Catch Phrase Game

I have played the catch phrase game many times. It is a great party game which can help entertain a large group of people.

Set Up

The first thing you do is to divide all people into groups, groups of 3 or 4 work the best. Next every group puts a playing piece on the board and 1 person from each group is chosen to go up.

Playing

Each group has 1 person go up to the front of the room and one of those people will be handed a disk. Another person keeps track of the timer. When the timer starts the person holding the disk pushes the button and reads the word.

That word is the word they have to get someone else from their group to guess. The catch is they cannot say the word or a piece of the word otherwise they will lose automatically. Instead you have to give hints, so if the word is “Spiderman” you cannot say spider, man, or Spiderman.

Instead you have to come up with something original like a super hero that wears red and climbs on walls.

Once a member of your team guesses the word you pass it to another representative who hits the button and tries to do the same. Keep in mind that the timer is never stopped. This disk continues to be passed back and forth throughout the teams until the timer goes off. Whoever is holding the disk when the timer goes off, their team loses that round and all other teams advance on the board.

Next another member from each group is chosen to go up, and so on.

Winning

Each time your team member is not holding the disk when the timer goes off you advance on the board. The first team to make it to the finish line wins.

Tips

I have two tips for this game. The first is to know your group members. Think about what they would likely say, any stereotypes or past experiences they have could have that can help them guess.

The second is to have fun. Make some jokes. It is an interactive game.

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