Bonuses for employees of Western companies are pleasant and not very pleasant. Bonuses and rewards paid by employers Bonus program for employees
Who doesn't want to be rewarded for hard work and faithful service? Everyone wants it, but not everyone gets it. Be that as it may, bonuses, albeit small, always motivate the employee to work better.
For a start, what are the bonuses? Material incentives for work is a system of measures aimed at ensuring the material interest of workers in achieving certain results of work.
The measures of material incentives established by Article 191 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation include the payment of bonuses and rewarding with a valuable gift. In addition, in accordance with Article 135 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the employer establishes various systems of remuneration, which include additional payments and allowances for compensation and stimulating character, as well as a bonus system. These wage systems should be enshrined in collective agreements, agreements and local regulations.
Now let's figure out what bonuses are and what they are eaten with.
First, there are material incentives and intangible. Non-material encouragement is most often praise: “Here, Petya, look how Vasya works well!” And Vasya puffs up with pride, blushing awkwardly for decency. Or such an option: “You, Seryozha, do not smoke? Don't smoke. This means that you can come to work half an hour later, and leave half an hour earlier ... ". And everyone who wants to sleep a little longer and get off early is tied up with nicotine, starting to be a role model.
Material bonuses, respectively, can be touched, touched, you can even buy something with them. "500 rubles to the prize for the one who comes up with the best headline for this article!" - in editorial offices it usually works with a bang. “I have an untouched can of delicious coffee lying around here - whoever finishes with the layout first gets a present.” Even if it's ridiculous little calendars or unnecessary notepads, work gets done better when an atmosphere of healthy human competition is provided.
Salary bonuses are most often used to incentivize workers. This is understandable. Who in modern conditions do not want to receive more? Often this is a trifle, but nice.
The only thing that needs to be clearly defined is what these bonuses and incentives will be paid for: for closing a complex project, for delays at work, work on weekends, business trips ...
It should also be emphasized that both bonuses and incentives are a fickle part of income. Often employees get used to to complementary reward, and not having received it, they begin to demand. To avoid this, it is necessary to convey to the staff as clearly and clearly as possible: whoever does not work well will receive nothing, and vice versa.
Bonuses, as a rule, are material rewards, while incentives can be very diverse: from a photograph of an employee on the honor board and ending with a trip to warm lands for two. The main thing is that the person has pleasant impressions and the desire to continue moving mountains for the benefit of his native company.
It should be noted that the material and intangible incentives are inseparable. According to research psychologists, only one motive of professional activity is associated with money, all the rest - with recognition, relationship with the leadership, achievements, career advancement, interest in work.
Only with the right combination of these two parts is it possible to achieve effective work employees and, as a result, an increase in labor productivity.
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The bonus system of remuneration is most common in organizations, the main staff of which are production workers or sellers, as well as in the service sector. This form of payment is most effective for employees whose activities directly affect the company's profit.
The overwhelming majority of organizations where the bonus payment system is practiced are private firms, but it is also used at some state-owned enterprises. So, since 2011, this form of payment has been introduced at a number of branches of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" for employees of the sales and services department.
Subsequently, statistics showed a stable growth in branch incomes, which indicates the effectiveness of the introduction of bonus payments... It has a lot in common with, but with a bonus system, an employee's salary is made up of charges at a tariff rate with an increase in a percentage of profit, and not a fixed one.
In this it is close to the difference that under the commission system the employee's salary does not provide for a fixed part, including only interest.
Thus, the bonus payment system includes two components:
- calculated on the basis of the tariff scale approved by the organization
- and the percentage of profits approved by the manager and enshrined in the employment contract.
In this case, the first component, as a rule, is stable, and the second is “floating”.
For example, retail businesses pay in the form of a daily exit rate and a percentage of total or personal sales.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantage bonus system pay is continuous motivation 
employees for productive work. Since the fixed salary at enterprises with a bonus payment system is usually low, the main part of the employee depends on how he “hurries up” in the current month.
This approach to remuneration may be of interest primarily to young, ambitious professionals who strive to constantly increase their income. Conversely, the cool bonus form of payment includes applicants who are accustomed to a stable payment. After all, neither the employer nor anyone else can guarantee that if an employee received a good salary in one month, the next month his income will be the same.
With this form of remuneration, it is difficult to plan long-term costs, such as a mortgage.
The main disadvantage of the bonus system is that the company's profit is not always influenced only by the performance of employees. Sales indicators or demand for services provided by a company can be determined by other factors:
- seasonality;
- the activity of competing firms;
- nuances of interaction with suppliers, etc.
How to calculate your salary?
The calculation of an employee's income with a bonus payment scheme is made according to a very simple formula:
З = Зт +%,
where Зт is the salary according to the tariff scale (rate), and% is the percentage of profit.
