Abeg, who else is tired of playing drinking games on game nights? Any small thing, “Take a shot if…” Please, let’s do something else. What happened to playing games involving food? 

Try these nine food games, and I promise you that your game nights will never remain the same. 

Make smooth pap 

If you can make smooth pap, you should add it to your CV because it’s a skill for days. This game involves two people making pap the way they know how. Whoever comes out with the smoothest pap wins. Good luck with that. 

Eat spicy Indomie without drinking water 

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Pour all the pepper you can imagine inside a pot of Indomie. People win if anyone can finish their plate of Indomie without doing “ooootsss aaah” (you know the sound I’m talking about) or drinking water in the first five minutes. Sorry to your toilet sha.

Food pictionary

Write down as many words related to food as possible in small pieces of paper then put them in a bowl. People will pick a word from the bowl and try to draw it on a board for other people to guess within a limited time. The group with the highest right answers wins. Good luck trying to draw ponmo.

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Guess the protein

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This game involves being blindfolded and fed all the proteins you can possibly imagine. You’ll have to guess what animal you’re eating and the body part to win. Hope you’re comfortable eating bull testicles. 

Chopsticks food transfer 

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A straightforward game. The first person to transfer their rice from one bowl to another, using chopsticks, wins. You have to be very smart with this one. 

Food spelling bee

Some of you need to be taken back to school because you don’t know how to spell, and this game will expose you. People will be given words to spell, and if they get them wrong, they must try out whatever weird food combination the game master has put together. 

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Do you know how to cook?

The contestants will be given one minute to list the instructions on how to cook a popular food. The person with the correct instructions or something closest to it wins. The loser has to pay a fine for not knowing how to cook. Because clearly they’re rich enough to buy food or hire a chef. 

Dare or dare: food edition

Dare the players to eat plain atarodo without drinking water, eba and ketchup, a teaspoon of salt, fish eggs, hold a dead chicken head, you name it. The host has to be as creative as possible.  

Guess the number of chin-chin in a jar 

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As the guests enter the venue, the host will make them write their names on paper and guess the number of chin-chin they think is in a jar. Towards the end, the host reveals whose number was the closest, and the person wins a prize. Wahala for the person who has to count the chin-chin at the beginning sha. 


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