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What are the best twenty-something group games to play?

Asked by nigel (37points) November 9th, 2006
My friends and I love turning anything into a game. Mafia, Taboo, Cranium, Celebrity, etc. We're in the lookout for new games. Alcohol is optional. I'd prefer games that require minimal equipment -- paper/pens, dice, cards
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Great question
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I recently heard about a new drinking mashup -- a hybrid between flip cup and beirut
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Flip cup and Beirut? I'd love to hear it
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(game)
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I was in copy #3 of this question
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yeah, you should apologize
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it's your fault I wrote the question 3 times
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ben/andrew - the site froze, and I clicked "Send" or whatever 3 times
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You have a normal beirut game, 10 cups a side, two on two.
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So the game works like this:
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Celebrity!
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each team also has a team of flip cuppers
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or is that cup flippers?
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I love it already....
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anyway, when you sink a cup
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each team races in flip cup
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if the team that sunk wins, the shot stands
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if the team that challenges wins, then the ball is removed and the cup stays
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so do the 2-on-2 folks PLAY flipcup
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or those are other team members?
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we should turn it into a triple threat, where even if you win in flipcup, you then have to go on to sink a few quarters
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Collaboration, baby!
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ok - what about non-drinking games
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think Mafia, Celebrity
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Apples-to apples.
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like hearts/spades/poker/etc.
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Great, easy, low-commitment, great for huge groups.
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or you could play freeze tag
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capture the flag?
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Dodgeball, as long as I'm on your team
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Well, there's always card games
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party games
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Graham - think of us nerdy kids sitting around 744 Dillon
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or any other nerdy household
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You can make meta jokes about each other
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and the comments that everyone makes about those jokes
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we could play Self-Referential
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I know what else - you can watch crazy people play Dr. Mario
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Have you tried Polygraph?
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well, yes.
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Also there's a great electornic game catchphrase... think taboo meets hot potato
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You can play - Guess how many violent crimes have ocurred in my neighborhood in X amount of time: http://www.lapdcrimemaps.org/
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or Guess how many starbucks are within a 10 mile radius of my house
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I don't have a website for that, but I guess 6
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Wow, this one sounds pretty cool... if I'm understanding it correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couch_Of_Power
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edward 40 hands
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another vote for apples-to-apples
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Apples to Apples. Mos def.
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Polygraph is amazing
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smear the queer (or any hetero-fascist game really)
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had a fun speed-scrabble game last week...
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Taboo was made by the hand of God himself. There's also a simple drinking game I like to play: whip out a newspaper grocery ad and, as a group, try to guess what each item costs (kind of like The Price is Right). Obviously, each person takes turns holding the newspaper and
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I definitely did not see the "Pressing enter will send your response." So the rest of that sentence would be... "asking the others for their guesses." I'd probably reserve this game for when you're absolutely bored or inebriated
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Apples to Apples!
http://www.otb-games.com/showcase/apples.html
Great game for groups, only semi-competitive, and definitely convertible to a drinking game.
And easy to learn!

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Bear, Salmon, Mosquito: Play it like paper rock scissors, except that its two large teams of people, and they all have to agree among themselves which sign they’re going to throw. The two teams get relatively close to each other in lines in the middle of the field and throw simultaneously. The side that wins tries to tag as many people from the losing side as possible before they make it back to their end of the field. Those tagged join the other team, and you start over in the huddle. Bear beats salmon, salmon beats mosquito, mosquito beats bear.

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Apples to Apples is great, better with some Et-OH involved. Another good one if not a little old-school is cosmic wimpout, its a dice game that gets kind of intense. If youre looking for another drinking game, I played this one the other night with some friends and it was spectacular. Get some of your favorite shooter (we had Jack and Jaegermeister) and a copy of the movie “Blues Brothers”. Insert said movie into movie player of choice, and everytime something ridiculous happens or any time someone says they are on a mission from god take a shot of whatever. just make sure you have a ride home or a spot on a couch.

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Catch Phrase, Mad Gabs, Scattergories

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