then compared with the "source".

The couple whose "transcript" is the most correct wins.

Option! One “speaker” is selected, and everyone writes down.

"Explain in 30 Seconds"

• pens / pencils according to the number of players,
• small slips of paper
• box/pouch/hat.

We play like this:

1. Guests are divided into pairs. It is possible by lot, it is possible at will, it is possible in the neighborhood at the table. Each pair is a team.
2. Players receive pens/pencils and sheets of paper (each has several - 15-20).
3. Everyone writes 15-20 (specify this in advance with the players) of any nouns that come to mind: on one sheet - one noun.
4. Sheets with words are hidden in a box / bag / hat.
5. First, the first pair-team plays: they take turns pulling out sheets of words and must explain to each other the word that they came across, but in no case naming the noun itself.

For example, the word “cart” is a cart drawn by horses, “frying pan” is a pancake baker.

After the first word is guessed, you can get a sheet with another.

Everything is given 30 seconds. You can agree on a minute - depending on the state of the company)))

How many words the team guesses, so many points it will receive.

Then the turn passes to another pair of players.

The time limit makes this competition spectacular, loud, noisy and fun!

The team that guessed the most words wins.

Fun table contests with answers

Prepare: a box with pieces of paper in it, on which various questions are written.

Attention! In winter, they can be made in the form of snowflakes, in the summer in the form of apples, in the fall in the form of colored leaves, in spring it can be flowers.

We play like this:

Everyone takes turns pulling out paper sheets with questions and answering them not only as truthfully as possible, but also funny.

Questions might be:

• What was your favorite toy as a child?
• What vacation do you remember the most?
• Have New Year's wishes ever come true?
• What was the funniest thing that happened to you as a child?
• What's the funniest purchase you've ever made?
• If there is an animal at home, what funny incident can you remember (what he ate)?
• What did you dream about as a child and did it come true?
• What's the funniest prank you can remember?
• Do you love your housemates and why?

Questions for the story can be very different, taking into account the degree of frankness of the company.

The winner is the one whose story will please the most guests.

Are you asking? I answer!

Let's cook:

• question cards,
• answer cards,
• 2 boxes.

We play like this.

Questions are in one box, answers are in the other.

The players sit down, if possible, alternating: man-woman-man-woman ... So the answers will be more interesting!

The first player takes out a card with a question and reads it aloud to his table neighbor.

He takes, without looking into the box, a piece of paper with an answer and also reads it out.

Quite funny sometimes it turns out coincidence question-answer)))

Questions can be as follows (it is assumed that the company is close and everything is “on you”):

Do you like watching horror films?
— Can you say that you like to go shopping? (it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman)
- Are you often hungry?
Can you look me in the eyes and smile?
What do you say when you step on people's feet in transport?
- How do you react to experiments in the clothes of girlfriends?
- Tell me, do you like me?
— Do you often knock on the door at night?
— Is it true that your husband/wife likes to look at other people's women/men?
Do you like to bathe in the moonlight?
Why are you smiling so enigmatically?
- Is it true that you preferred to go to the village, and not to the Maldives?
— Why do you sometimes travel in public transport without a ticket?
Have you ever read thick books?
- Do you easily find a common language with guests in an unfamiliar company?
Are you a fan of exotic cuisine?
- How often does alcohol appear on your table?
"Can you fool me right now?"
— Do you like to walk on the roofs of your native city?
Why are you afraid of small dogs?
- As a child, did you climb to the neighbors for raspberries?
- If the phone rings now and they say that you won a trip to the sea, would you believe it?
- Do people like your cooking?
Why are you afraid to drink milk?
Do you like to receive gifts?
— Do you like to give gifts?
- Do you want a drink right now?
Do you rest a lot at work?
Why did you ask for my photo?
- Do you like to eat meat products?
Are you a very temperamental person?
— Why do you eat marinated bread crusts on Sundays?
Can you lend me a thousand dollars right now?
— Do you often wink at strangers in transport?
Do you like to take a bath in clothes?
Do you really want to answer my question now?
— Do you like to dance with married men/women?
- Why did you say that you need to eat a lot at a party?
Have you ever woken up in an unfamiliar bed?
Why do you call throwing a stone from a balcony at passers-by your favorite sport?
— Do you often shift your work to others?
— Why do you like to watch striptease so much?
— Do you like to have a delicious meal at a party?
- How often do you meet on the street?
Do you fall asleep at work?
Why do you hide your age?
- Do you snore at night?
— Do you like fried herring?
Have you ever run away from a policeman?
Are you afraid of taxi drivers?
Do you often over-promise?
Do you like to scare others?
- If I kiss you now, your reaction?
— Do you like my smile?
- Can you tell me your secret?
— Do you like to draw?
Why do you often take time off from work?

