What are your favorite things to do with friends that are cheap, easy and instantly fun?

haynesholiday · 1 year

I invented a game called "Good Advice/Bad Advice." It's like a fucked up version of "Apples To Apples."

Basically, you collect a bunch of questions from advice columns on the internet (Dan Savage's column usually gives us the most mileage.) You read a question aloud, then flip a coin -- if it lands on heads, everyone else has three minutes to write down the best advice possible to that person. If it lands on tails, you have three minutes to write down the WORST ADVICE POSSIBLE. Then the responses are folded up and thrown into a pile, you read them aloud and declare whichever answer you thinks is best. Whoever's answer gets picked, they get a point (and a beer) and then it's the next guy's turn to read a question.

This game has a tendency to reveal dark depths in your friends' senses of humor that you may not have suspected were there.

Constantine_Predator · 1 year

Go to a large field after dark with a bunch of friends and a Nerf Vortex Football (the kind with the whistle). Stand in 2 groups and take turns throwing the ball as high as you can in the direction of the other group.

You hear it whistle on the way up, it stops for a second, then everyone panics as it whistles on it's way down. I have no idea why, but hearing (and not seeing) the whistle get louder before the thud as it hits the ground or someone near you is exhilarating.

I've only done this once a couple years ago, impromptu, but it's something I've really wanted to try again. A lot of fun.

moreskrillamoretrees · 1 year

Russian Submarine. Get you and a group of dedicated friends hulled up in a studio apartment. Put blankets over the windows and under the cracks of your doors. Unscrew all the light bulbs and replace the predominate light with a single red bulb. Arm yourselves with only rye bread, pickles, and vodka.

And then wait it out.

Ideally Russian Submarine lasts a couple of days. The first of your friends to get the madness and can't take it anymore, opening the door, letting in that terrible, terrible light, and scorching your bloodshot eyes, loses. Forever proving to you and all your comrades that s/he couldn't take it, and if things had been different, and they had found themselves on the wrong side of the cold war, they wouldn't stand a god-damn chance.

Oh, and for the love of Pete, drink water. You'll die if you don't.

Have fun.

Edit: No clocks!

Waterhammer92 · 1 year

We call it "tellestrations" but I'm not sure if it has an actual title. The game goes like this: everyone has a pad of paper and writes a creative statement on it (something like, "SpongeBob meets My Little Pony" or "a brave knight gallantly vanquishes the befuddled monstrosity") and then passes their pad to the next person. That person read's the sentence, turns the page and draws a picture of it. The pad of paper is then passed to the next person in line, and without seeing the original sentence, they are to guess what it would be based on the picture drawn. Play continues in this manner till everybody has either written or drawn in every pad, then you read the stories created. It is hilarious seeing how people choose to interpret words and pictures and attempting to draw them (my friends aren't exactly professional artists).

[deleted] · 1 year

Barbecue - never fails.

JesusTookMyBike123 · 1 year

Things I enjoy doing that are cheap/fee:

*Going to Flea Markets

*Going to Yard Sales

*Frisbee

*I bought a medium sized ball for a dollar and find it causes endless fun when combined with alcohol and a group of immature 20-somethings

*Card games - I spent many a summer nights sitting out on the back porch having a few playing rummy with the SO

*Camping

*Fishing

*Get a fire pit - around a $50 investment but worth it

*Grilling

*Swimming

*Hiking

*Biking

As far as other things to do, big fan of groupon for trying new restaurants or doing different things.

KennyLog-in · 1 year

I like to play croquet out in the yard. It is even better if you dress fancy and have tea and strumpets.

ModernTenshi04 · 1 year

Drunk Mario Party.

cream_crackered · 1 year

We call it the hat game:

Split into 2 teams and have some sort of hat variety, paper and pen. Everyone writes down 4 names on different pieces of paper, fold them up and put them in the hat. These names are preferably famous people or fictional characters that are generally known. There are 5 rounds using the same names from the hat, in which the team has to guess as many of the names as possible in that minute, with one team member giving them clues depending on the round (one minute per go until all the names have been guessed), taking turns. Round 1 - Describe the name (like Articulate), Round 2 - act out the name (like Charades), Round 3 - draw the name (like Pictionary), Round 4 - use one word to describe the name (no more!), Round 5 - use sounds or sound effects of/about the name (no acting allowed!). Great fun, and you start familiarising yourself with the names as the rounds get harder. AND can be turned into a drinking game. Edit: Spelling

resting_parrot · 1 year

Man hunt is fun. It's basically tag but when someone gets tagged they join the tagging team. Last person untagged wins. You have to set up boundaries so it doesn't get too ridiculous, and it's better with 7+ people. I haven't played since freshman year in college.

