The board is divided in 20 rows and 20 columns making 400 squares on it. There are 84 game tiles or pieces in 21 shapes, with 4 of the same shape in 4 different colors - blue, yellow, red, and green. Blue moves first, followed by yellow, red, and green in that order.

The first piece of a color, when played, goes to one of the corners on the board. Further pieces, on playing, must touch at least one piece of the same color, but only corner to corner and never edge to edge.

If a player is not able to find an area to place her/his piece, s/he passes the move and the next player takes over. When no one is able to find any area to place any of their pieces, the game is declared over.

Score is counted by counting the number of squares in each player's unplayed pieces, for which the players lose their points. In case a player was able to play all her/his pieces on the board, s/he not only doesn't lose any points but also gets extra bonus to add to her/his score.

Funkitron developed a video game version named Blokus World Tour, releasing it in December 2007. The video version is faithful to the board game version, making a new video addition to the indoor party games. An online version of the game is also available on the net.

The game has won many awards, including the Mensa Select award and the 2004 Teacher's Choice Award.

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There are 54 wooden blocks, each of which is 3 times longer than its width, the height being a little smaller than the width. The blocks are first stacked to form a tower with the help of a plastic loading tray by placing 3 blocks in one storey, their lengths touching together. Adjacent stories must have their block directions perpendicular to each other. The tower has 18 stories in it.

The players take their turns by taking out any one block from any one storey and placing it on the top using only one hand of his or hers. Once the turn is over, the next player waits for 10 seconds in order to check that the tower doesn't fall before s/he moves her/his block out of the stack of tower.

If the tower falls down, the game is considered over with the person during whose turn it fell being declared to be the loser. The person whose turn it was before the turn of the loser automatically becomes the winner of the game.

There are many variations of Jenga coming from the family of board games of skill among indoor party games available, mixing it with drinking, stripping, Truth or Dare, Casino and Throw 'n Go along with a video game version by Atari for the Nintendo Wii and DS consoles.

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Players assume characters from either the Alliance or the Horde faction. They adventure across the continent of Lordaeron earning new experiences and learning new skills. The aim of the game is to defeat the mighty "Overlord".

There are 30 turns in the game and if the Overlord is not defeated in these 30 turns, a player versus player battle between the two factions decides the game. It's more a game of cooperation than a game of competition and the victory is earned collectively by all members of a faction.

The game is a huge and vast game with more than 1000 components included in it like tokens, cards, and figures.

Shadow of War and The Burning Crusade were the two expansions added to the game later after its first release. A third expansion Scions of Darkness was announced to be released, but later the announcement was withdrawn and no one knows what the company, i.e., Fantasy Flight is going to do with it now.

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Ora and Theo Coster created the game and that is why it is also known with the name of Theora Design, taking its ending 'ra' from Ora and the beginning 'Theo' from Theo Coster. Milton Bradley from Great Britain manufactured it first in 1979. Later in 1982, it was introduced in the United States.

As the game starts, each player randomly selects a card from a separate pile of cards containing the same 24 images. Now each one of the two is supposed to guess as to which card the opponent has selected. This is done by asking various 'yes' and 'no' type questions (like, "Is your person a male? or "Is your person wearing a hat?") in order to go on eliminating the images falling 'impossible' to be the one that is there on the opponent's card.

Whoever guesses it right first, becomes the winner of that particular game. Always the winner of the third game is the winner of a series of three games instead of the winner of two out of three game.

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The game develops along a zombie-infested town starting with the Town Square tile face up and 28 other town tiles shuffled into a pile, with the Helipad tile placed below all. The players' pieces are placed on the town square, and each one of them receives three life tokens and three bullet tokens.

As a player's turn comes, s/he places the topmost town tile adjacent to tiles that are already face up, matching the tiles in a proper, functional way. Along a tile two or more zombies are also placed on it with life tokens or bullet tokens for special locations provided as extra measures taken for their safety.

The aim of the players is to destroy a zombie that they share a square with on their way. A six-sided die decides how the player moves, using her/his life tokens and bullet tokens in emergencies.

The game is won either by the first player who kills 25 of them or by the first player who reaches the center square of the Helipad tile clearing it of any zombie there.

This popular series of indoor party games with its expansions won the 2001 Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game and 2003's Origins Award for Best Board-Game Expansion.

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The game was introduced in 1990 by LJN Toys Ltd. and Pictionary Incorporated as an NES puzzle game that was designed by Software Creations Ltd. that wrote its software as well.

In the "Regular Game" mode, a "designated drawer" draws a picture on the topic that the computer assigns to her/him. If the team guesses the word correctly, the honor system gets activated to note the score. A virtual die is rolled telling how many squares on the screen board are to be moved. Whichever team reaches the finish space first, wins the game.

