11 games for more fun parties

The holidays are coming up, and you're definitely going to a party, or maybe you're having friends over for a party, or maybe every day with your family is like a party. How do you prepare for these events? Can you guarantee that everyone will have something to do?

Have a lot of relatives or friends come? When a lot of guests arrive, we recommend "Codenames".

Codenames , a classic party game, can be played by an almost unlimited number of players. All you have to do is divide into two teams and choose a captain for each team. The captains have to give their teammates clues so that they can guess them before the other team. What makes the guessing game so unique is that all the words are already revealed on the table, but you have to be careful not to help the other team by accidentally guessing their words.

There's not always a lot of time to explain the rules. I don't want to read long rules, but I want to open the game box and jump into the fun. Then these three games will be the right ones:

• “Just One” is unique in that we are all on the same team. One is the guesser, who must guess the given word, for which everyone else gives a one-word clue. If multiple players give the same clue, these clues must be deleted. In addition, the clue givers are not allowed to talk!

• “Black stories” — one player will be the leader, who will answer the other players’ questions about the story. Players must ask questions that can be answered with “yes” or “no”. The goal is to find out the full story. Could the rules be any simpler?

• "Catch Sketch" is a drawing game that doesn't require an artist. One of the players will be the leader, who will have to try to guess the word that the other players are trying to draw. However, only the leader and the player whose drawing the word is guessed will get a point, and the faster you finish drawing, the faster the leader will look at your drawing. But will those few lines be enough to recognize it? If you think too long, you won't get to your drawing at all!

Yes, yes, we know - teens and hipsters have enough problems of their own to do something as clumsy as playing board games. But these games have been played by world-famous YouTubers and streamers :

• “Mimic Octopus” is a secret role-playing and deduction game for parties, in which players must creatively show off and daringly pretend to be someone they are not.

• “What Do You Meme?” and “Cards Against Humanity” are very simple, but at the same time very funny. Each round, one person is the judge and draws a sentence or picture, for which the other players choose one of their text cards as the most appropriate. Then the judge chooses the winner, who is awarded a point. Discussions and laughter never cease about all the submitted options.

• In "Shit Happens," players try to assess and correctly rank various difficult life situations as accurately as possible. Each card represents a terrible event that could happen to you, such as being attacked by a swarm of bees or seeing your father naked.

What could be more exciting than having your family and friends wrapped around your finger during the holidays? Now you can do it with new and exciting bluffing games!

• "Spicy" is a card game where players will have to place spice cards face down, raising the stakes. If you think a player is bluffing, you can challenge them, but what is they lying about? The number or the spice?

• Skull is a fun party game of bluffing, deduction, and outsmarting your friends and family. Players place face-down flower and skull discs until one player starts betting on how many discs they will reveal without revealing a single skull. Others have the opportunity to raise their bets, but can you really avoid the skull?

Not all parties have only big players. Sometimes you have to find games that are fun for both big and younger players.

• Cortex Disney will sharpen all your brain skills with tactile challenges, doubles, logical sequences, mazes, color puzzles, and more. And all this with colorful characters from the world of Disney! Why haven't your kids played this yet?

• “Halli Galli Twist” is one of the most popular reaction game series in the Baltics for both adults and children. Take turns revealing cards. As soon as exactly five objects of the same color or type are visible on the revealed cards, players try to ring the bell. The first to do so takes the revealed cards. The goal of the game is to get the most cards. Fast, simple and exciting.