Celebrity Password
You need to divide folks up into small (no more than 5 each) teams. It's probably best to have them draw numbers.
Into a big bowl, put a bunch (like over 100) little folded up slips of paper with names of famous characters (dead or alive). These can be sports, entertainment, political, historical, artistic, whatever. To make it interesting for the guys, you need sports figures (can use horses if you want). I've attached a list (in Excel) that you might want to start with at the bottom.
The Rules
The teams will go one at a time. Play is timed by someone from one of the other teams or a person who does not wish to play.
Team #1 picks a reader for round 1. The reader selects a slip from the bowl and by giving clues that do not involve the actual name on the slip, tries to get the other players to guess the celebrity character. Once someone from the team figures out the name, the reader grabs another slip and starts giving clues again. Repeat until time is up. Play then moves to the next team. What's fun is when the team before has trouble with a name and the next team picks it up and guesses it right away.
Example
Bobby, Susie, Gene, Norma and Claude are on a team. Norma will be reading clues. The first slip Norma picks up says "George Washington". She calls out "first president of the US". Susie says "George Washington!". Norma (quickly) throws the George slip down in front of her and picks another one that says "Carson Palmer". Now, Norma, being a non-interested-in-sports female, may not be aware that this is the 2002 Heisman trophy guy, so she can't give an obvious clue that Bobby, Gene and Claude might get. She has to instead try to get the team to give the individual words. "Late night talk show host", she exclaims. Claude offers "Jay Leno", Gene says "David Letterman" and Bobby says "Johnny Carson". Norma says "last word only" (she has to be careful not to ever say "Carson"). For "Palmer" she can hold up her palm and point to it (so like charades). By this point, if Carson has been established and Palm becomes obvious, one of the guys will realize it's Carson Palmer. If Norma gets really stuck, though, time may run out and she'll have to pass the bowl to Team 2.
The next time Team #1 gets its turn, someone other than Norma will have to read the clues. Eventually, everyone will get a turn reading clues.
When all the slips have been guessed or a pre-determined time strikes, the team that wins has the most little slips in front of them.
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