Numbers

This is a great game Myles played with his family growing up that we played at Thanksgiving. You'll want to keep it in mind for your big Christmas parties!

You know how it goes. You've worked all day or maybe even all week buying and preparing food. Everyone's eaten it before you can hardly blink, and then the HUGE mess in the kitchen awaits you. This game is a fun way for different people to get to work together for short amounts of time to get a big mess cleaned up quickly so you can move on to bigger and better things.

Depending on your size of kitchen and size of mess, start with 2-4 people in the kitchen. (This is a good game for kids, too. It gives them skills--math skills, helping out skills, moon boot skills...) They can choose whatever they want to do to clean up.

Everyone else sits at the table enjoying each other's company. One of these people thinks of a number between 1 and 100. You go around the table, having everyone guess the number, each time the person thinking of the number saying either , "lower" or "higher." The lucky person who finally guesses the number hops up to help, relieving the person who has been helping longest in the kitchen. The person who is relieved thinks of the new number.