Gotterton Urg
a great game with many versions of the rules that have been modified over the years

("ah!, the reverse flip pennywhistle turn, hmmm, wasn't that banned in the 1957 rewrite", "yes, although i believe that was repealed after the delilah petition in 1964)

mostly involves the stragegic positioning of pint glasses, beer mats and other assorted detrius

in no way made up as we go along to confuse people who don't know it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:09, Reply)

Ummm...
well this ain't really impromptu, but always play punch buggy/mini/yellow car where ever i go... sometimes with people i don't know by accident.
this has evolved, mainly with the sister, to quite a skilled game of blocks, pre-emptives and the stealth, and while driving taking the long route just to get one up.
.... also photo phones are a new edition for getting someone when no one is about.
(evil pete, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:07, Reply)

RoadKill
Simple and effortless game invented to liven up a long car journey with my daughter. To begin take it in turns to pick an animal - badger, hedgehog, bunny etc. (or whatever suits your particular local wildlife - kangaroo, polar bear, spiney anteater) until you run out of likely animals. Then you get a point for each time you see one, to avoid arguments unidentifiable splats don't count. It could have worked well, but after leaving Sussex we seemed to enter a roadkill-free zone for the next 600 miles and didn't see any more until we returned to Sussex a week later by which time we'd forgotten the score.
(feersumendjinn, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:56, Reply)

Fun at band camp
First, there was the Shh Game. When it was time to go to bed in the girls' room,there, of cousre, would be people still talking. Thus, there would also be people saying Shh (as if that makes it any quieter). In retaliation, whenever a Shh was heard, there would also be someone replying with an "It". I'm sure you all get the point of this game.
Then, there were the bunk bed races. One night, two girls decided to sit on the top of the crappy bunk beds and see who could scoot the bed the furthest. The chaperones hated that.
(pk, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:49, Reply)

Slapping Roulette
Basically russian roulette, but with slapping. Ask a two choice question, and if they get it wrong, you slap them. Fantastic game in public with the funny looks and all, although can be quite painful if your opponent gets carried away...

I was going to say burberry spotting but someone already said that, but me and a mate made a new version in paris, frenchman spotting!

One point for berets, blue and white stripped shirts, baguettes or onions round necks. Fantastic. I won when we got to the eiffel tower and there was a beret stall, 42 points from one stall alone. My mate kinda gave up after that.
(Graz Da Frog, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:48, Reply)

An ex girlfriend and I
once made up this game to determine which of our friends we liked or disliked. Basically, it consisted of each of us having a spoon. We would take turns calling out names of mutual friends and then we'd tap the spoons on the table and against each other's spoons two times. If we liked said person we'd just stop. If not, we would tap the end of the spoon on the table, in a digging motion and then the one who did would call out "go to hell" indicationg our dislike with said person.

It's a good way to determine which friends you both should be hanging around.
( Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:45, Reply)

Sieze the goth!
Everytime myself and Miss Daisy Mae go to London, you can be sure as mustard a fine game of sieze the goth's on the cards. Basically the aim of the game is to touch as many goth types as possible whilst within the confines of That London. Extra points are awarded for running across busy streets to subtley touch a group of said gothics without them knowing. Also there is a sliding scale of gothicness which improves your score, cyber and uber goths scoring more that a fat kid in a korn hoodies with eyeliner on for example.
( mushybees NEBUSHI SHANGHUNG!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:35, Reply)

box hockey
the cleaning staff in my building are up much earlier than i and my roommate are. our dorm room is directly beside the loading dock-type area, and it's also where they crush the cardboard boxes after deliveries, etc. one morning at seven am they were doing the lodest curhsing i've ever heard, plus they seemed to be throwing the boxes around and yelling. "what the fuck is that ? cardboard box hockey ?" i and my roommate swore.

later that day we took the crushed boxes and created our own very strange box hockey. it involved stacking up the boxes, passing a single box around, kicking, and you get to body-slam people into the pile of boxes. so much fun.

later that week, it became our favorite term to use in place of sex. hence, "playing box hockey" is a really good lay.
(clumsyassassin, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:30, Reply)

What Drug Are You On?
My (currently under 16 years old) friends and I quite often play a little game called "What Drug Are You On?". It's rather stupid, as none of us has tried any drug outside of alcohol and nicotine, even then only one of us has and none of the others(including me) has any interest in it, but still we play. For instance, we'll act like a chicken and pretend to fall out a window, to signify LSD, we'll act insane and hyper, to signify Heroin, spaztic, to signify Crack, and some other stuff. It's rather fun.
(Mreek, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:26, Reply)

Lucky Lady
Make going to the toilet at Glastonbury funtime for everyone!
Simply turn your back as the 'player' enters the portaloo of their chosing. Whilst they perform, the spectators place bets as to which number portaloo the player is in. The spectators repeatedly shout the number of the trap until said door opens. You should see the startled faces of innocent people surfacing from the trap to be met by a crazed horde, yelling appreciation or cursing their bad luck.

