Some cool type of parties, that appeared in the United States and Canada but became famous in other countries too, are the baby shower parties. A party  like this is made to celebrate the future or recent birth of a baby. The actual (or future) parents of the child will invite friends and relatives at their home, and the guests will bring all sort of gifts for the baby. But this party is not just about giving gifts, because the guests will be rewarded with delicious food, desserts, music   and other things. To bring more fun to party, you can also try some funny baby shower games.
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So today we are going to take some random games and discuss more about them. Some of the games are directly related to the baby, and others are just made to stimulate the guests to talk and to interact with each other. You can also make some prizes for some of the game, to make the winner feel good about himself. It is not necessary to give expensive gifts, it is enough to put a small and simple prize, with a symbolic meaning. A first example  is the “Pin the binky on the baby” game. For this game you will first need to make a poster out of a big baby image and also a few pacifiers. Then blindfold one guest at a time, and he will have to place the pacifier as close as possible to the baby’s mouth, without seeing anything. To make this task more difficult, spin the guest a few times before starting the game, to make him a little dizzy so he won’t be able to place the pacifier very easy. The guest who will be the closest to the mouth is the winner. This game can be quite fun, and it will put the guests on the move.

A game that is not directly related to the baby, but which will make your guests have some fun  is the “piggy bank activity”. First get a piggy bank and then ask each of the guests to add some change to it. Then ask each person to take a guess of the total amount of money found in the piggybank. After each person made a guess, count all the money. The person who was the closest is the winner, and you can give him all the money from the piggybank as a prize.

Another fun game is the “celebrity baby game”. For this one you will have to make some preparations before the guests arrive. Print some baby pictures and also some images with faces of famous people. Cut just the body of each baby, and just the face of each celebrity and then glue them together on a big cardboard. Give a number to each image, and then pass papers and pencils to each guest. They will have to guess the face of each celebrity, and write their name on the paper. The person to guess most of the names is the winner.



A game similar to the one with the piggybank is the “M & M’s baby bottle guess”. The name says it all: you will have to place some M & M –s in a baby bottle, and the guests will have to guess how many they are. Of course you will have to count them before beginning the game, and not waist time to count them with your guests next to you. The person who will guess the correct number, or the person who is the closest is the winner, and you can give him all the candies as a  price.

Another fun game involving pictures is called “baby pictures”. For this one you will also have to make some preparation before the guests arrive. Actually ask each of the guests a few days earlier to bring at the party a picture with themselves as a baby. Give a number to each of the picture, and then place them on a table or on a clipboard. Give a piece of paper and a pencil to each person, and they will have to guess which person is in each baby picture. This game should be played if the guests already know each other, and they are  friends, otherwise it will be difficult for them to guess. The person with the most correct guesses wins.



A game that will test the language knowledge of the guests is called “Mommies and babies”. In this one the guests will have to say the correct name of the baby of different animals. You (the host) will read one animal name at a time, and then each guest will have to write on a piece of paper the baby name for that animal. If you don’t know many animals and their baby names, don’t worry because we will give you some examples: bear – cub, cat – kitten, horse – foal, duck –duckling, swan – cygnet or goose – gosling,  cow – calf, pig – piglet, dog – puppy, hen – chick, duck –duckling. The person to get most of the correct answers is the winner.

Another game that is directly related to the baby and also to the mom is the “guess the waist size”. In this one the guests will have to estimate the waist size of the pregnant women. Of course they can’t use numbers, because the future mom can get upset. There is another method: pass around  a ball of yarn and a pair of scissors. Each of the guests will  have to cut a piece of yarn, with the length that they consider is the correct size of the mom’s belly. After they all did this, the host will measure her waist with another piece of yarn, and then you will compare all the pieces. The person who was the closest to the correct length is the winner. The game can be quite fun, and you will be surprised to find out that there will be a lot of variation in the guesses of the guests.

Either if you want to be in touch with news from all around the world, or you want to buy or sell something, or talk with friends and people from all around the world, either if you want to listen to some music or watch a movie, you can do it all on the Internet. Other people have their jobs related to the internet, so this big worldwide network has taken control of all the world and almost all the activities. So we can't even imagine how the world would be in 2010 without the existence of the Internet. And of course you can also have a lot of fun on the internet. A  good and relaxing method to have fun at the computer is to play a game. You can choose a game that is installed on your computer, or you can choose a free online game, that doesn't require any installation. Either if you are a child looking for some fun, or a mature person looking for some relaxation at work, you can all play a game. One of the most popular games ever is the Solitaire. First it was found on all the recent versions of Windows (from Windows 95 until today)  and now it has many versions and you can also play it on the internet.

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Like we said, it is very popular all over the world and a lot of people are playing it to fill up their free time. In England is also known with the name "patience" and in Italy and Spain it is also called solitario. The Solitaire card game is not actually a single game, but a family of games,  with hundred of different versions and variations. The game is usually played with a standard deck of 52 cards, and the basic idea is to sort the cards into a specific order, depending on the game. You will win if the sorting is completed. Some of them are very easy to complete, some rely only on good luck, but there are also others which are requiring a lot of skills and concentration and some that are nearly impossible to complete. Some of the most popular Solitaire games are: Canfield, Accordion, Freecell, Klondike (this is the one that everyone knows from their Windows), Golf, Pyramid or Spider Solitaire. The Solitaire games were not invented along with the computers, and they are been played for many years, with a real set of card. It is believed that even Napoleon Bonaparte liked to play Solitaire during his exile at St. Helena. Another famous person who liked to play Solitaire was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his favorite game was the Spider Solitaire.

