How to play bowl game
by Joe · 12 things on Twos
- Write down people, places, and things (dirty clues are particularly funny & allowed)
- Ask everyone to write things down on a slips of paper. They might be a famous person, inside joke, or something wild like “bland missionary sex”. Fold up all the papers and place them into a bowl.
- Divide into two teams and learn the rules of the game
- There are three rounds in the game and each round is played in a similar way. In each round, a person from the same team picks a word out of the bowl and his teammates try to guess the word.
- Once the word is guessed, the same player picks another word quickly from the bowl for his teammates to guess. He keeps picking words until his 1 minute turn is up (you need a timer to keep track). After 1 minute, give the team 1 point for every correct word that was guessed. Once the first team finishes, the next team goes until all the words in the bowl are guessed.
- Round one: verbal clues
- The player picks a word from the bowl and describes it to his teammates without saying the actual word. Once the word is correctly guessed, he can select another word from the bowl for his teammates to guess. He continues picking, describing each word for his teammates to guess, until his 1 minute turn is up.
- Round two: Charades
- In this next round, the player picks a word from the bowl and must act it out without talking. Once it’s guessed, he picks a new word and continues until his 1 minute turn is up.
- Round three: One-word clue
- For this last round, a player picks a word from the bowl and gives 1 clue to get his teammates to guess the correct word. The team with the most points after all three rounds wins.
- Since the words in the bowl stay the same throughout the game, the goal is to remember what has been written and use that as a clue for what to guess