Best Indoor Games to Entertain Your Guests

Picture Puzzle Race

rnAll you have to do is to provide a couple of photos of your joyful group of good friends, and you've gotten yourself a fast-moving game.

Materials Needed:

• 2 color duplicates of a picture of your group of friends or of a particular person from your group,with increased size to 11x13 inches or bigger (If possible, the group photograph should include all the players.)
• 2 sheets of poster board
• Glue or double-sided tape
• 2 large envelopes

rnPlay this game for 30 minutes. How to Play: 1. Prior to the party, attach the enlarged photos onto poster board with glue or double-sided tape. 2. Cut the pictures into equivalent numbers of puzzle pieces. Put the puzzle pieces for each photo into a large envelope. 3. At game time, split the participants into two teams. 4. Give each team an envelope containing the puzzle pieces. 5. On the word "Go," inform the players to race to put together the picture. 6. Give a prize to the team that first finishes the puzzle.

Variation:

Create puzzles from individual photographs of all your guests, and have them race one another to complete their own puzzles. Then dump all the puzzle pieces into a pile, and have the players try to separate the pieces and reconstruct the original pictures.

Personalized Bingo

Why play plain old bingo when you can play the personalized version, in which everyone picks their own squares?

Materials Needed:

• 5-by-5 inch poster board squares ( 2 for each player)
• Fine-point pens, 1 for each player
• Scissors
• Items with which to mark the bingo squares, such as beans, small candies, pennies, and so on.

rnPlay this one of the best Party Games for Adults for 30-45 minutes. How to Play: 1. Make bingo cards by drawing five columns and five rows on the 5x5 inch poster board squares. Give one card to each player. 2. Cut the remaining cards into one-inch squares (twenty-five squares per card). Discard one square. 3. Give each player twenty-four small squares and a pen. 4. Choose a theme for the game, such as foods, vacation spots, bad words, movie stars, and so on. Have each player write twenty-four theme-related items on the bingo card, leaving the center "FREE". Ask the players to keep their cards private until playing time. 5. When finished, tell the players to write the same items on the small squares. 6. Collect all the small squares in a bowl, mix them up. 7. Take turns drawing a square from the bowl and announcing the item. Everyone with a matching item gets to place a marker on that square. 8. Award a prize to the first player who fills his or her bingo card. Or, if you prefer, only have them fill five squares in a row-up, down, or across-as in a regular bingo game.

Variation:

After players make their personal bingo cards, have them exchange their cards with other players.