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terminalskeptik
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 		Party Ideas Needed
I am having a creative dry spell this week so I am looking for advise. A friend of mine is getting married in a couple of weeks. This Sunday we want to have a party for him with the guys while the girls do the 'shower' thing. We definitely want to keep it G rated, no strippers or alcohol. My friend is also a fan of ARGs, although he doesn't post here.
Anyone have any great ideas for a party that he will remember?
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oliverkeers13
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 		Don't tell him what you're going to do. Kidnapp his wife, take her somewhere. Send him an AIM from his wife, asking to be saved. Set a series of fiendish puzzles, if he fails, keep his wife until after the wedding. ARG themed Stag-Do's are so the next big thing.
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terminalskeptik
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 		We thought about that, except she will be at the girls shower, that is why we need to keep him away for the night.
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oliverkeers13
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 		In that case, do the best man, or something vital for the wedding like the dress.
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 		Here's a totally Non-ARG idea, that is absolutely HILARIOUS...

We did this for my brother's bachelor party.

Anyway, you get your friend to do whatever you're doing for most of the night... about an hour in, you tell him he's gotta wear this blindfold (produce blindfold), and he's gotta sit in this chair (place chair behind the soon-to-be-married sap), and then, when he's there, you tell him that you know he didn't want one, but you did, in fact, get a stripper for the party.

(He will protest, and you have to assure him that everything is ok with the soon to be wifey, or whatever you need to get him to stay shut up and sitting in the chair. What worked for ours, was that we told him that "well, you know, the bachelor party is REALLY for the other guys who attend, not for you, so just sit back and shut up... you're not seeing anything anyway. Smile)

Then, you proceed to have the best man (who has been ready because you gave him the secret signal before you went up to the almost-newlywed, right?) come over from his hiding spot, where he has stripped down to boxers (or whatever you can convince him is funny), and begins to gyrate (safely, kids) upon your unsuspecting sucker, I mean friend.

Eventually, one of two things is going to happen:

1) He will lift the blindfold
OR
2) He will try to touch the "stripper"

Either way, it's really funny, and the groom-to-be is not unhappy, as he held fast to his morals, even though he thought he didn't! SO, I know that's really complicated sounding, and perhaps it's only the kind of humor that me an my friends and family find funny, but, I guarantee that someone will laugh. Or at least throw up. Or something. YMMV.
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RobMagus
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 		Go on a madcap adventure.

No, wait!

LAN PARTY!
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MageSteff
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oliverkeers13 wrote:
In that case, do the best man, or something vital for the wedding like the dress.


No - the groom isn't supposed to see the dress....

Now the rings or the honeymoon airline tickets, those should be doable...

Puzzle trail for a couple of hours - start with an e-mail - code the e-mails for something like "be at such and such pay phone at xyz time"

the call at pay phone something that leads him to check the classifieds in the day's newspaper (personals section) solve another puzzle and that takes you ...

Or do a movable feast thing, have appetizers at one person's house, soup & salad at a second person's house, main entree at a third, movie at a fourth, dessert at a fifth... at each house is a puzzle that has to be solved before you can move on to the next house (after food consumed/movie watched). Have as many courses as you want/need to use up the time, and vary the complexity of the puzzles (ask for help there are several people who are good with puzzles around here) and not only do the non-ARG people get a taste of what an ARG is like, but it keeps things on the G/PG rating level if you have minors present.
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urthstripe
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 		Re: interesting
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RobMagus wrote:
LAN PARTY!


I second that.
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