Written by Danielle Kruithoff from One Youth Victoria

Running out of ideas for Friday night youth? We’ve put a list together of some games you can do this week.

NUMBER 1: FIND IT

AIM: find certain items around your house

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Pick a certain number of random items that can be found around the house (3-5 items is good)

2. Tell all zoom participants what these items are by saying them and/or writing them in the chat

3. The first person to find the items is the winner, OR give a time limit and anyone who doesn’t find the items in the time limit loses 

NUMBER 2: GUESS THE SONG/MOVIE

AIM: be the first person to guess the song or movie
INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Before the zoom, get one person to pick a few songs / movie clips and be ready to
play a few seconds of each one

2. On the zoom, one at a time, play a few seconds of the clip

3.The first person to guess correctly what the song / movie is, wins

  • TIP: if you can’t hear the song/movie or can’t hear who is guessing, put everyone on
    mute (expect the person playing the clip) and tell participants to put a reaction
    (thumbs up or clapping) on their screen if they know the answer. Then you can call
    on them to unmute themselves and share the answer with everyone

NUMBER THREE: CHARADES
AIM: act out a prompt and have people guess it

INSTRUCTIONS:Have one person pick out a few prompts prior to the zoom

1.Once on zoom, explain the game and choose someone to act first

2.DM the actor the first prompt

3.Have them act out their prompt while everyone else guesses

4.Whoever guesses first is the next to go

  • TIP: alternatively, split everyone into teams and play against each other (only guess
    on your teams go)

NUMBER FOUR: THE WHISPER CHALLENGE

AIM: guess what a person on mute is saying

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Have one person come up with a few different simple sentences prior to the zoom

2. Once on the zoom, pick one person to start

3. Send them one of the sentences, and get them to mute themselves

4. They say the sentence, and everyone tries to guess what it is

5. First person to guess wins 

NUMBER FIVE: HEADS UP

AIM: guess what the answer is without looking

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Choose someone (or multiple people) to be the guesser(s)

2. Send the “clue” to everyone in the zoom except the guesser

3. Have the guesser ask yes or no questions about their clue until they guess the answer 

NUMBER SIX: 2 TRUTHS, 1 LIE

AIM: guess what the lie is

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Take it in turns to tell three facts about yourself (one of which is a lie)

2. Everyone else must guess which is the lie

NUMBER SEVEN: GUESS WHO

AIM: correctly guess who the person is from some random facts

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Before the zoom, ask a few people for one or two random facts about themselves 

(travelled overseas 4 times, played state volleyball, went skydiving, etc.)

2. Read out the facts and have everyone guess who wrote them

3. Whoever guesses correctly wins 

NUMBER EIGHT: GUESS THE WORD

AIM: describe and guess words without saying the word

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Before the zoom have one person come up with a list of simple words to describe (if someone has taboo/articulate you could borrow words from there)

2. Split the zoom into two teams (might want to write in the chat who the teams are if there are a lot of people)

3. Pick a team to go first and choose one person to be the describer

4. Privately Zoom message the describer one word to describe

5. Set a 20 second time limit and see if they team can guess the word

6. If the team guesses correctly, they get a point

7. Whichever team has the most points at the end wins (or play to a certain number or points) 

NUMBER NINE: CODE NAMES

AIM: be the first team to guess the code word correctly

LINK: https://codenames.cards/

For further instructions see the link above

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Split the zoom into two teams- the website above shows who is on each team

2. Pick one person from each team to be the describer/spy master

4.The online game will direct which team goes first

5. The describer/spy master must give a one-word clue to their team

6. If the team guesses correctly, they get the point, if they don’t it goes to the next team

7. The other team’s describers give a different one-word clue

8. Keep going like this until one team guesses the code word

NUMBER 10: THE FIVE SECOND RULE

AIM: list three items in a category within 5 seconds

INSTRUCTIONS: 

1. Before the zoom have one person come up with a few categories of lists (e.g. breakfast foods, footy teams, street names)

2. On the zoom, pick one person to go first

3. Tell everyone the category and then give the person 5 seconds to say three things

4. If they succeed, they get the point, if not, the same topic is given to the next person

5. The next person cannot use any of the previously used words

* TIP: if you own the “5-second-rule” game you could use those categories

* TIP: you could split everyone into two (or more) teams, if a person wins the whole team gets a point