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The balloon chase

All contestants get two balloons to tie around their feet. Then try to blow up the balloons on your opponent's feet by running around and chasing each other. Stupid but fun!

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Blow the balloon until it bursts

Give each contestant a balloon. Blow up until it bursts. It will be extra fun with large balloons.

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The banana around the waist

Tie a banana/cucumber in a string (or put them in a pantyhose) around the waist. Then it is necessary to move a tennis ball back and forth around a cone only by swinging the banana/cucumber.

Hand over to the next person on the team. The first team where everyone has finished wins.

 

 

Gröna äpplen

Catch the apple

You need: Buckets, water, apple

 

Instructions: Place a bucket with water that fills 2/3 of the bucket and as many apples as the team contains about 10 m from the starting line. Have the team members line up at the starting line and at the starting shot, have them one by one run up to the bucket and try to pick up an apple using only their mouths (no hands allowed). When the first participant has picked up an apple with their mouth, the participant must run back to their team and let the next in turn run forward to pick up an apple. The first team to get all the apples out of the bucket and make it back to the starting line wins.

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Long straw

With the help of a very long straw, all participants must lift up 5 flat candies of their choice (for example Brio) out of a tall mug.

 

First person to have all the candies out of the mug wins.

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Jaw cramp – Chew Brio

All contestants must eat a bag of Brio. First clear gapes and shows an empty mouth. This is advantageously done together with the whole team. If there are many of you, eat more sweets. Jaw cramp warning!

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Chin ball

Everyone on the team must round a cone with a tennis ball clamped under their chin (hands behind their backs!). Then hand over to the next person without using your hands. First to finish wins.

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Hook ball

Everyone on the team must round a cone with a tennis ball clamped under their chin (hands behind their backs!). Then pass it on to the next person without using

the hands. First clear wins.

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Relay with potatoes on a spoon

One person in each team gets a potato on a spoon. Then you have to run and round a cone before handing over the spoon with the potatoes to the next person. If you lose the potato, you have to start over. When everyone in the team has time to go round and back, the competition is over.

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Dot the bucket

You need: Frisbee, bucket.
Instructions: Set out a bucket 10-15 m away from the "starting line". Then line up the participants at the starting line and have them throw the Frisbee three times each. The team that ticks the bucket the most times wins.

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Drag and find

You need: One or two pieces of paper per person, pen

 

Instructions: Let each participant get one or two pieces of paper where they write down a word on each side of the piece of paper. It can be any words, e.g. "apple" and "cloud". Put all the slips in a bag and then draw two slips and read two words (one from each slip). Now it is up to the participants to find an object that matches what is written on the piece of paper as quickly as possible. Here it is important to be creative and as a judge you make the decision about what is approved and what is not!

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The caramel string

You need: Carbon string

 

Instructions: Give each participant a candy string. Insert 2 cm of one end of the candy string into the mouth and let the rest of the string hang outside the mouth. At the start signal, the participants must try to eat the candy string in the shortest possible time, without using their hands or anything else. First person to eat the whole thing wins.

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The ping-pong ball

Place four bottles with a ping pong ball on top of each bottle. In front of the bottles, place four glasses with water in them at different distances from the bottles. Then the contestants must blow the ping-pong balls into the respective water glasses in the shortest possible time.

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The sugar donut

Eat a sugary donut without licking your mouth. First to finish without licking his mouth wins.

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The Joker

You need: Card deck, empty glass bottle


Instructions: Place the deck with a joker at the bottom on top of the mouth of the glass bottle. Line up the team participants and let them face each other one on one, alternatively each team gets to choose a fighter. Then the participants must take turns blowing away any number of cards from the deck. Keep blowing away cards until whoever blows away the joker (ie the last card in the pile) from the bottle loses.

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Giant sack jumping

This game requires access to huge sacks. They can be obtained, for example, in shops that sell topsoil or the like.

If you have such a sack, up to six people can jump sack at the same time in the same sack!