In the "Alternative Game" mode, the honor system doesn't get activated and the drawer her/himself decides if the guesses were correct or incorrect, which in this mode are done by all the teams and not only by one. Whichever team guesses right gets the chance to roll the die and move further along the board in their pursuit to come out as the winner team.

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There are two teams in the game and the players in a team are supposed to guess and recognize particular words from what their teammates have expressed in their drawings.

A team moves a piece on the board on which squares are made with letters or shapes inside them telling what picture is to be drawn by one of the team members who picks up a card from a deck that has a word printed on it which the team member tries to express as best as possible in the form of a drawing without a single letter or digit written on it. The rest of the team members try to guess the word that the drawing is supposed to be made for.

The board has five types of squares made on it denoting P (for Person - animate nouns), O (for Object - inanimate nouns), A (for Action - verbs), D (for Difficult - challenging words) and AP (for All Play - any type of word); and each card out of the deck has five words printed on it. Players are bound to select the word out of those five, which the marker on a particular square (P, O, A, D or AP) on the board dictates the player to correspond to.

The accuracy of guessing as well as the speed of it makes a team win the turn and move on to the next one. There is an absolute time limit imposed on the moves including both drawing and guessing by a team, enforced by a one-minute sand timer. The team moves on to the next turn by rolling a die and moving as many squares on the board. If the team has lost the turn, the other team takes over.

In AP (All Play) category, both the teams play simultaneously and the one that does it earlier comes out to be the winner of the turn.

The team that reaches the last space of the board first, wins this beautiful game named Pictionary falling in the category guessing word games as board games under indoor party games.

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It all reflected our public awareness changing from valuing a self-centered, rich jerk to valuing a socially responsible citizen more.

The routes of "Business and college" changed to those of "Career and College", the College route putting the player in debt in the beginning though promising much more salary than the Career route in the long run.

Another major change in this version is the collection of "LIFE Tiles" as one move further along the game. These tiles represent and account for major life events rewarding as huge sums of money as $50,000 to $250,000 to be added to the player's account in the end of the game.

Also in the Retirement zone, new Countryside Acres have been added, which previously had made the "Bankrupt" space in the older version.

In 1998, a CD-ROM version of the game was introduced adding computerized moves and short animations to the game.

Next, in the 40th anniversary edition in 2000, the Travel Agent was replaced with a Computer Consultant.

Then in 2005 the new edition tried to limit the importance of the chance factor in favor of more realistic life situations and jobs.

Now the current 2007 version all the jobs except the Police Officer have lost their special abilities, though still it is basically a luck-driven game more than it is driven by life-skills.

But then may be the real life goes the same way too - more dependent on luck or chance than it depends on the skills! May be The Game of Life - one of the most popular board games played as indoor party games represents life in a real way, the way we live it here on this planet!

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Later in 1960 Milton Bradley Company, which is a subsidiary of Hasbro now, published the game in its modern version. Although the game is designed for two to six players to participate but it can be extended to as much as eight to ten players as well.

The 1970s/1980s version of the game is a journey from "Infancy" to "Happy Old Age" passing through the "good" spaces by landing on to them and collecting 100 points for doing so, spinning a small wheel on which any number from 1 to 10 can be gotten to move ahead. The wheel is placed in the middle of the board, which also accommodates mountains, buildings, automobiles and a bank issuing notes, insurance policies, promissory notes, and stock certificates.

Players get their salaries either through shorter route called Business paying $12,000 per pay day, or through the longer route called College paying anything from $16,000 to $50,000 per pay day. The players also get "Share the Wealth" cards of three types - Collect, Pay, and Exemption.

On important life events adding members to the family, the players "collect presents" from other players. There are three insurance policies - automobile, life, and fire. Some spaces are marked "Lucky Day" rewarding players with money. Retirement could be settled for in the "Millionaire" space where the player with the largest sum of money wins the game.

There are three newer versions - the 1992 version, the 1998 CD-ROM version, and the 2007 Current Version of The Game of Life - one of the most popular board games played as indoor party games; which we shall be taking up in our next posts to come.

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Strip poker is the most famous of them all, though any other game out of Blackjack, Bullshit, Speed, Chess, Yahtzee, Shithead et cetera can easily be molded to be played as its strip variant.

The undercurrent of these games flows very deep within the human psyche that has taken itself quite away from its instinctive natural self including both, the body and the mind. The self has been covered - the body with the clothes and the mind with the protocols.

It all may be having its social benefits whatever, but one thing it has done for sure to the human psyche in that it has turned it a victim to a perennial sense of interaction-starvation, which always keeps craving to seek ways to compensate for the unnatural pressure forced upon it.

Players can participate in these games for fun, thrill and excitation, but if they feel in between that they will not be able to psychologically cope up with further disrobing, they can always opt out of the game at any level.

Removing clothes is not only thrilling for the audience, but equally so for the stripper as well!

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