Sample answers:

“I can't live a day without it.
— How can I do without it?!
- Only on your birthday.
- When not at home, why not.
“I won't tell you now.
- Just not now.
- I'm embarrassed to say anything now.
Ask my husband/wife.
"Only when I'm well rested."
Yes, but only on Mondays.
Don't put me in an awkward position.
“I have loved this business since childhood.
- Well, yes ... everything happens to me ...
“I can rarely afford it.
- Yes, I am capable / capable of anything for you!
If I rest, then yes.
- Who doesn't?
“I will tell you about this a little later.
— Fortunately, yes.
- If they ask me very much.
“In our time, this is not a sin.
"Do you really think I'm telling the truth?"
- as an exception.
— After a glass of champagne.
- So I told you the truth now!
- This is my cherished dream.
Let's dance better!
- Unfortunately no.
- This is my passion!
I'll tell you about it when you give me your phone number.
- With great pleasure!
- I blushed (a) - this is the answer.
- And I'm proud of it.
My years are my pride.
- I can't stand it.
How dare you ask me about this?
“Only if they pay me.
How can you miss such an opportunity?
- Only in the morning.
— It's quite simple.
If I get paid.
— But how else?
- By itself!
“I will only talk about it face to face.
- Exclusively on holidays.
— How wonderful it is!
- They told me it was good.
“Only in good company.
I consider this a political issue.
"Who do you take me for?"
- And you guessed it.
- Let me give you a kiss.
Only when no one is watching.
- You're embarrassing me.
- If there is no other way.
"And you've been trying to ask me about this all evening?"
“And at least now I can tell you the same thing.

Two truths and a lie

This is a fun table competition for an adult company that does not require preparation. Best suited for a company where the participants do not know each other too well.

Each player must say three statements or facts about themselves. Two true, one false. Listeners vote to decide which one is false. If they guessed correctly, the player (liar) wins nothing. If you don't guess right, you get a small prize.

Option - everyone writes down their statements on the sheets, marking the false ones, give them to the host (party host), and he reads them out in turn.

One more?

Several competitions for a drunk company that wants to become even more drunk.

Find the crocodile

This game can be played in the process of other games, as an additional one. It, in fact, lasts the whole evening, but at the very beginning it is necessary to tell the guests its rules.

At some point in the party, the host secretly passes a clothespin (crocodile) to one of the guests (“hunter”), and he must attach it discreetly to the clothes of a “victim” chosen by him (or put it in a lady’s purse or in a man’s jacket pocket). Then he gives a sign to the leader that the task is completed.

As soon as the clothespin has found a new owner, the presenter says “The crocodile has escaped! Who did he go to?" and aloud starts counting from 10 to one. The guests are looking to see if they were the target of a prank.

If within 10 seconds the “victim” finds a lurking “crocodile hiding in a bag or clinging to a collar” – the “hunter” drinks a penalty glass. If it does not find it, the “victim” must drink.

You can limit the search area (the crocodile clings only to clothes) or give more time.

Drinking alphabet chain

For the competition you need: glasses with your favorite drinks, memory for names and knowledge of the alphabet.

The game goes around. The first player says the first and last name of the celebrity. The next one must also name a celebrity whose name begins with the first letter of the last name of the previous one.

To make it clearer, see an example:

The first player chooses Cameron Diaz. The second Dmitry Kharatyan. Third Hugh Grant. Fourth George Vitsin. And so on.

You can name any famous persons, politicians, actors, athletes. A player who cannot find the right name within 5 seconds (approximately) must drink his glass. Then the glass is filled, and the move passes to the next player.

The longer the game lasts, the more difficult it is to pick up new names (you can’t repeat yourself), the fun and the company are rapidly gaining degrees.

Insert your five cents

The organizer of the competition needs to prepare leaflets with phrases that are far in meaning from the theme of a feast or birthday. Give each of the guests a card with a phrase at the very beginning of the party.

Phrases can be:

The task of each participant is to insert “his” phrase into the conversation so that others do not understand that this is a phrase from a piece of paper. After the player has spoken his phrase, he needs to wait a minute, after which he says “Win!!!” During this time, any other guest who, during the conversation, suspects that a phrase from a piece of paper was spoken, can try to convict the player. He must repeat the phrase he thinks was used. Of course, there is a chance that he will not guess.

If the accuser is mistaken, then he drinks a “penalty glass”. If you guessed right, then a penalty is assigned to the one who was caught using the phrase from the sheet.

Guess the brand

If the name of the company is included in the slogan, then you can abbreviate it. For example: Who goes where, and I (to the savings bank). This slogan is included in the retro section of our list. In a young company, you can at least invite guests to guess whose advertising slogan it might be. You can come up with clues or multiple answers.