But you probably had to be there.
(GTed, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:15, Reply)

oh, and one other.
needs over 5 people.

one person leaves the room. when they leave everyone inside the room has to decide one thing which they could have in common.

then they bring the person back in who has to guess what they all have in common.

all sounds quite tame but we've had some excellent ones in the past:

1)we pretended the person who came into the room had just 'come out of the closet'

2)we did whatever the person guessing guessed... when she said 'are you all crazy' we all went very crazy and the fun was endless...

3)there was the classic every time you speak the ceiling gets lower... played on the unsuspecting me...

the scope is endless. trust me, it's a great game.
(ChimneySweep IS TWO PEOPLES!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:13, Reply)

Bitch, twat, scumbag.
We played the above game in the car. When passing a car going in the opposite direction you have to see whos in it and shout bitch if its a girl, twat if its a boy and scumbag if they have kids. Theres no skill to the game on any point. It was just an excuse to swear and laugh. (One time we couldn't decide so called them a twitch). Sad I know.
(Guy Warley, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:12, Reply)

Ho ho ho
'Decking'

Nothing to do with B&Q i might add!

Basically, in my school (yes, im still at school, y11 in fact) all the little kids push, shove ans hsout thier way everywhere. 500 people on a stairwell... lovely

So, i see how many kids i can get on the floor. Only the ones that deserve it mind. A quick 'tap' to the ankle, down thy go, along with 20 of thier spaz mates.

'Course, letting off a ripsnorter works just as well.
(Attention Whore, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:08, Reply)

A good game
me and my mates play is called "lets wind up Tourists"

it involves standing outside famous and popular tourist attractions for example Windsor Castle and then wait for a tourist to walk past (Americans are best) and say very loudly and slowly "excuse me, could you tell me where is please?"

then wait for their reply
(P-nut Obsessive Compulsive Green Day Disorder..., Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:07, Reply)

weekend before last...
My girlfriend & I played 'Burberry' spotting (scarves, bags, umbrellas etc. on people )while walking around our local shopping centre in Brussels - within 5 minutes I was winning 13-3 - Became so ridiculous soon lost count and interest.
(ScottyB, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:06, Reply)

Talking of "Flinch"
I used to work for a bank and we used to play something like this but using things like rolls of sellotape, bottles of Tipp-ex and those "£5 in silver" weights. Anyway, one night two of us were happily hurling a bottle of Tipp-ex at each other, gradually getting faster and faster, until I chucked it so hard it might well have gone into orbit. My mate stepped aside and I watched in horror as the bottle smacked into the door of the mahogany cupboards we had behind the counter and exploded. Needless to say, we legged it.

The next morning I got in early and scraped as much of the now dried Tipp-ex from the wood. Moments later the chief cashier came around and saw the little pile of white powder on the floor. She went a bit mad, then pinned the blame firmly on Rentokil who had been in the day before putting traps and chemicals down to get rid of mice and creepy-crawlies. I did my best not to laugh as she marched off to phone them.
(nasalhair The Twix guy!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:04, Reply)

Not terribly interesting but...
Bit like an earlier game of 'guess the video', in my house televisual viewing pleasure has been spoiled by a game known as 'guess the advert'. (Does exactly what it says on the tin) Not surprisingly it is favoured by my business studies graduate housemates.

For all the pain and ugly competition this game is fun because of the scope for watching my (male) housemates bellowing TENA LADY at the top of their voices before realising what they're talking about :)

We also had one whilst at uni where we had to try and get three words beginning with the letters 'dw' into essays. I used to cheat and lie a lot about this one, not sure why we bothered...
( Dekazer, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:02, Reply)

Simple...
1)You go to a gathering where people are tightly packed in i.e a concert
2)You talk to your friend QUITE LOUDLY about the new contagious desease you have.
3)You turn round to the person next to you and say that you 'really need to shake their hand'
4)ha.
(ChimneySweep IS TWO PEOPLES!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 17:01, Reply)

The ruining somebodys holiday video via swearing game
For this you will need to spot somebody at a tourist attraction filming away with their camcorder.

You can then approach the task at hand in one of two ways:

(1) Shout "Bollocks!" (or whatever phrase you like) once, very loudly, from a distance.

(2) Repeatedly swear at normal conversational volumes while walking past the victim.

The joy in this is that 90% of people won't notice at the time. But when they get home and play the tape the swearing leaps out at them from the television like a large happy tourettes rabbit.

