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Got your attention, did I? Well, I’ve never played it (my parents were missionaries, remember?). I really wish I’d had a less staid upbringing, because I think Strip Poker would be fun (and don’t suggest doing it with Hubby, because he hates playing cards). In fact, the sexiest game I ever played was Spin the Bottle (once), and Truth or Dare in a mixed group (once).
Maybe that’s why I enjoy writing sexy games in fiction. I wrote a Strip Whist scene in One Night with a Prince (they didn’t play poker in the Regency). I wrote a naughty billiards scene in A Dangerous Love. I even wrote a sexy chess scene in After the Abduction, a reissue that coincidentally came out yesterday. And I chose those three because, well, I like to play cards and pool and chess. So why not make them sexy?
Those books were a while ago, though, so I think I need to do another of those sexy game scenes. What do you think would make a sexy scene involving a game in a historical (let’s keep it as clean as possible, though–save something for the book)? What’s your favorite sensual scene in a book (of any romance sub genre), involving a game? Do you play sexy games? Do you like to read them in books?
In celebration of my latest release, I’m offering an autographed copy of the reissue of After the Abduction to one lucky commenter!
Strip Whist anyone. I’m not even sure how Whist is played, but they tend to play it at all the Regency ‘dos’.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:02 am.
They sure do!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:20 am.
A sexy scene could involve the heroine removing her slipper and running her foot up the leg of the hero while playing backgammon. I could get into that. I quite liked the scene in After the Abduction with the sexy billiards. The one sexy game I played and enjoyed was a game called Sexual Trivia. In this game you are tested on facts about sex and you could end up being tied up (a miss a turn) or being sent to sexual education classes. The goal is to get ten simultaneous orgasms and it is quite a fun and interesting game.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:22 am.
I’ve seen that game, Kelly! Some of my friends tell me it’s pretty fun. Haven’t tried it yet, though.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:21 am.
No sexy games for me. I don’t like to lose… my body, when losing a game. I’m a bit of a control freak, and it makes me uncomfortable. It may seem a bit out of character for me, I know, but this is how I roll.
And, Sabrina, I didn’t know your upbringing had kept you from doing anything dirty! I always assumed you made up for the lost time once you left home
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:55 am.
B, it is completely fine to be a control freak. I am one too and I won’t apologise for being as I am so please don’t beat yourself up for being you.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:47 am.
I did, but I never met anyone who wanted to play strip poker. Weird, huh? Plus, I never learned how to play poker. Oddly enough, my dad taught my brothers (but no gambling was allowed). I just never learned.
I HAVE played blackjack a time or two, but I’m not sure how you’d make that sexy. Hmm.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:23 am.
Sabrina, I just love the new cover! I’ll have to dig out my old copy and give it a reread today.
Games like that can certainly get you into trouble…
I happen to love whist, which I convinced a bunch of friends to play with me (while drinking brandy.) B, it’s one of those trick taking type games- closer to bridge than poker.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:03 am.
Cail, I’ve never played whist, but I keep wanting to try. In all my spare time, of course. *G*
My favorite card game is spades, but I haven’t played it in years.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:00 am.
Congrats on the new book.
I do like to read sexy game scenes in books. Can’t wait for yours.
I just wrote a sexy card game into my western. Had a lot of fun with it, though I needed to research cards and games back then. They still had poker.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:35 am.
Poker should definitely appear in a western! I’ll bet you made it real fun. *G*
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:01 am.
Any game is a great element to add tensiIon. I like the unexpected skill element when it makes send in the story.
I’m going to have to retread ATA. I don’t recall the game scene. Oh, the sacrifices I’m willing to make for our goddesses.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:57 am.
The chess scene is near the end. *G* You just keep on sacrificing. We love you for it!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:02 am.
I loved the sexy billiards scene in A Dangerous Love.
Not sure if Hide and Seek was played in regency times, but it seems that could be a good way for some unchaperoned alone time. I am sure a lot could be accomplished while hiding in a linen closet.
I have never played strip poker, but I have played strip Trivial Pursuit. I am not sure why I agreed because I suck at trivia games. I didn’t enjoy myself at all, I would much rather play drinking games where my clothes stay on.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:18 am.
Ooh, good idea, hide and seek! That could be really sexy, couldn’t it.
Strip Trivial Pursuit sounds very intriguing, but I would be naked by the end, and Hubby would be fully clothed. He beats everyone at Trivial Pursuit.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:03 am.
But Sabrina, that could be very good for you in the end. Building up anticipation and possibly distracting him.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:24 am.
Congrats on the release! New life for a great book.
I’ve played spin the bottle, too. I suppose it’s a rite of passage. Wish I could remember the name (face, zip code?) of the guy I kissed; all I can remember is that I wasn’t attracted to him and it wasn’t a good kiss. Oh, and then the dad of the hostess came home and was furious and slammed open the door as I was in there getting my kiss and ordered us out and I thought I’d die of shame and . . . gee, guess that’s why I only played spin the bottle that one time and never played another ‘sexy’ game again.
