Entertainment ideas for year-end and New Year parties: games everyone can enjoy together

Picture shiritori

How about Friday? Drawing Shiritori Revenge, Night 1

Literally, you play shiritori with pictures instead of words. To keep the second player from having an advantage, either make it so only the first player knows which letter it starts with, or have the second player wear earplugs so they can’t hear at the start. It’s a game you can enjoy right up to the final answer reveal.

How to Play

1. The first person draws a picture.
2. The next person looks at the picture and draws something that starts with the final letter.

Repeat this in order.

End of the game

Pattern 1: Just like regular shiritori, if you draw a picture of a word that ends with “n,” the game ends. The person who drew that picture loses. Pattern 2: If the next person misinterprets the drawing and draws something that starts with a different initial letter, they also lose and the game ends. It’s nice that you can enjoy it regardless of the quality of the drawings.

wotagei

[Wotagei] Youkai Exercise No. 1 & 14 Tricks in a Row [Taipii]

Wotagei is a performance that idol fans dedicate to idols at concerts and live shows.

Seeing your usually serious boss or coworkers swinging glow sticks without minding the sweat can look comical to some and rather stylish to others.

Especially when performed crisply by a group, it’s very beautiful—one could even say it approaches the realm of art.

Heart-Pounding New Year’s Gift Exchange

Prepare numbered tickets that correspond to the prizes you can get inside the New Year’s money envelopes, along with a description of the performance participants must do to win that prize.

Then hand out the envelopes to everyone, have them open them in turn, and let them perform! If you’re short on time, prepare plenty of “lucky” envelopes that allow people to receive a prize without performing.

Kanji of the Year

Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi – 5th Poetry and Painting Exhibition “Sakki (Killing Intent)” trailer

Prepare an enormous sheet of paper and an oversized brush, then swing the brush boldly with a spirited shout of “Eiya!” At a year-end party, write a single, definitive character that will get everyone excited—just like the annual “Kanji of the Year.” For a New Year’s gathering, it’s kakizome, the first calligraphy of the year.

It’s best to choose auspicious, uplifting words such as “mubyō sokusai” (good health and safety).

3rd Year Class A Morning Assembly Dance

3rd-year Class A Morning Exercise Ryota Katayose

The 3-A Morning Assembly Exercise, which became a hot topic in the hugely popular drama ‘Mr.

Hiiragi’s Homeroom (3-nen A-gumi: Ima kara minna wa, hitojichi desu),’ is famous.

When you think of school, you think of morning assemblies—and you can imagine doing exercises at a morning assembly—but this “morning assembly exercise” is nothing like what you’d expect.

It’s a sharp, high-energy routine—more like a dance than an exercise.

It would be so cool if you could pull it off, right? There are lots of videos of the cast performing it, so practice and show it off perfectly!

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We Asked 100 People: Quiz

[A Morning Repa is here too] We asked 100 people about their signature works

「We Asked 100 People (Quiz)It’s a game where you tally answers to questions about banquet attendees in advance, and multiple teams try to guess the top 10 responses. If you directly interview people with minority opinions to draw out their stories, it’s sure to liven things up even more.

air guitar

Air Guitar Championship 2014 Japan 5th Place! Kadotatei Shokatsu, Sendai Qualifier

It’s air guitar.

Step onto the stage empty-handed, and the moment the music starts, unleash a performance as ferocious as a demon.

The more emotionally charged the guitar track, the better—and the wilder your moves, the bigger the crowd’s reaction.

Study the stage presence of various guitar heroes and aim for a one-of-a-kind performance!