After their response, it's their turn to ask the person next to them. Continue until you can't think of any more scenarios.

Heads Up! This game requires an app: The Heads Up! app is available from the App Store and Google Play. After the cent purchase and download, though, you have hours of entertainment on-hand at all times.

In-app purchases are also available. One person will hold a phone to their forehead, facing out. Everyone else will act out or describe whatever appears on the screen while the person with the phone guesses.

They have one minute to make as many correct guesses as possible, and then the phone goes on to the next person. Categories include animals, movies, public figures and celebrities, and more. I'm Hosting a Party….

For a more cognitive game, play this brain teaser. Say you're hosting a party, and only people who bring the right contributions are given an invitation. Pick a secret rule: Typically, everyone must bring something that begins with the same letter as their name, but you can also get more creative with it.

Don't tell anyone else your rule. Go around the room and have each person say what they're bringing; you respond to each suggestion with a "Yes, you're invited," or "No, you can't bring that. Two Truths and a Lie. Pick three statements about yourself: "I have two siblings, I've been to three continents, and I love cats," for example.

Two should be true; one should be a lie. Everyone else must guess which is the lie, and then the next person goes. This is a great getting-to-know-you game; if you're playing with family or friends, pick obscure details to trick each other to make it even more fun. Sticker Stalker. Purchase a pack of stickers.

This one is a great Christmas party game or Halloween party game, so try to find stickers that suit the occasion. Give everyone one sheet of five to 10 stickers or less, depending on the size of the party. This game works best at a party where everyone is mingling, so you can incorporate it easily into your happy hour or neighborhood function.

Each person must discreetly place all their stickers on other party guests; the first to use all their stickers wins. If they get caught stickering someone, they must accept a sticker.

At the end of the evening, you can laugh about how sneaky some people are—and wonder how you ended up with stickers all over your back without even noticing. Mail Call. Place chairs in a circle, using one less than needed. Have everyone take a seat; the one person without a seat must stand in the center of the circle.

They'll say, "Mail Call for everyone…" and pick a descriptor, such as "wearing red" or "has a cat. Everyone that descriptor applies to must get up and find a new seat without retaking their initial seat or moving to the seats next to them.

The person in the middle will also be racing for a chair; whoever is left standing at the end stands in the circle next, and the game continues. Find a deck of cards and a set of spoons. Pieces of candy also work. Have enough for each player, minus one.

Deal four cards to each person playing. One person, the dealer, will keep the remaining deck next to them and draw one card at a time. They will look at the card and trade it out for a card in their hand or pass it along to the person next to them, who will do the same thing.

The goal is to collect four of the same card; when that happens, reach for a spoon. When someone spots a spoon missing, they, too, can grab one; whoever is left without a prize at the end is out.

Remove one more spoon and play again. Alternatively, play by sticking out your tongue when you've collected four of a kind. If others notice, they can stick out their tongues, too; whoever notices last loses. Camera Hot Potato. Pick a phone to pass around the group. Set it to self-timer mode—10 seconds is best—and use regular photo mode, not selfie mode.

Pass the phone around, with each person holding the phone up for a moment, posing for the camera. Pass until the photo is taken, then repeat. At the end, take a look at the probably undignified photos. Crossed, Uncrossed. This is a trickier take on I'm Hosting a Party.

Sit in a circle and designate yourself as the host. Just don't tell everyone the name of the game. Say you are hosting a party but will only invite people bringing the right items. Go around the circle and have everyone suggest contributions; the host will say who is invited and who isn't.

Instead of basing the invite on what they're bringing, though, base it on their posture: Whoever has their legs crossed can come, and whoever doesn't can't, for example. Continue until everyone figures it out. In a Perfect World.

Similar to I'm Hosting a Party and Crossed, Uncrossed, have everyone sit in a circle. Say you're describing your perfect world: "In my perfect world, there are doors but no windows. Your perfect world has only double letter items: schools but not universities, for example, or apples but not bananas.

If someone gets it right, say, "Yes, that would be in my perfect world. Continue around the circle until everyone figures it out. Have everyone sit or stand in a circle. Each person should select a hand motion or leg motion, if you're standing.

Go around the circle and have everyone present their motion. Memorize these. Have everyone begin clapping or stomping a steady rhythm and pick one person to start: They will do their motion and then the motion of someone else in the circle.

