Game Ideas?

I used to host chat rooms for a parenting site - mainly for moms but I had a few dads that joined my rooms regularly too. One of the most popular games I ran was Scramble (or call it Word Scramble, Mix-Ups, any kind of cute or appealing name you want to give it). Basically, every game was themed (the theme was announced at the start of the game to keep everyone on track) and would have a series of either scrambled words or phrases related to the theme (phrases are better because, for some folks, unscrambling a single word is really easy, no matter how many characters is contains). Everyone could "guess out loud" but had to preface their answer with "I GUESS: < word>" so I could differentiate the guess from regular chat. If no one was guessing correctly, I would start to offer hints - either funny clues or setting a correct letter in place like you do in hangman: _ _ R _<--- like that LOL

I worked hard on my themes so they would be more challenging than just "animals" or "plants and flowers" -- although those are perfectly fine too, of course... but it's worth doing a little research to find things with a bit of difficulty so the game doesn't end too quickly. Because this was old-school IRC chat at the time (LOL!) we used a lot of ASCII art and .wav sounds because that was the only way the games could be more visual and animated. We kept score and there was a winner declared for each game. Usually, I had some kind of little "prize" (as best I could online) and it usually included giving them some personalized ASCII art to use in their chat or some new .wav sounds:)

The fun part was that we could play Scramble and still chat a bit too - it was a really friendly environment and we sure had a blast. I had regularly scheduled Scramble games, during only some of my hosting hours, and it got to the point that people were planning their time just to show up for the games. Sometimes, simple is best because no one feels intimidated or put on the spot if it's a "guess out loud" kind of game. Oh and there are "scrambler" tools available online that will do the actual scrambling for you to save time... really handy if you're working with longer phrases:)

I am no good when it comes to games. I have absolutely no ideas at all. Good luck on your forum. Cheers!!

Rather than try to explain games, check ut this msg board:) http://www.viewpoints.com... are/have been lot of games going on, a few I was addicted to for awhile! We did the would you rather also but over time that did get hard to come up with ideas for. The mind game you'll see on that board hs been going on forever and is really just a simple silly game for distraction:)