Party! Chaiya ChaiYEAH!

The team, Jazz and Awol, and I have recently been called upon to create a party game revolving around the a certain scene in the Bollywood movie, Dil Se. the scene is more commonly know the Chaiya Chaiya scene.
The scene involves a man and a woman singing to each other all the while they and just about everyone else with them is dancing on top of a moving train as it travels through the country of india. We discussed what made a game a party game and came to a conclusion that a good party game involved the possibility of a lot of players, a lot of interaction, and quick pacing. We then discuss how best to to incorporate the the elements provided by the the chaiya chaiya scene and incorporate them successfully into our definition of a good party game.

Initially, we came up with the idea that players would perform for the other players, either dance or sing or whatnot. But the goal was to perform badly, so badly that the other players would throw tokens at the performing player to make them stop and that the person with the most tokens at the end of the game wins.

But this idea didn't sit too well with me. I like the idea of players performing silly things for others but i don't like how the focus is on bad performance and how much of it players can take. Performing badly in front of others may be a little embarrassing, annoying, even a little amusing but I doubt it is enough to FORCE players to give you their tokens. So the performing player must keep performing worse and worse until they cross the line and resort to screaming and even invading the personal space of players just to make them flinch . This not ok for a party especially if its between complete strangers. So ultimately we scrapped that idea.

Our second idea more closely adheres to the elements of chaiya chaiya by having the game revolve around dancing. All the players must dance to the chaiya chaiya song according to cards drawn by ta dealer. every turn the dealer draws a card  and the dance becomes longer by one dance move, which is depicted on the cards. When players make mistakes they are out of the game and join the dealer in keeping an eye on the other players making sure they they get kicked out of the game when they make a mistake. So the game revolves around players dancing this silly random dance. We liked it and decided to go with it.

We decided to go with a deck of cards as oppose to a spinner because with a deck of cards it is easy to keep track of which moves are to be performed next where a spinner requires an outside material to keep track of its outcomes. The split the concentration of the players as they not only have to memorize the dance moves but also keep track of the beat of the song as well as keep an eye on the other players just in case they can call them on losing. This makes players prone to making mistakes, and it only gets harder as the dance gets longer and longer with every turn.

We had a hard time coming up with what to call our game. The title still had to tie into chaiya chaiya yet be different enough not to have exactly "chaiya chaiya" in it. The one of our friends suggested the name "Chaiya ChaiYEAH!" and it just stuck.

Game Set:

-          Dance move card deck

-          Chaiya chaiya music CD

-          Cd player and speakers (not included)

Game Rules:

1.  Place CD in CD player
2.   The group of players decides who of the group will become the dealer
3.    The dealer shuffles the card deck and places it face down in front of him/her
4.     The rest of the players line up side by side, at arm’s length away from each other, in a semicircle in front of the dealer.
5.     The dealer then draws a card and places it face up in front of him/her
6.     The dealer then demonstrates the dance move depicted on the card in front of the other players
7.      The dealer then starts the music from the beginning
8.     The players start to dance on the 4^th beat after the beats begin in the song
9.      The players then dance the move on the card while keeping to the beat of the music
10.   When the move has been performed the turn is over
11.    Repeat from step 5

Additional Rules

•        All proceeding cards after the first card is placed to the right of the previous card drawn
•        The players must perform all the moves in the face up cards in the right order
•        The players must keep to the beat of song while dancing
•        If a player does not keep to the beat they are out of the game
•        If a player does not perform the dance moves correctly, they are out of the game
•        The job of the dealer is not only to draw cards and demonstrate the dance moves but to also watch the other players and kicking them out of the game should they not follow the beat or perform incorrectly
•        A player wins when they are the last player standing