The rate can be, or in the form of a monthly minimum salary. The percentage of profit can also be different: in one case, the total income of the company or its individual division is taken as a basis, in the other, only personal sales indicators are taken into account.
Example 1
Citizen Ivanov works as a sales manager for coffee equipment with a monthly salary of 10 thousand rubles and a 3% bonus on the company's total profit. How much did Ivanov earn this month if the firm's income was 250 thousand rubles?
First, let's calculate the bonus part of his salary. 3% of 250 thousand is 7,500 rubles (250,000/100 * 3 = 7,500).
2 girls are selected. Each of them is offered certain situations, from which you need to come up with a creative way out. Time to think 15 seconds. The most original answer will bring victory.
Situation options:
1. Imagine you have been saving up for a dress that you are going to wear to a party for several months. And now this moment has come, you bought a dress, created the perfect image, arrived at the indicated place, take off your coat, and in front of you is a girl in the same dress. What will you do?
2. You have a dream date, everything is wonderful, but at one point your heel breaks. Your actions?
3. You did the perfect makeup, took care of your hair, but last moment the date was canceled, what are your actions?
4. You ate food with garlic, put on a mask and decided to wind the curlers. A knock on the door, a man of dreams is on the doorstep. What will you do?
5. After a romantic evening, your boyfriend escorts you home, and you accidentally call him by someone else's name. Your actions?
Best Short Film
Guests are divided into several teams, depending on the total number of people at the festival. The team should have about 5-6 people. The task of each of the teams is to think over and show a funny short film from the theme: “One day from our work”. For the best performance, production and so on, the team receives an Oscar in the form of a bottle of champagne, for example.
Briefing
Participants are given cards with comic questions. For example, “how to make a dog fly,” “how to quickly stop an airplane,” “how to eat pea soup correctly,” and so on. In one or two minutes, the players should compile a detailed step by step instructions and write it down on a piece of paper. The author of the most detailed and funniest instruction wins.
The most ridiculous excuse
The presenter takes turns calling the situation to the guests, and they must take turns to "get out" at what, who will make it the funniest of all - well done, because at the end of the game, the funniest participant is entitled to a prize. So, the presenter says: You crashed the boss's car, but why? And the guests take turns answering:
Her color does not match his horoscope or
It seemed to me that this is an evil alien robot, and I could not endanger my beloved boss and so on.
Situations can be completely different, for example, you came to work in a dressing gown and slippers, why?
You scanned your face on a scanner, printed pictures and hung them around the office, for what purpose?
You brought a rooster to work, for what? Etc.
Selfie of the evening.
At the beginning of the evening, the host announces that a contest for the best selfie will be held throughout the fun and celebration. That is, there will be a camera on the table, which each of the guests can take and capture himself in the most interesting position, for example, with the chef, on the balcony, and so on. At the end of the evening, all the shots are shown on a big screen (using a usb connection) and the best selfie is chosen according to the applause of the guests. And so that the guests do not forget, the presenter periodically reminds everyone about the selfie contest. As a prize, you can present a funny award - a photo frame with a photo of Chuck Norriss, because he is the coolest.
Well-coordinated team
The team is divided into several teams with the same number of participants. Team members stand in separate rows. All participants are given a toothpick. The first participants are presented with an open jar of olives. At the start command, the first participants prick an olive with a toothpick and pass it on to the second participants, the second participants pass it to the third, the third to the fourth and so on until the last. The last participants receive an olive and eat it with a cry "ate". Then the first participants prick the next olive and pass it to the second, the second to the third, and so on until the penultimate, the penultimate participant receives an olive and eats it. Participants pass the next olive to the participant - the third from the end, then - to the fourth from the end, and so on until the first participant eats the olive. The winner is the team in which the turn to eat the olive reaches the first participant faster and he eats it.
Geometric collective
For this competition, you will need to make some blanks (on several sheets of paper - in accordance with the number of participants - draw individual geometric shapes, for example, a circle, a square, a triangle, an oval, a rhombus, a simple curve, and so on). All sheets have the same geometric shapes. Each participant receives one such sheet and marker. At the command of the leader, the team members must draw the rest of the body to a specific figure, turning a certain geometric figure into a figure - their employee, colleague and sign each one, you also need to draw yourself. Then the presenter collects all the pictures and shows the guests of the corporate party, they vote for the best picture, the author of which is awarded a prize. And pictures of employees can be left in the office as a souvenir to cheer up.
More offers
Couples of employees involved. All participants in a pair are tied at the waist and each is handed a mop. In a circle for each pair there are “good deals” for the company (simple balls). The pair is located in the very center of this circle. At the start command, each employee must use a mop to collect as many lucrative offers for his company as possible. And which of the guests of the corporate party succeeds, he will receive a prize.
