Valentines Day is traditionally about young (and not-so-young) lovers showing their affection for each other, but it can also be a special day for showing your love to your friends and family. Why not plan a party for them to taste the depth of your love with these overwhelming Valentines Day party Games?
Winking is a favourite game for teenagers and others with loads of energy. It suits large groups (eleven or more players) and needs a bit of space. An odd number of players form two teams; commonly girls on one team and boys on the other team with one extra player on the boys team. The girls are seated on chairs in a circle facing each other with one spare, vacant chair. The boys stand behind the chairs, along with the extra chair, with their hands clasped behind their backs. The boy behind the vacant chair winks at any one of the girls. She immediately tries to leave her seat and move to the vacant chair, while the boy behind her tries to forestall her leaving by placing his hands on her shoulders and moderately restraining her. If he is thriving in keeping her in her seat, the winker can try again by winking at someone else girl (or the same girl!). If she succeeds in escaping from him, the boy who was behind her becomes the new winker. Be prepared for lots of noise and fun!
Pyramids is a quieter game with teams of three to four players. Each team is given a sheet of paper and a pen, with one player on each team writing down their answers. A six letter keyword is written across the top of the page. Some words could be "Lovers", "Flower", or "Joyful". When the signal is given to start the game, each team tries to write words under each letter. The word immediately below the letter must be two letters long, with the word beneath that word being three letters long, and so on. For example, the words below the letter "O" could be "on", "one", "only", "opera", "object", and so on. As you can see, the words do not need to consist of the same letters as the words above them but they must all start with the same letter. Since each word is one letter longer than the word above it, the words form six pyramids below the letters of the keyword. Each pyramid may be dissimilar lengths, so you may have up to six letter words (or longer) for some pyramids but only two and three letter words for someone else pyramid. To make the game easier, abbreviations, plural words, names and even foreign words may be used, especially for the two letter words. Any words that no other team writes down are worth two points each while words that are tasteless to two or more teams score one point each. The team with the top score after five rounds (using five dissimilar keywords) wins the game.