Cocktail Games Challenges You to Find Stuff, Draw Stuff, Mime Stuff & Hold Stuff Close to Your Body

Kaleidos Junior comes with four identical sets of eight drawings, with each drawing depicting a scene packed (to greater and lesser extent) with stuff. Each player or team uses its own set of drawings, and the goal is to find as much stuff as possible in the drawing being used by each player — but first you need to know which stuff to find!

The game includes rules for three levels of players, depending on their ages. In level one, players look for items in one of thirteen categories, with the category being chosen by the spinner included in the game. Sample categories include something edible, something made of wood, something fragile, and something round. One player flips the sand timer, then everyone tries to find matching items in the drawing, covering those items with colored tokens. After time runs out, everyone reveals their answers, and for each correct answer, the player places one of her tokens in the center of the table. Players then choose a new drawing, each using the same one, and start a new round. The first player to get rid of all of her tokens wins.

In level two, players use the letters on the spinner (instead of the categories) and now look for items that start with the chosen letter. Otherwise gameplay is the same, with players trying to rid themselves of tokens.

In level three, players choose a letter, then write down answers that they find in the drawing. Each player scores one point for an answer that someone else also found and three points for an answer found only by her. Whoever has the most points after five rounds wins.

Body Party plays like a team Twister, with each team competing to hold a half-dozen body part cards between their bodies before anyone else can do so.

To start the game, players form teams of two or three players, with at least one person serving as referee. The referee keeps the card deck in hand to help facilitate gameplay; each card shows one body part on the front and another body part (or possibly the same one) on the back.

On a turn, the referee shows the active team the part depicted on the top card of the deck. This team can take this card or pass on it, but then they must take the next card. The teammates must now attempt to hold this card between the two players using the two body parts depicted. If they drop this card, their turn ends; if they drop other cards already held, however, they can continue to work with the current card, despite the tears that will inevitably ensue. Then the next team takes its turn.

The game continues until at least one team holds six cards. If all teams have had the same number of turns and only one team holds six cards, this team wins; if several teams hold six cards, play another round, continuing the game until one team holds more cards than any other at the end of a round. This team wins!

As a variant, Body Party includes a half-dozen cards that feature a body part on one side and a household object on the other (table, wall, chair, floor). These cards must be placed between a player on the team and the depicted item.