An alternative game for hugs from Bunco or Werewolf. My Grandmother & her sisters would play this game all the time at baby showers and at home —-it’s a parlor game from the 1920’s so has many different rules to play like bunch. I’m telling you two different ways. There are many ways to play one of my friends her aunt learned it from her Quaker ancestors called it House of Fire, they played in silence.
Here are the rules to House of Fire
“So this is the paper we hang up when playing.
Tables of 4-
Person across from you is your partner.
Work to get one-1 one -2 etc… double 6’s you burn down. First team to get to the 6th 6 wins and shouts “house of fire”
We play opposite hand roll-
Quaker rule – where you burn down if you make a peep.
You start as Roll one-123456 done
Backwards- starting with 6-sixes..
-Make a head table and losers table and when you win at your table you advance up to the next table.
Double punch the cards for the people who got “house of fire” and one punch the cards for the couple ahead (closest to winning) at each table. The losers stay at the table while the ones ahead move up to next table, and change partners. (At winners table you keep the same partner)
We usually play to like 20 punches.”
My ancestors were German- American sisters whole lot of them that were so loud you could hear them screams and giggling for miles. Definitely not the Quaker style.
Burning down the House is a quick game with few things just paper, pencils and a set of 2 – six sided dice. Hopefully it bring loud laughter and screams you can hear from miles around like it did in my childhood.