Your games don't even have to be music related. Stuff we've done in the past very successfully.
HulaHoop contest - yes you'd be surprised how many actually want to do it & WHO!
Money Pit - The bar ponies up $100 - one dollar bills. Everyone in the bar gets a raffle ticket. Draw 3 numbers. These 3 people come up to the dance floor (or open area of floor). Put garden gloves & blindfolds on them. Spread the dollars all over the floor. They get 1 minute to pick up what they can - what they have is theirs.
Wind up toy races. Yes those little hopping wind up toys. Floor needs to be a hard type, not carpeted. Get 3 people to race their toy from the starting line to finish line. This one is hilarious watching big guys trying to maneuver these little things.
Let's Make A Deal. Bar should help with prizes. Have a few boxes on a table with a prizes, 1 decent one & a couple not so. Call out obscure items - may need to start with something more common at first, if you do it awhile people will actually start bringing in boxes of stuff, wierdest thing I called before - shower head spiget & someone brought it to me. They get to choose a box then they get the option to trade that box for an envelope in my hand which could contain money, gift certificate or a gag gift.
Radio control car races through the bar. Go through a certain course in a specified time.
Walla Balla - this was a game you just needed to see in action. http://www.primetimeinteractive.com/bag_of_fun.htm Don't look like they are manufactured anymore, but it was a riot.
Karaoke Bingo - Create your own cards with music, song titles, artists, bar staff, etc... Call 1 every 15 minutes. First one with a straight line bingo wins the cash pot - if no one wins by the end of the night, the pot would doube the next week. THis one is good as it keeps people in the bar all night - nonsingers alike.
Karaoke auction - bar would have prizes. Every song sung, we would give a certain denomination of money - yes play money - the more you sang, the more you earned. Halfway through the night we would do an auction for a couple prizes or you could save up & try for bigger prizes later in the night. This one keeps the singers in the bar all night.
Mystery Song - Pick 1 song in the book. Pot would start at $10. If anyone sang the song, they win the pot, if not the pot grows next week. Catch is if they believe that they have the correct song, they MUST finish the entire song - know it or not. It don't have to be good, just has to be done!
Mystery song w/clues - Pick one song in the book. Pot would start at $10. If anyone sings the song they win the pot. We would give a clue every week pertaining to the song either directly or indirectly. Biggest pot we had was $250 with the house filling up each week.
Wheel Of Fortune. We made a wheel with 20 wedges. Stuff like, free song turn, $ off drink, TINY slice for a cash pot, NADA, pick suicide for next singer, someone picks their next song, etc...
Other games we did, darts, nerf basketball, golf game with a putting thing we found, some dumb rotating hat game, Name That Tune, identify the songs (would have a series of about 10 music clips all lined up after another in a wav file that I would play), music triva game, I even had an old disc of like 100 cartoon theme songs, we would play it in between songs & the first one that got it would get a prize (trinket prize, but hey, it was free to them LOL ) and a few others that I can't think of right off hand. And yes these were all done successfully (I know someone won't believe it), but like anything, they do get bored after a while, some of these we ran for almost a year, but most ran for a few months.
|
!) and just generally having fun!!!
:O :shock: