Pop Insider Senior Editor Maddie Michalik joined NBC in Indianapolis to show off some of the holiday season’s best party games. For more on the products featured in this segment, check out the product notes below. For the holiday season’s geekiest gifts, be sure to check out Pop Insider’s Holiday Gift Guide.

M.A.S.H.

MASH, the game you used to scribble in your notebook, is back and “adultified”! Pick a player to have their fortune told. They choose a random future scenario and read aloud. Categories such as people, places, vices, etc., will be given and presented by all players. Then, you’ll draw a spiral and count the lines…

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.99

NEW PHONE, WHO DIS?

This is the 100% offline text message party game where players compete to create the funniest text message thread. Players rotate drawing a sent (or “inbox”) card while the rest of the group competes to play the funniest reply card. Once everyone in the group has played their chosen reply card, the judge decides which…

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.99

A GAME OF CAT & MOUTH

A Game of Cat & Mouth is all about fast-flinging and quick-thinking with a touch of precision. Rules are simple: use the kitty paw flickers to fling balls to the opponent’s other side. To win, either hit all eight balls over, knock out the three cat “teeth,” or pop out the single nose ball. Best…

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  • MSRP:
  • $24.99

MTV, THE THROWBACK MUSIC PARTY GAME

I want my MTV! This head-to-head game challenges players to name song titles and guess artists from every era of MTV.

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  • MSRP:
  • $19.99

PRESSMAN UNSOLVED CASE FILES: HARMONY ASHCROFT GAME

Be a real detective as you find clues and evidence in the case file to solve three objectives that lead you to convict the killer! Specially-designed online answer keys check whether you have found the correct evidence to solve each objective. Includes realistic themed elements, including newspaper clippings, crime scene photographs, and much more! Unique…

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  • MSRP:
  • $24.99

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Bill Reese

Bill Reese

Bill Reese is Business Operations Manager at Adventure Media & Events, where he's worked since 2014. A former editor at Playbill and graduate of SUNY–Purchase, he spends most weekends rooting for the New York Red Bulls pro soccer team and making subway systems out of Brio trains with his little boy Jonah.

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