Party game
Party games (from French partir = to share ) is the generic term used by game science for a number of different forms of play, which are grouped together as social games during a festival .
Historical
Until well into the 19th century, so-called parties and the associated party games were more at home in the salons of the upper class. They were used to get to know and understand each other, informal entertainment, exchange between neighbors, and help the young generation find partners. These were invitations where people danced, played, discussed, drank and drank. In addition to entertaining entertainment and loosening up the atmosphere, the games also offered opportunities to come into closer contact and to prove to be amusing, creative or knowledgeable.
It was not until the 19th century that bourgeois and rural circles began to use this form of social entertainment. As a typical American invention, so-called cocktail parties have spread since the middle of the 20th century , an unconventional get-together of groups of like-minded people and - with the participation of alcohol - also games of sometimes excessive character. In Germany in the 1980s, a variation of this party form, also coming from the USA, which was associated with games , dance , clowning and drinking and is still very popular with young people, the so-called bottle parties . They are characterized by the fact that the party guests bring their own alcoholic beverages consumed at the festivities in order to relieve the host financially. The forms of play that are practiced are correspondingly exuberant.
With the expansion of the term party for festivities of all kinds in recent times, the range of games associated with them has also expanded. With highly demanding to extremely primitive party games, from harmless to erotic party games, they reached all walks of life and of all walks of life: " The term party, once a bit elitist, is now part of everyday vocabulary: You are invited to a garden party, street party, basement party, pool party, barbecue party, Cocktail party, New Year's Eve party, techno party, etc. Even a cell phone party was reported in a southern German newspaper . "
character
Party games present themselves in a wide range of possibilities: They can take place at a high intellectual level, but also indulge in obscene forms. Party games are already popular at children's parties, at student parties and in retirement homes. They can make considerable demands on the knowledge, creativity, intuition or empathy of the players. You can take on harmless forms of mutual contact or even more intimate forms of flirting, teasing, and flirting and enjoying the tension between the sexes. But they can also extend to morally questionable erotic or even sexual pleasures. The social class usually only plays a subordinate role. The title of the invitation, the chosen location or the audience gathered for the party often give an impression of the tendency to be expected. While a "children's party" as open einsehbares garden party rather play forms a children's birthday suggests the invitee at as "may Bottle Party advertised" in a forest hut, bachelor party 'or a Corpsstudentenf ETE in connection House Made by other expectations.
Examples
Get to know games
The main purpose of introductory games is to bring the party participants closer as a group and to give everyone an overview and impression of the invited crowd in an entertaining way. They are supposed to break up the atmosphere, which is often still stiff at the beginning of the party, and help each other to integrate possibly strangers. They have their place appropriately in the first phase of the party. Simple games such as ' My right place is free ' are popular at children's parties , in which each child in the group of seats is allowed to address a different one according to their name tag and bring them to their side. The game leader can join in if there is a risk that a child will be excluded. When it comes to ' tying up ', it's about walking through the room after lively music, shaking hands with as many guests as possible and making each other known by name. The ' interview ' gives each other the opportunity to ask as many personal questions as possible in pairs in order to then introduce the person who has got to know everyone in a circle like an old acquaintance.
Entertainment games
The Dutch painter Cornelis Troost (1696–1750) recorded in an oil painting how participants of a noble society in the 18th century enjoyed the old party game ' Blind Cow ' in a garden landscape . This originally ritual demon game , which has been handed down since the Middle Ages and is not only played by children today, was already associated with lewd erotic interludes in earlier times. Even small movement or dance games like the one Huttanz 'in which the headgear must be shared with other couples during the dance or the forehead balloon dance ' in which a balloon is to keep up with their foreheads, to the amusement and loosening can contribute.
Role play
The ' captive balloon game ' is about ensuring survival in a threatening situation in a self-chosen role. The game master stages an event and leads through a dramatic story: A tethered balloon that has got into turbulence requires one of the passengers to jump off. Whoever is eligible for this has to be decided by the passengers. To do this, everyone has to convince the others in a passionate self-expression of the importance of their previously chosen profession as undertaker, garbage collector, opera singer or cosmetic surgeon for society and humanity. In the case of sensitive guests, a decision on the victim can also be overturned by the balloon pilot after the balloon operator has made the “waning stormy winds”.
Mind games / knowledge games
The more demanding party games include forms that require a certain level of education. Puzzle games , word games , language games were already part of the sophisticated game culture at the medieval royal courts , puzzles were among the respected guests. They are also today usually only for relatively homogeneous guests circles that certain conditions and an interest in education issues such as literature , music , art , sports , or at solving puzzles, brainteasers and tricky everyday questions bring. For example, the 'literary quiz' can require the players or groups competing against each other to follow up quotes such as 'If I think of Germany at night, I will be lost asleep' or 'I am neither a lady nor beautiful, can go home unaccompanied' Classify author and maybe even work, time, epoch etc. and thus collect points. You can also complete given fragments of quotations such as 'mens sana in corpore sano' or correct incorrect quotations. Similar tasks can be offered in a 'music quiz' by playing a passage from an opera, operetta or musical or as a ' sports quiz' with questions from the world of sports.
literature
- Dorothea Kühme: Citizens and Play. Board games in the German bourgeoisie between 1750 and 1850. (= historical studies. Volume 18). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1997.
- Terry Orlick: Party games and other indoor games. In: Ders: New Cooperative Games . Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-407-62348-8 , pp. 267-272.
- Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Party games. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, ISBN 978-3-8340-1664-5 , pp. 181-190.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Truig: German dictionary . Bertelsmann Lexicon, Gütersloh 1970, column 2673.
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia. 17th edition. Volume 7, Wiesbaden 1969, p. 219.
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Partyspiele. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, p. 181.
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Children's birthday. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 167–180.
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Making contacts through play. Get to know games. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 37–40.
- ^ Dorothea Kühme: Citizens and play. Board games in the German bourgeoisie between 1750 and 1850. (= historical studies. Volume 18). Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1997, pp. 172-188.
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Das Fesselballonspiel. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, p. 183.
- ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz, Anita Rudolf: Solving problems by playing. Brain games. In: Dies: On the meaning of play. Reflections and game ideas. 4th edition. Verlag Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 69–75 and pp. 184–189.
- ↑ Willy Hochkeppel: Thinking as a game. dtv, Munich 1981.
- ↑ Hans Weis: Playing with words. Dümmler, Bonn 1976.
- ^ Kurt Werner Peukert: Language games for children . rororo, Reinbek 1975.