Huh. The things you remember while hanging around the goddess blogs.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:04 am.
I was with a wild kid and his wild friends, and I was still very goody-two-shoes and was horrified. They were drinking, too, (his dad was friends with my parents, and my parents had no idea that the kid was so wild). I don’t think the bottle ever came to me. Or, knowing how I was then, I may have refused to play. I don’t remember.
But no exotic kiss resulted, sadly.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:08 am.
I can honestly say that I never played spin the bottle. I think I played strip poker once, but if I can’t remember for sure then it most likely wasn’t a great experience!
I just wrote a steamy hockey scene in my WIP. Well, it started on the ice…Anywho.
Congratulations and good luck on the latest release!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:23 am.
THAT sounds intriguing. Steamy hockey! Who knew?
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am.
Well, I’m not a big fan of cards, so I wouldn’t want to play Strip Poker, but I enjoy reading about it in books, that’s for sure!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:45 am.
Hubby doesn’t like cards either. Meanwhile, I love to play them, and have no one to play with! And no time to play, anyway.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:09 am.
Congrats on your re-release!
I have adored all the sexy games that you’ve written, Sabrina. They were fabulous and very entertaining.
As for which other games one could make sexy… I don’t suppose you could make charades sexy? I don’t know! I don’t know what other games they played in Regency (despite my reading them constantly). There are card games, chess, pool, puzzles…
No, I don’t play sexy games. I think I played strip-poker when I first started dating my husband, but otherwise I don’t. But yes, I LOVE reading them in books!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:45 am.
FYI: The strip-poker we played was just between the two of us… no other people were in the room. I definitely wouldn’t do that with anyone else around!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:47 am.
It does sound fun as an intimate game between a couple.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:11 am.
Charades is one I’ve considered, actually. They loved charades in the Regency.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:10 am.
I’m think that a scavenger hunt could turn interesting!!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:59 am.
Definitely! I’ll add it to the list.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:11 am.
I read of a scavenger hunt in a Regency that paired up couples and the hero and heroine ended up in a hunter’s cabin in a rain storm.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:28 am.
I think I read that book… I don’t remember which one it was, though. But it was fun!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:36 pm.
I love the tension that the sexy games bring to the book. I loved the scene in A Hellion in Her Bed. The second game that Jarret and Annabel played. I think it’s one of my favorites! Definitely a scavenger hunt would be great. Julia Quinn wrote one in one of her books that was really good. Yet again, I love everything you write, so any sexy game would be great!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:22 am.
Which book of Julia’s was that? I’d love to read that!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:31 pm.
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever. It’s one of my favorite books that She wrote.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm.
Hmmm it could give a whole new meaning to “BINGO”. I checked out Bingo and appearently it was originally called Beano in America played at county fairs and such, however it was known as far back as the 1500 in Europe, especially mentioned was Italy, France, and Germany where it had other names. So its possible it made it to regency England. But it might be hard to play it intimiately … but if you were to have a brothel scene… it might work.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:27 am.
How funny! I had no idea. That is DEFINITELY intriguing.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:32 pm.
When my husband and I get a night alone, we play strip-dominoes! We’re very competitive so we usually have a little ‘side bet’ of our own when we’re playing just about anything. LOL!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:50 am.
LOL! My parents started playing dominoes with their grandkids after I was grown, but I don’t think they’d be doing the strip thing.
How cool that you and your husband do it together!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm.
I think that the idea of playing hide and seek and ending up alone in the linen closet or some other out of the way place. That could be a very sexy game. I also think that charades has a lot of possibility, particularly if the hero and heroine have had some sort of intimate encounter already (maybe just a kiss with a lot of tension) because then one of them could portray something in the charades game that was an innuendo to the other person but seemed innocent to the rest of the players. … Or you could have a private charades game with just the two of them, and use it like a seduction! Have the hero mime taking her clothes off or something as the game progresses, and once she realizes what he is doing… That sounds *very* sexy. I think that a truth or dare type game could be sexy as well, with the MCs answering intimate questions or doing things like kissing each other, etc.
As for myself, I’m pretty adventurous. When I was younger, I played strip poker, strip other-card-games, group party card games that involved both stripping and various dares, etc. I’ve also played spin the bottle – I was only 13 the first time, and got to make out with two different guys cute guys, once of whom asked me out after the game. I’ve also played standard truth or dare and suck-and-blow, which if you are not familiar is a party game where you take a small piece of paper and put it to your lips and “suck” in air to keep it attached to your lips. Then you press your papered lips to the next person in the circle and you try to blow it onto their lips and they try to suck in enough air to attach it to their lips and inevitably people mess it up and end up kissing.