GrandTyromancer · 1 year

Sock Wrestling. Take your shoes off and move to someplace carpeted. Try and take each other's socks off. First person to not be wearing socks loses.

sneerpeer · 1 year

http://cardsagainsthumanity.com/

omnitarian · 1 year

1,000 Blank White Cards.

djxfactor306 · 1 year

Geocaching

ADH-Kydex · 1 year

I can't help you with friends, but now that I'm a stay at home dad I try to keep busy and break up the day.

Every day we go for a hike in the park, lots of good trails. We play Disc Golf if he's willing to be patient while I look for lost discs, We fly kites and try to take aerial pictures, We go to the library, drive around random back roads looking for someplace cool. Every day we try to learn something interesting and try new hobbies, get on Wikipedia and see if something interests you and do it on the cheap.

Edit: Damn, that's a lot of upvotes! I'll try to respond to some of the q's, but you are correct, I'm a lucky guy and this is the best time of my life. I know it won't last forever so we are making the best of it.

coleosis1414 · 1 year

This is going to get buried, and I'm sad I missed this tread, but here's mine.

It's called "Clothes-pinning." You buy a package of wooden clothes pins from wal-mart, get some markers, and write funny messages on each clip. They can be weird compliments, funny insults, whatever. Then you divide up the clothes pins evenly among your friends, go to a store in which a lot of thoughtful browsing is done (bookstores are PERFECT) and try to be the first of your friends to clip all of their pins to other people without them noticing.

You cannot clip somebody who has already been clipped.

Bonus points if you manage to clip other players.

It's an awesome game. It costs almost no money, it will kill a couple of hours, lots of stifled giggles will be had, and it makes you feel like an assassin. Plus, your victims will go home completely mystified when they eventually do find the clips on their person.

EnderbyEqualsD · 1 year

Bocce Ball!

Illegal_Tender · 1 year

mustache tv. we draw a mustache on the screen and take a drink every time it lines up with a face. it's great for talk shows and the Olympics.

edit:it's a dry erase marker. this game doesn't have to last forever.

snowbie · 1 year

Hide and Seek : Sardines Edition.

One person is sent off to hide. They get say 3 minutes to hide. Then if it's a small building - one person at a time is released every minute, if it's a large building/collection of buildings - everyone scatters after 5 minutes.

When you find the person that's it, you have to get into their hiding place with them and you both have to stay quiet, and it goes on like that!!

Last person either gets REALLLLYY frustrated and the mass hiding place is ruined by giggling at them OR they get stealthy and before you know it - theres someone running, jumping and diving onto the pile of people, squashing EVERYONE.

Played it on a field trip - much hilarity was had by all. Especially when you find amazing spots whereby like 30 people can climb in. Or you hide under sofa cushions and get people to gently sit on them who arent in the game. Or you realise the twit has hidden under a single bunk bed... Which would result in like 20 people squeezing under 4 bunks...!

Mahtin · 1 year

Burning stuff with a magnify glass

jadis87 · 1 year

Frisbee Golf! All you need is the disk and you're good to go. Most of the courses that I know of are free.

nyancat89 · 1 year

Blind Chicken.

I've mentioned this game before on reddit and people loved it. Here's how it goes.

its almost like Tag except the person that is "It" is blindfolded. This can be done where ever you want really but id say its smart to just stay indoors away from fragile things. The person who is "it" must rely on their hearing our sense of touch only. The people who are running away from "it" are free to provoke him/her as much as they like. You can call their name or even throw a pillow at them if you wish. Just don't let "it" touch you. Once your tagged then that next person is it.

When me and my friends first start we choose the newest friend in the group as "it"

My friends are harsh and we sometimes put chairs in the path of the blindfolded person but I think that's cruel so I wouldn't do it. If you must though then id say the blindfolded person better walk slow with arms in front of them.

This is a super fun game and the more drunk you get the more fun it is.

You're never to old to have some good old fashioned fun.

deheed · 1 year

Settlers of Catan

MetalMrHat · 1 year

If you have enough people, Werewolves/Mafia is awesome. Can be improvised for free too, or using playing cards.