If you have several sacks, you can do team relays, otherwise you can race against the clock or just practice cooperation.

Pop the balloon

​Break the balloon

You need: x number of balloons and string.

You have probably seen the film, which has been widely spread on social media. This branch involves attaching a balloon to the butt using a string around the waist. The first person on the team must stand at the goal and wait for the next person on the team to run up to it and squish the balloon. When the balloon bursts, the next person can run forward and crush the other person's balloon. Laughter and a little pee in the pants are promised. The team that has broken all the balloons wins and gets points.

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Throw dart with suction cup

What is needed: At least one drain cleaner with a suction plug and a scoreboard (which you can make yourself).

Make a scoreboard with three fields: 3 points at the bottom, 2 points in the middle and 1 point at the end. Throw and count points.

Pillow fight on a log

Pillow fight on log

Two competitors stand or sit opposite each other on a log a bit above ground level. Both contestants have at least one pillow in their hands. When the starting signal goes, you have to force your opponent down with the pillow. Pushing each other down with hands or feet is not allowed.

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Cube relay

Set out x number of cubes in a row, one row for each team. The teams simultaneously start throwing down the block with one stick each, and when one hits, you run and get the stick and pass it to the next one - just like in a relay race. First to finish wins.

Hammering

Nail competition

If you have access to a hammer, nails and proper pieces of wood or planks, this is a fun and easy game. All participants must drive a nail all the way down, one at a time, as fast as possible. Fastest wins.

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Balloon points

The game is prepared by writing point numbers on small pieces of paper, approx. 3x3cm. It can be e.g. 2 pieces of paper with the number 0 on it, 4 pieces with 5, 2 pieces with 10, 2 pieces with 15. Fold or roll up the pieces and place each piece inside its own balloon. 
The balloons with notes in them are inflated and attached in a row to a rope or a wooden board. 
Individually or in teams, participants take turns throwing darts and bursting the balloons and collecting score slips. It is important to get as many points as possible. So even if you burst the most balloons, the team that got down fewer can win because they got more points.  We usually look at the score only when all the balloons have been popped. Then it will be exciting right to the end! If you only use an arrow, the risk of someone getting hit is minimal, but still think about the safety of the participants!

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Ass hook

This is a fun game for adults that is often associated with Gotland, but was known over large parts of southern Sweden.

Here's how the game goes:

  1. The two contestants lie down on their backs next to each other, but with their heads in opposite directions. The arms closest to each other are hooked together in an arm hook.

  2. Both lift the leg closest to the other and hook them together.

  3. Now it's about rolling over/rolling backwards/pushing the other person's leg down by pulling your own leg towards you/down towards the ground.

  4. Whoever manages to stay still and not fall over has won.

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Curious in a cone

Roll up an A3 paper into a cone and fasten the cone around the face of the contestants. Make sure the small holes are the same size. Through the small peephole, the participants must then look for an object on the lawn. Whoever finds the item first wins.

Or play soccer with two goals and one ball.

Organic potatoes

Pick potatoes

The participants get to put a cone that is open at both ends for the face. It should only be possible for the participant to see something through the small opening.
Within a larger, demarcated play area, a quantity of potatoes are then spread out to be picked up by the participants.

The activity can be performed individually in time or with several competitors at the same time.
Consider the risk of collision when the field of vision is limited.
 

It is possible to replace the potatoes with balls, or eggs (although eggs can be a bit fragile)

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barrow race

A perfect activity for playful guests who have a lot of running in their legs!

Here's how the game goes:

As many wheelbarrows as teams are needed, at least two.
One person drives the wheelbarrow and one sits in it - it doesn't get any harder than that! Suggested across a lawn, up to a mark to be rounded and then back to the team where you quickly change to a new driver and passenger.
The first team to run all their laps wins!
If you want to make the game even more challenging, you can let the driver be blindfolded, and the passenger can be the one to steer by shouting "right!", "no, left!"...

