Passing the Parcel
Players sit in a circle and pass a parcel while music plays. When the music stops, the player holding the parcel opens a chit and does the small task on it.
- Players
- 6 or more
- Time
- 15 minutes
- You need
- A parcel or cushion, music, chits
- Ages
- 4 and above
- Type
- Party games
How to play
- Write tasks on chits and put them in a bowl, or wrap a small gift in many layers of paper with a chit in each layer.
- Sit in a circle. Start the music and pass the parcel from hand to hand.
- When the music stops, the player holding the parcel picks a chit and does the task.
- In the knockout version, that player then leaves the circle. In the friendly version, everybody stays.
- The last player in the circle, or the one who opens the last layer, wins the gift.
Tasks for the chits
- Sing two lines of a song from your school days.
- Walk like a model from one end of the room to the other.
- Say "kaccha papad, pakka papad" five times, fast.
- Act like a cricket umpire giving three different signals.
- Tell everyone your favourite dish, without using its name.
- Laugh in three different styles.
- Count from 20 to 1 backwards without a mistake.
- Do your best impression of a news reader.
- Name five fruits in five seconds.
- Dance for ten seconds without music.
- Balance a book on your head and walk ten steps.
- Say something nice about the person on your left.
- Speak for 20 seconds about "my favourite season".
- Make the sound of three animals.
- Recite the table of 7 up to 7 × 10.
- Sell an imaginary pen to the group in 20 seconds.
- Stand on one leg until the next chit is opened.
- Name five cities that begin with the same letter as your name, or as many as you can.
- Act as if you are eating a very sour lemon.
- Tell a clean joke.
Tips and variations
- Pass, do not throw. Holding the parcel back on purpose is not allowed.
More party games
- Antakshari 20 to 40 minutes
- Dumb Charades 20 to 30 minutes
- Musical Chairs 10 to 15 minutes
- Whisper Chain 10 minutes
- Tambola (Housie) 30 to 45 minutes
- One-Minute Games 1 minute for each player
- Draw and Guess 20 minutes
- Who Am I? 15 minutes
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