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