Celebrity!

This is a really fun game that anyone can play.  It’s called CELEBRITY.  It’s kind of like Charades, only you can talk!  Give each of your guests about 20 small slips of paper (about the size of half a Post-it) and a pen.  The guests then writes the name of a different famous person on each piece the paper.  They can be living or dead, fictional or non-fictional.  Anyone from John F Kennedy to Elmo.  They then fold each piece of paper and drop them into a large bowl.

You then split into teams.  Each team must have at least two people on it.  You can have two teams to as many as you’d like.  We usually play with about 3 or 4 teams of about 5 people each.  The team that begins the game then picks a person on their team to go first.  They are given the bowl of folded pieces of paper and a clock is started for 1 minute.

Once the timer yells “Go!”, the person quickly grabs a piece of paper from the bowl and tries to get their team ( and ONLY their team) to guess the name written on the paper without actually saying the name.  Along the lines of “I was a sex symbol… blonde… my white skirt blew up…”  they continue until someone on their team yells “Marilyn Monroe”.  When the correct name is yelled, they throw that paper down and grab another one from the bowl.  The object is to get as many names called out within the 1 minute.

Each person has the opportunity to PASS once each turn.  This is done when/if the person doesn’t know who the person on the paper is, or if they feel it’s too hard.  When passing, they MAY NOT utter one word.  They must look at the paper, and immediately pass, placing the passed paper to the side (and to be returned to the bowl after their turn).  If a person STARTS giving clues, they can not pass the name.  They can only pass if they DON’T try to give any clues.

At the end of the minute, you count up the pieces of paper that your team correctly guessed and put that number on the score board.  They then pass the bowl to the next team.

You can play until there are no more pieces of paper in the bowl, or after the bowl is empty, you can place all the pieces of paper BACK INTO the  bowl and start ROUND 2.  In round 2 the person trying to get their team to guess the correct person can only use ONE WORD.  Such as… “blonde”.  They can not say any other word other than “blonde”.  Once they have uttered the first word, they are stuck with it.  If their team doesn’t know it, they can only say the same word in different ways in hopes that their team figures it out.

The team with the most points at the end of round 2 (no more pieces of paper in the bowl) WINS!

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