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Whistling competition

What is needed: Dry biscuits and decide on a tune to whistle.

Eat 3-4 biscuits, chew and try to WHISTLE. Whoever can whistle first wins.

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The candy elevator

Players must loop the string around each ear and pull the pencil stacked with three M & M to the mouth and eat them. 

The team that manages the most wins!

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Cucumber movement

Divide into two equal teams and place the teammates in rows, preferably every other woman and every other man. Instruct everyone to keep their hands behind their backs throughout the competition. Each team gets a cucumber to move from the first to the last person on the team. The easiest way is to pinch the cucumber between your knees and hand it over to the next person's knees.

If the cucumber falls to the floor, the team is penalized by having the cucumber go back one step, i.e. to the person who just managed to leave it behind. This game is extra fun if the people in the teams are of different heights.

 

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Spin the stick 

Line up the teams and place a stick on the turf about 10 meters in front of each team. One by one you run forward, straighten the stick so that one end is on the ground and the other against the forehead. Then run around the stick x number of laps, let go of the stick, and run back to your team as fast as you can. It will be wobbly, so be careful! When you return, the next contestant takes over. The first team to get everyone to the finish line wins.

Long jump

Team long jump

The participants are divided into teams. All teams start from a common starting line. One person from each team jumps as far as it will go, standing still from the starting line.

From where the first jumper lands, the next team member stands and jumps as far as possible and so on. When all teams have jumped the same number of times, you check who has the longest team jump!

You can also see which team needed the least number of jumps to cover a certain distance or which ones reach the fastest.

Volleyball on Sand

Buff ball

In this game, it is necessary to push a ball forward, but not with the feet as in soccer, but only with the help of the head.
The participants line up along a starting line and when the starting shot goes off, crawling, push a ball with their head a distance, round a rounding mark and get back to the starting line again.

This can be advantageously done as a relay! Experiment with balls of different sizes.

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Egg rolling

Here, it is important to get your egg to roll the furthest. Standing still from a starting line, the egg must be rolled away, either along level ground or from a plank. It is important that the egg has contact with the ground all the way when it rolls and is not thrown away, that is cheating!

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Backflip hide and seek

Contrary to the classic version! Here, everyone is counting and one is hiding. Whoever finds the person hides in the same place.

 

In the end, there will be one left who searches and finds everyone at once.

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Run rowing boat

Players must loop the string around each ear and pull the pencil stacked with three M & M to the mouth and eat them. 

The team that manages the most wins!

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Frog spitting

This game can be played individually or in teams. If the participants are competing individually, it is necessary to spit a candy jelly frog furthest from a starting line. 

If you choose the team variant, the participants are divided into teams of equal size. First man spits his jelly frog away. From where it lands, the next person in turn takes their turn and spits theirs, etc.

 

The team that gets the farthest wins.

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The pen in the bottle

We remember this one from middle school class parties! The guests are divided into two teams, the teams line up in two ranks. The first person in each line gets a string tied around their waist. From the string hangs another string which is tied to a pencil. A bottle is placed behind the contestants.

The goal is for them to, by bending forward and looking back, between their legs, dot the bottle with the pencil. When they have succeeded, the turn goes on to the next person in the team. The team that finishes first wins.

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The egg fight

The participants are divided into pairs of two and two. Each pair gets an egg to throw between them. For each successful roll, they move further apart. The pair that manages the distance without the egg breaking wins! A sticky warning is issued so watch your clothes.

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Water chain

The participants line up. Everyone has a mug. The first man in the line stands at a water source of some kind, for example a bucket full of water. Last man standing at an empty span. When the start signal goes, the first person fills their cup with water from the bucket and then pours the water from their cup to the next person's cup, and so on. When the last man gets the water in his mug, he quickly pours it into his bucket. So the game continues, either for a predetermined time or until the water in the first bucket runs out. Then you measure how much water the team managed to transport.
 

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Bank Robber Bowling

This adult game is fun both because the competition is challenging and because you look so funny!

