The Junk Mail Game
Ideal when living in temporary accomadation such as uni flats/shared house.

Objective: To sign up for as much junk mail as possible. (Junk E-mail does not count!)

Every player is assigned a fake name, usually a variation of your least favourite flatmates name - or if you really hate them, their real name. Feel free to change the titles of your chosen name to Prof. or Dr etc.

Look around on the interweb for sites that offer free samples such as for tampax, tenna lady, huggies etc. Fill out as many of these application forms as possible using your allocated fake name and your real address. Within a few days you should start to receive lots of fantastic things in the post.

The winner is the person who receieves the most or most intresting mail for their chosen name.

TIPS: Avoid your landlord when you have moved out and dont forget to ask for your deposit as soon as you can!

Be creative with your chosen name - dont worry if you think someone might catch on that you are taking the piss with your free sample application since most ordering systems are fully automated.

Good luck!

(Be aware that some offers are limited to one household only)
(BigSi, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:58, Reply)

Driving game
Spot the file extension.

IE Car number plates : E784 XLS

More obscure the better.

Christ, I'm a geek.
( bowdie, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:58, Reply)

Billy.
The most pointless game ever.
Normally practised from the safety of a moving car, the game is played by shouting the name 'Billy' in an exaggerated estuary accent, at anybody, in an effort to get them to look round.
Can be played as a pedestrian, but that lacks the whole hit and run aspect that being in a car lends it.
Most succesful 'Billy' ever was at Alton Towers last year, got practicallly the whole queue to look up as we were being winched up the log flume.
(The Pink Strat Copy, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:35, Reply)

Two games that are fun for kids of all ages:
1. Buy a cheap pack of cards.
2. Remove the faces of each card.
3. Draw new values on the cards. Some possible values: Ace of Voids (cut hole in the centre of the card), 2^10 of small dots, Ace of Machiavellian Lobsters, e of i πs, the ¥ of spoons, the Jack of all trades, and the 1/2 card that Sean didn't eat.
4. Deal half the deck to each player. Take turns playing one card at a time. Invent ways for each card to beat another.
5. The game ends when someone loses an eye.

Also,
Take 13 pennies and arrange them on a table. The first player must arrange them in a shape of their choosing and announce what the image is. The next player then takes any three pennies and shifts them to make a different image, announcing what the image is supposed to be. If other players disagree with what the image looks like, the player whose turn just ended gets harassed. Also, once an image is used, it can't be used again. Play ends when someone loses an eye.

I've played both these games... though never to completion.
(philthemoose asbentee and/or-ed., Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:30, Reply)

Zebronkey Shift
It was a classic game, born out of the fact we had access to pool tables in our sixth form centre during free periods but no cues till lunchtime. we could get the cue ball out but couldn't be arsed paying 20p to get the reds and yellows out... so we got one of those tumbledown animals with a round base (you can get them from oxfam now) which appeared to be a zebra/donkey hybrid (hence Zebronkey). The aim of the game was to roll the cue ball at the zebronkey which was placed in the exact centre of the table, and try and get it over the line 4/5ths of the way down, in less than 3 goes, and without knocking it over. If you get it in one, everyone cheers and pats you on the back. we invented rules and terminology and everything, me and beth got quite good at it. the game was ended one day suddenly when some dickhead thought it would be a good idea to lob the ball as hard as possible at the zebronkey, in the process smashing it to shit. gutted.
( St3cks, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:29, Reply)

Two-Nil and The Circle Game
we have quite a few games we play.
Two-nil:
this one is a bit strange - it is played in the pub, what you do is - examine a pint glass (move your head around, look at it from different angles). then slowly - and deliberately push it across the table just a little - an inch or two is favourite.
At which point your mates make comments like 'nice move', 'don't think i can beat that one', 'well played' to tumultuous applause.
Now the beauty of the game is teaching it to others. Watch them make a move -then pick up the pint glass, frown, and put it down on its side.
Declare 'bad move', 'poor show that man' , 'now that's low' etc.

