I feel like Iβve played this beforeβ¦ I think I mixed this up with Ghosts in the graveyard in my head though.
I have another game similar to this, but we called it Mafia. We drew cards/straws but you donβt tell anyone what you got. You assign a certain card as the Mafia, and if you have a big enough group you can do multiple people as the mafia, but itβs more fun to limit it to 1-2 people. Then give everyone a minute to split up and wander around the area (my friends house had a small forest in the back yard so it was easy to split up, itβs easy to do at a park as well, or maybe you could do it in the house but that might be complicated)
The mafias job is to βoffβ people and hide the bodies (I remember having to lay in the bed of a truck for the remainder of the game before). You can tell people to hide themselves near to where they are, or you can stage their body nearby. All you have to do is touch them and say βyouβre deadβ and then you pick what happens to them for the rest of the game. The dead cannot speak.
The game ends when someone guesses who the mafia is or everyone dies. The only way you can guess is if you team up with someone else, link arms, and yell βI think the mafia is: ____!β So if you are the last person, youβre screwed, and if youβre wrong, youβre both dead. If you link arms with the mafia, they canβt die but they can pretend to die and then continue. We used to play this game for hours in the dark and it was so fun.
Another game we played was tiring but fun. Itβs flexible too, so the more people you have the less marks you need.
We called it Werewolf, but itβs like tag with extra tags allowed. Once you are tagged though, you team up with the wolf to tag the remaining players. I usually played with 3-4 people, so we got 5 tags before we joined the wolves. But if you have a dozen or more people you can lower it to 1-3 tags a person before they join the wolves.
The last one we played was probably my favorite but the most dangerous. We called it the door game. Itβs safer to play in a straight hallway with a lot of doors. My cousins and I usually played it in our LDS church during Christmas parties (a long straight hallway with two dozen doors), or my basement which is an L shaped hallway with like 8 doors on it.
So, start with all the doors closed in the hallway. Give the person who is it like 30-60 seconds to pick a room to hide behind.
Everyone goes one by one to pick a door to open to find the person who is it, and then the person who is it chases everyone back toward the safe zone. If they tag someone, that person has to hide behind the next door. If they donβt tag anyone, they have to go hide behind a new door.