psychiatrist
One person is the psychiatrist and has to guess the condition of the other children by asking Yes/No questions. If anyone thinks the Shrink is getting close, he yells “Shrink” and everyone moves their seats and therefore will act differently. Conditions can be like “act like person three to your left.”
deduction games
These games involve one person who “knows” the trick, and the rest of the group has to try to figure out what the trick is in order to get the correct action. The leader will perform the task/saying and others will try to copy it to see if they got it right. But it will only be correct if they included the “trick”. (Note: these games can be incredibly annoying for some people… there should be a rule that players can decide when they want to give up and be told the secret to the trick.)
- Everyone sits in a circle and the leader “draws” a pattern on the ground with a stick/pen etc. (for example, a sun with two eyes, a nose, and a smiling face) and then pass the stick around the circle. The “trick” could be to transfer the pen to the other hand before passing it to the next person.
- Sitting in a circle, the leader does whatever type of pattern/action they want, but must say “thank you” when they receive the item used in the pattern/action.
- Crossed/Uncrossed: A pair of scissors is passed around the group and you say “I pass these scissors crossed or uncrossed.” The scissors are really there as a lure, what is crossed or uncrossed is your legs!
- Bang You’re Dead: The leader points to another person and says “Bang, you’re dead” and everyone else has to guess who’s dead. The trick is that the person who dies is not the person pointed to, but rather the last person to speak right before the leader said “Bang, you’re dead.”
- I’m Going on Vacation: There are three different versions of this game, but all three have a recurring theme. The leader begins by saying “I’m going on vacation and I’m taking a… (random item… eg a blue hippo).”
The first variation is that the item you are “taking” is using your initials (either from the given name or from both names).
The second variation is that your element starts with the last letter of the previous element mentioned, regardless of whether the previous person was correct or not.
The third variation is to simply extend the word “to”, as if you were thinking of your article. that is, “I’m going on vacation and I’m taking a blue hippo aaaaaaaah.”