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Posted on: 12/19/10 4:29 PM ET
Every year, our family gathers for Christmas eve dinner. We always have a few pencil/paper puzzle games and get into small groups to see who can solve the most puzzles. But we're running out of ideas... Please post your favorites.
Here's one of ours:
If you have a child who is just starting to learn spelling/alphabet sounds, have them write out a list of Christmas songs using their "inventive spelling."
Jingle bells might end up being spelled "GEpo dlz" with their reversals and strange shaped letters, it'll be quite a challenge for anyone to decode.
We had fun with that one last year!
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Here's one of ours:
If you have a child who is just starting to learn spelling/alphabet sounds, have them write out a list of Christmas songs using their "inventive spelling."
Jingle bells might end up being spelled "GEpo dlz" with their reversals and strange shaped letters, it'll be quite a challenge for anyone to decode.
We had fun with that one last year!
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Posted on: 12/20/10 1:58 AM ET
At our office crhistmas party this year we did a Christmas song Picture Quiz Game that actually turned out to be fun. It was similar to the one on this link. http://www.brownielocks.com/ChristmasCarolPictureQuiz.html
we paired off in teams and tried to see who could guess the most in a minute.
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we paired off in teams and tried to see who could guess the most in a minute.
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I'm a fabriciholic on the road to recovery.
Just Kidding!
I'm on the road to the fabric store!!
Collection Measured as of 2007: 550 yards
2008 - 2012 : sewn 244.33 yards ; garments made 108; fabric bought 329.875+ yards
2017 - 2019: Sewn 88.6 yds; Garments made 42; Fabric Bought 361.425 yd
2020 - 2022: Sewn 112.29; Garments Made 51 + Home Dec; Fabric Bought 234
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Posted on: 12/20/10 8:30 AM ET
In reply to Dale C
One of my most favorite writing games was called Fictionary, which involved a very old dictionary. Groups would sit around a table and one person would find an unusual word in the dictionary (hence, the old one). This person would then proceed to give a description; either actually from the dictionary or made up. If the person was believed, but had a fictional description, that person would receive 10 points from every person who believed him/her. If the person was believed, and the description was accurate. those that believed him/her received 2 points. It was great to come up with creative descriptions. Just look up "snollygoster" and you can certainly come up with quite a few. But nothing prepared us for the description of it being a name for a very strong tornado. We lost on that one!
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Posted on: 12/20/10 8:46 AM ET
In reply to Miss Fairchild
Kinda along the same lines as MissF's game, the one where you use an old, unabridged dictionary and take turns finding ridiculously obscure words, and everybody has to guess what they mean. I think there were points for both the most accurate definition and the most creative one.
Posted on: 12/20/10 9:46 AM ET
Trashy Novel Game. This is a little more involved. My cousin introduced the family to it. You probably need at minimum 5 people, better off with 10 to 15. Get some bad paperback novels, usually the cheap romance type. Getting them from the library will be fine, or a used book store probably has them for very inexpensive. One person each round acts as the reader. They read the back of the novel. Then everyone else makes up what they think would be the 1st line of the book and passes it to the reader. The reader writes down the real one. The reader numbers them randomly, then reads them. Everyone else votes for which they think is the real 1st line. Points if someone votes for yours, & if you vote for the real one. Next round someone else is the reader.
This is actually a board game but can be done w/o a board. Write down 10 or so topics. Examples are novels, street names, actors, movies, cities, food, ... anything goes. Then pick a letter from a hat. Everyone has 5 minutes (or however long works for you; less might work better - I can't remember what the 'real' game has) to write down something in each topic that begins with the selected letter. Point for each one correct, if more than one person wrote it down then you cancel each other out. I can't remember what the 'real' game is called, but it is fun and surprisingly difficult.
Playing off debloves2sew's suggestion, there is always pictionary style games. You could have one group make up topics for the other group to draw.
While not exactly a pencil & paper game, charades gets everyone involved. Each team writes down books, movies, TV shows, or songs and gives them to a member of the other team to act out. Can easily be customized for the audience (if young cousin Joey is in the audience, How The Grinch Stole Christmas might be a better choice than To Kill A Mockingbird).
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This is actually a board game but can be done w/o a board. Write down 10 or so topics. Examples are novels, street names, actors, movies, cities, food, ... anything goes. Then pick a letter from a hat. Everyone has 5 minutes (or however long works for you; less might work better - I can't remember what the 'real' game has) to write down something in each topic that begins with the selected letter. Point for each one correct, if more than one person wrote it down then you cancel each other out. I can't remember what the 'real' game is called, but it is fun and surprisingly difficult.
Playing off debloves2sew's suggestion, there is always pictionary style games. You could have one group make up topics for the other group to draw.
While not exactly a pencil & paper game, charades gets everyone involved. Each team writes down books, movies, TV shows, or songs and gives them to a member of the other team to act out. Can easily be customized for the audience (if young cousin Joey is in the audience, How The Grinch Stole Christmas might be a better choice than To Kill A Mockingbird).
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