Jigsaw-A-Bottle To Spirit-ed Crosswords: Gift These 5 Liquor-Themed Puzzles
The holiday season means gathering for intimate dinners and parties to revel in the festive spirit. A game night organised for such occasions is a fun way to raise the roof. And to make matters interesting, you can turn party games into spirit-themed activities, each curated to cater to the connoisseur and mixology enthusiast in you!
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Design games like a simple word search or a jigsaw puzzle that reveals a spirit bottle and have your winners take home a bottle of the liquor paired with each game as a delectable return gift! You can think of clues that come together in a crossword to reveal a particular spirit, where the fastest to the finish wins the ultimate prize. These DIY games can also work as utterly creative and personalised gifts catering to the interests of the mixologist friends you design them for! Read on to know more about some spirit-themed games for your next party.
Bottle-d Word Search
A game enjoyed across age groups, word search is a classic! Create an alphabet board filled with favoured liquors or cocktails for a spirited challenge of word search at your next game night. It’s super fun and easy to make this game at home, all you have to do is fix a theme and intersperse random alphabets with words like martini, Cuba Libre, negroni and so many more!
Pair the game with a bottle of Smirnoff Triple Distilled Vodka as a prize for the winner!
Jigsaw-a-Bottle
Like you would with any DIY puzzle, find a medium to large-sized image of a spirit bottle and paste it on a thick cardboard. Cut the board into puzzle pieces that can be joined to make the picture of the bottle. You can choose to make the jigsaw more complex by cutting tinier pieces for gifting it to a friend fond of puzzles and a good scotch.
Pair this jigsaw with a bottle of Antiquity Blue placed in a tote bag as a festive gift.
Spirit-ed Crosswords
For the wordsmiths at a party, a spirited crossword race is just the thing! It is quite simple to make a crossword, all you have to do is design words and clues related to your favourite liquors. You can play around a bit with the clues to include some information about the histories, origins and quirky facts about alcohols to guess the spirit. Another way to make the game interesting is to up the difficulty level across cascading rounds in a fastest to the finish battle.
Pair with a Johnnie Walker Black Label for a winner takes all, high stakes, timed crossword puzzle challenge.
Bottle-d Riddles
Akin to a trivia night, turn your next party into an utter riot with a series of riddles designed to guess varied spirits, cocktails and their origin stories. You can create a bunch of flashcards and play quiz master in a lively game of decoding the riddle.
Pair with a bottle of Godawan reserved for the cleverest mixologist and connoisseur among the crowd.
Liquor Boggle
Recreate this game from your childhood and curate a liquor-themed word boggle contest. You require minimal materials for this one, just a couple of sets of cubes of letters would suffice. These can be rearranged according to relevant clues to make words that spell a cocktail, spirit or places of origin and producers of premium liquor.
Pair with a bottle of J & B Rare Blended Scotch Whisky for the winner to take home.
Concluding thoughts…
Host a liquor-themed game night or work on a DIY puzzle to present it as a superb gift this season and celebrate your love for premium spirits. Gather friends and family and revel in the festive spirit by solving riddles or making jigsaw puzzles together!
