Need ideas for games that adults can play at a blockparty.....

[Mind_your_head]

please read carefully, not "adult games at blockparty", but rather "games for adults at blockparty". We've got 'games for the kids' well covered, btw....

A lot of thirty-somethings in our neighborhood, with grade-school aged children.....some senior citizens (original owners) who've lived in their home since this neighborhood was built in the late 1960's.

TIA for any suggestions. :hi:

[KamaAina]

1. Strip poker!

well, maybe if the block is in SF, or Amsterdam... :evilgrin:

[Mind_your_head]

3. You didn't "read carefully", KA.....

NO "adult games" ;-)

Happiest of birthdays to you, btw! :toast:

[NightWatcher]

2. horseshoes.....alcohol plus politics plus horseshoes equals fun

[arbusto_baboso]

4. The same principle could apply to mumble peg.

Only you have SHARP OBJECTS!!!!

[Mind_your_head]

7. Yep, I'd agree....except this blockparty will be largely held in a large asphalted

cul-de-sac. 600 households are invited and this is the ONE TIME/year that we have this opportunity to all get together. I get the sense that a lot of the attendees WANT to get to know their neighbors more, but SOMETHING has to facilitate inter-action between the neighbors who don't know each other YET.

That's what I'm looking for....something.....games, whatever that help introduce us all to each other....

Btw, even though 600 households are 'invited', somewhere like 10-20% of that 600 show up.

[hippywife]

5. Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt?

Or even a treasure hunt with clues planted around the neighborhood?

:hi:

[Mind_your_head]

9. Oooh, Scavenger Hunt......I LIKE that idea very much, hippywife!

Thank You! I could blend in clues that only the "oringal owners" would know with some more contemporary stuff!

Great idea! :thumbsup: Thank you!

:hi:

edit: took out a word for clarity

[hippywife]

10. That's a really good idea

for formulating the game. Would make it very interesting and maybe a little more challenging.

Have fun and let me know how it turns out if you do it. :hi:

[coconuted]

6. Corn Hole

http://www.playcornhole.org/rules.shtml

[HopeHoops]

8. Beer pong with a 5 gallon paint bucket and a mini-basketball.

Use sidewalk chalk to mark out the course.

[NJmaverick]

11. Bad mitten, volley ball and tug of war

[AwakeAtLast]

12. Ladderball

http://www.amazon.com/Ladder-Ball-Set-Lawn-Game/dp/B000PI3HDY

Washers

http://www.bombatwashers.com/Washer_Boards_s/2.htm

Hope you find something!

[NMDemDist2]

13. phase ten

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_10

hase 10 is a card game created in 1982 by Kenneth Johnson and currently produced by Fundex Games. Phase 10 is based on a variant of rummy known as Liverpool Rummy. It requires a special deck or simply 2 regular decks of cards, and can be played by two to six people. The game is named after the ten Phases (or melds) that a player must advance through in order to win. Phase 10 is Fundex's best selling product, selling 32,658,846 units to date, making it the 2nd best-selling card game behind Mattel's Uno.

we can get cards and dice at the supermarket

[wininboy]

14. Limbo - Fun for adults and kids, plus some good music

[surrealAmerican]

15. I was going to suggest bocce, but then you said ...

... it's a mostly paved area. How about shuffleboard, or some sort of beanbag toss?