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Here are a few games, categorized into different types - some just for fun, some to increase bookings, and some to help you recruit a team.
Just for Fun Games
- Pass the Gift
This is an easy and fun game to play. It has been a favorite of many direct sellers.
Bring a wrapped gift to your show. After you have introduced yourself, hand the gift to the hostess and have her follow the directions that you read from below. The last one with the gift in hand wins.
* You thought all the gifts were meant for you. But I have other items too.
So hold up this gift and look around, and give it to the one with eyes of brown.
* You think you are the lucky one, but let us all share in the fun!
Look around with eyes discreet, and give it to the one with the smallest feet.
* Your feet are tiny and very small. Now hand it to someone very tall.
* Please, take your time and don’t be harried. Give it to the one who is longest married.
* You must be proud of your married life, now pass this on to the newest wife.
* Of this parcel you are bereft, give it to the one on your left.
* The largest earring I’m looking for now, if you’re wearing them, step up with a bow.
* Now to the person with buttons– big or small, any kind, the most you can find gets the gift at this time.
* Now don’t get cross and please don’t fight, but pass it to the lady third on the right.
* We should stop now, don’t you agree? The gift is yours to open and see.
- Thread Game
This is a great ice breaker if the many of the guests don’t know each other.Take a spool of thread and some scissors…pass them around and have everyone cut off a piece of thread. If they ask how much, do not tell them, this is part of the game. After everyone has gotten the thread, you take it and cut off a piece. You will know how long, because you will have practiced at home.
Now everyone has to talk about themselves for as long as it takes them to wrap the tread around a finger. Some may take a long time….as they will not have known how much thread to take. You start the game and show them what you mean.
- Replace Your Husband
Do not reveal the name of the game until you have everyone think of a piece of furniture or appliance they would like to replace and write down three reasons why. When everyone is done they substitute their husband’s name for the appliance or furniture and read their reasons for replacing him to everyone. Funny!
- The Purse Game
Have everyone grab their purses. Call out letters of the alphabet at random and the first person to find an item in their purse starting with that letter gets extra auction bucks or a small prize. Great way to break up chit-chat or regain control.
Booking & Recruiting Games
- Recruiting New Consultants
Type up descriptions of whatever merchandise you have in your kit. You can use descriptions right from your catalog or embellish them a bit. Cut the descriptions into strips so you have one per strip. Also do any specialty offers you have (i.e. Bonus Buys, Hostess Only Gifts, free merchandise for holding a party, recruiting information, etc.).
Either have each guest pick one as they enter the party or place each one next to the specific item it names and have the guests come to your display and pick an item and card/prop.
You may want to coach each person a bit if you like, i.e. show them the item and talk about it a bit. After the introductions, have each guest “demo” their item. This is a good way to see which guests in attendance might make good consultants (aren’t shy…have a great personality, etc.).
Variation: For seasonal parties, you could use plastic Easter Eggs in an “Easter Basket”; Halloween parties use the small plastic pumpkins, Christmas you could use the small stockings, etc.
You might consider holding a drawing after the guests “demo” their item. All guests that participated in the demo receive a ticket for the drawing of a door prize.
- Getting to Know You
Each person is told to take two or three items out of their purse that best describes themselves. Then they have to hold each item up and explain how it describes who they are. It’s really a lot of fun and provides information on how your company can fit into their life. If you have a bunch of small gifts you could give one to each person that participates. It’s a great way for the guests to get to know a little bit about each other.
Either begin the sharing or end it yourself, sharing your own descriptions of the items in your purse. Relate the items to your business. For a cell phone say something like “I love to talk and I’m always on the phone. I get to meet and talk to so many new people, I just love my job!” Or pull out a tissue and say, “I’m very sensitive, I cry at just about everything, especially when I tell my family goodbye when I leave on a trip. But then that’s one of the things I love about this business! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever travel so much, especially for free!”
- Ticket Game
Give away tickets for different things at the party; the person who arrives first; someone who brings a guest, etc. You can decide what you want to “reward” them for. When the demonstration begins, hand out slips of paper. Then during the presentation, ask them to write down the name of five friends, and the first person finished gets a ticket. Do the same with neighbors, relatives, co-workers etc or use a list of descriptive phrases like, someone you know that is pregnant, or a mom of 3 or other descriptive phrases.
At the end of the show, the person with the most tickets wins a prize. The guests think they’ve played a game, but what they’ve really done, is fill out their guest list. When you ask them to book a party and they say no, ask them what they plan to do with their guest list. Can the guest next to her have it to use at her show? Of COURSE NOT! They usually will reconsider when they realize the hard part of making a list of “who to invite” is already done.
