Guess Who is one of the guessing games in board games to be played as indoor party games between two players, each one of whom is provided with an identical board that contains cartoon images of 24 people titled by their first names only.

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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Zombies is a tile-based strategy game falling under board games/ video games category as indoor party games. The game is designed for 2 to 6 players to play as the case may be. Twilight Creations is also going to publish it as another addition to video games for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

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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Hangman is one of many popular guessing word games falling in the category of indoor party games and is played with a paper and pencil along (though the computer versions are also available) by two or more players taking part in the game.

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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Yahtzee is one of very popular dice games in the category Indoor Party Games first created by Milton Bradley and now being marketed by Hasbro.

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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The Game of Life (1992 version) among board games in the category indoor party games started rewarding players for their social awareness and responsible action like recycling trash and helping the homeless.

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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The Game of Life is one of the most popular board games played as indoor party games and was created the very first as long back as in 1860 by Milton Bradley who had named it The Checkered Game of Life then.

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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Monopoly is the most popular of all the board games ever invented under the category indoor party games; basically designed as kids party games, which later transcended all the age bars and became a bestseller in all the age-groups among all the games ever sold.

Today 500 million people play this game very fondly all over the planet.

Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935 before Parker Brothers published it and started selling in the market.

The concept of the game revolves around the economic goal of every business that aims at monopolizing the market. The competitors must be pushed into bankruptcy in order to achieve the goal - a very realistic situation that we keep witnessing in the business world all day and all night every day and night.

On board also the players move in the same way with the roll of the dice trying to own every single piece of property, moving around the board, through buying, renting, and trading using 'play money' and trying to drive the other players into bankruptcy.

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Balderdash is one of quite popular party board games falling under the category indoor party games.

First of all, all the players roll a die. The one who rolls the highest becomes the dasher, who draws a definition card and rolls the die to decide which of the five words listed on the card will be used to play the game.

The definition is written down on a piece of paper and the rest of the players try their hand on writing one of their own and hand over to the dasher. If any one of them matches with the definition supplied, the player gets 3 reward points. If there are more than one correct, the round is called off retaining the points awarded to all the correct ones.

All the definitions are read out aloud in a random manner. If a player guesses which one is the right one, s/he earns 2 points. If someone guesses a wrong one to be right, the player who wrote that wrong one earns 1 point for her/himself. If no one is able to guess the correct definition, the dasher earns 3 points for her/himself.

The tokens are moved on the board in accordance with the points earned by each player and the game proceeds further as another dasher replaces the former.

The player whose token reaches the end point first is declared the winner of the game.

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