For the party you decided to have this afternoon. Nothing here needs printing, buying or preparing, and every one can be explained in two sentences.
These are also the ones to keep in reserve. A planned game can fall flat; a game that needs nothing can be started in the ten seconds after it does.
Call a color, everyone runs to find something that color and brings it back.
Nothing
No winner. Clap for the pile at the end — at this age that is enough.
Name an animal, everyone moves like it. Ends with everyone flat on the floor as a sleeping cat.
Nothing
Nobody wins. Use it to calm a room before food.
A bedsheet, everyone holding the edge. Waves, mushroom, and swap-places-underneath.
A large bedsheet
Finish with the mushroom. It always gets a cheer.
Dance while the music plays, freeze when it stops. Anyone who moves does a silly penalty, not an elimination.
Music and something to pause it with
Stop while they still want more. Final round in slow motion.
Twenty impossible choices. Everyone picks a side of the room and defends it.
A list of twenty prompts
No winner. Best used in the first twenty minutes while people are still arriving.
Three claims each, the group votes on which is invented.
Nothing
A point for fooling the group. Best for a room where people do not all know each other.
One secret winker sends players out of the game with a wink; one detective gets three guesses.
Nothing
Detective wins by catching the winker; the winker wins by clearing the circle.
Ten fingers up. Put one down for each thing you have done. Keep it clean or do not, your party.
Nothing, though a prompt list helps
Last with a finger up has lived the most sheltered life. Or the most careful.
A story around the table, one word each. It falls apart, which is the point.
Nothing
It collapses into nonsense in about four minutes. Start another.
Pairs find two things they share that are not about work. Then pairs merge into fours.
Nothing
Each group of eight reports their one thing. No prize.
Partners agree on a secret signal. Collect four of a kind, give the signal, and your partner calls "Kemps" before the other pair catches on.
A deck of cards
The first pair to five points wins. Swap partners and the signals start again.
Play cards face down and say what they are. Lie when you have to. Get caught and you pick up the whole pile.
A deck of cards, two for more than six players
The first player with no cards left wins.
Shed your cards first and you are President next deal. Come last and you hand over your best cards and deal.
A deck of cards, two for more than seven players
Play to an agreed time. Whoever is President when it ends wins, and the President picks the seats all night.
Turn cards onto a pile in turn and slap it when two match. The first hand down takes the pile, so children beat adults.
A deck of cards
Whoever wins the whole deck wins. Or play for fifteen minutes and count the cards.
For the party you decided to have this afternoon. Nothing here needs printing, buying or preparing, and every one can be explained in two sentences.
These are also the ones to keep in reserve. A planned game can fall flat; a game that needs nothing can be started in the ten seconds after it does.
Call a color, everyone runs to find something that color and brings it back.
Nothing
No winner. Clap for the pile at the end — at this age that is enough.
Name an animal, everyone moves like it. Ends with everyone flat on the floor as a sleeping cat.
Nothing
Nobody wins. Use it to calm a room before food.
A bedsheet, everyone holding the edge. Waves, mushroom, and swap-places-underneath.
A large bedsheet
Finish with the mushroom. It always gets a cheer.
Dance while the music plays, freeze when it stops. Anyone who moves does a silly penalty, not an elimination.
Music and something to pause it with
Stop while they still want more. Final round in slow motion.
Twenty impossible choices. Everyone picks a side of the room and defends it.
A list of twenty prompts
No winner. Best used in the first twenty minutes while people are still arriving.
Three claims each, the group votes on which is invented.
Nothing
A point for fooling the group. Best for a room where people do not all know each other.
One secret winker sends players out of the game with a wink; one detective gets three guesses.
Nothing
Detective wins by catching the winker; the winker wins by clearing the circle.
Ten fingers up. Put one down for each thing you have done. Keep it clean or do not, your party.
Nothing, though a prompt list helps
Last with a finger up has lived the most sheltered life. Or the most careful.
A story around the table, one word each. It falls apart, which is the point.
