Ten Games You Can Play at the Drop of a Hat....Plus!: Creating Fun for Dummies

By Pat Louis Sapia

Whenever youre at a party or any gathering of friends, family, and others, there will be a period when things get dull. This book is a wealth of information of simple games, which can be played on the spur of the moment anywhere and will give you the power to take any sagging gathering and turn it into a fun, memorable, game-playing experience, guaranteed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466940994

Pat Louis Sapia

Graduated with AA from Rider College. As part of Rider’s theater program, was accepted for two USO tours to Europe and the Far East. Toured the US and Canada as a front man singer/drummer with the Turning Point, a show group. Later wrote and performed over 200 thirty-second to one-minute audio commercials. Since coming off the road in 1972, he has written numerous screenplays and acted in humorous instructional videos for Baptist Hospital and many Murder Mystery interactive evenings for party-planning companies. One screenplay was selected as one of the top fifty and entered in the National Screen Writers Competition. In all this time, Pat has been a voice-over artist and entertainer with his one-man show of comedy, songs, and impressions of over one hundred celebrity and character voices.

Book preview

Ten Games

You Can Play At The

Drop of a Hat… . Plus!

Creating Fun for Dummies

Pat Louis Sapia

Order this book online at www.trafford.com

or email [e-mail]

Most Trafford titles are also available at major online book retailers.

© Copyright 2012 Pat Louis Sapia.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

isbn: 978-1-4669-4099-4 (e)

Trafford rev. 06/25/2012

7-Copyright-Trafford_Logo.ai

www.trafford.com

North America & international

toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

phone: [phone] ♦ fax: [phone]

Contents

TEN GAMES YOU CAN PLAY AT THE DROP OF A HAT… . PLUS

GAME NUMBER ONE: CHIANESE FORKS

GAME NUMBER TWO: THE MAGIC CIRCLE

GAME NUMBER THREE: GOING TO A PICNIC

GAME NUMBER FOUR: BLACK MAGIC

GAME NUMBER FIVE: UP AND DOWN

GAME NUMBER SIX: COMMANDS FOUR—AROKCI

GAME NUMBER SEVEN: THE MYSTERY SQUARES

GAME EIGHT: HIDING THE THING

GAME NINE: KILLER

GAME TEN: JONNY WHOOPS

BONUS SECTION: TRICKS AND KICKS

THE MAN OF LOVE AND HATE

THE LOST BEAR

"TEN GAMES YOU CAN PLAY

AT THE DROP OF A HAT… . PLUS"

The purpose for this collection of frivolous fillers of failed fun gatherings, is three fold, but before I clarify those, let me assure you, that nowhere, in this package will you find a rule or reason to drop a hat of any kind. The statement… at the drop of a hat generally pertains to something that begins at the immediate suggestion or attempt at an action or activity. Eg. He would take off for a pizza at the drop… . etc. OR She gets her hair done at the drop of… . etc." The meaning, referring to these games is that they need no special props, and can be played anywhere, anytime, with stuff always within reach.

Now as to the purpose: FIRST: To pick up a sagging period that occurs in most parties to spice up the evening. TWO: To become the hit of the party with your ability to create a unique way to save a sagging event, And THREE: It’s a great way to meet someone of interest with whom you’d like to get to know better. By the way, the gathering need not be a big affair. As few as 4 or 5 is fine.

If you’re the kind of person at a party, or gathering of friends, relatives or other grouping, who, while sitting back listening to the sad efforts of mental foreplay, and supposed intellectual dribble from others, while you try to find a slot, into which you can interject a contribution, without sounding too far above the party norm, then you’ve come to the right book.

Somewhere during the night, the event will hit a lull, a dull period when most of the guests have wound down, and run out of witty fascinating conversation, but there is still a feeling that they don’t want it to be