Parlour games

Before radio, television, and the internet came to dominate our leisure hours at home, people gathered around the hearth and played word games.

Try out Victorian Christmas games in your classroom.

Turn back the clocks this year and get everyone to gather round for some traditional party games and good old-fashioned fun

This poem appeared in the 3 Volume of La Belle Assemblee, 1807

Traditional parlour games played during Christmas during Victorian times. Here's 21 Victorian parlour games to try at this home this Christmas.

Plus one you definitely shouldn’t.

Victorian parlor games are fun games for groups and parties. Lists game descriptons and rules.

Because nothing says “Christmas is coming” more than a dried-vegetable-related injury

Playing parlour games was considered to be part of every day life just a few decades ago. Digital games tend to be quite solitary – unless you’re on an online team I guess! But what happens when the internet’s down or there’s a power cut? Relying on ‘the system’ can be very disempowering but I’m here to say ‘Bring the fun back whether the leckie or the teckie is working or not!’ #parlourgames #offgrid #offgridgames #noelectricity #offline #games #pencilandpapergames #familygames #nocostgames

These party games will save your gathering from dull small talk.

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So here’s a game that was very popular back in the day, the Victorian day that is! Snapdragon For about 300 years until the beginning of the 20th century, no English Christmas Eve celebration…

Here is a list of ten brilliantly fun parlour games for kids that will have them so thoroughly entertained they will forget they even have screens!! Oh, and

List as many words as you can that begin with a certain letter before time runs out.

Back in the days before TV and the internet, people amused themselves over the holidays by playing parlour games. One game popular in Regency-era

In the tightly corseted Victorian era, parlor games helped relax strict rules of courtship.

Victorian-Era-Parlor-Games. Adults and children.

Hnefatafl, Goblin Parlour Games

Ever want to party like its 1912? Well ladies and gentleman, it takes much more than purchasing a fascinator and calling everyone an old chap. There must be a steady stream of amusements, the likes of which must only have been found humorous by a population inadvertently digesting cocaine. Here are some of the wonderful games you can play while waiting for the return of Downton Abbey: - My Lady's Toilet - The German Dwarf - The Cotton Flies - Scissors Crossed or Not Crossed Call No.: 793…