  1. You need nylon stockings, tennis balls and water bottles.

  2. The contestant stuffs a tennis ball into the toe of the nylon stocking and then pulls the stocking over their head like a bank robber.

  3. Now you have to swing your head and make the ball swing so that it knocks down as many water bottles as possible.

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Strength test

What's needed: Two weights of some kind (eg bricks, stones or weights) and a timer.

Try to keep your arms straight with the weights in each hand. The participant who manages to keep their arms straight the longest wins.

Nautical Rope

Balance on rope

Lay out a long rope on the floor and ask all the party participants to stand with both feet on the rope, next to each other, preferably
without shoes.


The leader then tells everyone to line up in birthday order, for example, with January on the far left and December on the far right.
You always have to have one foot on the rope and are therefore allowed to climb and hug past each other.


Works well as an ice breaker at the party.

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Soap football/fireball

Divide into two equal teams and place the teammates in rows, preferably every other woman and every other man. Instruct everyone to keep their hands behind their backs throughout the competition. Each team gets a cucumber to move from the first to the last person on the team. The easiest way is to pinch the cucumber between your knees and hand it over to the next person's knees.

If the cucumber falls to the floor, the team is penalized by having the cucumber go back one step, i.e. to the person who just managed to leave it behind. This game is extra fun if the people in the teams are of different heights.

 

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Ski racing

You need four old planks or skis. Then you nail 3 strips across each ski, with enough distance so that three people can stand behind each other. The game consists of three people from each team putting their feet into the straps and with joint efforts cover a certain distance in the shortest possible time. It will be extra fun if you make the course a bit curvy.

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Christmas & winter games

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The game of love

Everyone sits on a chair in a circle, except for one person. This person must try to get a chair by declaring their love for someone in the circle. If the person sitting then starts laughing, they must give up their chair, otherwise the lovesick person must move on to the next person. 100 percent chance of laughter!

 

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Glove-eating

Accessories: Block chocolate, hat, scarf, mittens, dice, knife, fork.
Everyone sits in a circle, with a bowl of chocolate bars in the middle. One person starts by rolling a dice, then it's the next person's turn, and so on, until someone rolls a six. Then they get to put on their hat, mittens, and scarf and start eating the chocolate with a knife and fork. In the meantime, the dice continue to roll, and when someone rolls a six, it's their turn to pull on their hat, mittens, and scarf and start eating until they're interrupted by the next six.

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Crazy forehead

1. You need paper, pencil and tape.
2. Write a celebrity or someone everyone knows on a piece of paper. Tape it to the forehead of the person to your right.
3. Now everyone has to figure out who they are with yes and no questions. You can ask one question at a time.
4. The first one wins.

NOTE: You can only guess people three times, then you are out.

 

 

 

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Chinese whisper game

This game is exactly like the whisper game but with paper and pen! Do this: Tear up pieces of paper of appropriate size and hand out pens to everyone. Everyone should have as many pieces of paper as there are people in the room, that is, if there are six of you, everyone should have six pieces of paper each. Set the clock to two minutes. Now everyone should draw something on a piece of paper. When two minutes have passed, the stress begins. Everyone shows their drawing to the person sitting to their left. You hold up the drawing for exactly ten seconds. Then the clock is set to 30 seconds and now you have to draw the drawing you saw on a new piece of paper. When 30 seconds have passed, you put down the piece of paper, take a new one and then you get to look at the drawing that the person on the left is holding up again. When you have gone around the whole team and everyone has drawn all the drawings, the game is over. Then you show the original drawings and place them one after the other so that you can see how the drawing has turned out as people have painted the image from memory.

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The mouse or “beep!”

Place a pile of nuts (and/or raisins and almonds) on the table. One person turns their back, the others decide which nut is the “mouse”. The player turns around and then picks nuts until they get the “mouse”, then everyone else shouts “beep!”. Either you compete and count how many nuts you have picked and put them back. The one with the most nuts after several rounds wins! Or, especially if you are playing with younger children, instead of counting and competing, you can play with raisins and almonds and simply let the player eat all the raisins/almonds that are not mice!