Hmm doesnt seem that funny writing it down.
I can assure you its fuckin hilarious when you're pished.

we also play something called the circle game.
The object is to make a circle with your hands (with your index finger and thumb). It must be below waist height, and below table height if you're sitting down.
If someone looks at the circle you get to hit them, but if they manage to get their finger straight through it, they get to hit you. the idea being that you work up the number of hits you 'owe' people. This has also spawned other little rules like - if you get someone to point at something, you get to hit them.
The real beauty of this game is when you get someone to point or look at a circle with a stupid phrase - like "look - I can make a circle with my hands" or "Where is that big tree over there" or "don't look at this circle".
The resultant ribbing can last for days - and the really good ones can be brought up years in the future.
( newg rum n coke, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:27, Reply)

Camouflage confusion
Back in the 80's when camouflage clothing was fashionable among a certain type of teen, we had a game when you had to walk into them and say "Sorry, I didn't see you". Points for style, knocking them down etc... As the town centre was crawling with these guys a game could last a whole saturday afternoon.

Not one ever seemed to realise why we walked into them.

Some years later at a chemical plant in Dalry Scotland I saw a safety officer wearing a neon orange suit - so bright it practically glowed. For old times sake I walked into him saying "Sorry, I didn't see you".
(JcmS, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:26, Reply)

One-Touch Dobbings
In a fit of boredom, the playground game of One Touch (in which you took turns at kicking a football against a wall - you only had one touch of the ball, and if you missed you were out) evolved into One-Touch Dobbings.

In "Dobbings", if you got knocked out of the game, you had to leave the playing area as quickly as possible without getting beaten up by the remaining players. If you were crap at OTD, you got the hell kicked out of you, regularly.

If this wan't bad enough, someone brought a golfball in to use as an impromptu weapon. By the end of the week, we all (a gang of twenty or more) had golf balls, leading to quite frightening scenes of blood and gore during any game of One Touch.

Someone broke a window, and golf balls were thankfully banned.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:23, Reply)

boredom+school
my friends and i have created a game involving a bottle of water and moving people. You simply place the bottle infront of them while they are walking and see if they have enough sense to walk around it. It is great fun
( Esch, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:16, Reply)

Crap celebrity doubles
With a scoring system based on marks out of ten, my son and I regularly play this game, he invented it three years ago when we were queing for a gig at Brixton Academy.
Basically one of us spots someone who looks faintly like a celebrity and suggests a score. The other then has to agree the score based on the level of resemblance to the celeb.
The main part of the game is taken up by debating the scoring system, extra points can be awarded for a particularly crap lookalike ar deducted on mere whims. One such debate lasted us a whole evening in the pub to the point that when closing time came, we'd forgotten not only who the person was supposed to look like, but who even spotted them in the first place.
The highpoint of this game was when my son spotted a very convincing Noel Gallgher lookalike in Denmark Street, London in January this year.
He lost loads of points because it was actually Noel Gallagher, and he was wearing a crap jacket.
(The Pink Strat Copy, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:15, Reply)

and another
DINNERS/THUMBMAN

played with group of friends or if you're out in a bar or sumat.

Objective: one person slyly places a thumb on a table (or forehead depending on the version).
Last one to notice and place their thumb down has to down their drink.
Then they become the thumbman.
( applehead herp derp, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:13, Reply)

2 games
RAD
any number of players required, and at any time.

All you are required to do is say 'Rad!' to the victim, they then have to accept a high-five from you. can get very painful...

the best ones are where someone says something like 'that's cool!' - to which to you say 'no, that's rad!'...

COVERT SLAPS
Evolved at a particularly boring house party once.
Objective is to slap a friend about the face.
You can either go for the covert slap - by sneaking up on them. Or go for the unexpected slap - like when they're talking.

Not a big fan of this game. Well, neither would you be if your friend has 6 free-slaps going spare. My eyes are peeled Bill, you'll never get me!!!

sorry for length!!
( applehead herp derp, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:05, Reply)

simple
goth spot. I once got marlyn manson, mortis, murderdolls and keanu in two days (ok so keanu doesn't count but it was the matrix angle).

but to be honest it is goth ladies that we were really looking for
(doktored, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:05, Reply)

flower pot crazy fun
This happened during my second year of uni, me and my housemate decided one night to try and flip a plastic plant pot up into the air with our foot while the other had to catch it on his head. we played this little game into the small hours of the morning, never actually managing it properly, but came close on several occasions.

other fun, with same friend is kitchen tennis, 2 sauce pans and some rolled up tin foil for the ball
(Gregus, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 19:02, Reply)

the nice arse game
made up while walking around town in my dinner break with my mate Craig.

it did start out with an insanely high points based system with multiplier bonuses. I.E.

nice arse = 500,000 points
2 nice arses = 1,000,000 + 200,000 = 1,200,000
3 nice arses = 1,500,000 + 300,000 = 1,800,000
and so on.

you were deducted points and combo nullified if the nice arse has fat arse mates.

there where bonuses up for grabs too. I.E.

