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For when you need a break from Cards Against Humanity for the 48th game night in a row.
Forget beige snacks and awkward small talk — if your idea of a good time involves fondue forks, polyester pants, and a competitive streak wider than a lava lamp base, welcome to your new favorite game night. These six 1970s-inspired games bring just the right amount of weird, wild, and wonderful to keep your guests laughing and your drink refills flowing.
🕹️ 1. The Newlywed Game (But Way More Chaotic)
Skip the marriage — all you need are willing participants and just enough trust to answer personal questions in front of friends. Make it awkward. Like Spin the Bottle for adults with more guilt and shame and no closet.
💡 Twist: Call it “The Roommate Game,” “The We-Hung-Out-Twice
Game,” or “The Divorced People’s Rematch.”
🧠 Pro Tip: Index cards + a dry-erase board = instant drama.
🌀 2. Twister — Now with Consequences
Add cocktails and vintage fashion, and Twister becomes a true 1970s athletic experience.
🍸 Optional: Every time you fall, you take a sip. Every time
someone rips a seam, they tell a secret.
🧥 Pair with: Our Atomic Bowling Shirts — stylish and
shoulder-flexible.
🧁 3. Tupperware Taste Test
Inspired by retro Tupperware parties, except instead of selling burp-seal containers, you blindfold your friends and make them taste horrifying 1970s recipes.
Ideas: Tang and cottage cheese
smoothie, bologna Jell-O, or a nice “ambrosia surprise.”
🚫 Not for the faint of stomach.
📸 Major TikTok potential.
Check out Recipes - Mid-Century Menu for plenty of delicious (and not so) treats.
🎧 4. Name That 70s Tune (But Worse)
Only one player wears headphones and hears a song while others sit in silence. The headphone wearer has to sing along as the song plays, and the group guesses what the song is based on their likely off-key, mumbled nonsense.
- Points for naming the tune.
- Points for naming the artist.
- Points for naming a new cover.
Play in teams or solo. We don’t care. Really. (Okay, we do. We'd like to be invited.)
Bonus: Use a curated playlist like our "Shag Carpet Bangers"
🕺 5. Charades, Polyester Edition
Regular charades? Meh. 1970s charades? You can only act out TV shows, pop culture moments, or trends from the decade.
Think “Three’s Company,” streaking, pet rocks, or bell-bottom regret (although we don’t believe in the last one.).
🧠 6. Cult Leader Pitch Night
You’re starting a weird new movement. Your friends are the congregation. Your goal? Recruit them using charisma, catchphrases, and possibly homemade punch.
Rules? There are none. It's the ‘70s. Just don't join for real.
🏁 Wrap It Up:
Pair these games with a vintage playlist, some truly questionable snacks, and a few strong cocktails, and you’ve got a game night no one will forget (or fully remember). Bonus points if everyone shows up in polyester. Just don’t sit too close to open flames.
👕 Outfit inspo for the occasion?
Try Lava Lamp shirt or go full Tupperware Chic with this Almost Awesome tee.
🔗 More fun?
- Mental Floss: Bizarre Board Games of the Past
- Atlas Obscura: Oddball Party Rituals
- Mid-Century Menu: Real Retro Recipes to Dare Your Friends
