Help me with a game please!

building_with_lego

I've been searching and failing to find details of a game I read about on here. I'm sure it was referred to as "gift bingo" or something along those lines but it's eluding me!

It involves lots of wrapped presents, some "good" and some not so good, and they are shared out between the people present. There's a way of dividing them and some way of "claiming" presents other people have on their pile, then they're opened up when they're all distributed.

I'm thinking of games to play around a restaurant table at DD's upcoming birthday party- this sort of thing would probably work in lieu of party bags too but I can't quite remember how to 'run' it... I'm also planning to do a sort of pass the parcel with forfeits and small gifts. If you know of any more suitable games for 10-12 year old girls I'd be glad to hear them too

pollywiggle

Haven't got the link to the thread but I cut & pasted this before Xmas. We played it at the Xmas table between courses.Everyone loved it & the next Xmas dinner host has already started collecting bits & pieces!

For a bit of fun around the Christmas dinner table last year we play a game called Snatch Bingo which was dreamt up by a friend (or so she claims anyway).

Christmas/Family version
We have a family gathering of 15 people (aged 4-70), so throughout the year I gather together a collection of 20+ small gifts - all costing less than £1 (with many costing a lot less if you are a billy bargain hunter like me). The idea is to have a few more gifts than people.

The gifts are wrapped up, using paper which either gives some idea of the content (e.g pink for a little girl's type gift or grown-up paper/newspaper for an alcoholic miniature)- or disguises them for more of a surprise.

The idea is that everyone gets given a strip of 5 raffle tickets with the other half of the pairs of numbers being put in a pot.

All the gifts are put in a pile on the middle of the table and the organiser begins pulling out the numbers. When your number is called you can take a gift from the pile. When all the gifts are gone (and some people will have two by now) and your number is called, you take one from someone else (this is where the 'snatch' comes in, although if little kids are playing we have the rule that you can only 'snatch' from someone who has two gifts, so that no one is left empty-handed.

The game keeps going with the gifts being 'snatched' or passed around until the last number has been called. At this point everyone can open their gift.

If you wrap them cleverly, some gifts will be perceived as being 'better' (the biggest one in the case of the kids) and will end up being passed around many times -hopefully with lots of shrieking and laughter (and hopefully not tantrums).

It is an excellet way of using up those slightly ecclectic 'bargains' that you might pick up through the year, but don't end up being used.



Last year the gifts included (with an idea of bargain prices paid):
• a pink sparkly bendy pencil and various other items from Claires Accessories (bargain bags of 10 items for £2)
• a miniature bottle of port (last minute 75% reduction in Sainsburys Xmas gifts)
• a cake mix (a BOGOF offer at some point)
• wind-up bath toy (around 50p from somewhere)
• mini photo frame (59p Sainsburys)
• a water pistol (37p end of summer Wilko bargain)
• a scented candle (10p Tesco bargain)
• a few items of make-up (from various No.7 gift-with-purchase)
• handcream (reduced bargain from Boots)
• A pack of ping pong balls (10p Wilko bargain)
• a pair of magic gloves that stretch to any size (50p from QS)
• The BIG prize was a musical singing chick stuffed toy (99p bargain from Amazon)

building_with_lego

You are an absolute star, thank you!

springdreams

The game is called snatch bingo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1175253

nic2075

Love this idea, going to keep it in mind for next Christmas. Thanks for posting x

building_with_lego

I've spent £20 and have 22 different things, including a fabulously wrapped tube of toothpaste- all pastel tissue paper and pink ribbons!- and a brand new Jenga. I've tried to disguise what the item is, so the rubbish-looking ones are actually pretty good, while the toothpaste and crisps look wonderful

I'm really excited about this party now!

zanuda

Of course there are active games kids love to play but you would not do it at the restaurant table. One more suitable comes to my mind, sorry don't know the name for this game. Have pens and paper for each participant. Now, the game is run like that. There is a set of questions the answers to it give logically connected story. Think of the questions in advance but the standard are something like that: WHEN? WHICH? WHO? WHAT DID HE/SHE/THEY DO? HOW/WHICH WAY? WHAT HAPPENED AS A RESULT? ... Don't remember any more but you've got the idea. It should not be too long but somehow it should lead to more then one character (it would be more fun).

Now, give everybody the paper, ask 1st question, let them write. Them everybody bend a top part of the paper, just a little bit, only enough to cover the answer. Then all the sheets are passed one sit clockwise. Them the next question is answered. And so on. Participants might add their own questions. When the questions are finished, every sheet is unwrapped and read. Generally over 10 years olds have good imagination, so the "stories" might be really funny.