We fly to negotiations in economy class
The entire team should be divided into several teams with the same number of participants. Each team is given the same cardboard box(depending on the number of participants "by eye" choose the size of the box). At the “start” command, individual teams should get together on the flight for negotiations in economy class, that is, by all possible and impossible ways to get into a cardboard box (someone on one leg, someone on the hands of someone, and so on). The team that completes the plane the fastest will be the winner.
The tidiest employee
Each of the employees needs to show strength, dexterity and ingenuity and prove to everyone that he is the most accurate employee. Participants stand at a certain distance from each other. There is a chair for each participant (at the same distance). Each employee has a basket with chicken eggs (in the same amount for all). At the start command, all participants begin to transfer these eggs to their chair, but only without using their hands. Who of the employees will prove themselves faster, better and more accurate than anyone in this matter, he will win.
I have always had a dream to make HFLabs one of the best Russian companies according to the working conditions. I believe that bonuses allow employees to feel a bit like entrepreneurs, provided that the company's bonus policy is built correctly. And here, by all appearances, it is built well. I judge by the fact that Last year I actually do not take part in the management of the company - all key decisions are made by the employees themselves.
In total, we have several types of bonuses.
Sales bonuses
Sales is a complex and often non-formalized thing, so we are grateful to everyone who brings clients to us and recommends us. Bonuses for employees are 5% of the sale of licenses or the cost of work.
Bonuses for projects
Our specificity is production software with its implementation. The product implementation team generates profit from projects and participates in its distribution. When planning the bonus system, we wanted the team to receive a lot in the case of effective work, and little in the case of ineffective work. Therefore, the size of the team's bonus depends on the profitability of the project and on currently is considered as follows:
- in the case of a negative profitability of the project, the size of the bonus is -5% (the manager pays out of his own pocket, however, so far there have been no cases of negative profitability);
- if profitability 0-10%, the team gets 5% of sales;
- if 11–40%, then she gets 10%;
- for a profitability of 41% and above, everyone gives 15%.
The team bonus is distributed by the project manager at his own discretion.
Annual bonuses from company profits
Now we have an annual team bonus - this is 10% of the profit from sales and support of our projects and products. Thus, employees are, as it were, shareholders of the company. This 10% is distributed as follows:
- 25% in equal parts are distributed to all employees of the company who work for a year or more;
- 75% "in fairness" - depending on the contribution to the development. The amount of contribution is determined by product managers and depends on the number of hours spent on the product and support, work efficiency and other criteria.
In general, our bonus policy has not let us down yet, and for five years there have been no cases of employee dissatisfaction or bewilderment about the size of the bonus. By creating a bonus program, you can either develop a system of rules that employees will successfully hack, or allow the project manager to determine the amount of the bonus. They usually know who is working on the project and who is not - this is always visible.
Asya Solntseva
HR Director LAM Russia
In order to pay a person a bonus, it is desirable that the company has a bonus regulation that governs all payments in the company. The system for calculating bonuses can be spelled out in the bonus regulations clearly or in general terms. The legislation does not oblige us to indicate percentage grids in it.
The bonus regulation may also state that the company pays bonuses at the request of the heads of divisions. At the same time, the percentage grid is more a management issue than an accounting one. The accounting department of an enterprise can conduct any bonus and any calculation, except for a negative one, because the legislation of the Russian Federation prohibits any fines and depreciation. Thus, percentage grids, where only positive bonus values are indicated, are rather a guideline for managers and their management. They help to decide whom to reward, for what work and in what volume, and also serve as an argument in case of disputes and questions.
Below is a selection of games for a group of people. The games are suitable for both work corporate parties and just meeting with friends.
If you also have fun games in mind, then you are welcome in the comments. I will definitely post these games in the post.
Just want to separately thank Savina Yana for the selection of games.
Ringbros
Empty bottles and bottles of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are lined up on the floor tightly to each other. Participants are invited to put a ring on the bottle from a distance of 3 m. Anyone who manages to throw a ring on a full bottle takes it as a prize. The number of throws for one participant must be limited.
The ring is cut out of thin cardboard. The diameter of the ring is 10 cm.
In a plate
The game is played while eating. The driver names any letter. The goal of the rest of the participants is to be the first to name the object with this letter, which is currently in their plate. Whoever calls the subject first becomes the new driver. The driver who said a letter for which none of the players could come up with a word gets a prize.
It is necessary to forbid the driver to always call the winning letters (ё, and, ъ, b, s).
Sweetie
The participants sit at the table. A driver is chosen among them. The players pass a piece of candy to each other under the table. The driver's task is to catch one of the players passing the candy. The one who is caught becomes the new driver.
Crocodile
The players are divided into two teams. The first team chooses some concept and shows it in a pantomime, without the help of words and sounds. The second team tries with three attempts to guess what they are shown. Then the teams switch roles. The game is played for interest, but you can count points for unraveled pantomimes.