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Orange movement

This game is, in all its simplicity, unbridled fun. Divide yourself into two even teams and place your teammates in a line, preferably every other woman and every other man. Instruct everyone to keep their hands behind their backs throughout the competition. Each team gets an orange that must be passed from the first to the last person on the team. The easiest way is to pinch the orange between the chin and neck and pass it to the next person's chin/neck. If the orange falls to the floor, the team is punished by having the orange take a step back, i.e. to the person who just managed to pass it off.

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Mission under the plate

Everyone has their own assignment, for example under the plate at mealtime.

 

The assignments should be a little different, such as "wipe your table neighbor's mouth every now and then", "take food from your table neighbor's plate every now and then", "interrupt and tell them about your vacation often", "burp loudly and noisily", "say this was the worst thing you've ever eaten", "cheers to the summer often", "comment on the same picture every now and then", "reach across the table for food so that it's distracting", etc.

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Who is who?

A good game for parties where everyone doesn't know each other very well, or where different groups of friends meet. First, the guests are divided into groups, which are called 1, 2, 3, etc. Each group is given a number of questions about another group that they have to find out over the course of the evening.

 

For example: what shoe size does Nisse have? What grades did Berit have when she finished ninth grade? Then the groups have to figure out these answers during the evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Christmas gift game

To play this game, all participants must bring two inexpensive Christmas presents. Then you simply bet on who gets which Christmas present. The exact way the game is played can vary, but of course all Christmas presents must be wrapped when you start and the game itself can, for example, be played as follows:


You use a dice, which each person rolls, until someone gets a 6. Then they get to choose a Christmas present from the pile. This continues until everyone has received two packages. If you want, you can also continue rolling the dice after this. The only difference is that when someone gets a six, they are allowed to exchange one of their Christmas presents with someone else (of course, you get to choose who).

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The tail of the pig

Pigs are associated with Christmas, so “The Pig’s Tail” is definitely a Christmas game! Draw a big, round Christmas pig on a piece of paper. Attach the paper to the wall. Blindfold one participant at a time, spin them around and then lead them to the paper and have them draw a grunt on the pig. The one with the most appropriately placed grunt wins!

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Collect things

Each team has a nest. For example, the leader says “an embarrassing object” or “a loving gift” and the teams must retrieve it as quickly as possible. The team that brings the object to its nest first gets a point. Sometimes several objects are called out at the same time to create a bit of chaos. Collecting things can be done in other ways too. When all the objects are collected, they are also put against each other and the leader gets to decide the winner in each “branch” depending on creativity. The team with the most points wins!
This game can also be played with all the objects written down on a piece of paper that is handed out to the teams. The different objects give different points depending on the difficulty. Then the teams are given X number of minutes to retrieve them.

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The package game

You divide into pairs. Everyone is provided with a box, wrapping paper, scissors, tape and string. Then the pairs should hold each other around the waist with one arm. Together you then have two arms to wrap the package with. Take your time. The pair that needed the shortest time wins.

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Pick nuts

Place ten nuts on a table. One person leaves the room. Those who remain choose a nut that they can think of. The person who left the room comes in and has to take one nut at a time, until he or she reaches the chosen nut. The nuts you pick up are yours to keep. If there are people with nut allergies at the party, you can of course play the game with raisins or other Christmas treats.

 

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The tool set

This is a clever game where the play leader has to be a little secretive for it to work!

 

This is how the game goes:

  1. Prepare a sign/paper stating the task of the competition: “Try to make as long, continuous piece of potato as possible.” Do not show this to the participants.

  2. Divide participants into teams or let them compete individually.

  3. Get out a tray with a variety of tools. Hammer, saw, knife, potato peeler, butter knife, fork, funnel, etc. The more and different the better.

