Guide to gamesLife and styleFiendish forfeits
Dish these out as penalties to spice up other games, or spin a bottle and play them on their ownPlaying forfeits as a game in its own right is good after Christmas dinner, as little physical activity is required. It works best with large groups of well-fed people who won't be moving for half an hour or so.
Determine who must perform a forfeit by spinning a bottle or drawing cards. Or you could write forfeits on pieces of paper and pick them out of a hat when required or write them behind numbered doors on an advent calendar. If you are hosting a big evening, impress your guests by constructing a glittery wheel of fortune using a paper plate and a spinning arrow attached with a paper fastener.
Some of the following may not be suitable for children. We trust you to judge which.
Be spoon-fed a trifle by the person opposite you, who must perform this blindfolded.
Spend the next half an hour tied to the person whose birthday is closest to your own.
Sing a Christmas carol in the style of a band chosen by the group. Think Silent Night by the Sex Pistols, or O Little Town Of Bethlehem by Jay-Z.
Fashion a newspaper outfit for the nearest male.
Kiss everyone in the room whose name begins with the same letter as your own.
Put lipstick on the nearest man - blindfolded.
Tell a joke.
Sit blindfold while three unidentified people kiss you one at a time. Rate each kiss out of 10.
Swap clothes with the person on your left.
Tie an apron on another player at the same time as they try to tie one on you.
Go round the room and give everyone a piece of advice.
Recite a poem.
Say the alphabet backwards (NB cheat by saying "the alphabet backwards").
Impersonate a chicken.
Feed grapes to the nearest member of the opposite sex.
Put your forehead on the top of a broom and walk round it five times, keeping your head in place. Then try to walk in a straight line to the door.
Find the boiled egg in a bowl full of raw eggs. Do this by cracking successive eggs on someone else's head until you find the hard one.
Pick up a potato from a chair with your buttocks/thighs. Walk over to a bowl with it still firmly gripped and drop it into a bowl.
Eat a sugary doughnut without licking your lips.
Eat three dry crackers within one minute. Without water. And blindfolded.
Eat jelly with a fork.
Eat a banana suggestively.
Get on all fours and bark like a dog.
Grab three clementines and attempt to juggle them.
Drink a glass of water from the wrong side of the glass.
Perform three press-ups.
Bend over backwards and kiss the wall.
Limbo under a broom.
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