Have a bowl set up somewhere (I always do the bathroom) with questions in it. they can be funny, they can be earnest, they can be whatever your heart desires but just have a shit ton of them written out in the bowl. Have your guests answer them throughout the night. Bonus points if you can have an iPad by the bowl so people can record their answers - i always get lots of laughs out of watching them the next day.
Also throw youtube karaoke on your tv
Feb 28, 2024
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Fishbowl is a classic parlor game where everyone writes down a few prompts on papers and mixes them up in a bowl. There are three rounds:
1) Taboo, try to get your team (or group) to guess the prompt without saying it
2) charades
3) players get a single, one word clue is used to get team members to guess the phrase/word on the paper.
This game can be played different ways, but I typically like to split the group into two teams. Each team gets a minute to get as many cards as possible, then the other team gets a minute. The person who draws from the bowl changes with every swap of the team’s turn. Each correctly guessed prompt is a point. This continues until all the slips of paper are gone from the bowl. At the end of each round, all the prompts are put back in the bowl so that all players are already kind of familiar with these phrases going into a new round. And the team with the most points/cards at the end of all the rounds wins!
This game has definitely created some interesting, new vernacular for my friend group, as the prompts can be literally anything. Plus, it’s very easy to learn/teach and only requires items found around your house.
Aug 5, 2024
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TLDR: Get out of your apartment, get a cheap drink *if you want*, and meet people in your community through a structured activity!!! A perfect recipe for getting out of your comfort zone while not being too overwhelmed about it!
*Disclaimer: If you’re sober but still enjoy the vibe and are comfortable being around booze, I swear to you I would never notice if you had a NA bev or never drank anything and I don’t think anyone else would either, nor would they care if they did catch on*
But I‘ve been doing bar trivia for almost 2 years now and it’s SO much fun, especially when you have a good host and you’re in a group that cares enough to try but not enough to get too hung up on getting things wrong. We mostly yap between questions/rounds and the hosts have always loved us. We‘ve moved around because places have closed and/or our schedules changed and we needed a different night of the week. But going to different places with different vibes has helped with my social anxiety SO much like I’m much more confident with interacting with different types of people now and much less worried that they’re not going to like me. Sometimes other trivia teams haven’t liked us but we’ve learned to be like “so what?” and just keep vibing bc we’re not hurting anyone. And when we get questions that feel tailor-made for us, like when it has to do with our homestates or hometowns (we’re all transplants) or with our special interests, we get a high we can ride the rest of the week.
And KARAOKE is the BEST! You get to do whatever song you want, and it is more fun to do one that gets the crowd going, but also if I wanna do a country song I’m nostalgic for but no one else knows, screw y’all I’m gonna enjoy my 3 minutes and give you a show. Also, there’s some regulars but also always some wildcards which keeps it interesting, like last week a huge NJ dude who may have been a mobster and who put his name down as Bonesaw, pulled me up to two-step with him to an old country song. Where else are you gonna get that sort of experience?
May 7, 2025
Give ur friends about a week of prep time and pick a night to all sit around a projector and give some presentations on whatever topic they desire. Makes for fun sequencing like how last night we followed the presentation of “what is god?” with a one-slide presentation on australian music pioneers The Wiggles. Mine was on embracing the slacker Mindset of the 1990s, more on that in another rec…
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unique brand… pricey but theyre having an archive sale rn
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