  4. Now ask the participants/teams to choose two tools each to carry out the secret mission.

  5. When everyone has chosen a tool, the play leader shows the sign/paper with the assignment. Now it's up to them to get the longest piece of potato out using their tools! It can be a lot of fun if, for example, they have chosen a funnel and a hammer...

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The song game

In turn, everyone has to come up with a song to sing so that everyone understands what it is. The only rule is that you can never sing a song that has been sung before. If you want, you can decide that you have, for example, ten seconds to start singing when it is your turn. If you can't do it or if you happen to sing a song that has already been sung, you have lost. It gets really fun after a while when your imagination starts to run wild. Then you often hear everything from hymns and operettas to hard rock songs.

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Dot water

Fill a regular water bottle with water (plastic sports bottle model with a drinking spout). Place a bucket about 2 meters in front of a participant.

The participant places the water bottle between their knees with the mouth of the bottle facing the bucket. By squeezing the bottle between their knees, the participant must try to squirt as much water as possible into the bucket.

The person who manages to fill the bucket with the most water within a predetermined time (1-2 minutes) wins.

Participants are not allowed to use their hands after the bottle is placed between their knees!

The game can be adapted in many ways, such as a relay race, cooperative exercise (someone can help catch water with smaller containers). It may be allowed to refill the bottle if it is empty.

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Smell memory

Works like a regular memory game, the only difference is that the game is played with small containers containing something that has a special scent, such as gingerbread, coffee, soap or similar.

 

The players are blindfolded and have to remember where the containers that match the other container they are smelling are, without being able to see it. Much more fun than it might sound!

 

 

 

 

 

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A meaningful game

Write all the letters of the alphabet on pieces of paper and place them face down on the table. Each participant, pair or team takes five pieces of paper and must create a sentence with words that begin with the five letters. For example, if you get the letters A, Å, R, E, G, you can form the sentence “A monkey rides a green space rocket”.

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Do you like your neighbors?

Everyone sits on chairs in a circle except for one person in the middle. She goes up to someone and asks “do you like your neighbors?”. The person can then either answer “No” and those sitting on either side must change places, or “Yes, but not those with red shoes” and everyone with red shoes must change places. The problem is that then the person in the middle must find a place, but those sitting can never have an empty chair to the left of one and must then also move. When a person remains in the middle, it is their turn to ask someone.

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The nonstop game

The advantage of the Nonstop game is that there can be as many as you want.

 

Here's how it goes:
1. Lay out 15 plastic cups upside down that are not transparent.

2. Then place a non-stop under each plastic cup. You must have three different colors, five of each color.

3. Have three different bowls spread out, standing quite far apart.

 

4. You should take your time and open one plastic cup at a time and take the non-stop that is inside and put it in one of the bowls. Then do the same with all the different colors.

 

5. There should be five non-stops in each bowl and the person running the game says stop when there are five in each bowl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Christmas wreath

In 60 seconds, participants must place a single can as the base of the structure, top it with a plate. At the next level, stack two cans on the plate, followed by another plate, and so on.

Whoever builds the highest wins.

 

 

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Kiss the card

Place the guests in two rows, preferably every other boy and every other girl. Give the first person in each team a playing card, which he should suck on to his lips. Then the card should be passed from person to person without anyone touching the card with their hands. Whoever drops the card then gets a kiss instead... - but then the team has to start over!

 

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The clap and turn game

You need four old planks or skis. Then you nail three straps across each ski, with enough space so that three people can stand behind each other. The game involves three people from each team putting their feet into the straps and, with joint efforts, covering a certain distance in the shortest possible time. It will be extra fun if you make the track a little curvy.

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Who was it?

Give each participant a pen and paper. Ask them to write down one or more secrets or interesting information about themselves (something they might actually consider sharing) on separate pieces of paper. This could be anything from an experience to a secret talent.

 

Fold the pieces together and place them in a bowl.

