Saturday, November 14, 2009

5 Excellent Twilight Party Games

By Andrea McClure

Many fans of the Twilight series and the movie franchise will be looking forward to the second movie of the franchise, New Moon coming to theaters. The movie continues the story of Bella Swan and her romance with the vampire Edward Cullen. Edward is convinced by a dangerous accident that their relationship is too dangerous and he leaves in order to protect her. Bella is devastated and only by turning to her friend Jacob does she start to recover. However Jacob and his tribe have a secret that will pull her right back into the supernatural world that Edward tried to protect her from. Many twilight fans will be celebrating with Twilight themed parties. One way to make a Twilight party more interesting is to have Twilight party games.

In the series vampires have an extraordinary sense of smell. Have each player at your party blind folded. Then offer each player an item with a strong scent. It can range from something easy to recognize as an orange to more difficult items like a hair care product. The challenge is for each player to identify as many items by smell as possible. The player that has the most accurate guesses is the winner.

Vampires also have a keen awareness of their surroundings. So why not play a blindfolded game of red light green light. In the game a person stands at one end of the room and the rest of the players at the other end. The single player then calls out red light or green light. When the player calls out green light the other players can move towards him or her. When he or she calls out red light they have to have to freeze in place. If anyone can't maintain their position they are out of the game. The first person to touch the player calling the shots wins. The twist is that the caller can't see so they will have to rely on all their other senses to know when to call red light.

Vampires like Edward and another character, Aro, can read minds. A great game idea is to do a Twilight version of the Newlyweds Game. Have friends or couples pair with each other and ask them questions about their relationship based on the Twilight books. Like in the game show one partner will write down the answer they would give to a question while the other person has to guess it. The team with the most correct guesses will win.

Vampires like Alice in the Twilight series have the ability to see into the future in a limited fashion. Try to have a gambling game that relies on prediction based on this. For example you can have guests roll a set of dice. Have them predict what they will roll. If they fail to make 3 accurate predictions out of five they will have to perform a penalty decided by the rest of the participants.

You can also do fun trivia games. A great suggestion is to have a party version game of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Like in the game show each guests will answer a set of question about the Twilight series. They can use life lines to help them answer three of the questions. The person who can reach the millionaire level wins.

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