Hangman

This game you probably have already heard of. (If not you must have been sleeping under a rock for a trillion years!). The game works like this;

1. First of all you think a moderately long word that you can spell
2. Say my word is elephant you would draw dashes like so ——–. Each dash represents a letter.
3. Then the person you are playing with tries to guess the letters of the word. Every time they guess a wrong letter you draw one part of the diagram above. If they guess right then you write the letter where it belongs, sometimes there can be more then one place for 1 letter.
4. When the hangman drawing is complete or they have successfully guessed all the right letters (whichever comes first). The game ends.

Houses

This game cannot be completed it really is a trick brainteaser. Draw six boxes anywhere on a page name 3 of them G, W and E standing for Gas, Water and Electricity. Then name the others 1, 2 and 3 they are the houses. What you have to do is draw a line from each of G, W and E to 1, 2 and 3, So that each house has Gas Water and Electricity. But no lines can cross. This is a good game to give to a know-it-all who thinks they are the best!

Squares

This game is a two player one. You need a maths grid book. The First person has to draw a short line joining 2 corners of a box only going horizontally or vertically.

The second player then does the same; you keep going till someone gets a full square. When some one does they get another go. And it keeps going till all the squares are used. You then count how many squares each person has. The winner is the one with the most.

Naughts and crosses

With this one draw a 3×3 grid and one person is Os and one person is Xs. You take it in turns drawing your letter until someone has 3 in a row like the diagram above.

Travel Pictionary

This one is very simple and fun for young ones. You have to draw a picture which represents a word. So for elephant you draw an elephant with an arrow pointing at it. The other player(s) have to try and guess the word you have thought of. You may not draw words or numbers. Or communicate when you are drawing other then drawing.