 

The leader draws a note and reads it out loud. Now all the participants have to simultaneously point to the person the note is about. Whoever is right gets points! The one with the most points when all the notes are read out wins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Shoe Game

A really old classic Christmas game! Sit in a circle on the floor and pass a shoe from one person to the other, behind their backs. One person sits in the middle of the circle.


Read the following verse in the meantime:

 

This shoe it will walk in, from one to the other, Let it go, let it go, never let it stand still.

At the word “stand” the hands stop. Now it is up to the person sitting in the middle of the ring to guess where the shoe is. The person who has the shoe gets to stand in the middle of the ring.

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Philippines

This is a Christmas game that lasts all Christmas long! If you find two hazelnuts in the same shell, you give one nut to someone else and keep the other one for yourself. You agree on a date, not too far in the future. The first person to say “Filipina” to the other person on that day wins.

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Charades x 3

A slightly more advanced charades game that gets more fun the further into the game you get! D

 

o this: Everyone writes eight notes each with people they know, then the notes are put in a bowl. Then divide yourself into teams of two. The first round, one person in the team draws a note. Then you have one minute to explain who you have on the note to the other person. You can use any words you want except those on the note. When the bowl is empty, you count how many notes you managed to win and then put everything back in the bowl again. The second round works the same way but you can only use three words. No more, then the turn moves on. The last round, you can only show with charades. It's very addictive and fun.

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“Find the Food”

Try to find the food hiding behind the names below. This game is suitable for children who can read, or adults who like to play with words. We can promise a guaranteed laugh factor when you get the right dish! Write the crazy names on small pieces of paper and put them in a bowl. One participant picks up a piece of paper and reads out what is on it. The participant puts the piece of paper on the table so that everyone can see it, then it is up to each person to spell out the correct dish. Whoever thinks they have found the right one can then say their name and all participants must then stop guessing. The one with the most correct answers wins.

 

Nisse Spall (Mustard herring)
Ylva Slakt (Veal Jam)
Siv Gadrack (Weak Drink)
Görn Gristyr (Rice porridge)
Tyra Pingpod (Dip in the Pot)
Per Savtelje (Liver pâté)
Signar Prima (Marzipan Pig)
Vilma Törp (Wörtlimpa)
Lasse Dartböld (Beetroot salad)
Lisa Lataram (Rice a la Malta)
Ulf Stik (Lutfisk)
Lina Sjukk (Christmas ham)
Lasse Pryt (Pressylta)
Tor Siback (Cheese tray)
Sten Frans Sosolej (Jansson's Temptation)
Ulla K Bread (Meatballs)

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Pack Dad's suitcase

One person goes out and the others decide on a certain person. Each person packs one thing into their suitcase, something that distinguishes the chosen person. It can be as different as ballet shoes, a cap, snuff.

 

The person who went out comes in and asks what everyone has packed, and using the answers, he has to figure out who the person is.

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Marshmallow Challenge

The group was divided into teams of 4. Each group was given 20 spaghetti, 1 m of tape, 1 m of string and 1 marshmallow. The task was then to build the tallest freestanding tower with the entire marshmallow on top in 18 minutes.

 

The Marshmallow challenge has been tested around the world, with different ages and with different professional groups. One of the groups that has done the best job of building a tower is preschool children. Another group that has performed at its best is, for obvious reasons, architects. The tallest tower that has been built so far is 90 cm. The job is very much about collaboration, innovation and creativity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick up the box with your teeth

Take a large cornflakes packet (or a similar box). Remove the lid at the top. Place the box in the middle of the room and ask the guests to lift it up – with their teeth. Only their feet are allowed to touch the ground, no support is allowed. When the first round is over, tear off a centimeter of the cardboard and let everyone try again. This continues until the box is very low, and only the most agile person at the party remains. That person has won the game.

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Flight competition

The participants are divided into pairs, each pair is given a regular A4 sheet of paper and must fold a paper airplane from it.


But to make it a little more difficult, each participant must first choose one of their hands to be active in the collaboration with the airplane. The other hand may not be used and must be kept behind their back throughout the collaboration.
Both players in the pair get to choose their best hand.

