The @blanchy Christmas night is becoming legendary over the last few years with the array of party games at our disposal. We do not do dinner in our house so we do the Christmas night festivities and some planning goes into this over the week coming up to Christmas. What we normally do is have everyone down for 8pm / 8.30pm. Do one of those TV board game quizzes starting out until everyone has a few drinks in them and when everyone is proper rowdy and oiled up we unleash the party games where you make a right fool of yourself.
This years quiz was the 1% club which is pretty popular at the moment over in these parts. The Quizmaster asks a question where 90% of the public answered correctly. Then if everyone gets this right they ask a question where 80% of the public got correct. This continues so on and so forth until we get to 1%. The impossible question. Now the problem with this game is that everyone needed to see the question at the same time and keep looking at it because sometimes the answer would be in the question. I being the tech savvy of us all got the screen mirroring going on the TV. So I took a photo of the question and then screen mirroring the image onto the TV but there was a delay on it. The real tech savvy amongst us was the computer engineer brother in law in the background. He just came up with a suggestion to just do a group Whatsapp which was much better but there were a couple of people calling for my head because I had a couple of seconds to see the question and have a think about it.
Some of the questions.
Try and guess the answers
There were 6 teams of 2 but my child was the odd one out. The 9 year old is considerably smart but because she was considered a child , it was agreed that she would just go with a two person team. So naturally she joined daddys team and my wife looked on with disgust. Not that she went straight to me but because she was considerably smarter than most of the family so she was the secret weapon. And she loves the 1% club. So we won by a country mile and she even answered the 1% question. It was around 10.30pm at that stage and she was getting all emotional with the win so it was her time to bow out a champion.
Hand & Fist
Everyone was rubbing their knees for the real party games. The first one we unleashed was a kind a hands game where you had to use your palm or your fist depending what iamge it was. A circle was a fist and a hand symbol was to palm. It was considerably difficult to actually do this. You should try it yourselves.
Candy Cane in a Bottle
The second game involved a long piece of ribbon chord and a candy cane. You and your partner had to have the string on either side and lower the candy cane into a bottle. This was a team effort and it involved alot of fucking and blinding your significant other to lower or heighten their piece of string. A couple of domestics was the result. I reached the semi final here but the mother was pretty good at it.
Animals on a Toilet Roll
The 3rd game was an old favourite. The 5 year old's farm animals were raided and we superimposed little images of each individual on the arse of the animal with a cocktail stick. This was done in the week preceding. So you would clear the table and put two toilet rolls out on the table. Roll the toilet roll to the end. Put your farm animals on the end of the roll. Then you would put two players against each other and the aim of the game was toe pull your farm animal to the other end of the table. Pull too hard and they would fall off the roll. Pull too soft and you would lose the game. It was an epic battle. Some family members would got a goat as their farm animal were disgruntled because the goats were very light. One of our nieces got a fat sheep and stormed to victory so there was a massive argument over the size of her sheep.
Blow the Marshmallows Off the Cup with Party Blowers
Another one that stayed in from last year. This was hilarious because the uncle got a dodgy party blower last year and every time he tried to blow the marshmallow off the cup with the end of the blower the blower ended up going sideways. This gave everybody a great laugh so we made sure that the Uncles party blower was from a quality establishment this year. So there were 10 cups so you had to go along with your blower and knock the marshmallows off each cup. Whoever got to the end was the winner and they would be through to the next round.
Overall it was a disappointing night for the @blanchy's as we only won the quiz. The other side of the family cleaned up and were presented their gold medals. You could barely see them there was so much light gleaming from their medals. It was 2am at this stage so we called it a night as we would have 2 children up at 7am the next day wanting to play with their presents.
Fortunately for me I didn't go too wild on the Boa Gin this year and was able to function on the 26th. It was a hard earned lesson last year.
Jaysus, we only had chicken games. Catch the chicken, toss the chicken, dress the chicken, race the chicken and before you say it, there were no pallets involved.
How do I wangle meself an invitation to yours next year?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 just bring a few chickens .
P.s. would recommend the sock game as a good party game
What’s that ? 🤣🤣🤣
You can buy it or just make your own but basically you spin a wheel or draw a card and then 2 people race to find the object shown in a sock without looking.
Me and the kids love the 1% club. I reckon if they let 13 year olds on the show, my eldest boy would clean up.
That 5% question is tough. If you’ve not seen the show before you’re gonna scratch your head for a long time over that one!
Staying up late to play games with the adults is one of my favourite childhood memories. There’s an art to being tolerated as a kid in those circumstances,
Yeah and my daughter is shit at it still ! For a clever girl she doesn’t half still throw a tantrum. I was chatting about the 1% club and once you watch a few of them you can get the hang of the system .
Definitely. As in the example above, a common trick is that 2 digit numbers should not always be read as 2 digit numbers! That plus knowing verbatim the number of every letter of the alphabet where A=1 and B=2 because I don't think I've seen an episode without a question that doesn't include that within in!
Sounds a bit mental, but mental is always fun. Have not seen the 1% club and need to look out for it as my family thinks they are smart and I need to show them who is the boss.
Yeah it’s one of those quizzes that sorts out the high IQs from the quiz pretenders
I'm glad you had fun, but this just makes me more depressed that I missed all the fun of my families Christmas. Such a wasted year!
The toilet roll race with the farm animals sounds like a great DIY game