Nothing
It collapses into nonsense in about four minutes. Start another.
Pairs find two things they share that are not about work. Then pairs merge into fours.
Nothing
Each group of eight reports their one thing. No prize.
Partners agree on a secret signal. Collect four of a kind, give the signal, and your partner calls "Kemps" before the other pair catches on.
A deck of cards
The first pair to five points wins. Swap partners and the signals start again.
Play cards face down and say what they are. Lie when you have to. Get caught and you pick up the whole pile.
A deck of cards, two for more than six players
The first player with no cards left wins.
Shed your cards first and you are President next deal. Come last and you hand over your best cards and deal.
A deck of cards, two for more than seven players
Play to an agreed time. Whoever is President when it ends wins, and the President picks the seats all night.
Turn cards onto a pile in turn and slap it when two match. The first hand down takes the pile, so children beat adults.
A deck of cards
Whoever wins the whole deck wins. Or play for fifteen minutes and count the cards.
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Tell it about your party once. The invitations, the menu, the printed kit, the shopping list and the games build themselves from your answers — so the time goes into the gathering, not the planning.
Say what the party is, when, for how many and for whom. The invitation, welcome sign, menu, banner, toppers, food cards and thank-you tags are made in one design with your words already on them. Type a name here and it is set on every sign below in that design’s own lettering. Nothing typed is kept or sent anywhere.
In an increasingly digital world, the planning should be the easy part. One plan builds every piece, and the evening goes to the people in the room.
Change the headcount and every quantity follows — the same figures the planner prints.
Pick your occasion and the planner opens with it already chosen.
Prop a laptop on the table and the screen runs the game: one person taps, everyone else shouts. Or deal the cards, with the rules right there on the page. Nothing to install.
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The same planner, invitations, kit and games on your phone, with your events kept in sync.
Free, all of it — the theme, the menu with quantities, the guest list, the budget, the shopping list, the checklist. What costs money is the printed kit, once.
Open a pack for your occasion on any screen. No account, nothing to install. Add the names at the table and it is personal before the first round.
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It reads out the rules, keeps the score and runs the clock, so whoever is hosting gets to play too. Open this page on the laptop or the TV and press Play.
Every game the TV hosts needs at least three players, so a night for two is played at the table. The best of it is just below.
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Card games, dice games and the ones that need nothing but a pen, each quick to learn and hard to stop playing. The rules are on every card.
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Nothing in the colour library answers to that. Try the city with its sport, or the country.
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Saved on this device only. Nothing you type here is uploaded, and it stays put if you close the tab.
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Written to answer the question, not to rank for it. Every figure in them comes from the same engines the planner runs.
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A hub goes live when it has pages worth ranking. Publishing an empty shell to hold the keyword is how a site earns a thin-content problem.
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For the events that go away — costed per head for a long weekend, with the months worth going. Pick a place and the planner starts with the trip already known.
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Each one answers in a single screen, prints as a list you can take to the shop, and uses the same arithmetic as the planner — so the number does not change if you carry on there.
Every answer below is worked for this many, and each calculator opens on it.
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Somebody has to work out how much chicken feeds thirty, whether the sprouts and the potatoes can share an oven, what a fourteen-year-old will find embarrassing, and which of the eleven things on the list has to happen before the invitations go out.
None of that is the fun part, and all of it is knowable. That is the whole idea behind Kit & Occasion: the answers exist, they are just spread across forty browser tabs and the memory of whoever hosted last year.
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The planning is free. All of it — the menus, the quantities, the guest list, the budget, the shopping list, the games, the checklist. Not a trial, and not capped at one event.
What costs money is the printing: a coordinated set of signs, labels, table cards and game materials in your own colours, sized correctly, with the paper worked out and the assembly written down. It is the gap between having a plan and having a party, and it is the part people dread. One payment, no subscription.
The welcome sign, the menu, the place cards, the labels and the games, on six of the tables it has been set for. Pick one and the planner opens knowing what you are planning.
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