{"id":1255,"date":"2012-03-23T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2012-03-23T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T10:27:52","slug":"game-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/game-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Invite tons of your friends or family to a \u201cgame night\u201d!&#160; Begin by setting up game stations.&#160; Let your guests choose a game they would like to play and when everyone has made their game choice set a timer for 15 minutes and let the fun begin.&#160; When the timer dings everyone rotates to a new game whether they have finished the game they have been playing or not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"038\" border=\"0\" alt=\"038\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/038_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to mix up family members at your family reunion and help them to get to know each other a little better. <\/p>\n<p>According to a Hasbro press release, a 1999 article in Psychology Today asserted that you can learn more about someone by playing a game than going on 10 dates. And you can learn more about yourself by playing a game than you can from several therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<p>You can make signs to help your guests easily find the game they would like to play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"006\" border=\"0\" alt=\"006\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/006_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><font size=\"3\">Board game suggestions for your game night party:<\/font><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Monopoly <\/li>\n<li>Clue <\/li>\n<li>Cranium <\/li>\n<li>Life <\/li>\n<li>Jenga<\/li>\n<li>Sorry<\/li>\n<li>Candy Land<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"042\" border=\"0\" alt=\"042\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/042_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shoots and Ladders<\/li>\n<li>Scrabble <\/li>\n<li>Apples to Apples <\/li>\n<li>After rotating through four games (approximately one hour of game playing time) have everyone come together to play one giant group game.&#160; Some game suggestions are: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trivial Pursuit    <br \/>Bingo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"037\" border=\"0\" alt=\"037\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/037_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>    <br \/>Taboo     <br \/>Pictionary     <br \/>Outburst     <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/trash-or-treasures-family-reunion-game\/\">Trash or Treasures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb9.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a>    <br \/>Scattergories     <br \/><a title=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/minute-to-win-it-party-2\/\" href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/minute-to-win-it-party-2\/\">Minute to Win it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb10.png\" width=\"163\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul><!--EndFragment--><\/ul>\n<p> <!--EndFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p>For refreshments, set up a fun candy station that guests can help themselves to during their game playing or ask everyone to bring a treat to share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb11.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.   <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/n\/nikkigiova163737.html\">Nikki Giovanni<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invite tons of your friends or family to a \u201cgame night\u201d!&#160; Begin by setting up game stations.&#160; Let your guests choose a game they would like to play and when everyone has made their game choice set a timer for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/game-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,214,38,88],"tags":[457,292,143,456,459,751,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}