5 Games to Make Your College Apartment a Party

Eventually, going out will lose its luster and you’ll find that cheap entertainment at home with some close friends is really the best answer to a fun night. To help you one this pursuit, here are five games that can easily be held in your apartment, without the stress and strain of going out on the town.

Quelf 

Players must answer funny trivia questions, do insane stunts and activities, or follow outlandish rules. It calls for players to be creative and play with a sense of humor. Players go through the game as one of eight characters, with names like “The Dude,” “Super Ninja Monkey” and “Queen Spatula.”

The game’s cards fall into five categories, from Showbiz, which will prompt the player to sing, mime, write poems, do impressions, and more, to Quizzle, which consists of challenging and bizarre trivia, riddles and brainteasers. Quelf works best if you have at least four to six people playing.

Cards Against Humanity

Tagged as a “party game for horrible people,” – and what better time for cynicism then college – Cards Against Humanity resembles Apples to Apples. Each round, one person, the “Card Czar,” asks a question from a black card and then the other players pick their funniest white card to play as answers to the black card.

The Card Czar then reads all the white cards submitted and picks the one he likes best, earning the chosen white card’s player a point before the process repeats with a new Card Czar. The name of the game comes from the phrase “crimes against humanity” which plays on the fact that some of the game’s cards are offensive, crude, or not PC. The game can be played by as few as three people or by a larger group of over 20.

Balderdash

Fans of word games will love Balderdash as the first “dasher” selects a “definition card” from the pile, picks a word from the card to use, and then has the other players each write down a definition of the word, or if they have no idea or otherwise want to, they can write a made-up definition that sounds plausible.

The players who have written a correct definition each get three points and if more than one person has submitted the right answer, they keep the points but the round is over. The definitions, including the real one, are all read aloud and then the players write down which they think is right, receiving two points each if they vote for the correct one. If a player has their false definition picked by another player, they receive one point. If nobody correctly picks the right definition, the dasher gets three points before the dasher position is rotated to the next player and the game continues. The game requires at least three people.

Pictionary

To play, you need three or more players and if you have at least four, you can divide into teams. The way the game works is one person picks a card from the deck and then has to try to draw a picture of what was written on the card while their teammate or the other players guess in the allotted amount of time. The guesses can be hysterical and the game can get quite rowdy as the players race against the clock or each other to figure out what is being drawn.

Loaded Questions

The questions-based game works best with six players but can be played with at least four. The objective of the game is to be the first player to get from the starting square on the board to the “Win!” square at the end by rolling the dice. Once the player has moved according to the dice, they draw a card and ask the question that correlates to the color of the square they’ve landed on–either orange, purple, blue or yellow, which correspond to the categories of the questions.

The categories are “Hypotheticals,” “Personals,” “Anything Goes” or “No-Brainers.” After reading the questions, all the other players write down their answers on a piece of paper and one responder reads all the answers out loud to the questioner and roller of the dice, who then has to guess who said what. For each correct guess the roller makes, they move an additional square on the board, until their turn is over and the next person rolls the dice and repeats the process.