- Supplement to the North Shore News - December 24, 1980 Party games for festive people Not everybody likes to spend all their time at a party standing around drinking and engaging in erudite conversation. So if you're stuck for something more to do, we've provided this brief selection of party games to inspire you. CHARADES There is no finer party game, none more entertaining, mone more popular than Charades. The word ‘charade’ is derived from the Spanish charrada, meaning the chatter of clowns, but it came to England and was transformed into a _ post- prandial indoor enter- tainment in 1776. Since then it has been one of our national pastimes and no party is complete without it. R.J. (Bob) Huish MERRY CHRSTMAS! The guests are divided into teams, the first team retiring to another room, choosing a word which they are to dramatize and planning the performance they are to give. The captain then returns to the room and announces how many syllables there are in the word his team has chosen to dramatize and in what order the syllables are to be dramatized. Various members of the team come into the room and act, without or with dialogue, httle scenes designed to give a clue to the sound of the syllables they are dramatizing. Each syllable is acted out. individually and finally the word is performed as a whole. The rest of the guests watch the _ per- formance and try to guess each syllable as it is NORTH VAN AUTO BRAKE LTD. WISHING YOU A presented. A variation on the traditional game involves the outsiders deciding not on a mere word, but on, say, the title of a book, a play, a poem, a film, a piece of music or a_ television programme. They then work out how to act out the title, syllable by syllable or part by part, either using dialogue or — and it's funnier this way — by means of dumb-show. Were the chosen title Romeo and Juliet (Errol Flynn’s favourite when he played the game, as he often did in his Hollywood heyday), the players might stride about (roam), bray like asses (eeaw), hold hands (hand), admire their rings {jewel} and gobble an imaginary dish greedily (ate). Having decided how best to convey their title, the Dave (The Brake Doctor) AND A YEAR OF SAFE, HAPPY DRIVING IN 1981... a. VISA’ *5R, ‘RO e ye an “~ Ds - ‘7 > - “ >» F’ Oe @.One37 1175 W. Ist St., North Van. 985-8705 | Tr INTEGRITY outsiders go back and perform their charade to the oposing team. If the op- ponents guess the title before the charade is completed, they bave won. If they don't, they haven't. In either case, it’s their turn next to leave the room and think of a title of their own. Of course, with a small company or with guests who detest the idea of splitting up into teams, it is simpler, and actually no less fun, to play Solo Charades, with lone individuals taking it in turns to act out the words or the titles of their choice. CHARACTER ASSASSINATION There is nothing quite lke this unpleasant game for boosting morale among the people who play it. It 1s ideal for bringing back colour to the cheeks of the wan and the weary. Players divide into two teams. Team A secretly selects a person to slander and proceeds to do just that — without actually mentioning their victim's name — for the benefit of Team B, who must guess the identity of the maligned mdividual as quickly as they can. When Team B_ has guessed Team A’s victim, it is Team B's own turn to run someone down. The team that guesses the other team’s victim in the shorter space of uume, wins. However drunk, drugged or depraved the players happen to be, it is best to denigrate only public figures. A player who lays into his host's wife or even his own mother-in-law 1s lable to say things which he may later regret. And assas- sinating the character of one of the players present is needlessly cruel — even if that player appears prepared to run himself down. ‘ NO, NO NUIJINSKY! This game for specialists should only be played at parties where the bulk of the guests have interests in common. Since the aim of the game is for one player to get up and give a detailed impersonation of a_weil- known figure in their par- tucular field, a bailet dancer rising to perform a deliciously well-observed caricature of Nijinsky doing a senies of complex double entrechats would be wasting his talents on an audience of undertakers and chartered accountants. The brilliance of the dancer's performance and the accuracy of his impersonation could = only properly be appreciated by other ballet buffs. Actors, civil servants, journahsts, television executives, tycoons and electrical engineers, imitatmg other actors, cival servants. journalists, television executives, tycoons and electncal engineers, will vastly entertain actors, civil servants, pournmalists, television execulives, tycoons and electrical engineers. but probably nobody else Where Real Estate is Serious Business — But a Pleasure NORTH NORTH VANCOUVER OFFICE CHUCK MITTEN BRUCK ALLAN HOWARD BACHELOR TOM BRECKEELS DOUG BROWN GHRORGE BROWN OLIVIA CHOW WAYNE CLELAND JOHN COLLINS KATHY DICKINSON BILL FLANAGAN RAND GATZKE VESNA GOLAC GHOPF HARESTAD MAY HATLEN BRENT JORGENS WAYNE KNECH TEL Best Wishes For a festive and joyous Christmas Season Together with a Happy and Prosperous New Year from the Management and Staff of Mitten Realty Ltd. GERORGE WHYTE HAL LAYCOE JEREMY LEE VERS DOUG LESLEY GEKORGE MASS-E Y HARRY MARK JUNE MATTHEWS STAN MORTISON GERRY ROEDDE NORMAN SCOTTI NICK STOBBART CLIFFORD STONE ANNA TORRANCE MARIPF TURIN DAN WALKER ALAN WATERFALI DOUG WOLRICH BART VANDERLINDDE 139 WEST 16th ST. BRIAN HARRIS JACK DREW ROSE WREAN JEFF GOW NORENE BROWN JANET DYRLAND SHIRLEY BUKALA DAWN MOORE JANET KNIGHT ANN MATLANI LUA PHILLIPS CAROLYN GURNEY SHARON BAHR JACK LOWMAN JEAN LOWMAN DAVE BARKER WENDY JANCOWSKI DOROTHY BROUSE 988-1175 175 WHO AMI? The hostess pins on the back of each guest a card bearing the name of some famous person of the same sex. For example, the men may be labeled Napoleon, Winston Churchill, Shakespeare, Babe Ruth, Al Capone, etc., and the women Florence Nightingale, Queen Elizabeth I], Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, etc. The guests must then mingle and converse. Each may ask questions of the others, designed to discover what character he himself represents. All such questions must be answered as truthfully as possible, but of course the quesuon “Who am 1?” is barred. One may ask such questions as “Am I a character in life or fic- tion?” “Am I living or dead?” “Was I a statesman?” “Am I an actress?” A good rule, if it can be enforced, is that questions must be phrased so that they can be answered by “yes.” “no,” or ‘I don’t know.” It 1s proper to ask “Did I hve in the nineteenth century?” but not “When did I hive?” Without this rule one could track down one’s identity with a few questions — why am | famous? what is my nationality? where did I live or do my work? Pnzes may be awarded to first man and firs’ woman who guess their identities “Who Am [’" ts an ex- cellent icebreaker for large mixed parties. Each guest 1s labeled with an identity as soon as he arrives 2D. LDLOv QUB1OO.VB1O¥ QL BOD. BO. BV BOO. BO? GLB: Mlitten Realty Ltd. » e : Gh ‘OO: e, e 63 “,@ s ® > 4 > e 0: ~~ Ve