Segues

A creative game from Equinox 73

Segues by Dean Howard (Shrdlu)

Teams work together to find connections between apparently unrelated things.

Dyal N for Mudder

 A paper-and-pencil puzzle by Dean Howard (Shrdlu): Dyal N for Mudder.

Leif the Viking and Leaf the Vegan

Leif the Viking and Leaf the Vegan, a paper-pencil puzzle from Equinox 65, by Dean Howard (Shrdlu)

Film or Fillmore

A paper-pencil puzzle from Equinox 35, updated as a wall game for Equinox 60:
Film or Fillmore by Dean Howard (Shrdlu)

Green Energy

A pencil-and-paper game from Equinox 54, Green Energy, by Dean Howard (Shrdlu).

Rules
Sample game
Self-scoring Excel spreadsheet

Mitosis

A wall game from Equinox 46: Mitosis (pdf), by Dean Howard (Shrdlu).

The Digital Traveler's Guide to the Universes

Megagame by Dean Howard (Shrdlu), from Equinox 42: The Digital Traveler's Guide to the Universes

Introduction (html)

Puzzles (pdf)

pages 4 and 5 of the puzzles properly formatted onto one page as they should be (pdf)

Thanks to Darren Rigby (Dart) for the One-Eighty font used in the "Star Search" puzzle.

Acronym-agination

A fictionary variation by Dean Howard (Shrdlu), from Equinox 26. 

Find interesting, unknown acronyms, and pass them out on slips of paper so each person has one. Play in groups of perhaps eight. Each player reads his or her acronym to the group, and everyone tries to come up with a plausible (or funny) expansion. (For example in one group, one of the acronyms was NFPI, which was interpreted by a player to be National Foundation for the Prevention of Infanticide, but was actually National Frozen Pizza Institute.)

Then, as in fictionary, everyone tries to guess the real expansion. If points are to be scored, each person gets one point for a correct guess, and one point for each person who guessed the phony expansion they contributed. 

Lie-brary

A fictionary variation from Equinox 4, by Dan Asimov.

Named by Dean Howard (Shrdlu).

Each player brings a non-famous book to the party. People sit in groups of perhaps eight. For each book, players see the cover, and write a possible first sentence. The person who brought the book copies the actual first sentence. People vote for the one they believe is the actual first sentence. As in fictionary, some people sacrifice plausibility for humor. Points are scored as in fictionary.

Barbara Selfridge (Banterweight) brought a bunch of Harlequin romances to Equinox 25, for a reprise of this game.