M.I.L.F bonus (i don't need to explain this do i?) - extra 1 million points.

Mirror spotting (I.E. you spot the nice arse in a mirror, also applies for shop windows) - double points

Was a rather fun game, but we've stopped playing at religously as we both realised it was a bit sad. It's fun to bring up the point system every so often to confuse the girls so they don't realise we are talking about them.
(EvilDeathSandwich Woof, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:59, Reply)

Verve-ing
I was at college around the time that the Verve released Bitter Sweet Symphony, and my fellow classmates and I had discussed the video which involved Richard Ashcroft swaggering down the road following a fixed line, knocking into passers by as he went. We found this amusing to say the least and decided to invent the game of Verve-ing.

You would get your swagger-on (hands in pockets, elbows out, swinging your shoulders as you walk) and walk down the high street along an imaginary fixed line, knocking into whomever was foolish enough to stand or walk in your way. Screwing your face up into a snarl often helped if you didn't want people to get too close. There was no winner or loser, just general amusement.

Sometimes Verve-ing would be done en masse, with all members of the group swaggering shoulder to shoulder. Whoever broke the line and allowed members of the public to breach our swathe of swaggerers would be mocked "aahh, you fuckin' idiot!" in an Aussie accent for the rest of the day.

Timeless...
(Grobie, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:59, Reply)

My favourite has always been trying to kill my friends.
The best one was when I pushed Ryan into the bush he was pissing on.
Or when I pushed some scottish bloke over the bannisters.
(you FUCKING *BANG* BANG*BANG* AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:57, Reply)

Bubbly fun.
My two friends and I absolutely love making people angry. Our favorite is to stand on the sidewalk, at the cinema or wherever, point out people who look dumb, and blow bubbles collected from parties/weddings at them. 10 points per bubble if you get them in the face, 10 extra points if they complain, 5 points if they become confused, and one point if it hits them at all. We haven't been beaten or kicked out for it yet, maybe because we're just a few innocent looking teenage girls. Tee hee.
( trintrin has jam for blood, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:50, Reply)

name game
rules are simple:
Name a famous person, for example Brad Pitt, then the next person has to think of another famous person beginning with the letter of the surname ( so it would be P- so u could say Penelope Cruz) thus it continues round the table.The twist is that you must be drinking whilst thinking , if you are caught not doing this you have to down your drink. If you cant think of a name you down again. ( basically its a win -win situation to getting pissed, which quite often i am after a game of this.)

Another one... which we played in school, cant remember the name, but it involved seeing how many arses you could rest the palm of your hand on. this mainly involved walking behind unsuspecting person really closely and then just resting your hand and trying to keep up with them in the corridor.
extra points for someone of the same sex, ugly people, length of time etc
extra extra points were given to members of staff. Even had a " you cant touch someone whos touched you " rule had to be established and pinned up on the sixth year noticeboard.
And to think it was a group of 5 girls who started this game. god we were bored at school.
(i see red people, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:49, Reply)

Find the pickles
One day back in my hometown, me and some friends were bored as hell, so we decided to hold a sort of scavenger hunt type of deal. My friend and I went to the store to pick up the "prize," which was supposed to be a nice fat summer sausage to eat after we finished (I swear that's not inuendo.) But they were a bit pricey, so we ended up buying this huge tub of dill pickles.

We gave that to the "hiding team," and they went out for about an hour planting clues and stuff, eventually leading to the "prize."

Let me tell you, there's nothing quite like wandering around the parking lot of a strip club at 12:30 AM trying to find a ginormous tub of pickles.

The sad thing is the damn jar is still sitting in my closet :/

We've done this a few times since, and it gets pretty absurd sometimes. It's great fun though, and a cheap way to be entertained.
(Monqui, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:44, Reply)

TOUCH AN OLD PERSON
On a field trip to norfolk for geography a year ago, we decided to play touch and old person, where you got a point for every old person you touched. You got 5 points for a handshake and 10 if you talked to them whilst touching them.

Our teachers found out and told us off for it though. :(
( Barry Chuckle III - the troll with a soul., Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:43, Reply)

YOU LOSE!
the object of this game is to win

how to play:
each day you and a mate have to say YOU LOSE! the first time you see each other that day. the winner for that day is the person who says YOU LOSE! first (the other person loses). carries on indefinatley.
(Cheese Quiche - WARNING! This bus is 18 metres long!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:32, Reply)

Torment the Gouranga Folk
You know those really really annoying BASTARDS who keep hassling you in the street, and always want you to say Gouranga when you refuse to give them money? Well we decided to make a game based on the best way to tell them to fuck off. Some of my better ones were:

"My God's bigger than your god."

