Inserting pop song titles while talking to customers on phone
self explanatory really. The one with the most titles in one conversation wins.

Spectators can find it a bit like a Russ Abbott sketch if you're not careful
( brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 12:00, Reply)

"Punch a buggy"
A popular game amongst freinds at uni was "punch a buggy" that went somthing like this: Every time you saw a VW Beetle (bug), either on the street, on telly or where ever you got to shout "Punch a buggy" and hit the person next to you. Over time this developed to include:

Kick a campa-van
shove a smart car
Pinch a mini
slap your ass, mercadies A-class
squeeze your knee, 2CV

In addition to this there were bonuses: A five car trick, where you got to do all five things plus kicking the recipiant up the arse, if you saw any five of the cars on the same street.

There was also a version for a blind freind of our where he was aloud to slap a bus.
(Norfolk and chance, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:58, Reply)

The sign-your-mate-up-for-junk-mail-game
seemed like a good idea at the time, but after three years we were still receiving lino samples addressed to Ms. Sophie Tytte-Ouanck and credit card offers for Rachel DeScrimination.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:57, Reply)

A great game for all ages called Reepeddybeepbeep
This is very old - comes from 1992 and A Level revision sessions in the Sixth form common room.
It's a game for as many players as you like.

Equipment required:
A piece of paper, and every player must have their own pen.

The Rules
Someone starts making dots on the paper with their pen. Everyone then joins in tapping the paper making dots until someone stops.
The person who stops is the winner.



Kind of like a non-verbal version of Mornington Crescent.

Those revision sessions used to just fly by.
( brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:48, Reply)

London Underground
Played to alleviate the boredom of travelling on the tube from the outpost that is Upminster to Brixton Academy or Astoria or wherever.

Sit at the end of a carriage, open the little windows. Find a discarded newspaper and tear the spread pages in half, screw into a ball and then attempt to throw out of the window.

Points awarded for velocity of throw, holding the dramatic pose after the release of the ball, for not touching the sides, for getting out of the window without your opponent noticing (we are all very truthful about it though), and finally for the style of throw.
i myself have patented the 'inward side-arm upward wrist-flick release'...
( applehead herp derp, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:34, Reply)

I drive a lot for work (300 miles a day is normal)
and as it's quite boring I'm always thinking of stuff.
This morning, as I was heading out, I decided to play "follow" and started following a car to see where they'd go. Well, this guy got about 65 miles before he started weaving in and out of traffic and checking his rearview mirror. Highly amusing.
Also, here in SoCal, you can't really tell how rich people are by what they drive so I like to figure out what they're occupation is, where they're going and why.

God that sounded crap!
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:33, Reply)

the thigh game
on one night out, a mate had brought out his girlfriend. in the club (the mighty 'horny' at manchester union) me and a mate came up with the thigh game. the object being to touch my mate's girlfriend's thigh without her cottoning on, scoring a point for each touch.
the next time she was up and we went out, a load of us decided to play, and we had devised a more complex rules system; scoring increasing amounts of points for different parts of the body, culminating in 50 points for feeding the pony.
this resulted in one lad to go crazy, hugging and kissing her when we first went round to his flat, and trying to touch her up at every opportunity. needless to say, this particularly unsubtle approach won him the game, and almost a slap from the mate whose girlfriend it was.
(sunny chiba, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:27, Reply)

Those long student summers
Between jobs, a mate and I decided to play charades; that's how bored we were.

After a couple of days of nothing but toast, tea, cooking lager and charades we'd run out of books and films. So we modified the categories: Serious Crimes, Serious Illnesses, Surgical Procedures, Moral Outrages. Something along those lines.

We decided we'd had enough when I mimed the clue 'Serious illness, four words, third word "the"' and my mate correctly guessed Cirrhosis of the Liver.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:21, Reply)

dont know the name
but this was introduced into my house by an outsider a few weeks ago.

object of the game involves trying to get the 'victim' to look at the circle made by your thumb and forefinger.

punishment for looking at gesture/symbol rsults in a very hard punch in the arm. Or neck, if you get carried away.

However, if you manage to get your finger in the hole of your opponent, they get the punch.

i havnt been able to lift my right arm above my head for a week.
(magictorch, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:16, Reply)

Supermarket Games:
I've got several of these, but here's two to start you off.

1 - "Secret shopper" the aim of the game is to get people you don't know to buy things they don't want.

You do this by following them around the supermarket and adding inapropriate items to their trolley. The winner is the first player whose target actually pays for the inapropriate item at the checkout. Bonus style points can be awarded for spectacular inapropriate items.

2 - "make em cry" the aim of the game is to find a parent who is carying their child over their shoulder, and stare at the kid until they cry. The winner is the player who achieves this, without getting caught, in the shortest time.

