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12th March 2010 by Shandri Brown

Works best for:

Small groups of about 8 - 15 people. Or you could split up and play multiple games.

What you need:

• Pens for each person playing
• Paper for each person playing
• Scissors x 2
• Container (bucket or hat)

The Game:

Each person should write down the names of 10 people - either famous people or people everyone in the group knows.  Get people to cut their pieces of paper up so there's one name per piece of paper.  Go around and collect them in a basket or hat.  You should have quite a few names in the basket. 

Split into 2 or 3 teams (each team having around three or four members). 

Round One.
Pick a team to start - one member of that team gets the basket of names, picks out a name, and has to try and describe that person to the other members of his team.  Once they guess correctly, pull out another name from the hat and so on.  The team has one minute to go through as many names as they can.  If they get stuck on a name, they can pass and move onto the next name.  Names that are guessed succesfully, put in a separate pile, those that are 'passed' put back in the basket. When the minute is up, add up the total number of names guessed, and add that to the team's score.  Move onto the next team who do the same as above.  This continues until all the names have been used up or 'guessed'. 

Round Two.
Similar to Round 1 but you can only use one word to describe the person to your group.  The group will be aware of all the names in the basket (from round 1) so it is easier than it sounds.  Score a point per name guessed as above.

Round Three
Same as previous rounds but this time, you have to 'act' out the person without speaking. 

Add up the scores at the end to see who wins!

 Source: www.jubed.com

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1. 

   Peter Gott

   May 12, 2011 at 3:22pm

   We used to play this one at partys and stuff. It was great. The way we played it Round 2 and 3 were swapped around.
   
   We also used different catagories, so everyone could pick a person, place and a thing.
   
   Just some thoughts for anyone interested.
   
   Bless ya!!

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2. 

   !Relle

   May 16, 2011 at 12:49pm

   Doh! me and my friends thought we invented this game! we called it "The Lunch Box Game" ....

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