Adjectives are descriptive words and are in great use in daily life conversation. Be it complimenting someone, giving feedback, or specifying something in terms of number, quantity, and quality, adjectives are everywhere. Considering all these applications, it becomes crucial for all, even adults to get a strong grip on this concept.
Games, a fun alternative to learning from books allow learners to learn as per their level of understanding. These games can be played as a warm-up activity at the workplace, while hanging out with friends, among family members at dinner, or having a get-together. Playing games ignites the sense of creativity all the while adding a fun factor to the learning process.
Find below the unique, interactive, and creative games that you can use for your group as a brain break or a warm-up activity.
Fun adjective games for adults
Games that add to the learning can be an ideal option to use and employ while with a group of friends, employees, or family members. Including these games along with good food warms up the environment. As these games are easy to play, you do not need to go overboard with heavy preparations. They require inexpensive materials that are easily available.
1. Open the Box
This great activity can be played in groups or individually. You need to arrange certain things and place them in a box. You can put bags, fruits, kitchen vessels, cosmetics, files, or other decorative wall hangings in the box. The package should be big enough so other players cannot see the materials.
- Keep a closed box in front of all players.
- Invite each player to open the box and pick one thing from it.
- When a player picks up a thing, the player has to describe that thing through adjectives.
- For example, suppose a player picks a ball. In that case, it can be described as round, thick, green, or any other adjective relevant to it.
This game can be interesting by putting something tough -to-guess inside the box. You can go for difficult items that are generally not easy to describe. Pro tip – place every player’s picture inside and see the chaos in how they describe each other.
2. Describe it Out
This is an exciting game wherein a group of friends or family members can participate actively. In this game, you will need a timer and a host.
- To play this game, make participants sit in a circle beside each other.
- The host calls out any name of the place, person, object, or animal.
- Each participant is given 5 seconds to speak an adjective for the specified subject quickly.
- Any participant failing to remember a relevant adjective fails and has to move out of the circle.
- For example, the host says – Greece, and the participants may answer – beautiful, lovely, scenic. If any participant describes with an irrelevant adjective, including significant or quirky, fails the game.
This game enhances creativity by creating a fun environment. As the game is time-bound, participants are likely to jumble words, thereby allowing everyone to burst into laughter.
3. What’s the last letter?
This is a straightforward game that requires concentration and spontaneity. It is ideal for playing the game in a group to invite cheerfulness. You would need placards with different adjectives written on them.
- Let all participants sit in a circle to play the game.
- Remove one placard and let participants observe it for a second.
- Once they have read the adjective, participants need to start mentioning a person, place, animal, or object that suits the adjective.
- It should be spontaneous and any participant failing to reply within 2 seconds loses the game.
- For example, if a placard reads out historical, the participants may say Eiffel Tower or Great Wall of China.
When participants are exposed to placards with different adjectives, they have to think about other elements, not adjectives. This increases their critical thinking abilities, and they also learn how to describe each subject with accurate adjectives.
4. Find them All
A perfect game to involve everyone in concentration and focus-building skills. In this game, you would require a storybook or reading paragraphs filled with adjectives. You can also create your own stories or blogs. Print these sheets and ensure they have the visible font required for the game.
- Let all players sit in a circle or a dining table.
- Divide the players into groups for better visibility of sheets. If there are 8 members, divide them into a group of 4.
- Place a sheet on the table and let all players spot and list different adjectives in 15 seconds.
- You can also increase or decrease the timing per the text length presented on the sheet.
- The player who spots the highest number of adjectives wins that round.
- The player who wins the maximum rounds eventually wins the game.
You can make this game enjoyable by selecting different novels, biographies, or even fashion magazines. Businesses can look for marketing or tech-based articles to increase the game’s difficulty level. This game is perfect for building focus and being a quick read to spot adjectives.
5. Two Bowls
Introducing a new and quirky adjective game for adults. This game requires you to make chits of adjectives. Your chits have to be categorized in two ways. These two categories should be placed in two different bowls.
Bowl 1: Beautiful, Big, Great, Soft, Hard, Perfect, etc. (Add as many as you want)
Bowl 2: Funny, Sarcastic, Serious, Quirky (These are tones that players have to keep in mind)
- In this game, a player picks one chit from Bowl 1. Let’s say the chit reads – Pretty
- After this, the player picks another chit from Bowl 2. Let’s say the chit reads – Sarcastic
- Now, the player is supposed to form a sentence that includes the adjective pretty but has to be read out in a sarcastic tone.
- In this case, the player may say – I wonder why Sara dresses just like the opposite of pretty.
- Set the timer for 30 seconds or 1 minute for players to decide the tone and frame sentences accordingly.
This game invites a lot of fun, learning, and communication skills from each player. While they try placing adjectives into different tones, other players will likely enjoy the nonstop banter around it. You can make it more interesting by replacing adjectives and their tones depending on the environment for gameplay.
Why adjective games for adults?
Out of various games, adjective games involve fun and quirkiness, enabling individuals to think of extraordinary ways to be descriptive. However, adjective games are tremendous fun, and you can go as creative as you wish. You may also include different colors, massive groups, and other elements to make them attractive to your audience. Moreover, these games can be played at home, in office settings, at social gatherings, and during informal office dinners.
- Being busy in routine life, these games are ideal to receive an edge for better conversation skills, negotiation, and descriptive writing.
- Individuals in the field of creative writing, social media, or any other industry get to know relevant ways to put forward their ideas and opinions in a group setting.
- These games not only expose you to different words but also helps you in understand the meanings and usefulness in everyday communication.
- Learners also learn the usage of different phrases and words that help emphasize their vocabulary.
- Most adjective games are quick and played in groups, enabling individuals to think of answers to win the game instantly thereby boosting their critical thinking skills.
Summing up,
Adjective games are ideal for adults who like being involved in fun games. Whether you think of a family gathering, a formal office event, or a teacher’s day, these games can be as quirky as you want them to be! They are intellectual and also boost thinking abilities in adults. For businesses and corporate environments, these games can offer employees a relaxing time.
Employees can explore different words, bond with other departments, and get to improvise their concentration. They can be played as tests, activities, or even be used to bond with new people in the surroundings. Adjective games are ideal for setting the mood for several events, formal gatherings, and social activities.
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