Pen paper game

Pen and paper games arguably offer more opportunities for fun than traditional board games do. In most cases, you can get a good hour or two of fun out of just a single pen and a single sheet of paper.

Nim is one of the most strategic pen and paper games with a surprising level of strategy. For Nim, all you need is one piece of paper, a pen and a friend to play with. To set Nim up, you must draw three stacks of lines on the paper. Each stack of lines must be separate from one another. The number of lines you have in each stack can be different every time, but there must be three stacks.

Once the lines have been put down, the game can begin. In Nim, players take it in turns to remove lines from a single stack. If a player is left with the last line to remove, then that player loses. Nim is a very strategic game to play on paper because of these two fundamental game rules: You can remove as many lines as you like each turn, but the lines you remove each turn must be from the same stack.

Make a Monster is one of the best pen and paper games that requires a piece of paper, a pen, players and lots of imagination. It is primarily a drawing game, but players do not need to be good at drawing to make the game fun. The game starts with the first player holding an empty sheet of paper and their pen. The first player must secretly draw a head at the top of the paper. Once the first player has drawn a head, they must add two neck lines and then fold the paper so that the next player can see the two neck lines, but the picture of the head has been folded over and cannot be seen by anybody else.

Assign a body part to each player and repeat this process for the body, legs, and feet of the creature. Afterward, reveal the image and behold the abomination you have all unwittingly created! With Pictionary, players take turns drawing out a particular thing while the rest of the players will have to try to guess what the thing is.

To begin, all players must agree on a theme. For example, players could choose to draw movies, common sayings or specific types of words. Once a theme has been selected, the first player must secretly think of something to draw.

Once the drawing is complete, they can show it to the others and at they must guess what the image represents. After one player guessed the picture correctly, the next player will have a turn to draw something. You can choose to play Pictionary for fun or make it competitive by awarding points for correct guesses. To set up Paper War, a sheet of paper must be folded in half length ways. Next, unfold it and draw a line down the center. Each of the two players must take it in turns to draw small stick figures on either side of the line.

Once the game has been set up, Player 1 must take the pen to draw a straight line on their side of the paper. Next, the paper must be folded in half again, and peeled outward slightly. The aim for each player is to get their line to connect with a stick figure on the other half of the paper once it has been folded. If a line connects with a stick figure, that figure gets crossed out. One answer has to be BAD.

Like the worst of the worst! Then, when you are done filling out your potential future, beginning from the M. This continues until only one option remains in every category. When one item is left in every category — THAT is your future. When I tell you that we did this every single day of my life, believe me.

Often called a cootie catcher, this Fortune Teller game is another absolute classic! Simply fold the paper as shown in the video above and read the fortune of all your family and friends.

Make sure you include positive and negative options. The fortunes are only limited to the imagination of the creator. For Paper Telephone, you will need three or more people, each starting with a sheet of paper. Each player draws a picture at the upper part of the page, and pass it along to the next player.

With this paper, everyone pens a sentence under the picture then folds over the top of the sheet so that only the caption is visible. The paper moves to the next player who then draws a picture to match the sentence—every player folds the sheet again so that only the image is visible and passes it on. I love this!!

Similar to Paper Telephone, Consequences is a group story telling game. The goal of this game is to complete a template story using your own characters, narratives, and plots. Everyone writes it together! You do this by taking turns writing out bits and pieces of the story. Take turns reading what was written before you and then creatively adding to the plotline. This is a great game to play with pen and paper because it stimulates the mind and gets those creative juices flowing!

Hangman is a guessing game that requires a minimum of two players. One player considers a word or sentence while the other players try to figure out that phrase by hinting some letter within a certain number of guesses.

Each player creates a secret sequence of four numbers. Check out this video for full instructions. The game is actually harder than you think. One player begins take turns being the first player by placing an X in one square. The next player draws an O in another square. Draw six dots in a hexagon. Two players take turns drawing line segments between each dot in their own color pen. The object of the game is to avoid drawing a triangle in your color pen.

Players secretly write down common phrases on pieces of paper and fold them up. The first chosen artist randomly picks a phrase then must draw and get the others to guess the phrase without talking or drawing letters or symbols.

Once guessed correctly, a new artists is picked. Three or more people each begin with a piece of paper. At the top of the page, they all draw a picture and pass the paper to the next player. With this new piece of paper, each person writes a caption sentence below the picture then folds the top of the paper over so only the sentence can be seen. This piece of paper is then passed to the next player who will draw a picture to go along with the sentence.