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When my family gets together for holidays, one of our favorite things to do is play games. “Word on the Street” has become one of our favorites the last few years. You would not believe the competitive spirit this game brings out of everyone! By the end of the round, don’t be surprised if you find yourself standing because you got so caught up in the action. You should absolutely bring this to your family’s Thanksgiving celebration!You divide into two teams, we always play boys vs. girls, and sit on opposite sides of the board. The goal is to earn more letter tiles than the other team. On your team’s turn, you pick a category card and have 30 seconds to work together to come up with one word that fits the category and uses as many letters as possible that are on the board. Meanwhile, the other team can do their best to distract you!

For the word that you choose, your team will spell it out and move each letter tile one lane closer to your side of the street. For example, if you got the category “something that runs”, you could choose “dog”, but that wouldn’t get you as many letters as “antelope” or “fence”. Once you pull the letter tile off the street on your side, your team gets to keep the tile. However, as long as the tile is still on the board, the other team can try to spell a word that will pull the letters back from you and towards their side of the street. With only 30 seconds to work with, you have to think of a word and spell it out quickly!

This is a great game for a party because it can be learned in a few minutes and you work with your team to come up with a word, so if you don’t have an idea, someone else on your team might! Bring this game out at your Thanksgiving family gathering or give it as a hostess gift for a holiday party. You can order it on amazon here.

If you are looking for more games, another one that I LOVE playing with a big group is Fish Bowl. All you need are pens, slips of paper, and a group of people.

Have fun!

Looking for a fun game to play at your holiday parties?? My friend Zac introduced us to The Fishbowl Game a few weekends ago and we have had a blast playing. Every time we’ve played, we end up dying laughing. It’s a great game for when you have a larger group of about 10 to 20 people.

First, have every person fill out 3 slips of paper that have one thing from each category written on them: a person, a place, and a thing.

The Fishbowl Game

Dump all of the papers into a “fishbowl” or something similar.

Divide into 2 teams. Team A will select a person to go first, who will try to get their team to guess as many slips as they can in 1 minute. Once team A’s minute is up, they add up how many slips of paper they guessed correctly and record that many points for the round. Then, it’s Team B’s turn. If a team hits the 1 minute mark and the clue has not yet been guessed, it goes back into the bowl. Once all of the slips of paper have been guessed, the round is complete, and they all get added back to the bowl for rounds 2 and 3. After round 3 is complete, add up the total number of slips of paper each team has guessed from each round and the team with the most points wins!

Each round has specific rules on how you can get your team to guess the word:

Round 1: Player can use both words and actions, without saying any words that are apart of the answer
Round 2: Player can only use actions to get their team to guess the word.
Round 3: Player can say only 1 word to get their team to guess the clue, so they must choose carefully!

For example, if the word is “cheeseburger”, this is how it could go:

Round 1: Player could act out eating a cheeseburger, pretend to be flipping burgers, and ask “what do you eat at McDonald’s?”

Round 2: Player can only use actions, so could act like they are eating a cheeseburger and make the Golden Arches to symbolize McDonald’s. You hope that your team remembers the words from the first round, so that they will be able to quickly guess it again.

Round 3: The player can only choose one word, so they could say McDonald’s, and hope that someone remembers cheeseburger is written on one of the slips of paper!

I promise, you will be laughing by the end of this game! It is hilarious to watch people try to act out the clues and it’s also very funny to try to understand the word associations people use in round 3.

BONUS ROUNDS: In the comments below, I received ideas for a 4th and 5th round. I tried them out with friends and family…they are HYSTERICAL!

Bonus Round 4: Player has to act out the word under a bed sheet – no talking, only movements!
Bonus Round 5: Player uses sound effects to get their team to guess the word – no words or actions allowed. We found this round was also hysterical under the bed sheet, so you can only hear the noises, but not see what the player is doing. (It’s also hard to make sound effects without acting a little bit, so the bed sheet masks movement.)