Game On! 3 Fun Games to Amp Up Your Friend Gatherings

Get ready to unleash your competitive spirit and enjoy some quality time with your pals!

Whether it's a laid-back weekend hangout or just a casual get-together, games can add an extra layer of fun and laughter to any social occasion. If you're tired of the same old routine and want to spice up your friend gatherings, look no further! We've curated a list of 3 entertaining games that are sure to bring smiles and create lasting memories.

1° I Doubt

It's a deck game and whoever runs out of cards first wins the game. Minimum 5 to 10 players with 2 decks (poker type).

1st - First distribute all the cards in the deck (including Joker) among the participants and choose someone to start.

2nd - The first player chooses a certain type of card (A,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K) that he has and discards it in the center of the table face down , telling everyone the number of cards and the type of card. Example: I am putting down five Aces, or two nines, and so on. As the cards will be placed face down, others will not know if he is telling the truth.

3rd - Then the next player will place cards that have the same type in the center of the table, face down, so successively everyone will place their cards. If a player does not have any such card, he may bluff and place any other card.

4th - After each game, any participant may doubt whether the player is telling the truth, to do so, they must say “I DOUBT!” out loud. At this moment, the cards placed in the center of the table must be revealed, and if the person who said told the truth, the person who doubted will have to get all the cards in the center of the table for themselves. However, if the player was didn't say the truth and was bluffing, he will have to collect the cards from the center of the table as revenge.

5th - At this moment, the winner of the challenge continues the game, being able to change the type of card or continue with the same. The turn only finishes when someone DOUBT about a player move. Players are not obliged to put all the cards they have at once, but they can only bluff with the type of card, never with the quantity.

Obs.: The Joker is in the game only to create confusion and does not work as any card but no card type and it's best to get rid of it. If everyones prefers, the game can be played without the Joker card.

2° The City Sleeps

This game was made for a large number of participants, 7 to 15ish people, and it is one of the funniest ones I have ever played. Let me explain how it works.

We have 5 characters, CITIZENS, ASSASSIN, DETECTIVE, ANGEL, and STORYTELLER. So, to start the game we need to write them down in a small piece of paper, fold them and give it to the participants with 1 Assassin, 1 Detective, 1 Angel, 1 Storyteller and X Citizens to match the number of people are playing. No one can know what the other participants are, so be careful when giving the characters papers. After 12 people playing it's good to double the amount of Assassin, Detective and Angel.

Who does what? Assassin will kill one person every round, Detective will try to find who is the Assassin, Angel will pick one person to save every round, and the citizens will try to figure out who is the assassin and put in jail. Let's start the game so you can understand more.

1st - To start, the Storyteller will reveal himself, so he can lead the game, but he is the only one allowed to reveal himself. It's important to mention that the Detective is also not allowed to be revealed.

2nd - The Storyteller starts saying: "The city sleeps", then everyone, except the Storyteller will close their eyes and bow down their heads to make sure no one is looking.

3rd - Then, the Storyteller says: "Assassin, wake up, who do you choose to kill tonight?". The Assassin will open his eyes, look to the Storyteller and look to the person to be killed that night (round), then the Storyteller says: "Ok Assassin, you can go back to sleep" and he closes his eyes and bows again.

4th - After, the Storyteller says: "Angel, wake up, who do you choose to save tonight?".

The Angels will open his eyes, look to the Storyteller and look to the person to be saved that nigh, then the Storyteller says: "Ok Angel, you can go back to sleep" and he closes his eyes and bows again. So, if the Angel choose the same person that the Assassin did, no one will be killer that night, if not he saved the wrong person.

5th - Next one, the Storyteller says: "Detective, wake up, who do you think is the Assassin?" The Detective will open his eyes, look to the Storyteller and look to the person he thinks is the Assassin, then the Storyteller will make a positive or negative gesture to him and say: "Ok Detective, you can go back to sleep" and he closes his eyes and bows again. The Detective will use this knowledge when a jury is created to help the discussion to catch the Assassin, but as I said before without revealing himself.

6th - After that, the Storyteller says: "It's time to the city wake up", then everyone opes their eyes and the fun starts. The Storyteller will say if we had a murderer that night and if yes who was killed without revealing who did it, only who was killed or almost killed and saved. Usually, spicing up the story and saying how the murder happened or almost happed is very funny, use your creativity. Then the Storyteller will create a voting jury with everyone and let them discuss about who is the Assassin and why they think is based on face, noise they heard at night or anything they can relate to the murder, and then choose one or two people to go to a trial, the accused's will be able to explain why they are not the Assassin, then by vote everyone will choose and this person will be out of the game, if the jury chose the Assassin, the Storyteller reveals he was the Assassin and the city wins, if not the Storyteller reveals he was not the Assassin and another round starts.

3° Stop!

That's a very easy game but I am very bad on it. There is no limit to the number of players. Initially, a table is drawn on paper for each player. Each column is named after a category of words, you can add more or delete a few to make it easier.

Name	Place	Animal	Color	Food	Object	Job	TV	Brand	Body

1st - From there, a letter is chosen among the players by everyone putting as many fingers as they want and someone will count the number and count: A, B, C, D to Z for each number.

2nd - After defining the letter, the game starts immediately and the players have to fill in an entire line of the table, with a word (starting with the letter chosen) for each column, and the word must be related to the title of that column.

3rd - The first person who managed to fill in all the columns immediately shouted: "STOP!", and so the other participants stopped filling in their tables and the analysis of the answers and the counting of points began.

4th - One by one category, all the players will say their words out loud. If more than one player has chosen the same word for the same category, each player receives 5 points, if no other player said it means 10 points for the player and if couldn't fill out, 0 points.

5th - In this example we have 10 columns, that means 100 possible points for each round, be as quick as you can to fill out most of them and be the first, then sum them in the right of the column. Every round is one letter and the game ends when everyone decides it. Then it's just count the total amount of points and see who was the champion.

The next time you gather with friends, consider incorporating these fun and engaging games to elevate the experience and sure create lasting memories and strengthen the bonds of friendship. So, gather your friends, bring out the games, and get ready for a laughter-filled adventure! Game on!

I would love to see other ones we can play, leave on the comments, maybe I can add here in the future.

Thanks for reading and I hope you can achieve a bit more.