It is possible to guess: individual words, phrases from famous songs and poems, proverbs and sayings, catchphrases, fairy tales, names famous people... One or several people can show a concept.
Comic test
This test can be done with everyone present. Pens and pieces of paper are distributed to the participants. On the sheets, they should write certain abbreviations in a column. Opposite each of them, participants are asked to write a line from a song or poem.
After everyone has completed the task, the meaning of incomprehensible abbreviations is reported, and each participant can find out for himself and show the table neighbors the results at the specified moment (determined by the line from the song).
You can come up with any abbreviations, the main thing is that they correspond to the theme of the holiday. So that the entertainment does not drag out, three to five moments are enough.
For example, to celebrate the results of the past year, you can suggest the following names for moments and their abbreviations:
PDG (first day of the year),
APG (first week of the year),
SG (mid-year),
NDOG (week before the end of the year),
Individual entrepreneur (total profit),
LR (best worker), LMF ( best manager firm), PIG (year-end premium). KTU (labor force participation rate), etc.
What to do, if…
Participants are invited to consider difficult situations from which they need to find an original way out. The participant who, in the opinion of the audience, will give the most resourceful answer, receives a prize point.
Examples of situations:
What if you lost your employees' salary or public money at the casino?
What if you are accidentally locked in your office late at night?
What if your dog has eaten important reports that you must submit to the director in the morning?
What to do if you get stuck in an elevator with director general your firm?
Accuracy
For a marksmanship competition, it is best to use a factory-made Darts game.
A simpler option is to throw markers or felt-tip pens (with an open cap) at a target drawn on a sheet of paper attached to the wall from a distance of 3-5. The most accurate participant gets a prize point.
The marker should be designed for drawing only on paper, then random traces of it can be easily washed off with alcohol.
Best Toast
The presenter informs the participants that, without a doubt, a real man should be able to drink correctly. However, the task of the competition is not to drink more than others, but to do it in the most graceful way.
After that, each participant receives a glass of a drink. Contestants take turns to toast and drink the contents of the glass. The one who completes the task best of all will receive a prize point.
Best compliment
Since a real man must be gallant and be able to find an approach to a woman's heart, in this competition, participants compete in giving compliments to the fair sex.
The one whose compliment is more pleasing to women than others, receives a prize point.
We all have ears
Players stand in a circle. The presenter says: "We each have hands." After that, each participant takes his neighbor on the right by the left hand and with the words "We each have hands" the players move in a circle until they make a full turn. After that, the presenter says: “Everyone has necks,” and the game is repeated, only now the participants are holding their right neighbor by the neck. Then the presenter lists the various parts of the body, and the players move in a circle, holding the named part of their neighbor on the right and shouting or humming: "Everyone has ..."
The listed body parts depend on the presenter's imagination and the degree of relaxedness of the players. For example, you can list arms (right and left separately), waist, neck, shoulder, ears (right and left separately), elbows, hair, nose, chest.
Ice dancing
Each pair of participants is given a newspaper. They should dance so that neither partner steps on the floor outside the newspaper. At each signal from the presenter, the newspaper is folded in half and the dance continues. Music changes all the time. If any of the partners left the newspaper during the dance, the couple is eliminated from the competition. The last pair remaining in the game wins a prize.
Auction "Cat in a poke"
In between dances, you can hold an auction in the dark. The presenter shows the participants the lots wrapped in wrapping paper so that it is not clear what is inside. To provoke the audience, the presenter in a comic form announces the purpose of this subject.
Real money is used in the auction, and the starting price of all lots is quite low. The highest bidder for the item buys it back.
Before being handed over to the new owner, the item is unwrapped to satisfy the curiosity of the public. It is advisable to alternate between funny and valuable lots to increase the excitement of the public.
Examples of lots and orders:
Without her, we will not be happy with any meal. (Salt)
Something sticky. (Lollipop candy or lollipop packed in a large box)
Small that can get big. (Balloon)
A subject necessary for a business person. (Notebook)
A subject for those who want to leave their mark. (Set of crayons)
Cold, green, long ... (Champagne bottle)
An integral attribute of civilized life. (Roll of toilet paper)
Short-lived joy. (Box of chocolates)
A simulator for those who want to learn how to put a good face on a bad game. (Lemon)
Gift from Africa. (Pineapple or coconut)
Bombers
The game requires two or three glass jars and metal money (it is advisable to prepare change in advance, not hoping that the participants will find it themselves).
Those wishing to take part in the competition are divided into two or three teams. Each team receives a glass jar and the same number of coins (at least three for each participant).
The presenter marks the start line, at a distance of 5 meters from which he places the cans. The task of the participants is to squeeze a coin between their thighs, walk to their can and, without using their hands, lower the coin into the can. The team that threw the most coins into the bank wins the prize.