"I swapped my soul for a bike, sorry."

"Would you let me lick your armpits for a fiver?"

"Gie's yer jaiket!" (yes, really!)

And one day, having suffered more than usual, I decided to steal the tall guy's hat. He had a Heidi-style hat, complete with bobbles, which was always plastered to his head, so my mates ran past one side, distracting him, while I ran behind and nicked his hat.

We took turns for the rest of the day to casually saunter past him while wearing the hat and see if we could get him to get angry. To his (dubious) credit, he managed to remain calm, if slightly pissed-looking, until we eventually gave it back at the end of the day. We didn't even piss in it - we were nice Glasgow lads :)
( watashi-wa Evenin'!, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:29, Reply)

Extreme Table Climbing
oh eck, i forgot about this.

At the sStart of university we were challenged by the second years to table wrestling/climbing. Most people know of it, it involves going from the top, under the bottom then back on the top of a table without touching the floor. This was completed with ease and how we laughed at the second years with their funnyhair.

With a few of us being avid climbers, we invented an extreme version, which involved 2 ground level tables, and an upper level table stacked on top of it. Only one person has managed it so far. The spectators can then either support the climber, or recreate himalayan conditions with ice/hairdryers on cold/sugar etc

Not for the drunk to play, it hurts when you fall...
( dantl, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:27, Reply)

Halls - Pot Luck Kitchen
When at uni, we'd all jump in the back of our mates van and go shopping (all too pikey to afford a taxi, or god forbid, carry your shopping home!) This results in loads of people buying masses of value food and tins of beans. The idea was that someone would get up in the middle of the day (Student sleepage time) when no one was about and pull all the labels off of the cans, then mix them up. Works even better when a few people are sharing a kitchen cuboard! Makes meal times so much fun, go for some soup, and Woo Hay!! Value fruit salad!!!
(hairy_eric, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:26, Reply)

My children...
...are psychotic. The two boys (ages 6 and 8) like to play Spot the Werewolf/Dead Person witrh me. It goes like this: We walk into a shop, and the eldest immediately looks around, and tries to frighten his younger brother by attempting to figure out which person in the shop is a werewolf. The youngest, now used to this game, attempts to figure out which person may be among the walking dead. This game is accompanied by two children yelling SHE'S A WEREWOLF!!! ...I don't get it. I blame their mother.

Me? I play a game called Tell an Offensive Joke to an Old Lady. I recently did this on a plane, just to quiet the old broad. The joke? What do a pizza delivery man and a gynecologist have in common? Both can smell it, but can't eat it.
(el polocko, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:25, Reply)

A Brian Blessed drinking game...
After downloading legally obtaining Macgyver: The Lost Treasure of Atlantis starring the great B himself we decided to drink every time he got excited.

Completely Shitfaced in 20 mins.
(PsychoticSock, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:18, Reply)

Also...
EDDIE! (spotting eddie stobbard trucks)

Sieze the...

The Game (the aim of The Game is to forget The Game, if you remember The Game you've lost The Game

The Smells Game (i.e you say someones name and if they reply you shout SMELLS....unless they deflect it to someone else, this has gone on for hours before now)

Silent Smells (sneaky pointing at people and indicating their smelliness if they do not notice and deflect)

CRAB! - throwing a toy crab at someone and pointing out that they have crab

Pint licking (not really a game but a short lived custom that died when we all got colds)

PEG! get as many pegs as possible onto someone without their noticing. Fun to play when you work in a photo lab as there are many pegs around and you can peg the 16 yr old minions as they serve customers

PENGUIN! like the one below that shouts bollocks behind tourists video cameras only less rude

Pretend you know a random person. not a catchy name but you can guess how it works, me and a friend tried it at a big beach party and had one guy convinced he knew us from 2 years previously

Guess what I found in Mark's hair - where we mimed pulling something from our fluffy haired mate and mimed what we had found. turns out there was a grand piano in there
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:16, Reply)

Lets follow random people game
Game of Stealth and cunning,
Basically involves following people WITHOUT them noticing. Happens alot an University when bored and moneyless.

Great game to try until the rape alarm comes out...
( dantl, Mon 29 Mar 2004, 18:12, Reply)