Comments on: Great Games

By: 100 Ways to Enjoy Life : Productivity501

100 Ways to Enjoy Life : Productivity501 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:00:55 +0000

[...] Organize a neighborhood-wide game of sardines. [...]

By: Ruth Greenwood

Ruth Greenwood — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:57:08 +0000

I’m so thrilled to read this list–it’s so easy to have a blast without having to have “stuff” to play with. My family (2 kids, husband) love to play games in the car, enough so that we created an app that will be available on iTunes with 99 games you can play in the car (no equipment needed). Playing together a lot has made us a close family and maybe has helped the kids be good students and really creative. (And the kids don’t expect to be glued to a DVD at all times!)

I also loved knowing that some of the games you mentioned spread across distance and time!

By: Rounin

Rounin — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:48:07 +0000

In the version of “Mafia” I’ve played in the past, we’ve always added a doctor (the ace of hearts in a poker deck) to randomly save someone. If you’re familiar with the group you can sometimes accurately guess who will get targeted by the mafia next and save them.

By: deepikaur

deepikaur — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:09:24 +0000

Awesome list! Mafia’s fun when no one’s in the mood to go out, or you’re all stuck in a bus/car/train/plane, especially when everyone gets into it! And car keys.. haha, that game can get to be pretty funny. Definitely bookmarking this.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:51:38 +0000

Great list. You can never be too old for these games. I’m betting that some of the team building activities today are based off of these ideas.

By: infmom

infmom — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:27:55 +0000

When I was a kid we played a variant on baseball called Workup.

We filled all the field positions, and anyone else left over was up at bat (fortunately, we lived in a neighborhood with lots of kids in a pretty wide age range). The game progressed like any other baseball game until a batter was “out.” At that point, the batter moved to left field, the left fielder went to center field, the center fielder went to right field… and so forth. Pitcher became catcher and catcher was a batter.

Needless to say, there was no way of keeping score and it didn’t occur to us to try. We were there to have fun and play ball, and we could easily while away a whole afternoon while everyone got to play every position a couple times.

I wish they’d do away with Little League and play Workup instead.