KrazyEyezKilla · 1 year

I live near one of the biggest parks in Europe. Few weeks ago when the weather was nice and I had a day off me and my girlfriend packed a picnic and took her house mates dog with us, sat around, ate some food and held hands while walking around the park and visiting the petting zoo they have there while eating ice cream like children.

The bro version is getting a crate of beers and taking a football.

ReaperMage · 1 year

Sitting at home with a couple of beers and an N64, playing Mario kart and goldeneye. Lots of memories.....

shiftyhobo · 1 year

Couple of games we used to play at uni, in double room in an art block, lots of tables and chairs, not much to break and most importantly with the lights off this place is as black as pitch.

First game is simple, 1 person secretly arranges all the furniture in the room, sometimes in a maze like fashion or sometimes more like a minefield. Lights are then turned off and the rest of the group race across the room in the dark. The only winner is the guy who arranged the furniture, but its still really fun.

Second one is my absolute favourite though, we did it every time we had club events at the uni. Zombies. Premise is simple, pitch black room, about 15-20 people, 1 person is nominated as patient zero. Everyone gets about 1minute to hide/build furniture fortress (in the dark mind you). Patient Zero starts shuffling about moaning and wailing and trying to find someone else in the dark, as soon as they grab someone they're infected and join in on the hunt (and importantly, making zombie noises). It actually becomes legitimately terrifying as the game wears on and there's a pitch dark room filled with guttural wailing and shambling, and you know that youre next.

Very fun, I suggest you try it.

kmolleja · 1 year

Step Ane: Buy a big block of ice for each person

Step Two: Go find a big grassy hill

Step Three: Place a towel on top of ice block

Step Four: Sit on top of ice block and slide down the hill

Step Five: Bonus points if you can push your friends off their blocks before you hit the bottom.

Uncle_Matula · 1 year

Damn, I wish I had friends that were cheap and easy and fun.

dhagey · 1 year

If you live by a creek / small river....get some tubes and a case of beer and go tubing...it's so much fun. Usually we go about a mile in 3-4 hours and you just get hammered by the beer / sun beating down on your face.

Elizafail · 1 year

Best paintball game ever:

You have two teams, and one person on each team is the designated shooter. They are blindfolded. There is no cover. It is each team's job to give vocal commands to their shooter to take out the other team, and ultimately the other team's shooter. It is hilarious and scary and fairly inexpensive because you don't end up using a lot of paint. And everyone can have a turn being the shooter.

Desando · 1 year

This is what my friends and I do at least once a weekend and it's a blast every time:

Get a spinning wheel from a game (board games have them or you could make one)
Divide the wheel into 3 (like a peace-symbol) and label them "left", "right", "straight".
Designate a driver (make sure he's got gas).
Designate a directions keeper (gotta make sure you can get back home).
Spin the wheel every time you go to a 4-way intersection (you can do it with a 3-way intersection too but it's more fun with 4-way intersections).
Whatever direction it lands on, go that way.
Stop when you want and get a drink at a club or nearby bar.

We do this at least once a weekend and it's fun cuz each time we meet new people, see new places, and my buddy Mark even met his wife at a Bob Evans that we rolled into because of this game (they got married about 9 months later)

Good Luck!

Milkgunner · 1 year

Well, this saturday me and my friends are going to play brännboll (a scandinavian game similar to baseball but without apitcher). We are probably going to play a version we call bag-in-box brännboll where we replace the bases with wine and stop for a drink at each of them. It gets worse and worse over time as we play.

Rules of brännboll in english

moonlightsidhe · 1 year

My friends and I do something we call Dark Tag;

All you need is a basement where you can make it close to pitch-black; If it's full of crap that's really just a bonus. Someone is 'it' and waits at the top of the stairs. Everyone else hides, and then the lights are flicked off and the 'it' person tries to find everyone in the dark. Many hours of fun and some pretty hilarious stories, like the time one of my friends zipped herself into a suitcase and got sat on, or the one where someone got stuck hiding in the rafters. I made out with my husband-to-be playing Dark Tag :)

vuxanov · 1 year

Night swimming
Camping
Rafting
Freeclimbing
Skate park
Footbag
Drunk karaoke
Mountain bike downhill
Paintball
Rent-a- scooter
Champagne party (you all dress up and buy ton of cheap champagne)
Dish party

randolphhiggins · 1 year

I'm super late to the game here, so this is definitely getting buried. But, eh, fuck it.

