More Than Games names 2002 Party Games of the Year

As the holiday party season moves into full swing, the gurus at More Than Games announced their 2002 Party Games of the Year list today.

This year's list includes a mixture of drawing and creativity titles, along with some thinking and comparison games. These titles include the best of American games, along with iMAgiNiff, an award-winning title from Australia, said John Kaufeld, manager and Chief Elf of More Than Games. Unlike faddish TV-themed games that quickly come and go, these are games that you, your friends, and your family can enjoy over and over, for years to come.

The More Than Games 2002 Party Games of the Year list includes these five games (in alphabetical order):

Apples to Apples: Which is more dramatic: the Indy 500, July 4th, William Shakespeare, or Mount Everest? Players use commonly-known things, places, people, and events to make interesting and off-the-wall comparisons. By focusing on the players' creativity and zany ways of thinking, Apples to Apples stays fresh and fun every time you play.

iMAgiNiff: If your best friend were an airship, what kind would he be: a Learjet, dirigible, biplane, glider, 747, or a brick? Each turn, one player's name goes into a question like this. All of the players (even the one whose name is in the question) secretly pick their favorite answer, and then everybody reveals their choice at once. Pick the most popular answer and you move ahead on the board. This game makes for some hilarious conversation, too -- I'm a brick!? I always thought of myself as a glider…

Skribble: Test your communication skills in this delightful twist on drawing-oriented party games. One player gets a common word (house, rain, cornfield, or phone), and then explains to her partner how to draw a picture so that the partner can guess the word. This one guarantees laughs as the two partners come up with wildly different visions of the drawing instructions.

Squint: Can you draw without drawing? Sure -- just make a picture out of other pictures! In Squint, players illustrate anything from a microphone to a coconut using 72 plastic shape tiles. If someone else in the group successfully guesses what they're making, then both players get points. It's wild, raucous fun that deftly avoids the but I can't draw objection which keeps people out of other party games.

Wise and Otherwise: Players challenge their creativity and cleverness by devising endings for 2500 ancient and obscure sayings from all over the world. For instance, a Roman proverb starts Other people's goats…, but does it end with should graze their own pastures, sound loudest at night, or always have the biggest udders? (Hint: think about milk.) If players choose the ending you wrote, you move ahead on the board.

We see a huge swell of interest in new party games for this year's holiday season, Kaufeld said. Rather than gather around a movie or plug into a video game, folks from every social group -- families, friends, college kids, and teens -- are looking for interactive things to do as a group. Party games really fill the bill.

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More Than Games names 2002 Party Games of the Year