Yawn until you make some one else yawn.
Push your friend's head through a ring. (Put your finger through a ring and push your friend's head with the tip.)
Place a straw on the floor so that you can't jump over it. (Very close to the wall.)
Put a chair on a table, take off your shoes and jump over them. (Over your shoes.)
Leave the room with two legs and come in with six. (Bring in a chair.)
Repeat five times without mistake, "A rat ran over the roof of the house with a lump of raw liver in his mouth."
Repeat ten times rapidly, "Troy boat."
Ask a question to which "no" cannot be answered. (What does y-e-s spell?)
Shake a dime off your forehead. (The coin is wet and some one presses it firmly to the forehead of the one to pay the forfeit, who must keep his eyes closed. The dime is taken away, but the forfeit player still feels it there and tries to shake it off.)
Repeat a verse of poetry, counting the words aloud. Mary (one) had (two) a (three) little (four) lamb (five).
Dance in one corner, cry in another, sing in another, and fall dead in the fourth.
Two forfeits may be redeemed at once by blindfolding two players, handing them each a glass of water, and bidding them give the other a drink. This, however, can be a very damp business.
The old way of getting rid of a large number of forfeits was to tell their owners to hold a cats' concert, in which each sings a different song at the same time. Perhaps it would be less noisy and more interesting if they were told to personate a farm-yard.
Auctioning Prizes
A novel way of awarding prizes is to auction them. Each guest on arrival is given a small bag instead of a tally card. These bags are used to hold beans, five of which are given to all the players that progress at the end of each game. After the playing stops the prizes are auctioned. Of course the person who has the greatest number of beans can buy the best prizes; so that besides making a great deal of fun, the distribution is entirely fair.