Ball under the chin
Two teams are selected, which stand in two lines (in each alternation: man, woman) facing each other. The condition is that the players must keep the ball under their chin; during the pass, it is under no circumstances to touch the ball with their hands, while it is allowed to touch each other as they please, just not to drop the ball.
Dress lady
Each lady holds a ribbon twisted into a ball in her right hand. The man takes the tip of the ribbon with his lips and, without touching his hands, wraps the ribbon around the lady. The winner is the one with the best outfit, or the one who completes the task faster.
Resourceful guests
Several couples are invited. Each participant in the game is blindfolded. Then several clothespins cling to different parts of the clothes. At the signal from the leader, you need to remove all the clothespins from your partner or female partner. The couple who complete the task faster wins the competition.
Where to invest money?
The presenter calls two pairs (in each pair a man and a woman): “Now you will try to open a whole network of banks as soon as possible, investing only one bill in each. Get your initial fees! (Gives couples candy wrappers.) Pockets, lapels, and any nooks and crannies can serve as banks for your deposits. Try to register your deposits as quickly as possible, open as many banks as possible. Prepared, started! " The leader helps the couples to complete the task, after 1 minute the leader sums up the results. Host: “How many bills do you have left? And you? Fabulous! All the money is invested in the business! Well done! Now I will ask the women to switch places and withdraw the entire amount from their accounts as soon as possible. Open banks, withdraw money! Attention, let's start! " (Music sounds, women look for money from other people's partners).
feed me
Guests are divided in pairs. Each pair has a man and a woman. The task of each couple is to unroll and eat the candy given by the presenter with joint efforts without the help of hands. The couple who do it first wins.
Pass the card
Arrange the guests in a line "boy" - "girl" - "boy" - "girl". Give the first player in the line a regular playing card. The task is to transfer a card from one player to another, holding it in your mouth. Do not use your hands. You can complicate the task, and after each transfer, the presenter tears off a piece from the card. In this game, guests can be divided into teams and have a team competition.
Kisses
The presenter calls two men and two women into the game. How best to distribute pairs of players - according to gender or the opposite, you decide. Then, having blindfolded two participants, the presenter asks them questions, pointing to whoever he wants. “Tell me where are we going to kiss? Here?". And shows, for example, on the cheek (you can ears, lips, eyes, hands, etc.). The facilitator asks questions until the blindfolded participant says “Yes”. Then the presenter asks: “How many times? So many?". And he shows on his fingers - how many times, each time changing the combination, until the player says: "Yes." Well, and then, having untied the eyes of the participant, he is forced to do what he agreed to - for example, kiss the knee of a man eight times.
The game is a joke
There will be no winners or losers in this game, this game is a joke to amuse the guests. Two participants are invited to it - a man and a woman. The rules of the game are explained to the man - "now the lady will sit on this sofa and take sweet candy in her mouth, and your task is to find this candy blindfolded without using your hands and pick it up with your mouth too." The whole comic nature of the situation lies in the fact that as soon as the man is blindfolded, the man is laid on the sofa or couch instead of the promised lady. Believe me, how long your chosen gentleman will try to find candy from the "lady", so many guests will laugh heartily.
I love - I don’t love
The presenter asks all the guests sitting at the table to name what they like and what they dislike from the neighbor on the right. For example: "At my neighbor on the right, I love the ear and I do not like the shoulder." After everyone calls it, the host asks everyone to kiss what they like and bite what they don't like. A minute of stormy laughter is guaranteed to you.
With closed eyes
Putting on thick mittens, you need to determine by touch what kind of person is in front of you. Guys guess girls, girls guess guys. You can feel the whole person
Do not laugh
Players squat in a circle (female-male-female). Everyone is warned not to laugh (the leader can). The presenter “solemnly” takes his right-hand neighbor (neighbor) by the ear. Everyone else in the circle should do the same. When the circle is closed, the leader takes the neighbor on the right by the cheek (nose, knee ...), etc. Those who laughed leave the circle. The rest wins.
Circulation of matches
A company is formed at the rate of MZHMZHMZHMZH in a circle, take a match, cut off the tip with gray ... The first person takes the match with his lips and passes it in a circle from person to person until the circle passes. After that, the match is cut off (about 3 mm) and the process is repeated ... And so on until there is a piece of 1 mm in size.
Sweeties
It is desirable that an equal number of M and F participate, who sit in a circle according to the MZHMZ scheme ... A baby / doll / toy / etc. is taken .. Each of the players says in turn: “I kiss this baby there” and names the place, where to kiss him. You cannot repeat yourself. When it comes to the fact that someone cannot name a new place to kiss, everyone in turn fulfills their last request with a neighbor (neighbor). Taking some alcohol before (during) the game is only encouraged.
Colors
Players stand in a circle. The leader commands: "Touch yellow, one, two, three!" The players try to grab the thing (object, body part) of the other participants in the circle as quickly as possible. Those who do not have time are eliminated from the game. The leader repeats the command again, but with a new color (object). The last one wins.
Pin
Reminds of game 5 (With clothespins), but a little more outspoken ... (person for 4-8). Pins are taken (the number is arbitrary, usually approximately equal to the number of players), everyone except the presenter is blindfolded, then the presenter clings these pins to the participants (arbitrarily - you can do everything for one, you can at different ones) - then, naturally, the participants try to find them on each other ... Moreover, if a person knows that there is a pin on him (for example, he felt how it was attached to him), then he must be silent (you cannot look for pins on yourself). Since pins are often hidden behind the cuffs of the sleeves, on the backs of clothes, on the socks on the side of the soles, etc., usually the process of finding them is quite fun.
Erotic train
Part of the company remains outside the door, from where they are called one at a time in the "boy-girl" order. Everyone who comes in sees a picture: there is a column of people ("boy-girl"), depicting a train. The host announces: “This is an erotic train. Train departs". The column starts to move and, depicting the movement of the train, makes a circle around the room. The presenter says: "Stop (such and such)." The train stops. After that, the first carriage kisses the second, the second - the third, and so on until the end of the train. After that, the person entering is invited to take a seat at the end of the composition. Host: "The train is leaving!" Make a second circle around the room. Host: "Stop (such and such)." Then - as usual: the first car kisses the second, the second - the third. But, when it comes to the latter, unexpectedly the penultimate, instead of kissing, makes a grimace and screams at the latter. Not expecting such disappointment, the last carriage can only harbor a grudge against the newcomer.
Card
One playing card is required. Easily replaced with a calendar or any cardboard of a suitable size. Before starting the game, everyone is encouraged to learn how to hold the card in an upright position with their lips by drawing in air. Let me explain in more detail. Make your lips a "straw" like a kiss. Place the card to your lips, as if kissing its center. Now, sucking in air, release your hands, trying to hold the card so that it does not fall. After 3-5 minutes of exercise, almost anyone can hold the card for at least a couple of seconds. So, they sit in a circle in the order "boy-girl". And thus, alternately holding the card on both sides, pass in a circle. The accidental drop of the map causes special animation :). You can play for speed, for time, for departure. The last option seemed to be the most preferable.
Superfluous died
The game is based on the principle of a child's game “The extra one is out”. 5-6 of the guests are invited to participate in the competition. Large glasses (or glasses) are placed on the table, one less than the number of participants. The glasses are filled with vodka, cognac, wine (whatever you want). At the command of the facilitator (for example, clapping their hands), the participants begin to walk around the table. As soon as the presenter gives a prearranged signal (the same clap), the participants need to grab one of the glasses and immediately drink its contents. The one for whom the glass was not enough is eliminated. After that, one glass is removed from the table, the rest are filled, and the game continues in the same way as described above. The main thing is that the glass is always one less than the number of players. The game ends when one of the two remaining participants drinks the last glass. In the absence of a snack and enough roomy glasses, the finale looks indescribable, since it is usually difficult to call it walking around the table.
Pencil
Teams, in which men and women alternate (3-4 people), must pass from the first to the last a simple pencil, and it is transmitted sandwiched between the nose and upper lip of the players! Naturally, you cannot touch the pencil with your hands, but you can touch everything else with your hands. "Heartbreaking spectacle", especially if the people have already taken some alcohol.
Zoo
Game for senior children preschool age, but at parties goes with a bang. 7-8 people participate, each one chooses an animal for himself and shows the rest of the characteristic movement of this animal. This is how the "acquaintance" happens. After that, the presenter from the side selects the beginner to play. He must show himself and another “animal”, this “animal” shows himself and someone else, and so on until someone makes a mistake, i.e. will show another "animal" incorrectly or show a retired animal. The one who made the mistake is eliminated. The game ends when there are two left. "
Composition
The presenter distributes to everyone a blank sheet of paper and a pen (pencil, felt-tip pen, etc.). After that, the creation of essays begins. The moderator asks the first question: "Who?" The players write the answer to it in their sheets (the options may be different, who will come up with something). Then they fold the sheet in such a way that the inscription is not visible and pass the sheet to the neighbor on the right. The facilitator asks a second question, for example, "Where?" The players write an answer to it again and again fold the sheet in the above way, and again pass the sheet. This is repeated as many times as necessary until the presenter runs out of imagination for questions. The point of the game is that each player, answering the last question, does not see the results of the previous answers. After the end of the questions, the leaves are collected by the presenter, unfold, and the resulting compositions are read out. It turns out very funny stories, with the most unexpected characters (from all kinds of animals to close friends) and plot twists.
In bags around the tree
2 people compete. They get bagged and kicked. The top of the bags is held by hand. At the signal, they run around the tree in different directions. The one who comes running faster wins. The next pair continues the game.