First let's talk about the Solitaire glossary, that means the usual terms that you will find in this game. A build is an ordered sequence of cards in a pile.  Building means to add a card to a pile. When building up you are playing the cards in ascending order, and when building down you are playing them in a descending way. A column is a vertical pile of cards which are overlapping with each other. The deck is usually referring the set of 52 cards. A fan means a pile that has been spread out, and all of the cards are visible to the player. A foundation is a type of pile and it is usually the final destination for the cards in a game. It is usually empty at the beginning and you will have to complete it with cards and sometimes it may have a starting card included. The pile refers to a bunch of cards. A pile can be squared (only the card at the top can be seen) or spread out, when all the cards can be seen. It can also be empty when it doesn't have any cards in it.

The rank refers to the value of the cards. The numeric order of the cards is usually this: A - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - J - Q - K. So the Ace is the card with the lowest rank, and the king has the highest rank. When you redeal , you are turning the pile of cards upside down to create a new stock pile. Some games allow an unlimited number of redeals, some just one, and other don't allow any redeal of cards. The stock is the pile from where the cards are dealt from. Usually cards are removed from the stock and played to the foundation or waste until the stock is empty. The suit is referring to the type of the cards. There are 4 types: Hearts, Spades, Diamonds and Clubs. The Hearts and Diamonds are red, and the Spades and Clubs are black. The waste and tableau are other types of piles. The tableau is used to search through the cards for opportunities, and the top card from the waste can be moved to another pile, depending on the type of game.

Enough with the definitions, let's talk about some of the Solitaire card games instructions. We'll begin with the instructions for the most famous type of Solitaire game, which is the Klondike. This game is using one deck of 52 cards. 28 of the cards are placed into 7 tableau piles. The first pile has one card, the next one has 2, and so on until seven. You are able to see just the first card from each of the piles. The purpose of this game is to discover the cards one by one, and to place them into a numeric order. First you will have to move the aces to the foundations, and then all the cards in numeric order until the kings. Here you will also have to respect the suits and colors (for example a 5 of Hearts must be placed over a 4 of Hearts).

To discover the cards you will have to shuffle through the cards from the initial deck, and also to turn the cards that are hidden. To help you do this, you can build  tableau piles by alternating colors (for example you can place a 5 of Hearts (red) only over a black 4 - Spades or Clubs).  You can move one card at a time, and also a group of cards which is already arranged into numeric order. If one of the piles gets empty, you can fill it with a King or a group of hearts that begins with a King. If there are no possibilities left for movement, all you can do is redeal, and start all over again. It is one of the most simplest and fun solitaire games, and can be enjoyed by both children and adults.

We will also present the gaming instructions for another famous Solitaire game which is the Spider Solitaire. This game is using two decks of cards. 54 cards are spread to 10 tableau piles. The first card from each pile is faced up. The goal of this game is to build 8 sequences down in suit within the tableau and after that move them to 8 foundations. Each tableau has to run from King to Ace. You can build tableau piles down, no matter the suit, and it has to end with an Ace. You can't put a King on an Ace. You can move one card at a time, or groups of cards in numeric order and of the same suit. When a pile remains empty you can fill it with any card or group of cards. All the empty tableau piles have to be filled before the dealing, and you don't have any redeal available. Good luck!

Uno is a card game, played with a special deck, which was developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins and now it is Mattel's product. The game is usually following the principles of the "Crazy Eight" family card games. In the beginning the slogan of the game was "the colored card game", but now they have "you know", and the motto is "you get one, you get Uno".
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The cards deck has 4 color card types (red, green, blue and yellow), and they rank in each color between 0 and 9. There are some action cards too, and their names are: "skip", "draw two" and "reverse". The black cards are also special and they are called "wild" and "wild draw four" The total number of cards in the deck is 108, and this number includes two copies of each regular and action card, and there are also four "wild" and "wild draw four".

The dealer gives each player seven cards and the top card of the deck stock is flipped and if this card has some special ability is applied on the first person who must play a card. The game starts with the person in the left of the dealer (clockwise).Each player should play a card of what they have in their hand, and this should happen only when the player has a card that matched the color or the rank of the card exposed on the pile. The wild cards can be played at any time, and if someone doesn't have what to play, they should draw and then the next person's turn comes. When the stock empties, the pile is shuffled and turned so that the stock replenishes. When someone has only one card left in his hand, he must say "Uno!" otherwise he will draw cards again.


The "Uno" game is over when someone of the players finishes all the cards he had in his hand, and the dealer must count the number of points given by the cards they still have, but taking into account that special cards are twenty points, and the wilds worth fifty. The player who goes out gets the points of all the people who remained in the game, and the one who reaches first 500 points wins.