When all pairs have an airplane ready, it's time to see which pair's airplane flies the furthest.
Each participant in turn gets three attempts to launch their plane from a launch site, and a mark is placed where it lands after the longest flight.

The pair whose airplane has flown the furthest from the drop-off point wins!

Easter games

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Picking eggs (outdoors)

You need:

  • Hard-boiled eggs for each participant.

A classic game that works well as a tournament. It involves the participants lining up two by two with each a hard-boiled egg. At a given signal, you must peck (clash) the egg against your opponent's egg.

The one whose egg breaks is out and the winner of the duel moves on to face another participant whose egg also survived the first match. The tournament ends when there is only one participant whose eggs have survived all duels.

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Witch relay

You need:

  • A broom but relatively long handle for each team

This game is best suited outdoors, but if you have enough space indoors, it also works without problems.

There must be an even number of members in each team. The game begins with two members of each team straddling the broom and running a round with the broom between their legs. When they return to the team, the person at the front jumps off the broom and another member of the team jumps up behind the person who remains. Then the two run a round and then the first person is replaced by a new team member.

Each team member thus runs the course twice. To make things even, the game ends with the person who started running the course (and thus has only run once) jumping on the broom last and running his second lap as the last lap.

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Feather blowing (indoors)

You need:

  • A pack of Easter feathers

  • Strong lungs

This toy is best indoors as the spring must be able to slide on the floor. Each participant (or each team) gets a feather that is placed on the floor.

 

Then it is necessary to blow the spring a short distance forward and over the finish line. It is forbidden to use your hands!

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Egg rolling (outdoors)

You need:

  • A hard-boiled egg for each participant

  • Markers or something to mark the eggs

This game does not require you to run, which may suit even older participants. It involves all participants rolling a hard-boiled egg down a small hill or hill. Whoever gets the farthest (and whose egg is whole!) wins.

To know which egg is whose, it can be smart for each participant to label their egg with a name or a drawing.

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Egg throwing with raw egg 

You need:

  • One raw egg for each competing couple

 

This game can easily involve soiled clothes and sticky fingers so don't wear your best gear when playing this one.

All participants are divided into pairs. Each pair must throw a raw egg between them. Before each throw, the couple backs off one step each so that the distance between them is continuously increased. The couple who manages to throw the egg the farthest between them without the egg breaking wins. Works great at a party with many couples. Fun but messy!

Dressed up

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You need:

  • An Easter bunny outfit for each team (skirt, shirt, shawl, broom and possibly large shoes)

This baton works both indoors and outdoors, you just have to adapt the game slightly according to how much space you have.

 

Each team gets an Easter Bunny outfit. When the start goes, one participant in each team must put on all the clothes, run a short lap and then take everything off again. Then its the next team members turn.

If you are short on space, you can skip the running moment and just let all the participants in each team put on and take off their uniforms as quickly as possible. The team that gets all their team members dressed and undressed the fastest wins.

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Egg relay (outdoors)

You need:

  • A hard-boiled egg for each team

  • One spoon for each team

Another typical Easter game is running a relay with a hard-boiled egg on a spoon in your mouth. Each member of the team runs a lap with the egg balanced on the spoon in their mouth.

You can adapt the rules depending on how difficult you want to make it. Either way, it's just a matter of getting to the finish line first. How many times the team has dropped the egg doesn't matter. Or you get an extra 10 seconds for every time the team drops the egg. If you want to make it really difficult, you can say that the team that drops the egg gets washed immediately.

The game is absolutely best suited outdoors unless you happen to have a large space at home that is easy to clean.

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Egg hunt

You need:

  • Eggs to hide (hardboiled or candy eggs)

Then there is the most classic Easter game - the Easter egg hunt. The game is simple - whoever finds the most eggs wins. You can hide the eggs both indoors and outdoors and also write little clues for a real treasure hunt. It's up to your own imagination!

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