Hockey
Santa Claus turns his back to the tree. This is the gate. Participants, 2 - 3 people, take sticks and try to score a goal against Santa Claus.
Bring the snowball in the spoon
2 players are involved. They are given a spoon with a cotton ball in their mouths. At a signal, they scatter in different directions around the tree. The winner is the one who comes running first and does not drop a snowball from a spoon.
Who will pick up more snowballs
They play in pairs. Cotton balls are scattered on the floor. Participants are blindfolded and given a basket. At the signal, they start collecting snowballs. The winner is the one with the most snowballs.
Felt boots
Large felt boots are placed in front of the tree. Two are playing. At a signal, they run around the tree from different sides. The winner is the one who runs the tree faster and puts on felt boots.
Give the snowman a nose
2 stands are placed in front of the tree; large sheets with the image of snowmen are attached to them. Two or more people participate. They are blindfolded. On a signal, they must reach the snowmen and put their noses on them (this could be a carrot). Others help with words: to the left, to the right, lower, higher ...
Catch the snowball
Several couples are involved. Participants stand opposite each other at a distance of approximately 4 meters. One has an empty bucket, the other has a bag with a certain number of "snowballs" (tennis or rubber balls). On signal 1, the participant throws snowballs, and the partner tries to catch them with a bucket. The pair that finishes the game first and scores the most "snowballs" wins.
The most sensitive
Only women participate in the competition. Participants face the audience. There is a chair behind each. The facilitator discreetly places a small object on each chair. On command, all the participants sit down and try to determine what kind of object is under them. Watching or using your hands is prohibited. The one who determines first wins.
Thick Cheeked Slap
Props: a bag of sucking sweets (like "Barberry"). 2 people are promoted from the company. They start taking turns taking candy from the bag (in the hands of the host), putting it in their mouth (it is not allowed to swallow), and after each candy they call their rival “fat-cheeked lip slap”)) magic phrase ", he will win. I must say that the game takes place under the cheery shouts and whooping of the audience, and the sounds made by the participants in the game delight the audience!
Participants with Christmas decorations go to the middle of the room (before that, you can hold a competition for the manufacture of this toy from improvised material). Everyone is blindfolded and each is twisted several times around its axis. Everyone's task is to go in the direction where, in his opinion, the tree is and hang a toy on it. You cannot collapse. If the participant chooses the wrong path, he is obliged to hang the toy on what he will “bury himself in”.
The winner is the one who hangs the toy on the tree and the one who finds the most original place for the toy (for example, the CEO's ear).
Frosty breath. A large enough snowflake cut out of paper is placed on the table in front of each participant. The task is to blow off your snowflake so that it falls from the opposite edge of the table. Held until everyone blows away their snowflakes. After the last snowflake has fallen, declare: “The winner was not the one who blew out his snowflake first, but the one who was the last to blow. his breath is so frosty that his snowflake is frozen to the table. "
Chief Accountant
Various banknotes are scattered on a large sheet of Whatman paper. They need to be counted quickly, and the account should be kept like this: one dollar, one ruble, one mark, two marks, two rubles, three marks, two dollars, etc. Whoever counts correctly, without getting lost, reaching the far banknote, is the winner.
Storyteller
The guests are reminded of the plots of famous Russian fairy tales and are invited to compose and tell new versions - in the genre of a detective story, a love story, a tragedy, etc. The winner will be determined by the guests with the help of applause.
Two oxen
A long rope is put on the participants of the competition like a team, and each of the two participants is trying to "pull" the opponent behind him, in his own direction. At the same time, everyone tries to reach the prize, which is located half a meter from each player.
Horror
The conditions are as follows - there are five eggs in a cassette. One of them is raw, the host warns. And the rest are boiled. It is necessary to break the egg on the forehead. Whoever gets it raw is the brave one. (But in fact, the eggs are all boiled, and the prize is just received by the last participant - he deliberately took the risk of becoming a universal laughing stock.)
Most attentive
2-3 people play. The presenter reads the text: “I’ll tell you a story in one and a half dozen phrases. As soon as I say the number three, take the prize immediately. Once we caught a pike, gutted, and inside the small fish we saw, and not one, but as many as seven. " “When you want to memorize poems, do not cram them until late at night. Take it and repeat it once or twice for the night, or better 10 ". “A hardened guy dreams of becoming an Olympic champion. Look, don't be cunning at the start, but wait for the command: one, two, march! " "Once the train at the station I had to wait 3 hours ..." (if they do not have time to take the prize, the host takes it). “Well, my friends, you didn’t take the prize when you had the opportunity to take it.”
Sea wolf
The game is played by two teams of two people. The presenter gives the task: “If there is a strong wind at sea, the sailors know one trick - they tie the ribbons of their peakless caps under the chin, thus fixing them tightly on their heads. One cap per team ”. Each player performs a command with one hand.
Diver
Players are encouraged to wear fins and look through binoculars with back side, go along the specified route.