Also works well at weddings.
(Daveybaby, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:54, Reply)

Spot the Camel Toe.
Er, well you can probably guess the rules.
(not-colette Is that a real poncho or is that a sears poncho?, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:54, Reply)

Four Heads
Drinking game, ideally hockey tour, for the use of.
requires one coin, multiple drunk fools, several jugs of Nasty. Toss coin and check result without showing others. If head, shout ONE HEAD if tail shout NO HEADS and continue around circle adding a head every time one comes up until ..... sooner or later someone will turn over the fourth head (still hidden) and have to shout FOUR HEADS whereupon everyone else must get their foreheads on the floor as fast as possible. The level of concussion and bleeding is legendary, especially when played on a hard floor. last one down finishes the jug. gotta love it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:43, Reply)

breast classifying
whilst trying to explain to my girlfriend at glasto 2003 why men need so many different names for breasts i felt the need to demonstrate how different names apply to different breasts and a game of NAME THOSE BREASTS followed whilst walking about stoned for an hour. different names make u think of em in different ways so for example melons would be quite big, jubblies would be fairly big and quite bouncy looking, titties would be smaller. i think we came up with about 20 types by the end. plus its the best excuse for looking at other women around ur girlfriend i ever devised. GENIUS.
(karmacarrot, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:42, Reply)

Magic Dave
I like to play "Are you magic Dave?"
Just go up to people in a bar, club or place of inebriation and ask strangers if they are the famous Magic Dave. When they say no, say "Are you sure? You look like him!"

Continue insisting they must be him until they walk away confused. The longer you can keep them there the more points you get.


Also fun is flinch, where you throw a tennis ball at eachother and try not to flinch. if you do you LOSE.

edit: Just thought of another: dial a random number and ask for dave or steve or someone. when they tell you its a wrong number start crying.
OR
say "oh you'll do, what shall we talk about?"
whoever stays on the line longest wins.
(amazingmikeyc internet ninja, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:38, Reply)

Yellow car
When you see a yellow car you shout 'YELLOW CAR' and punch your mate.





brilliant
(driverchris, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:37, Reply)

Half Ejaculated Bottle Tossing...
ok so it sounds rude but it's not basically you get half a bottle (of something small with a reasonably large base; i found oasis bottles were ideal) and the aim of the game is to spin it on itself (upside down) and get it to land on it's base...

dull sounding but fun when you're pissed
( GrandmaOfShoes, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:37, Reply)

Wisnywisny Wabro
is by far the silliest game that I have ever played.

The basic rules are this: One person says a word. Another person says another, unrelated word. Continue until someone wins.

It's very closely related to the game "Mornington Crescent" as played on "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", in that if there are any rules, then no-one knows what they are. It's very much a case of making them up as you go along.
( Chrico is a bounder and a cad, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:33, Reply)

Fifty-pound barman
Find a pub that accepts £50 notes (vital and difficult).

Go into the pub on a quiet day. Everyone bets on a time they reckon the participant will be ejected from the premises.

Participant goes to bar (as far from the till as possible) with £50 note and order single measure of obscure spirit (i.e. requires measuring cup, not from optics). Pay with £50 note (you will need some cock-and-bull story to explain why that's all you've got)

Bar man takes money and goes to till. Whilst at till you must down the spirit. He will return with 2 twenties, a fiver, and some shrapnel. When he returns, ask for another one. Pay with one of the twenties. Repeat process each time with largest item of currency you have until barman realises and ejects you for being stupid.

Winner is the person who gets the nearest time for your ejection. Their prize? They have to do it in the next pub that you can play this game in. Works well in Lincoln and York.
( groovegenerator The man who mistook his wife for his wife, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:28, Reply)

I
think "wind up the tourist" is played wherever they congregate in their vile ignorance. I take a particular subtle pleasure in directing tourists to take the tube from Piccadilly to Leicester Square and vice versa (which, for those unfamiliar with London, is all of two minutes' walk, but a substantially longer tube journey). I feel this would need to be a great deal more organised to qualify as a game, though.
(Wong Fei-Hung - now with added flickr.com (see profile), Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:28, Reply)

For me it's
speaking a load of random bollocks, then my friend has to name a song which somehow relates in terms of lyrics. Even more fun when you make double entendres.
Or just reworking song lyrics into stories, or playing a game where we just finish the lyric.

But an even better game is one where we choose a random rude word in our school lesson, for example: Bollocks. One of us has to say the word, then the other must say it even louder, and then the first person says it even louder still until eventually we're screaming it in the lesson.

The loser is the one who gets caught.

This game is great fun, but can get you in trouble. It can also be played in public places to see if you get any dirty looks.
(AKismet, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 16:25, Reply)