If you get caught, simply say "awww, they're so sweet at that age!" and smile.
( LP, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 11:11, Reply)

Make up a sport
Used as a drinking game it can be quite effective. The game goes as such. You all sit in a circle and from a starting point you go clockwise naming random made up sports. i.e Long Distance Underwater Running, Ice Conkers, American One Armed Frizbee, etc. If you hesitate or cant think of one in roughly 5 seconds.....you have to do your shot of Teachers 'cheap'n'nasty' Whisky.
(Retro Granny, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:49, Reply)

Pigeon Bread Football
Throw a lump of bread off the side of your lunchtime sandwich into the midst of a load of filthy pigeons, preferably in Sheffield city centre. Observe them closely to see which of the vermin 'head' the ball over the predetermined 'line' to score a 'goal'. The person to guess the nearest pigeon to the scorer wins. Only twice has a conversion, worth three points, ever been witnessed. In order to convert the pigeon goal a player must kick the scoring pigeon over the road.
(Dave T Smooth, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:43, Reply)

A funny game..
..to play on the ol London Underground. Myself and my old housemate used to go down to gigs a fair bit so we had to frequent the tube.

One person starts by saying, "I went back to the doctors yesterday", then the other replies, "Really? How are your / is your.. ?".

The choice of affliction is up to the players, but its better to be a little spontaneous and test your companions guile. Be sure to pick something contaigeous. Then proceed to chat quite amicably about weeping sores, chronic flatulence that stinks of roadkill, the state of your underwear due to incessant diarrhoea etc. Check the reactions of people around you and try to carry on without laughing.

Obviously, you can try this on other modes of transport, like the bus, or indeed aeroplanes as no-one can get off in a hurry.
(clydefrog, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:41, Reply)

Moosemaster
Same as thumbmaster but you have to place your thumbs against your temples and your hands wide open (just like a pair of moose antlers)...

Last one to do it has to down their drink...

There is another variation named "chickenmaster". One hand on top of head, the other under your chin...
(Nefarious Tim, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:39, Reply)

In response
To the earlier "thumbman" game, as in last person to place their thumb on the table after the thumbman has, we play that as "thumbmaster" but the more interesting version (and the point of this drivel, apologies) is the version known as "plum-master". I'm sure you can guess the rules. Lets just say 50% of the population are at a slight disadvantage in this game. And you have to be REALLY pissed to not notice that half the group have their tezzers casually draped on the pub table. still, it's all fun and games until somebody loses a bollock...
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:35, Reply)

Orthapedic Football
Best played in Geneva Airport during the skiing season. All you need to do is play spot the orthapedic injury before your opponent to score a goal.
People on crutches, arms in slings, limps all score a goal.

Top tip keep watching the transfer buses pull up outside to guarantee a couple of quick goals as the skiers arrive

Lots of room for argueing about who spotted the cripple first
(monkeyht1, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:34, Reply)

Not Really an Impromptu Game
But when I was a Scout Leader (no funny comments please) we'd occassionally play a game. The Scouts would be split into two groups...say the Badger Brigade and the Penguin Posse (it didn't really matter) and they'd head off to opposite corners of a wood.

One group would be told to hide and avoid being captured by the other team.

The OTHER group would be told to hide and avoid being captured by the others.



Ahhh. Two of three hours of peace and quiet.
( Tepid_Halibut felt like a cold, empty shell of a human...until, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 10:05, Reply)

Gay soap characters
A few years ago, my boyfriend-at-the-time and I would play a game in the pub where we would assess the other patrons as characters in a soap we wanted to write.

One, for instance, was "Uncle" - a man who was trying to pick up a guy very much younger than himself. Another was a guy who's method of trying to make himself look attractive was to glower at the other men in the pub.

Our favourite was a guy who'd taken a great deal of trouble to make himself look good but had overdone it. We called him "plastic poof".
(BearWithLittleBrain, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 9:43, Reply)

Stop The Cars
Walk up n down the highstreet pressing the wait sign for the traffic lights. Then to much delight watching the cars stop and no one cross.

Sad really =]
(Shifty Bloke, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 9:36, Reply)

This is a game, we always play when on the road.
Ahh, the number plate game. I'm sure loads of you play this or some other variation while on the road, our version goes like this: Spot a number plate and try to rearrange the letters/numbers into a word. If the word is already in order the letters score double, but this excludes numbers. For example:

From this mini we would be able to get the word "FUN" for 6 points as it is in order. We could also get "F0X" but this would only get us 3 as this word is not in order. If the first word "FUN" was spotted and called by your competitor you would be allowed to call "FOX" as it is a different word.

Here's another example:

From this number plate we could get the word "K3G" meaning keg. We would score double points on the letters but no double scoring for the numbers, so "K3G" would be worth 5 points.