Pass the hat
All participants stand in two circles - internal and external. One player has a hat on his head, it needs to be put in its own circle, there is one condition - to pass the hat from head to head without touching it with your hands. The winner is the team in which the player with number one will be in the cap again.
Break the pot
A pot is hung on the stake (you can put it on the ground or on the floor). The driver is blindfolded and given a stick. The task is to break the pot. To complicate the game, the driver can be "confused": before giving the stick, circle around you several times.
Cheerful monkeys
The presenter says the words: “We are funny monkeys, we play too loud. We clap our hands, we stamp our feet, inflate our cheeks, jump on our toes and even show our tongues to each other. Together we jump to the ceiling, bring our finger to the temple. Let's stick out the ears, the tail on the top of the head. We will open our mouths wider, we will make all grimaces. As I say number 3, all with grimaces - freeze. " The players repeat everything after the leader.
Baba Yaga
Relay game. A simple bucket is used as a stupa, a mop is used as a broom. The participant stands with one foot in the bucket, the other remains on the ground. He holds the bucket by the handle with one hand and the mop in the other. In this position, it is necessary to go the entire distance and pass the stupa and broom to the next.
Golden Key
The participants of the game will have to portray the swindlers from the fairy tale "The Golden Key". Two pairs are called. One in each pair is Alice the fox, the other is Basilio's cat. The one who is Fox, bends one leg at the knee and, holding it with his hand, together with the Cat, whose eyes are blindfolded, embrace, overcome a given distance. The couple who "limped" first gets a "golden key" - a prize.
Banks
Participants of the game are invited to look at a set of cans of various sizes and shapes from afar. You cannot pick them up. Each player has a piece of cardboard, from which they must cut the lids so that they exactly line up with the holes of the cans. The winner is the one with the most caps that match exactly with the holes of the cans.
Jelly
For this competition, prepare some delicate dish - for example, jelly. The task of the participants is to eat it as quickly as possible using matches or toothpicks.
Harvesting
The task of the players of each team is to transfer the oranges to a certain place as quickly as possible without using hands.
Discoverer
First, the participants of the competition are invited to “open” a new planet - to inflate balloons as quickly as possible, and then “populate” this planet with inhabitants: quickly draw figures of little people on the balloon with felt-tip pens. Whoever has more “inhabitants” on the planet is the winner!
Chefs
One participant from each team. We need people who cook well. For a certain time, it is necessary to draw up a festive menu, the names of the dishes in which begin with the letter "H". Then, one participant from the team will come to the table and announce their list in turn. Those who are the last to call the word will win.
Make your neighbor laugh
The leader is arbitrarily chosen. His task is to perform such an action with the neighbor on the right that one of those present would laugh. For example, the presenter takes his neighbor by the nose. Everyone else in the circle should do the same. When the circle is closed, the leader again takes the neighbor, now by the ear, knee, etc. Those who laughed leave the circle. The winner is the last competitor.
Broken phone
A simple but very fun game that has been known since childhood. One of the guests quickly and indistinctly, in a whisper, says a word to the neighbor on the right. He, in turn, whispers what he heard to his neighbor in the same manner - and so on in a circle. The last participant gets up and loudly pronounces the word passed to him, and the one who started the game says his own. Sometimes the result exceeds all expectations. A variant of this game is "Associations", that is, the neighbor does not repeat the word, but conveys an association with it, for example: winter is snow.
Table hurdle race
For the game, you will need cocktail tubes, tennis balls (in the absence of, you can crumple napkins) according to the number of participants in the race.
Preparation: on the table, the tracks are prepared according to the number of participants, that is, they put glasses and bottles of them in a row at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other. Players with a straw in their mouths and a ball are ready to start. At the signal from the leader, the participants must, blowing on the ball through the tube, lead it along the entire distance, bending around oncoming objects. The first player to finish is the winner. The task can be complicated by inviting guests to blow on the balloon with an enema or syringe.
The main thing is that the suit fits
To play, you need a large box or bag (opaque), in which various items of clothing are folded: size 56 panties, bonnets, size 10 bras, glasses with a nose, etc. funny things.
The presenter invites those present to update their wardrobe by taking something out of the box, with the condition not to take it off for the next half hour.
At the signal of the host, the guests pass the box to the music. As soon as the music has stopped, the player holding the box opens it and, without looking, takes out the first thing that comes across and puts it on. The view is amazing!
And in my pants ...
Before the game, blanks are made (clippings of newspaper headlines, and headlines can be very diverse. For example: "Down and feather", "Winner of the competition", etc.).
The cuttings are placed in an envelope and run in a circle. Whoever accepts the envelope says loudly: "And in my pants ...", then takes a clipping from the envelope and reads it out. The resulting answer options are sometimes very funny. The cleverer the clippings, the more fun the game is.
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