"go"
Each player stands, in turn, facing every guest. Whichever person- usually one of the hosts-has been appointed for the job gives him a letter-perhaps "c"-and then says "Go." The object is for the player to say as many words in one minute as he can think of, beginning with the letter of the alphabet that happens to have been assigned to him. The person who says the most words beginning with his assigned letter wins. It's amazing to see some people's ability to rip through this, and the contrasting, almost total, paralysis which overtakes others.

identifying pictures
This game takes a bit of pre-party preparation. But it's fun to pre­pare and fun to play, so I hope you'll try it. You cut out and paste on big sheets of cardboard the pictures of men and women currently in the news, in as varied fields as you can find. Then you number each pictvire. When you're ready to play, you hand each player a piece of paper with the numbers running down it. Each player writes the name of the person beside the number on his paper which corresponds to the number on the picture. Ten pictures are usually enough.

guggenheim
Each guest is given a good-sized piece of paper and a pencil. First, a five-letter word is chosen. This word is printed, widely spaced, verti­cally at the left of the paper by each player. Then, with the letters as guides, draw vertical lines across the paper and horizontal lines down the paper to make boxes. At the top of the page, over each section of five boxes, the name of a category, such as: ships, motor cars, football players, trees, drinks. On a signal from the timekeeper, each player starts filling the boxes with words which fit the category above them and which start with the letter to the left. A time limit is set for this process-ten to fifteen minutes-and when time is called everyone stops. The scoring is done by players reading off what they've written in their boxes. The object is to find unusual examples in each category begin­ning with the required letter. A player having a word which no one else has, gets as his score for that word the equivalent of the number of players: if there are ten, his score for that word is ten. If one other player has the word, each of them gets nine. If five players have written the same word each gets five. The player with the highest score wins.