This next person will do their own motion, then the motion of a third person, who will do the same. There are no passbacks and no hesitations. Whoever messes up first is out; continue indefinitely.

Straight Face. Find a pad of paper and writing tools. Have everyone write an outrageous phrase on a slip of paper, and collect everything in a hat. If it's a mixed group, set propriety guidelines ahead of time; if it's adults-only, go wild. Give one person the hat. They must draw a piece of paper and read the statement aloud to the group.

The goal is to keep a straight face. Whoever laughs or smiles loses. Pass the hat around until everything has been read.

Have everyone sit around a table. Everyone will put their heads down; count down from three, and have everyone sit up and look at someone else in the circle.

If you make eye contact with someone else, you're out. If the person you're looking at is looking at someone else, you're safe. Repeat until everyone is out. Pick one person to be Mr. Have everyone playing the game move around the party as usual.

When Mr. Freeze freezes, though, everyone else must freeze too. Whoever freezes last is out. Repeat for the duration of the party. Musical Chairs. Okay, it's a popular party game for kids, but adults can also get in on the fun.

Set up chairs or seat cushions in a circle facing outward, with enough seating for everyone playing, minus one.

Designate one person as the music player and have everyone else stand in a circle around the circle of seats. When the music starts, walk around the seats; everyone must find a seat when the music ends. Whoever doesn't is out. Remove one more chair and begin again, until two people are fighting for one seat.

To make musical chairs more interesting, add your own rules. Allow people to sit on top of each other as long as their feet are off the floor , for example, or make your own alterations.

This tried-and-true party game can be as simple or as complicated as you make it. Have everyone write down concepts, movies, people, shows, and more to act out and divide into teams. One person will act out something drawn from the assortment while their team members guess what it is.

When time is up, switch teams and repeat. Add time limits, scoring systems, silence rules, and more as desired. Pick one phrase to whisper in the ear of the person next to you—no repeats.

That person will whisper what they heard to the person next to them, and so on until the phrase gets back to you. Prepare to laugh at how distorted it gets. To make it more difficult, play music in the background. Pick one person to go first.

That person will think of an item, animal, movie, public figure, etc. Everyone else will ask yes-or-no questions about what or who they are; they have 20 chances to guess, or the other person wins. Whoever guesses correctly can win a prize, or be the next to answer questions.

For adults, if you want things to get a little wild, just add alcohol. When the music stops, the child holding the parcel removes the outer layer of paper. Start the music again and continue until one child unwraps the final layer of paper to reveal their prize.

Pair players up and have them toss an egg back and forth to each other. Each time the children both catch it, they must take a step backward and continue.

The team that can catch their egg with the furthest distance between them, wins! Egg and Spoon Race Line players up, each with an egg balanced on a tablespoon. The first player to cross the finish line or first team to have all members jump is the winner. Treasure Hunt Treasure hunts or scavenger hunts can be super simple to set up, or as involved and detailed as you wish.

The tokens can be anything — small coloured gemstones, printed tokens like the ones we used here for a goblin hunt, painted rocks, etc. Finally, at the much more involved end of the scale is a treasure hunt with a series of pre-written clues that guests must read and solve as a group in a trail around the party space to find a hidden treasure.

Played in pairs, wheelbarrow races are tons of fun. The first person is the wheelbarrow — they start with their hands on the ground and their legs are held by the second person the driver in the pair. First team across the finish line are the winners. Duck, Duck, Goose A total classic, right?

Totally simple, too. Have your partygoers sit in a circle cross-legged. each of the other players on the head. If they are caught, they sit in the centre of the circle and miss being selected for further turns. Balloon Relay Race Running and balloons is always a good idea when it comes to classic party games.

Divide your guests into relay teams of four players, two on each side of the play space. You can play a balloon relay in a number of different ways — our favourite requires players to place an inflated balloon between their knees and jumping across the play space.

Other versions require players to choose their own way of travelling across the space with the balloon but no hands allowed! This can be fun when played in pairs — each pair has to travel across the space with a balloon squashed between heads, backs or bellies!

Alternatively, you can give each player an inflated balloon, have them race to the other side of the yard and sit on a chair and pop their balloon before racing back and tagging the next person in line.

The first team to get this completed from start to finish wins! Hang the piñata so that it is hanging at about head height. Have party goers stand in a line a few metres away.