GamesThe social aspect

Games

 Truth or dare, musical chairs, drinking games, 21, apple bobbing, Chinese whispers, charades, piñata, hot potato, limbo, wink murder, pin the tail on the donkey, would you rather, who’s closest, strip poker, strip game (all games can be turned into a strip a game, by making it the penalty for the loser), spin the bottle, seven minutes in heaven, apple to apple etc.

Limbo• Objective/criteria: The aim of the game is to bend over

backwards whilst passing under a pole, • How to achieve: the person who can pass under the pole in the

bent position at its lowest wins.• Reason: to discover the most flexible person in the group.• Hidden meaning/ lessons: the limbo is also a name for a place

between heaven and hell, and as the bar gets lower it can represent the difficulty of going to heaven.

• links to society: in a social term the game limbo brings people together and because it is a competitive game and could even be a sport, certain people train to become better.

Pinata• Objective/criteria: to hit a papier mache anything full of small prizes, usually sweets, but the

‘contestant’ is blindfolded and they use a stick to hit a hanging papier mache thing. • How to achieve: hit the piñata to get as many prizes as possible.• Reason: to make people see that things don’t come easy to anyone, and the harder the task the

sweeter the reward.• Hidden meaning/ lessons: the meaning behind this game is because it’s a celebration of good

things, things fall from the sky and you can’t see or have control over what comes to you. On a deeper meaning it’s also saying that a person has little control over the things they receive and how they get them.

• links to society: This is an international game played from China(where it’s thought to have began) to Mexico. It brings people close together because when the piñata is broken all the ‘contestants’ come together and share in the prize.

Pin the tail on the donkey

Objective/criteria: to attach a tail to a donkey, whilst blindfolded, and whoever pins the tail closest wins. How to achieve: you must pin a tail to the donkey picture whilst blindfolded and dizzy Hidden meaning/ lessons: the meaning behind this game is similar to the piñata, wherein if a person was to, by luck, put a tail the closest to the rump of the donkey, then you are fortunate. Personally the piñata is a more meaningful and substantial game. links to society:  in regards to society this game plays solely on the fate proposal, wherein it takes no skill.

Truth or dare• Objective/criteria: The criteria of the game is to do a dare which is usually

something controversial or tell the truth which the ‘contestant ‘ would feel embarrassed to tell. How you achieve: by completing the dare or announcing the truth

• How to achieve: by completing truth or dare, if not then a forfeit is placed • Reason: to see whether or not the person succumbs to the fear of doing the

dare or telling the truth.• Hidden meaning/ lessons: the meaning behind this is to find the most

confident individual, the lessons are to face your fears.• links to society: This game is usually played at parties for the most part or

some sort gathering, it has a one way or the other effect it either brings people closer together or it tears groups apart.

Team

• Ekaterina Fridlyanskaya• Noëma Kosuth• Marcus Kane• Thomas Owusu-Abayie