The Name Game - Fun Group Game

I took several photos of this game and the names people used for the game and have searched everywhere and can't find them so I am thinking I lost an SD card or something somewhere. I am going to post it with these pictures and explain the game as I have carried it forward for a few months now looking for the photos. 

I also have one heck of a Barometer headache going on. It has been such a busy week, and storms over and over have made it one "not so enjoyable" week driving across the state, up and down along with the storms, I have had a headache daily for two weeks. (Here is a post about the headaches.)

Anyway, The Name Game. You can play with as many people as you like. Everyone in the room gets a piece of paper and a pen. They each write the name of anyone that others would know on the paper. It can be someone in the room or someone famous or a character everyone would know. If there are children playing, it would have to be someone like "Mickey Mouse" etc.

There is one person picked to read the papers. If it is a small group, they only read the names on the paper once. 

Everyone should try to use the same color pen and write in a block lettering so that the person reading the papers can't figure the name the person wrote by looking at the hand writing. 

If there is a large group, you can read off the names on the paper twice. 

You start with the youngest player and have them pick one of the names that was read off and say the name read off was "Kermit the Frog," she could ask Princess number Four if she wrote the name, "Kermit" down. The key is to try and know things about the people in the room. She would ask Princess Four if she is Kermit because she probably would know that Princess Four collects old Muppet items. (See here for a post about that.)

If Princess Four was "Kermit," she would then join the team of the person that guess her "name" correctly. Those two then become one team. 

They continue to guess until they get someone wrong. The key to the game, is to remember who has been asked what person and to remember all the names that were written down. You can't write anything down to help you remember. 

I found that making a story about all the names that were written down helped me remember all the names that could be guessed. My problem in the game was that I don't watch sports or politics that often unless it is a big election or a play off game so I had a hard time with all the men and boys in the room putting those types of names. I did much better with the girls who put pop stars etc down. 

We had people like "Gandhi, Bobby Kennedy, Taylor Swift, Harry Potter, Sponge Bob, Bob Marley, etc." 

In the end, there were two of us not in groups and I lost on the last guess. The winner is the person that is alone last. Everyone else is on a different team and the winner of the game gets to guess first the next game. You can make your own game buy putting pens and small pieces of paper in a pencil box. That is about all it takes to play. I thought it was a brilliant way to keep everyone involved and paying attention d in the game as you need to remember who has been asked and remembering what names haven't been asked yet. 

I played it with the girls during our last visit together just to teach them how to play it so they could use it at college. Some of the girls had played it before but it was still fun to play.

Hope you get a chase to play the NAME GAME soon.