- Deal or Not a Deal?
You will need four envelopes and a basket with your inexpensive door prizes. Wrap all the items in the basket. Inside each envelope, put a small piece of paper folded several times so they can’t see it. On one, write $1.00; one will say $2.00: one will say $3.00 and one will say $5.00. Tell everyone what is inside and that they are gift certificate for tonight.
Have the first person to your left pick one of the envelopes. But tell her she CAN’T LOOK. Now have them pass the envelope around and the hostess says either LEFT or RIGHT and they have to switch direction when she says each word. Stop her after the envelope has gotten around to most everyone. At the end, I tell the person with the envelope “DON’T LOOK” ~ Because I want to “Make A Deal” with you: “Since you didn’t pick the envelope, maybe your luck is better than hers (meaning the person it started with) …so you can trade for another envelope if you want to” (Hold the other envelopes out). Usually everyone is hollering “Trade” or “Don’t trade”).
Next say “DON’T LOOK!” ~ “I’ll make another deal with you…(Pull out your gift basket) “I will trade you the envelope for an item in my basket….that envelope could be worth $5 or maybe just $1″ (Everyone is again yelling “trade” or “don’t trade”). She then makes her choice and say, “DON’T LOOK!!!” ~”I have another deal to make with you….I will give you your envelope back and DOUBLE what’s inside or give you TWO prizes from my basket IF you will book a show tonight and help (Hostess) out.”
If she doesn’t book she gets either what’s in the envelope or her gift but MOST of the time they will book. Play this at the end of your demo because by then they are already thinking about having a party.
- What’s Your Score?
Read this story while guest’s add up the points.
* If any selling you have done, put down 10 for the start of your score.
* If you have a car, and are able to drive, the thing you must do is just add 5.
* If some extra money is what you would like, add 10 more, which is just right.
* A little spare time will add to your score, for this you may add 15 more.
* If you like people and think they are grand, add 6 more to see where you stand.
* Add 10 points if you think parties are fun, and when you add this, you are almost done.
* If you score the highest, it is plain to see, that part of our (name of your company) family you should be.
* Add 25 to your score if you want to know more ~ about becoming a Consultant like me…learn how you can make money AND get lots of this FREE! - Dice game
1) Introduce the game something like this:
OK, I have a really fun game for you tonight! You’re going to love this! It’s a game of chance. The way this works is you choose if you want to take a chance or not. If you choose to play and take a chance, you will roll the dice, and whatever number you roll, you will get the matching envelope, (if you roll # 3, you get envelope #3.) If you roll a number someone else has rolled, you keep rolling until you get a different number. When you get your envelope you CAN’T look at it. One of the envelopes says Grand Prize in it, and tonight the Grand Prize is (whatever you choose, but it needs to be good enough to motivate people to play), and some of the envelopes say Win a Prize and some of the envelopes say Book a Show, and if you get that one you get all the goodies our pretend hostess got earlier!
Just remember if you choose to play and take a chance you must do what your envelope says. If it says Grand Prize, you have to take the grand prize. If it says Win A Prize you have to take the prize. And if it says Book a Show you have to book a show!
2) Then turn to the guest holding the dice and say with MUCH enthusiasm, ‘So Julie, ready to play?’ After she plays, you take the dice and hand them to the next person and say, ‘Debbie, do you want to play?’ After each person plays, YOU take the dice and pass them to the next person and ask each person if they want to play. When everyone who wants to play has rolled the dice, you tell them not to open their envelope yet; you have ANOTHER chance for them!
3) Now you say, ‘If you decide right now to go ahead and book a show, you will win the Grand Prize for sure! I will order it for you at your show and it’s yours for free! Plus you will get whatever is in your envelope too! Then go around the room and ask each person again ‘Would you like to book a show and get the Grand Prize plus what’s in your envelope?’” Then let everyone open up their envelopes and share what each one says.
SPECIFICS:
11 envelopes numbered 2-12
1 card that says Grand Prize (this goes in envelope # 2)
4 cards that say win a prize (these go in envelopes # 3,4,5,12)
6 cards that say book a show (these go in envelopes # 6,7,8,9,10,11) - Tickets for questions
Purchase a role of numbered tickets, the kind you see carnivals and fairs they need to be 2 tickets in one you keep one and they keep one! (they are at WalMart)
You say:
Okay let’s play a game. You can ask me anything about my job, my products. If you ask a question you get a ticket the more questions you ask the more tickets you get! So they ask you questions and you give them tickets. Place one of the 2 tickets in a container and after you finish the game draw a ticket for the door prize. It’s a great way to scope out new recruits without making anybody uncomfortable and you will be amazed at the questions you will get asked.
Enjoy!
