Seven Ways to Make Almost Anything Playful
Boxes – a game for hundreds
Giant Pick-Up Sticks – and I mean, GIANT
Human Card Games – silly mixers for large groups
Reception Line - formal silliness
Human Tunnel - mass movement through very longer and longer people tunnels
Human Spiral - going around together
Human Caterpillar – a roll-playing game
Snake in the Grass – eek, snakes everywhere!
Blob Tag – sooner or later, we all get blobbed
The Shoe Ritual – cargo cult cuteness
Octopus Tag – it’s good to be a tentacle
Catch the Dragon’s Tail – the more dragons, the more tails to catch
The Orchestra Game – making something like music together
Mass Multiplayer Crowdsourced Padycake – a hand game for any size group
Something that Beats Something that Beats Something Else that Beats Something – a variation of a variation of Rock/Scissors/Paper – and here’s a variation of that.A New Games Album from Lee Rush: a reminiscence of a spirit that is sadly out-of-date.
Games for the slightly less many
A What, and another What
Chairs and Laps - a moving around game
Car-Car – an excuse to make nice to each other
Cookie Machine – another nice-making excuse
Mutual Massage – yet another opportunity for shared ah – from the Touching Games collection
Hug Tag - lots of running around and sweet touching
Everybody’s It Freeze Tag - a dramatically quick game of tag
Elephant, Giraffe, Toaster – a game of quick and silly response
Ultimate Rock-Paper-Scissors – a.k.a. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Posse – a silly way for everyone to get on the same side
Dho-Dho-Dho - the practice of loving competition
Machines – a theater-like game of collective body building
J’Accuse - a game of murder by palm tickle
Screamless - group silliness from Emperor Matt
The Knee Games - a welcome addition to our collection of collective silliness
Dumb Crambo – a team guessing game
Fingered - a finger game for any size group
The Evolution of Volleyball according to the Oaqui - introducing Jollyball, Follyball and Polyball
Of Schmerltzes, Sockballs and Pantyhose - safe, soft, ball-like games
The “Numbers Game” and Thumper, too - beyond sanity
Rock-Scissors-Paper Tag – which way to run and why
Group Juggling – border on impossibility
Dum Dum Da Da – a singing silliness
Lemonade – a game of great drama and taggage
Wink – don’t let a good one get away
Duck-Duck-Elephant – beyond Duck-Duck-Goose
Estray Bonajour – a singing ritual of shoe passage
Machines – a theater-like game
The Lap Game – a.k.a. lapsit
Chairless – like the Lap Game, only not
Zen Hip Swing – get moved while moving someone else.
Psychic Handshake – mystical group gathering
Prui – the game
Glass Cobra – get yourselves together together
The Sound and the Fury – a warm-up game of almost mystical silliness
Bernie Found Nirvana – a game that’s played until it’s impossible
Panther, Person, Porcupine - three-team Rock, Scissors, Paper
Bomb and Shield – a mad milling game
People Pass – and variants
People to People – twisted twister see also Roll Over
The Prince of Wales - beyond Numbers. See also The Priest of the Parish (a.k.a. “Who Sir, Me Sir?)
The Wrapping Game - An hilarious game for all ages
Human Spring – a game for two Stand-Off – a similar game for two, but competitive
Handpile Ouija – mystic silliness
Tiger-Person-Fireworks – a game of happy coincidence for two
Ninja Slap – a martial arts-like game of far more than martial arts-like fun
Not-so-Crazy Eights – playing for family unity
Runaround Ping Pong – pongish silliness
Crazier Eights – playing for fun
If We Were – imaginary transformations
Thumb Wars – beyond thumb wrestling
Handland – puppet theater of the air
Sound Travel - make noise, go places
Bonk Ball – lie on your backs with your heads together, try to lob a ball onto someone’s belly button
Polaroid – build an image and see what develops
PowerPointless – act out your own presentation
Everlasting Games – pointless fun forever
The Frog - make a friend for life
The Blessings Game – bless each other in and with fun
There Must Be a Good Reason
Verbal Ping Pong – and beyond
Sequitur – piecing a story together together
Blind Sculptor – very touching
Redondo – group doodling
Food Fun - more food games
Elephant, Elephant, Elephant - a card game of significant hilarity
It Could Be Worse - And it could be even worse than that
No, no, no. Thank you!
Oaqui Pong - An infinity of Ping Pong variations…
Found Object Scrabble - what to do at a restaurant while you’re waiting to get served
Manner of the Adverb – a dramatic guessing game
Minip - a kind of UnTennis for people who like playing more than winning.
Twenty Questions - begins with a discussion of the nature of human/computer interface as. revealed by the game of Twenty Questions, and concludes with a description of a new variation called “Plenty Questions.”
Cosmic counting - how high can you count together without interrupting each other
Checkers - and beyond
Long Knives and the Big Plate Special - a delicious and playful way to teach a remarkably spiritual message
Subversive Golf – as more or less developed by the DeepFUN group
BaaBaaBaaTwinkleEFG – a game of mental exacerbation
Higher Five and Clap You – a couple of hand games for silly times
Mutual Self-Congratulations – another hand game
Toilet Paper Love Pull - careful caring
Toilet Paper Tug of War - very gentle persuasion
Penny games - cheap fun of many dimensions
A Million Ways to Play Marbles, At Least - from the Well-Played Game
Toy Stories - games with toys by Major FUN
Glue Things
Snapper Hands
Pop-ups
Koosh Balls and Silly Putty
Tangles
Suction Balls
Linkers
Wikki Stix
Executive Balls
Your basic Strechin’ Squid Yoyo
The Never Fall Bumper Car metaphor and toy
Mighty Jumpz
Ziggy Pasta Ball Mondo
More
Games for the Spirit - including some of the games in this collection, put in perspective
Fantasy games - playing with the imagination
Touching games – loving fun of the more touching kind
Playing for laughs – games like these, only more suited to smaller groups in smaller places
More Playful Games of Dubious Purpose – as requested by various workshop participants
Still More Playful Games – in case you run out
Dramatically Playful Games – pointless games that engage the imagination
Jim Moskowitz’s Parlor Game colletion
Games to play at the retirement home – a collection of pointless games, not too much moving or thinking, just a lot of fun
Playing with the Grandkids - a smattering of games for loving fun
Sweet Silliness for playful couples
Junkyard Sports – very unofficial sports
Elsewhere
A collection of collections of games
Deep Fun: Wonderful collection of games from the UUA (no, not deepFUN.com, but in the same spirit)
Theater Game Warm-Ups from the Improv Encyclopedia
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