FIVE DOLLAR BATTLE!

Each participant goes to the dollar store with five dollars in hand. You are given fifteen minutes to choose five items with which to make battle. Weapons, armor, whatever. Use your imagination.

For example, last time I used a mop as my primary weapon, a tiny frying pan for my off hand, a bucket for a helmet, an aluminum turkey tray as a turtle-shell style shield, and a shitty roll of duct tape to hold it.

Then go into the parking lot, form a circle if you have enough people, and battle.

Edit: My off hand weapon was a frying pan, not a garden spade. http://imgur.com/FQemj

Wocka_Wock · 1 year

Personally, I'd recommend a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Nate0624 · 1 year

I built a fire pit in my backyard. Hours of free fun and conversation. Play a game like boulder dash or whip out the trivial pursuit cars.

If that fails, slip them pot brownies.

bodypoppingpanda · 1 year

Ultimate frisbee. Need two teams and a wide open space (preferably grass 'cause shit quickly gets real when you're diving for the little bastard). Like netball in that you can't move once you catch it, unlike netball in that there are no balls or nets. To score you need a clean catch in the end zone. There is nothing more magnificent on a sunny day than spending the afternoon triumphantly batting frisbees out of your friend's (read: evil enemy team members') desperate grasps. Oh and the cider breaks. The cider breaks are very important.

sky-lights · 1 year

Blind tours. Each of us finds a really cool nice location, be it a bar, or a scenic spot. Then, one of us closes our eyes and the other one leads to said location and reveals it. It is amazing, we have manage to find places here in Sydney we would have never other wise. And it's such a good trust exercise. And it leads us to amazing places

DefinitelyNotAGirl · 1 year

My friends and I used to go to the mall and pretend to be mannequins in the store windows, usually in rather...unusual positions. The ones that weren't being mannequins would just stand back and watch the reactions of people passing by.
This is going to sound lame, but when we're sitting at home and drinking we play a game where one person starts off telling a story, and then the next person has to pick up where they left off, and so on and so forth. It's actually really fun when there's alcohol involved, especially if your friends are funny.
Hide and seek, anywhere. Especially while drunk, especially in the dark. Used to do it all the time in the college buildings. I love playing games from my childhood as an adult.

Hmm, it seems that most of my fun activities involve alcohol, interesting...

Edit: Mepardo just reminded me it was actually sardines, not hide and seek. Same diff, mostly. But infinitely more fun.

niamhish · 1 year

Find a grassy hill, go to the top and then run down at top speed, screaming at the top of your lungs. Hold hands with your friends or throw your hands in the air.

So much fun and a great stress reliever!

Then, when you're finished doing that, just lie on the grass and do nothing.

cuntxo · 1 year

Get drunk, have house party. Play games. Always better than clubs.

immortalsix · 1 year

Fire is instant theater.

Make a bonfire or make a fire in one of those $29 Home Depot fire pits.

You will thank me forever.

omplatt · 1 year

biiiicycle! BIIIIICYCLE!!!

marxychick1 · 1 year

My daughter's pre-school teacher introduced me to this, and I think it's great. Every once in a while, she & her girlfriends get together, have margaritas, and go to one of those Paint Your Own Pottery places. They paint garden gnomes, then take the gnomes to places around town and take pictures of them (in beds at a local furniture store, at local landmarks). I love it, especially since I collect garden gnomes.

Zergling_Supermodel · 1 year

Card games (poker for instance) are always good fun. If your friends know how to play Magic: the Gathering, you can always draft too.

Tellenue · 1 year

Get an inflatable kiddie pool and a sprinkler. Cool down and have fun while doing it, without the expense of a permanent pool or the hassle of a ride down to the shore. Inflatable beach ball optional. Booze mandatory. Also requires a yard of some sort.

Not an evening thing, but still falls under cheap, easy and fun.

[deleted] · 1 year

drop ball

interplanetjanet · 1 year

When I was in my 20s, my boyfriend (at the time) and I would go for long walks throughout our neighborhood that often took 2-3 hours, usually late at night. We would convince friends of ours to join us, and we'd occasionally have 6 or 7 people in the group. We'd walk and smoke and sometimes drink and just have some generally great conversations. I have very fond memories of that time.

octupie · 1 year

--- Cross town Hide&Seek ---

Two teams of four(ish) people. Let's say there's a team of girls and a team of boys. Each team has a car. Everyone meets up at the town Starbucks (or whatever). Two boys get in the backseat of the girls car and are blind folded, girls are in the driver and front seat. Two girls get in the back of the boys car and are blindfolded, boys are driving and in the front seat.

