JENGA
Jenga already takes a hint of finesse, but let’s see if you have enough of it to handle the awkwardness that comes when you add a truth or dare. Answering revealing questions and performing risqué challenges while trying not to knock down a wooden block tower? It’s two games from childhood in one! Every player must complete the truth or dare written on the block that they’ve pulled. No chickening out! As for the player who knocks over the Jenga tower – well, enjoy finishing up the rest of the blocks.
To make: Write down either a truth or dare on each wooden block. Build your Jenga tower, and you’re ready to go. You and your friends will have as much fun thinking of things to write as you will actually playing.
Example: “Send a blank text to the last person with whom you hooked up.”
MONOPOLY
You’ve all seen those college-themed Monopoly games, but why pay good money for a game that only half-applies to your university life? Turn your neglected Monopoly set into an homage to your years as a Gamecock, and maybe you’ll be able to tolerate playing the game for more than an hour.
To make: Type up some USC-oriented property cards on your computer (with prime real estate on Greene Street, perhaps?). You could even use campus buildings instead of streets. Make a new Chance/Community Chest pile out of blank business cards (You got stuck behind a train on Assembly, lose a turn). If you really get into it, design your own Carolina Cash.
CLUE
Professor give you a bad grade? Did he do it with the lead pipe, or did he use a mountain of homework? Was it in the RuHo Dining Hall or in Math 141? With a little creative effort, this old board game can take on a new, personal and hilarious light.
To make: Print out photos of professors or friends, and glue them over the character cards. Do the same with the weapons, but turn the locations on the board into familiar places on campus.
Example: Cocky with a Pandini’s Chicken Caesar Labretti in Melton Observatory.
GUESS WHO
Professor give you a bad grade? Did he do it with the lead pipe, or did he use a mountain of homework? Was it in the RuHo Dining Hall or in Math 141? With a little creative effort, this old board game can take on a new, personal and hilarious light.
To make: Print out photos of professors or friends, and glue them over the character cards. Do the same with the weapons, but turn the locations on the board into familiar places on campus.
Example: Cocky with a Pandini’s Chicken Caesar Labretti in Melton Observatory.