Players continue spotting and scoring until the a player gets to 100 or the driver crashes for not concentrating on the road.
( harribo, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 9:20, Reply)

Unsorted Challenge
I have many, many mp3s stored in an "unsorted" folder on my PC (erm, because I have many many singles and have encoded them all, of course). When bored, we load them all into winamp and play on random. The unsorted challenge is to identify the song first.

Variants include watching "moulin rouge", which turned out to be "unsorted challenge - the movie", and the 6pm regular, "simpsons challenge", where you try to be the first to predict exactly what will happen in tonight's episode.
(viridian, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 9:16, Reply)

tit cricket
While out on thee piss, if you touch a tit with an elbow, 1 run, 2 tits with an elbow, 2 runs, hand on a tit 4runs, two hands on 2 tits 6 runs. If you get slapped, you're out. The winner is the highest score, although obviously a score of 2, not out, beats 238 out.

Another one is spot the gay. pretty self explanatory. Big clues are hand movements, mincing walks and pink shirts
(wattoo, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 9:08, Reply)

Insult olympics.
simple concept. you deliberately insult each other till one of you actually makes the other upset. Hard to score a win. The last time I managed it was when I suggested that my opponents one legged, dead father could have made good money as a novelty prostitute and should be exhumed for that purpose.
(littlebootshorse, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 8:26, Reply)

MSC Cricket
I work in a biohazard lab and as such rules inside can be quite strict. For example, we are not allowed to carry anything at all in case we drop it, instead we move everything on trolleys. We have an airlock to get in and we shower out every time we leave.

One game we play is microbiological safety cabinet cricket. It basically consists of a ball of surgical gloves (we don't have much paper in the lab) thrown across the room and then fired back by the batsman using normally long thin metal tin. We give a certain number of runs depending on whether it hits or even goes in different cabinets.

However this does backfire occasionally. Last month we were playing cricket in the lab and my manager struck our ball of gloves perfectly. It sailed through the air and straight into the anthrax cabinet, knocking over a tube of blood in which we had just diagosed positive anthrax (it's OK, it didn't come from inside the UK). We had to evacuate the building for 3 hours, and then go in with full breathing equipment to fumigate which takes a little under a week. Meant we did no more work for a while though but the top management have taken to frowning on our little game of cricket.
(_earwaxuk_, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 8:00, Reply)

Drive by Shouting
Sure i know a lot of people probably do this, but some of my friends and i enjoy doing this while driving in Toronto. We shout the action of what the person is doing, for example if they are jogging we yell "JOGGING!" or if they are smoking, we yell "SMOKING!" or if they are clearly gay (wearing leather chaps and a leather vest with a leather hat), we yell "FLAMING!"

Other variations include yelling at farm animals when passing a farm, obvious yells are to yell the sound the animal makes... bonus points are awarded if there is profanity involved, ie: "MOO GODDAMMIT!"
( rawr isn't really here., Tue 30 Mar 2004, 7:57, Reply)

"Meow"
Another game I play to amuse myself at work and in bars is "Meow", which is based on a scene in the movie "Supertroopers" where the cops challenge eachother to say the word "meow" X number of times to someone they've pulled over. In my version I pick a phrase like "Christina Aguillera" or "anal s3x" and challenge myself to say it 10 times in a business meeting or in general conversation without anyone calling me on it. A dumb game sure, but it beats being a total corporate drone.
(dan2035, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 7:35, Reply)

The Name Game
I work in a large office complex and I walk past hundreds of people I don't know every day. I amuse myself I've invented a game I call the 'Name Game' where I make up funny names for the people I see on a regular basis, like "Cameltoe Jenny", "No-Torso Shrini", "Golem", "Immitation George Carlin", "Preacherman", "the Human Bunt". The names are stricktly based on personal appearance, and they're all my secret. A secret I now get to share.
(dan2035, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 7:29, Reply)

Haven't in a while...
we used to play "sidewalk tag" up and down crowded streets in Manhattan much to the annoyance of people actually trying to get somewhere in a hurry.
(spiggums, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 7:15, Reply)

Games people play
While bored between classes at our CC one day, my friends and I purchased a WhoopieCushion these are the following games we came up with using this wonderific device:
1. The Elevator Game, this involves hiding the Whoopie Cushion in one's bag, and with two or more friends in attendence you ride the elevators uo and down during the pre-lunch rush, whilst observing people's irritation and elevator manners.....
2. Annoy Your Peers, While sitting in the "quad' social area, we select a bench excellent for people watching and as the idoits we attend school with walk by we sound the Whoppie cushion and laugh at the reactions. Scoring: 10pts if they excuse themselves 5pts if they act embarassed 1pts for change of facial expression and you get 15pts if you annoy a slutty girl wearing Ugg boots
(La Chockita, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 6:57, Reply)

there's always
"...that's was he/she said."

my friend and i used to do that all the time. it became so second nature, i let a few slip in front of my mom. oops.
(sophie the dyking, Tue 30 Mar 2004, 6:29, Reply)