Both cars take off and find somewhere to drop off the people that are in their back seat. People that get dropped off take off their blindfolds, try to figure out where they are and call their team members to come get them.

First full team to get back to Starbucks wins.

Ex: Girls car is driving two blindfolded guys around. They take a lot of turns to confuse their passengers. They end up dropping them off in the middle of a park. They get a call from their frantic teammates that they have been dropped off by the boys in what appears to be a construction site. The girl driver and navigator try and think about construction sites in town while their team members are running to where they think they can hear some cars driving. Maybe a road is that way? Can they see any streetsigns?

Meanwhile the boys who got dropped off can't agree on which park they're in. Once thinks it's uptown park and the other swears he plays basketball in uptown park all the time and this is definitely DOWNtown park. They call their driver/navigator (who are still cracking up about leaving the girls by the construction site) and tell them where they THINK they are.

Fun game with lots of ways to strategize. I haven't played since high school. Back then noone had GPS/internet on their phones. I don't know how that would affect the game, or what new rules would have to be put in place.

[deleted] · 1 year

It sounds really stupid, but this is a game me and my friends do. 1. Find a stick on the ground. 2. Take the stick and hold it above your head. 3. While staring up at the stick, spin around 25-30 times (the more the better). 4. Stop spinning, then put the stick on the ground and try to jump over it. OR, you can do what my brother and I do, which is toss the stick and then try to run and grab it. Lots of fun memories...

1 year

[deleted]

raffyoh · 1 year

There is a Swedish lawn game called Kubb, also known as "Viking Chess", that you will like.

Jawalo2k · 1 year

every Wednesday evening, A mate and myself head down to our local beach stopping at a garage for a coke each on the way. Once there, I pull out my trusty hubbly (Hookah) from my boot, light it up and place it in the centre console. Him and I just sit there relaxing, listing the the radio and talking crap for about 5 hours each week. If pretty much free, totally legal (Just normal tobacco) and is the most relaxing thing ever, no matter how shitty you week is.

Dr-Rex-Cannon · 1 year

Bad line bonanza, it does involve going to a club/bar/party, but you have to do everything in your power to strike out in the most spectacular way possible. Terrible pick up lines, saying bizarre things and disastrous dancing are all par for the course. At the end of your run when she/he is at the end of her tether drop the character and sayin a serious voice "And now over to the judges for the score", your mates who will be lined up will score you. Bonus points can be earned by also celebrating with style or getting post-match comments from the unlucky dudette/dude.

blink_and_youre_dead · 1 year

We played a game in high school we called "Fugitive"

Divide up into two groups. We found that 1:5 is a pretty good ratio so if you have 10 people then 2 would be Cops and the other 8 would be fugitives. Pick a start and end location. These should be about a mile or two apart with multiple ways to reach one from the other.

Everyone gathers at the start location. Each cop starts with a vehicle and must drive to the end location before they can begin to hunt the fugitives.

Fugitives proceed on foot and try to reach the end location without being caught, cops try to find the fugitives. A fugitive is captured if a cop sees them and can identify them by name. Captured fugitives join the cop in their vehicle and become cops.

Any fugitives reaching the end location win.

We always played at night in residential neighborhoods. This led to an added challenge for the fugitives as invariably some homeowner would see a fugitive hiding in their bushes and call the real police. Then fugitives would have two sets of cops to hide from.

Dbjs100 · 1 year

Here's a free activity you'll thank me for.

Put on your absolute best clothes. Go to one of the nicest car dealerships in town. Personally I enjoy BMW. Bring a friend dressed nicely as well.

Walk in looking completely confident. Introduce yourself with a firm handshake, and say you're the owner of ______ company. Want to go all out? Give a fake business card.

Tell them your family drives [rival brands] cars, and you want to show them up. Pick out your favorite car, and test drive the hell out of it. It's great fun.

Afterwards just say you'll call them in the next week or so to sort out the details.

Repeat (with friend driving) at their dealership of choice.

I call it the "1% Cosplay"

hijklmno · 1 year

get a room as dark as possible
all take three shots of whiskey
run into said room
start swinging

you'll need to login or register to do that

create a new account

privacy philosophy

login