A Fun Game for Teens to Play When You're Stuck Inside on a Rainy Day

Trivia Games

• Play pop culture trivia games with the teens, challenging their knowledge of current music, movies and sports trends. Divide the teens into two teams for a feud-style trivia game. Flip a coin to determine which team will go first. You could ask questions relating to a popular teen singer, the current NBA championship team, or a scene from a popular teen movie. If a team gets a question correct, they get a point and can answer another question. If they don't, the other team has a chance to answer correctly and they can steal the point. The team with the most points wins. You can also play a dating game-style trivia game, putting the teens in pairs to test how well they know each other. They must each write down questions about their partner and themselves separately. Everyone then comes together and the host compares answers. The pair with the most answers that are the same wins.

Guessing Games

• Make a typical Pictionary game more challenging by giving each person a partner. First divide the teens into two teams with even numbers, then give them a partner within their team. Each pair will have one minute to get their team to guess the words they are drawing, but they must switch who is drawing every 10 seconds. With two different ideas on how to draw the word, it winds up being harder -- and funnier -- to figure out.

  For another game, write down a bunch of nouns on slips of paper and place them in a bowl. Assign the teens a partner and have everyone sit in a circle opposite from their partner. When the game starts, set a timer for one minute. The first teen holding the bowl picks a slip of paper and tries to get her partner to guess the word as quickly as possible. When she does, she passes the bowl to the next person. The team holding the bowl when the timer goes off is out.

Goofy Competitions

• Challenge the teens to a bunch of silly competitions that are sure to give everyone a good laugh. Give each teen a bunch of toothpicks and marshmallows to see who can build the tallest marshmallow structure the fastest. The structure must be able to stand for 10 seconds without falling. Or, divide the teens into two teams and challenge them to teach a parent or adult a popular dance move. The teams have 20 minutes to teach their adult to do the dance as best they can, then the parents must show off what they've learned. Have younger siblings or others in the house who are not participating act as judges to determine which adult learned the dance the best.

Hide and Seek Twists

• Teens might think they are too old to play games like hide and seek, but it can be cool again with added twists and challenges. Have the teens play hide and seek in the dark. The teens can use the entire house to make it difficult. The teen who is "it" can use a flashlight. You can also play a version where teens can try to make it from their hiding space to a base, like the living room couch, without getting tagged.

  Another version to try is ghosts in the graveyard, also played in the dark. One person is the ghost and hides while everyone else hunts for him. If the ghost can sneak up on someone and tag him, that person also becomes a ghost. The teens have to keep their wits about them and be ready to tag anyone they see, as that person could also be a ghost. If someone is able to grab a ghost first, he is captured and out for that round. The original ghost wins if he is able to turn everyone else into ghosts without getting tagged.