For example: Who goes where, and I ... (at VDNKh, to Moskvoshveya, to get married, to Sberbank).

Find your soul mate

If there are about half of the women and men in the company, then you can play this game. Although, it is suitable, with some degree of conventionality, in other cases.

To do this, you need to prepare in advance small cards on which to write the names of famous couples. One name per card. For example:

• Romeo and Juliet;
• Alla Pugacheva and Maxim Galkin;
• Dolphin and mermaid;
• Twix stick and Twix stick;
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt...

Each guest receives a card with a name - this is his "image".

Task: everyone must find their soul mate by asking the rest of the guests in turn questions that can only be answered with “yes” or “no”. Direct questions like "Is your name Angelina?" or "you are Brad's wife"? prohibited. Allowed questions like "Do you have children with your soul mate?"; “Are you and your significant other married?”; “Do you and your significant other live in…?”

Those who find their soul mate by asking the minimum number of questions win. The more couple cards you have, the better. Since only half of the guests will play in the first round (when they find their soul mate, she loses the opportunity to look for hers). Therefore, after the first round, new cards are dealt and the second round goes.

Option: in the first circle they are looking for a half of a woman, in the second a man.

Do you have..?

This game is suitable for a large company and for celebrating a variety of holidays.

The company is divided into two teams with an equal number of participants. We must try to have the same number of women in each.

The host, starting with the words “Do you have ...?”, Reads out a list of things you are looking for. Members of each team need to find this thing and show it to the leader.

Team members search in pockets and purses, finders show the item they are looking for, the team gets a point for each item found. For one item named, the team gets only one point (no matter how many five thousandth bills the team members have, the team can only get one point for the item with a bill).

So, do you have with you..?

• banknote of 5000 rubles;
• Notebook;
• photo of the child;
• mint chewing gum;
• sweetie;
• pencil;
• keychain with at least 7 keys;
• penknife;
• 7 (or 5) credit cards per person;
• a trifle in the amount of at least 95 rubles (for one person);
• hand cream;
• flash drive;
• nail polish;
• shoe sponge...

The list of things can be arbitrarily supplemented.

Play, have fun with the guests at the festive table!

Do not forget that each competition can be creatively redesigned for your company.

Let your friends remember this day not only with the most delicious dishes, but also with the most fun and cool contests.

Eat! Drink! And don't be bored!

If you have a birthday, then this is an occasion to think about how to entertain guests at a birthday party so that it is fun and interesting. And while you're thinking, let me offer you our ideas for home and games to play at the table. And so, let's start.

Contests.
First, invite your guests to play a variety of contests. And pick up a variety of contests so that all guests can play in them. That is, make a musical, dance, moving, sitting contest. Also think about the order in which these contests will go.
Here are sample contests that your guests can play.

The first competition is a well-known competition called - a mind-reading hat. It's easy to play. It is enough to make a selection of interesting songs and catchphrases from films and find a hat. Bring the hat to the guest and talk - and now we will find out what this person is thinking about. You put a hat on your head, one phonogram turns on and everyone laughs.
Song examples:
- I fight like a fish, but I didn’t get money!
- the girls didn’t love me, the girls fell in love with the tractor driver ...
If I were a sultan...
- for lovely ladies, for lovely ladies, my first toast here and there ...
- where are you, dear, sweet, beloved ...

The next competition is called - who am I.
Everything is simple, but interesting. You need to prepare face masks in advance. These can be masks of different vegetables, fruits, characters, and so on.
You come up behind each guest and put a mask over their face. The main thing is that he does not see his mask, but everyone else saw it. When everyone is wearing masks, each guest in turn asks one question about his mask and receives an answer to it. And so it continues until someone guesses his mask.

And the next competition with papers or cards, whichever is more convenient for you. On the cards you write tasks for the guests. All cards are placed in a bag. Guests take turns taking out one card at a time and complete the task that is written there.
Examples for assignments:
- congratulate the birthday man in five different languages ​​of the world.
- to tell a funny incident from the life of a birthday man.
- shout, as if swearing, and make a congratulatory speech for the birthday person.

Games.
You can also play at a birthday party. Like fishing! Only you need to go to the children's store and buy a set for children's fishing. In such a set, instead of a hook, a magnet and fish with a magnet. The fish must be different color: blue, red, green and one goldfish.
You make something like a lake, and you launch fish into it. Take guests to a certain distance and give them a fishing rod. The guests begin to fish. They must cast the line into the lake and catch a fish.
Caught blue fish, pour and drink a glass.
Caught a green fish, eat a sandwich.
Caught a red fish, sing a song.
Caught a goldfish, receive a prize from the birthday man.