Our family loves Double Ditto, i think it’s probably not a game to play with more than 8 people. Our family is 4 so when friends are over we sometimes play that. Catchphrase is also fun, i think it’s for 4-10 people. We played with 12 once at Christmas.

Pictionary or Charades are the easiest with a really large group, especially if there is a wide range of ages. For eight or fewer adults, we love to play Mindstein.

Left Center Right. You can have as many people playing as you want. Fast and easy and fun!

Also, Catch Phrase. We have the electronic version. Sometimes we do teams, but most of the time it ends up we just pass it around the huge group of people here. Everyone is yelling and screaming answers, it's hilarious and it is sooooo fun. Especially if people have been drinking, which is usually the case, haha.

We play games every Friday. Some we play are sequence, phase 10,right left center, mexican train, three up three down.

Also a fan of LCR. Have played it with a dozen people or more. you are never 'out', you could always win. We play with quarters (you need three) but it can be played with anything, three for each player to start, winner gets the pot.

Oh, my gosh. Balderdash. That game is so funny, I don't think we've ever finished because we are just dying of laughter. Need a group of at least 6. Too good.

We play LRC, Apples to Apples, and Scattergories mostly for fast party games. I have a group I meet with once a month to play Hand and Foot. Bunco and Bingo too, but now those are too loud for me. We are stating a Mah Jong group and most groups I socialize with play Mexican Train now and then.

My dad is now in an assisted living home. We play Left Center Right with him in the common area, and often his neighbors come out of their rooms to play with us. Lots of laughter. It's a great game: simple, fast paced, doesn't require lengthy pondering about strategy, and you never know who will win.

I've played left right center with as many as 30 people. Each person starts with 3 - $1 bills. It can take quite awhile to play with that many people but at the end someone walks away a $90 winner.

A game my wife's family plays, that they call "Celebrity", works well for large groups.

The game starts with each and every player writing 5 or 6 answers on small pieces of paper. They can be the name of a famous person, or really almost anything: an animal, a well-known short phrase, an obscure object. These pieces are then folded and placed in a large bowl. The large group is divided into two groups and they sit in alternating fashion around the room.

In the first round a player from team one starts and is given a minute to try to get his/her team to guess as many answers as possible, by giving clues similar to "password". For each correctly guessed clue the team gets a point, and those answers are set aside. If the team doesn't correctly guess one, it is returned to the bowl. Then the next player (from team two) does the same.

This continues until the bowl is empty. Then all of the answers are returned to the bowl, and whomever is next takes their turn, except now instead of giving clues like "password" that player must perform the answer following the rules of "charades" and still have 1 minute to get the rest of their team to guess as many as possible.

The charades round continues until once-again the bowl is empty, then all of the answers are returned to the bowl, and the third round starts with the next player. In the third round, the clue-giver is only allowed to give a single, carefully-chosen, word as a clue. At first this might seem far too difficult, but given that all of the possible answers have already been heard twice, it actually can go quite quickly. So if only one of the possible answers is a President, giving the clue "President" should be enough,

LoneJack Zn 6a, KC, have you been to a WG? gathering, by chance? We played LCR in St. Louis with about 50 people.

It's getting closer to time to prepare for the Christmas "White Elephant" game.

We enjoy Cranium, played with teams, Taboo, and 5-Second Rule, among others.

I was going to say Cards against Humanity too, but just note that it is totally inappropriate for youngsters and many adults would find the humor very crude. After all, it's tagline is something like "A game for horrible people". We bought it when it first came out, and I think one of our kids stole it. So just today I ordered it again on Amazon, along with Crabs against humidity, or something like that. Apparently it is an expansion pack. But we are horrible people, and find this game so funny.

We found two games that are good party openers (ice breakers) and these can be played with a few to many players. These games are: (1) Apples to Apples and (2) Pictionary.

Just thought I'd mention that Amazon is featuring a lot of games on their Deal of the Day today (11/5). Many are for kids, but some are for adults, including the 5-Second Rule I mentioned above.

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