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"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."  - Lucy Maud Montgomery

As Lucy Maud Montgomery once said, “Humour is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence.”  And while today’s party games may be a little different than the traditional party games people played in Montgomery's era, the underlying humour is the same.  Here are some fun, yet sophisticated games that you may want to try around the dinner table or during your own tea social. 

The following games are taken from the "Cooking with Anne of Green Gables" Edwardian cookbook. 

Quotable Quotes

This is a game for connoisseurs of literature.  Begin by selecting a passage from one of your favorite authors like Lucy Maud Montgomery.  Read the beginning and end of the quotation, omitting 1 or 2 sentences in the middle.  The guests are then instructed to fill in the gap with their best prose.  The attempts are collected and read aloud along with the correct quotation.  Guests vote on which prose they think is the correct answer.  They may also vote for the most entertaining entry.

Or, if your guests are younger in age, this simple game below might catch their interest.

Questions?

In this game the guests try to hold a normal conversation but every sentence must be in the form of a question.  When someone fails to phrase their words as an interrogation they are out of the game.  The winner is the last person remaining.

To add to the ambiance of your own tea party, take a look at Shop At Sullivan's Tea Time CD, which is filled with elegant music from Road to Avonlea, Wind at my Back and Anne of Green Gables.

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