Tiny Games for Home

By Hide&Seek and Paulina Ganucheau

“It's like carrying around a collection of Victorian parlour games – except the Tiny Games take advantage of modern social settings and contexts. They're amusing, raucous and inventive.” - The Guardian

Designed to give the maximum amount of fun for the minimum amount of rule-reading, Tiny Games for Home will let you find the perfect game for whatever situation you're in. All you need is this book, and the stuff that's around you. (Friends optional!)

There are games to play with spoons and sofas and TVs and turnips and books and bottles. Games about words, games about celebrities, games about the things and the people and the places in your life. Games for TV commercial breaks, games for toast, and games for lying in bed.

Whether you're feeling creative or competitive, silly or energetic, we've got you covered.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Sep 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781472815057

Hide&Seek

Hide&Seek is a game design studio based in London and New York. Through a compelling combination of design, technology and cultural partnership, their work re-imagines public space as a place to play and spans multiple platforms: console, smartphone, browser, TV and street. The studio is founded on the belief that play is essential to our health, minds and relationships, and will play an increasing role in the civic culture of the 21st century. They create new games and experiences, curate and support the work of artists and designers through the Sandpit series, design and consult with global brands, and speak at events around the world. The Nature Games Weekend is part of Hide&Seek's own series of social games events over the summer supported by Arts Council England. Hide&Seek are Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre and recent partners include: Channel 4, BBC, Tate Modern, Warner Brothers, Royal Opera House, Hogmanay Festival and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Their work has been recognised by D&D, Creative Review, BAFTA, The One Show, Living Labs Global Awards and Guardian MEGAS. Founder & Director Alex Fleetwood won British Council Performing Arts Entrepreneur of the Year, and Development Director Margaret Robertson was recently named one of the UK's top games designers by Develop Magazine.

Book preview

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

TINY TIPS

THE GAMES

Cucumber Racing

Invented Inventory

No Beards Allowed

I Think My Periscope is Broken

Does Anything Explode?

Towel or False

Knife Fork Spoon

I can Hide There

Oil Painting

I Told you so

Spaghetti Snakes

One Elephant

A Watery End

Macro Match

Face Poker

Equal and Opposite

Funny, Tragic, Aquatic

Amateur Food Scientist

Old And New

Horrorscope

Free Wheelin’

Alpha-Gami

Pay Close Attention to the Snacks

Melancholic Panda

Triangle Man

My First is in Gin, but Never in Wine

Blanket Bandits

Roll Around

Melted Hearts

Big Game Hunter

Where’s the Remote?

Tgm

A Lion!

Fastest Spoon in the West

Flippin ‘Eck

Fluffier than a Teacup

Tv Star

Sink Surveying

Super Kitchen Sweep

The Best Person you Know

Ad-Ing Up

That Wasn’t Milk

Horizontal Pioneer

Spoon Detector

Three Things

Giant Fingers

Lightning Thumbs

Clatter

Through the Keyhole

Spoons on your Elbows

GAMES INDEX

HELLO!

THIS BOOK IS NOT DESIGNED TO BE READ IN ORDER.

Skip this introduction and go straight to the games to get playing.

Alternatively, head to the back of the book for a full listing of games by number of players.

INTRODUCTION

WHAT YOU ARE HOLDING IN YOUR HANDS IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF SOME OF THE TINY GAMES THAT CAN BE PLAYED IN A HOME.

What is a Tiny Game? Well, the name gives it away. It’s a game small enough to be grasped in a moment. It’s also a game that makes use of its surroundings in some way. In this book you’ll find games that make use of some of the things all homes contain, such as keyholes, spoons, and ceilings. Two of the great things about humans are that it doesn’t take a lot to get us to start having fun, and that we’re good at making use of whatever’s to hand. Each Tiny Game is a celebration of these two eternal truths.

These games were created by a game design studio called Hide&Seek. Hide&Seek’s mission was to ‘invent new kinds of play’ – we worked with art galleries and film studios and cities and teachers and many more things to