Pointless Games

Seven Ways to Make Almost Anything More Fun - courtesy of The Oaqui*

 

More Pointless Games

Junkyard Sports - very unofficial sports

• Glue Things
• Snapper Hands
• Poppers
• Koosh Balls and Silly Putty
• Tangles
• Linkers
• Suction Balls
• Wikki Stix
• Executive Balls
• Toy therapy for business meetings
• A basket full of Squishies

• Boxes - a game for hundreds
• Giant Pick-Up Sticks - and I mean, GIANT
• Human Card Games - silly mixers for large groups
• A New Games Album from Lee Rush: a reminiscence of a spirit that is sadly out-of-date.

• 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
• Estray Bonajour - a singing ritual of shoe passage
• Machines - a theater-like game
• Chairless - like the Lap Game, only not
• Psychic Handshake - mystical group gathering
• Prui: the game
• The Sound and the Fury - a warm-up game of almost mystical silliness
• Bernie Played a Game - a game that's played until it's impossible
• Panther, Person, Porcupine: three-team Rock, Scissors, Paper
• Thumper: A game that is as much fun when you're sober
• Three Team Soccer: beyond competition, and perhaps beyond sanity
• Bomb and Shield - a mad milling game
• People Pass - and variants
• People to People - twisted twister
• A What - and why
• Elephant, Giraffe, Toaster - a game of quick and silly response
• Machines - a theater-like game
• J'Accuse: a game of murder by palm tickle
• Scream: group silliness from Emperor Matt
• The Knee Games: a welcome addition to our collection of collective silliness
• Oaqui Ball: e.g.: VolleyFootBasketball
• Planets: a game of universal silliness
• The Evolution of Volleyball according to the Oaqui: introducing Jollyball, Follyball and Polyball
• Of Schmerltzes, Sockballs and Pantyhose: safe, soft, ball-like games
• HaHa Numbers: beyond sanity
  • see also: Roll Over
  • The Prince of Wales: beyond Numbers
  • Big Booty: beyond The Prince of Wales
• Wrapping Paper: An hilarious game for all ages

• Word games from the Deep Fun weblog
• Playing with the Grandkids - a smattering of games for loving fun
• Human Spring - a game for two
• Not-so-Crazy Eights - playing for family unity
• Thumb Wars - beyond thumb wrestling
• Handland - puppet theater of the air
• Polaroid - build an image and see what develops
• Everlasting Games - pointless fun forever
• The Frog - make a friend for life
• The Blessings Game - bless each other in and with fun
• Verbal Ping Pong - and beyond
• Redondo - group doodling
• Food Fun for Festivating^* Families
• Elephant, Elephant, Elephant: a card game of significant hilarity
• It Could Be Worse: And it could be even worse than that
• Oaqui Pong: An infinity of Ping Pong variations...
• Found Object Scrabble: what to do at a restaurant while you're waiting to get served
• Minip is 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."
• Checkers: and beyond
• What, you ask, is a Oaqui Game answers the age-old conundrum.
• 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
• A Million Ways to Play Marbles, At Least, from the Well-Played Game

Special collections (More pointless games, for different groups and reasons)

• Playful things for couples
• Elder games for groups
• Laughter Games Workshop

More Pointless Games of Dubious Purpose - as requested by various workshop participants

Elsewhere

• More Pointless Games - from the web
• Theater Game Warm-Ups from the Improv Encyclopedia

Those wishing to explore the fundamental underpinnings of underlying Oaquiness should see also: The Sendings of the Oaqui