Any ideas for cocktail party games or activities?

Question

We are hosting our first cocktail party and the theme is "black and white." We are encouraging everyone to come dressed all in black and white attire and to be creative. We need ideas for games and activities though! Any help? thanks!!

Answer 1

games

Answer 2

Cocktail Party Games

Answer 3

LOL- Someone above says play "pass the orange"- what! I love Audrey and Carey too, but please. It's 2007, baby.

I like the idea of Scene it or other DVD games. You can buy them relatively cheap at your local Borders or Barnes & Noble- and they have all kinds of versions- depending on what you're into.

Another idea is Martini Making Contest- have all the fixings and mixings- olives, vermouth, apple schnapps, cranberry, swizzle sticks, etc.

-NEW drink contest- have people make a signature drink, name it, and present it.

-Tom Cruise Cocktail style contest- see if anyone can flip and throw like the movie (may want plastic bottles, here!)

The most important thing is to keep people moving so set up different food areas, not just one, with different items at each.

Have fun!

Answer 4

We are planning to do a wine tasting "scoring" game. Everyone attending will bring their favorite bottle of wine and it will be placed in a decorative sack that hides that brand but is numbered. Each person will get score cards numbered 1 to 3 with 1 being bad, 2 being okay and 3 being good. Each person gets a taste of that wine and must score it. A tally sheet is kept and the wine that wins the highest scores win. We will probably have 3 - 5 prizes, depending on the number attending and the person that brought that particular wine will be the recipient of the prize. Prizes will be gift cards or gift baskets. The food we will have will go with the wine: Cheese tray with crackers, sandwich wraps, a veggie tray, some type of dessert (not sure but something sweet), and peanuts, of course.

Answer 5

There are games you can buy that are like live "Clue" games, you can have a murder mystery dinner which would be cool with your formal theme. Also, you can serve tuxedo strawberries... dip a strawberry in melted white chocolate all the way up to the stem. After the chocolate sets, dip it at an angle into dark or milk chocolate, forming a V in the front, use a toothpick in the dark or milk chocolate to make buttons and a bow tie. Elegant and delicious and it will fit your theme as well. Have fun!

Answer 6

How about doing some retro games like twister, limbo contest, and charades. Trivial pursuit is always good. Also "I've got a secret" can be fun if you have enough people. One person starts with a "secret" and whispers it to the next until the secret gets around to everyone and the last person repeats what they heard. It is never the same as the secret it was at the start.

Answer 7

Pass The Orange (Saw this in the film Charade (Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant)

Everyone gets in a large circle. The first person is given an orange to place under his chin. He must pass the orange to the next in line but neither may use their hands. If the orange drops, those two people are out of the circle. This continues until there is only two people left. When the orange drops the next time, a vote is taken as to who dropped it. The winner gets the prize.

Answer 8

Yeah! go and purchase a game called "SCENE IT" its a DVD game of movies trivia. You'll have a blast playing it specially if all of you are drinking.

Answer 9

nothing is ever black and white
silent sisters... we won't tell
Cristal & Cristine...

Answer 10

you could play people chess!