The perfect party game to break the ice, get people talking and make new friends.

Designed for groups of 3 to 6 players aged 5 and up, Garden Party is a fast-paced, engaging game — ideal for family fun, but also great for classroom use in educational and inclusive group activities.

During the game, each player takes turns being the “guest of honour” and receives imaginary presents from their friends. But there’s a twist: the others must guess which of the six gift options the guest of honour would like most! Winning takes empathy, observation, and a dash of intuition.

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The box contents

1 game board

6 pawns

6 Player tiles

6 Position cards

6 Preference cards

36 Gift Choice cards

100 Gift cards

1 Scoring card

2 Friendship cards

TEACHING OBJECTIVES

• Attention 1/5
• Memory 1/5
• Planning 1/5
• Emotion management 3/5
• Social skills 4/5
• Visual-spatial skills 2/5
• Communication 3/5
• Motor skills 1/5
• Reading 2/5
• Calculation 1/5

How to play

In each round, one player takes on the role of the “birthday guest”. The others must guess which of the six gifts displayed on the table would be their favourite. Each player secretly selects the card corresponding to the gift they think the guest would like most. The birthday guest, meanwhile, assigns a “Preference” card to each gift – Love it, Like it, Indifferent, or Don’t like it – and then reveals their choices. Players earn points based on how closely their guesses match the guest’s preferences (using either the basic or advanced scoring system).

Play then passes to a new birthday guest, and the game ends when everyone has celebrated once or twice. The winner is the player with the highest total score. In the advanced mode, the Friendship cards can be used to add bonuses and penalties depending on how well players know the birthday guest.

Leaf through some selected pages from the instruction book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

The Author

Gabriele Mari, educator for the Cooperativa Sociale La Pieve with twenty years of experience in the field of youth disability and autism, is also a game designer and developer for the gaming production company Sir Chester Cobblepot. For years he has been using structured play in his daily educational practice, proposing himself as a playful educator in multiple contexts (disability, school, prison). Together with Gianluca Daffi he is one of the teachers of the Erickson Game Trainer course.