Party Games Books

I purchased this book in preparation for my close friend's bachelorette party. IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! We had the best night out we had had in a long time. Our group got lots of attention, a few free drinks, and a couple of hangovers. I recommend this book for anyone out there that needs a little bit of direction when it comes to throwing a good party.

Anyone who enjoys planning great parties or thinking through unbelievable costumes for parties will enjoy this unusual book. It's better than "Page Six" with great photos and appreciative remembrances.

Murder Mystery Parties really are great fun for a bunch of friends or family who love the opportunity to dress up and have a laugh. I joined in this game at a friend's house recently and now we are busy preparing for the next party at mine! Some people are a little worried about having to 'act in character', but they're usually fine once they get going and you can always make sure that they are allotted a quieter personality. All the information you need is given in booklets and you could just read it out if you didn't want to adlib. The plot of 'Tall Oaks' was just complex enough to keep us all guessing, but not too involved to lose anyone's attention - even after numerous glasses of wine!

Twenty party themes include directions and templates for invitations, goodie bags, four games or activities for each party, a fantastic cake, and totally coordinated decorations. For those of us whose kids had parties at the local park or pool, this is a really overwhelming book. But if you're an event planner, or if you have the time and energy and inspiration to do a party like this for your kids, I'm sure it will be remembered forever and ever. Themes include a terrific pirate party, wrestlemania party, skateboarding, mermaid, boys in the woods, teddybear picnic, and a fantastic Halloween party. Like the Family Fun 100 Parties book (now out of print) this has loads of helpful full color photos and specific instructions for those of us who were born without the arts-and-crafts gene.

I LOVE THIS BOOK IT GIVES YOU GREAT IDEAS I GOT THE BOOK AND NOW ALL MY FRIENDS WANT TO GET IT AFTER MY SLEEPOVER!!!!!!!!

It looks like the Three Stooges offstage had a group of easygoing friends who were up for almost anything fun and silly at parties, and the book is a great compilation of some of their best ideas. Games include "Pass the Buck", where teams line up boy-girl-boy-girl, and try to pass a doller that they are holding in their knees down the line; "Spoons", where you pass a spoon tied to a line of yarn up and down the clothes of your team members; and a kind of "newlywed game", where couples are split up, the men are asked to write down answers to questions about their preferences and relationship, and the women have to guess what their partners wrote down.

I love this book. It has lots of creative ideas. Each section gives you a type of shower with preparation ideas (including pictures), invitation, menu, decoration, activities and even type of favors. It makes it easier for you to do. I used one for a baby shower ideas just a month ago it was a big hit, I just added a few more things to it and BAM the perfect shower that was fun and colorful. I have recomended this book to my friend and will like to recommend it to you too.

Very good book for planning an entire night of fun!

i am lauren and i would like to say i'm deeply in love with anything of sim's!! i never knew about it till my sister told me about it. as soon as she finished telling me all about it,i raced to the computer and went to sims.com. i was really excited about it. i went to the shopping page and bought it. i just could not wait till it arrived!! when it did, i didn't bother reading about it cause i was so excited about it all and was curious to find out about it myself. well i hope people enjoyed playing the sim's game. and for those who haven't played them, you are in for a huge surprise cause i think it's just fantastic!! you will love it!!......hopefully!

I LOVE THE SIMS GAMES! they are so much fun. if you buy the sims games your money is being well spent. but there was just one thing that was a bummer it is that it does not work on XP it says it does but i have XP and a few of my friends do and it does not. but other than that it is awesome and fun a great thing to play when you are bored! I hope u get it and enjoy it!

This book is really great for any sims gamer! I gives all kinds of useful info! I use it every day! I've read the whole thing billions of times, it even gives you a timeline on how to throw a good party! And I found this out from the book, but a moose head tells you how good your party is! If it's antlers are drooping it means your party..., but if your antlers are high up, it means you are throwing a great party!

It's not that it's poorly written or even that it doesn't have info but I guess I was expecting something that would help me. If you want to learn some strategies don't buy this book. common sense will tell you what they did. I was hoping for some real good stragegy but there isn't none. But if you do want to know little stats like how much your social goes down when you're at work then yeah this is for you. and the thing on the ghost with the campfire was neat. That's about it. But don't waste your money. You can figure this stuff out at the sims.com..

I find this to be an incredibly good guide. Not only does it cover two games (original Sims and House Party) in one, but it gives excellent advice. It also has a bit of humor in one section (Chapter 8) The book has a total of 15 chapters, each describing something else. While one chapter goes into detail on Sim's personalities, another talks about throwing parties. Another chapter has a buying guide, with tips on what to buy, while another chapter is dedicated to telling you who can show up at your parties and how to get them to show up. The book also has pictures. This book is very helpful if you are having trouble holding good parties in the Sims House Party.

The ideas in here on food and games helped me the most. I could not believe how many compleiments I received during and after the shower. The decoration ideas were not helpful, but the games section truly made up for this!! I will continue to use this book!

I was looking for something with an overall sense of throwing a shower. This book did not have everything I needed, lacking in food, budget, etc. If you are looking for something to give you ideas for every aspect of a shower, this is not the book for you.

The majority of the book and the best content was related to games. It did not go into too much detail of decorating or favors, which is where the seasoned shower planner needs some new ideas. It had a brief description on themes, but should have had recipes related to those themes. I was disappointed in the food section, not much content. I have never heard that a mother-to-be should arrive at the shower before her guests? Good for games, that's about it.

I was anticipating this being a very good book based on some reviews, but was very disappointed and outdated. It does have silly games - something I wanted no part of at the shower I threw. I was looking for someone to take me through the shower step by step, but this bood did not do so. I would not recommend this book, especially if you are starting from ground zero.

I'd never thrown a baby shower before so I thought this book would help. It had some really good ideas in it, especially for games. The food ideas didn't sound too tempting and there was only 1 recipe for punch (I would of liked more). The game section was the best, so if you need game ideas this is the book. But if you need food ideas, I would suggest trying to find another book.