This indoor party game was first created by William Schaper in 1948. When it was launched the next year, it took the market by storm and sold millions in its very first year. In 1973 Tyco Toys acquired the game; and in 1986 Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley acquired it again, giving it a whole new look.

Though many companies had published this kids game design with the same name, it was Schaper's design only that stood the test of time; and is as popular in the twenty first century as it was when it was published the first in the earlier half of the twentieth. It is listed in the Toy Industry Association's "Century of Toys List".

The players compete to build the 'bug' from the plastic parts as fast as possible so that they are able to build it before anyone else does. The plastic body parts comprise a beehive-like body, a head, antennae, eyes, a coiled proboscis, and six legs. The whole fun of the game is that these plastic parts are to be earned through the roll of a die depending on the number it shows on the table.

The body corresponds to 1, the head to 2, antennas to 3, eyes to 4, mouth to 5, and the legs to 6. The players must acquire the body first and the head next to it before they are permitted to acquire the remaining parts in any order they prefer. Acquiring a part also permits an additional throw of the die to acquire another part if the player can. The player who completes the assembly before everyone else is declared the winner of the game.

Cootie/ Cooties as one of the very popular kids games falling under indoor party games was given the honor of being listed in the Toy Industry Association's "Century of Toys List" in the year 2003, meaning that it has been recognized as one of the 100 most popular and most creative toys of the 20th century.

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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 is played with a standard deck of 52 playing cards in which each player tries to score as few points as one can making it an evasion type game. The format of the game is that of taking tricks, and if the trick taken consists of any title suit or the queen of spade, points are assigned to the winner of the trick. There is no provision of trumps in the game.

Though the game has earned good popularity in live parties of playing card games where indoor party games are much in demand, yet the major role has been played by its Microsoft version packaged with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. Internet gaming sites have also been a reason to its being phenomenally popular as the game stands today.

13 cards each are dealt to the 4 players. All of them take out 3 cards from their hands and pass them on to the player on their right simultaneously, to keep. The player to the left leads the first trick with the rest of the players playing a card in turn clockwise, following suit when available, and otherwise playing any card which may include a penalty Heart or the queen of spade. The player with the highest card of the led suit takes the trick along with all the penalty cards the trick contains, and then leads the next trick.

The number of hearts you win slap as many penalty points on you whereas one single queen of spade slaps you with 13 of them alone making the highest possible penalty score to be 26 in a deal. The game is declared over as and when any of the players reaches 100 penalty points usually though other variants are in vogue as well.

The winner is the one who scored the least!

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One of the players thinks of a word in her/his mind. The rest of the players are supposed to guess the same letter by letter, one letter at a time.

The one, who has decided the word, counts the letter in it and draws as many dashes on a piece of paper, each dash representing the letters of the word in order.

The guessing player/s guess a letter trying to fix 12 most commonly occurring letters e-t-a-o-i-n-s-h-r-d-l-u first, whereas the leader tries to think of words that use them the least. If the letter guessed happens to be in the word, the leader fills the same wherever it should fit in the word replacing its dash/es. But if it doesn't, the leader draws one element of the hangman-diagram known as a 'tally mark' in the game, denoting hanging the guessing players element by element.

If all the dashes are replaced by letters before all the elements of the diagram are drawn, the guessing player/s win/s the game. If not, they lose it to the player who had initially thought the word.

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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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There are five dice in the game, which are rolled in order to make certain combinations. The player whose turn it is can take up to three chances to roll them for coming out with one out of 13 pre-decided scoring combinations. There are 13 rounds in the game and in each one of them every player decides and declares beforehand as to which scoring combination s/he is going to choose for that round out of the 13 permissible ones. The combination once used by a player in a certain round cannot be chosen again in any other round by the same player. All the combinations have different point values, some of them fixed and the rest having the cumulative value of the dice.

In the scoreboard there are 13 boxes that are divided in two sections - the upper and the lower. In the boxes in upper section, the cumulative values of the dice faces in the corresponding rounds are recorded. In the lower section some poker-themed combinations are noted down with their specific point values; like Three-Of-A-Kind showing the same face in three dice scoring sum of all the dice, Four-Of-A-Kind showing the same face in four dice scoring sum of all the dice, Full House showing three-of-a-kind with a pair scoring 25 points, Small Straight showing four sequential dice scoring 30 points, Large Straight showing five sequential dice scoring 40 points, Yahtzee showing five same dice scoring 50 points, and Chance showing any combination scoring sum of all the dice.

As the game is over when all the thirteen rounds have been played, each player's total score is calculated by summing all thirteen score boxes along with the bonus points that a Yahtzee summons for being worth 100 points each for the subsequent ones after the first one has earned its scheduled 50 points under certain detailed conditions of the game.

The highest scorer is declared the winner of this one of the most popular dice games in the category Indoor Party Games now available in its video version as well.

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