Last but not least, I’ve also attended the Cloven Orange Ball a few times. It is an SCA event (medieval reenactment to put it simply). It’s a ball, obviously, and based on the medieval/renaissance tradition of the cloven orange, or an orange with dried cloves stuck into it. If someone gives you the orange, you have three options. You can simply take the orange and thank them and go and give it to someone else, which means you are not interested. You can take a clove out with your hand, which gives the person permission to kiss your hand and indicates interest in a dance. Or lastly, you can remove a clove with your mouth, which gives them permission to kiss you on the cheek or lips (cheek if you turn your head) and indicates even more intimate interest. If you put the clove all the way into your mouth, you are daring the orange-giver to retrieve it with his tongue. Sooo suffice to say that I have kissed a few cute boys that way as well!
I don’t know if the cloven orange tradition would still exist in Regency times, and I am not sure if it is English or from some other European nation, but it could certainly be a fun holiday game to have played at a Ball.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:07 am.
Err that should be: “I think that the idea of playing hide and seek and ending up alone in the linen closet or some other out of the way place would be great. That could be a very sexy game.”
Hurr.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:08 am.
I also agree with Hide and Seek lol
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:30 pm.
Believe it or not, they had a similar game to suck-and-blow in the Regency (I’ve never played S&B, but I’ve seen it played, I think). In the Regency, they had some French kissing game they would play (see the image on http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/baiscpuc.jpg ). It looks very risqué.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:54 pm.
Wow, that does look very risque.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:38 pm.
Candy land?
Congratulations on the reissue, Sabrina!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:16 am.
Thanks, Julia! Congrats on the bestseller list placement!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:56 pm.
I have played strip poker with hubby as well as a couple of sexy board games we bought – they were fun and added a bit of spice! Thank you for the giveaway.
fingershankins@yahoo.com
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:25 am.
You’re welcome!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:05 pm.
I played Spin the Bottle and Three Minutes in Heaven…one time each. I got stuck with someone I didn’t like both times and never felt the need to play anymore.
I love reading those flirty and sexy scenes!
Congratulations on your reissue! I love the cover–it’s gorgeous!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:38 am.
It’s always better in fiction, isn’t it? *G*
Yes, the cover is pretty–the last cover was a bit odd.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:35 pm.
I can totally see a game of “Truth or Consequences” in the Regency time, especially if the hero is looking for information from the heroine. You can start with gloves and hankies, then move to the more intimate garment. Personally delivered chemise?
DH and I used to play our own private strip card game. But, like your hubby, mine doesn’t really like cards, either. Especially when I beat him frequently. So, he decided it was more expedient to remove his clothes first and skip the card game…lol!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:46 am.
Lol! I play the headlight game with my hubby and he always loses too. I have only made him take his clothes off once and he lost so I started having him put his clothes back on since I think all he got off me were my shoes.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:51 am.
I don’t think I know the headlight game. I’ll have to look that one up!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:28 pm.
You do it at night while driving. If a car has only one headlight you say “Padiddle” and the other person has to take off a piece of clothing. Now if you call a padiddle (I know, crazy word) and it’s like a motorcycle, then you have to take something off. I have heard of some ppl that count semi’s as 2 items but to each his own. It can be really fun on the way home after dinner or something. I still call them out but my hubby won’t play with me anymore.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:07 pm.
I did something sort of like Truth or Consequences in Dance of Seduction, come to think of it, when the hero and heroine were trying to extract info from each other. *G*
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:27 pm.
WOOT! Congrats on the reissue!!
Not a game player IRL..but an avid romance junkie..so here’s my secksay scene…
Unbeknownst to our Hero, our Heroine was a former street urchin. She has kept a set of loaded dice and uses them in a wager with our Hero. As he’s stripping down, she thinks she’s winning, however, we all know that once she sees his mouthwatering bod, she’s lost everything.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:47 am.
Sounds good to me!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:28 pm.
I wasn’t brought up by missionaries but I was raised in church and have done some missions on my own. So of course there were not really any sexy games for me. I would play truth or dare with some friends but I never picked dare. And since I had never kissed a boy there wasn’t really any truths that ppl wanted to know. I do think a hide and seek game could be fun, or maybe even like a capture the flag? On a big estate in teh country there is a lot that could be done with that.
Grats on the re-release!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:48 am.
Thanks, Megan! I don’t think I’ve ever played Capture the Flag, although I believe I know how it works.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:38 pm.
I have played Capture the Flag. Many opportunities to “get lost in the woods” on said estate. That could be really interesting.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:48 pm.
Very yes! I have played it at night mostly and then well….all kinds of new senerios open up.
Basically you have 2 teams and each one has a flag (it can be on a stick or not, usually its like a bandanna or something a little bigger). You’re area will be divided in half and each team is in charge of one side. You have to hide the flag in plain sight and not like up a tree, the shortest member has to be able to reach it w/o climbing (at least that was how my church did it when we played). Then the games on! Each side is trying to get the other flag. If you get caught (tagged) while on the enemy’s side, you go to ‘jail’ which is usually guarded by at least 2 ppl. If you’re whole team gets jailed you lose. You can breack ppl out of jail by going to the enemy’s side and tagging your team back but you have to avoid the guards. The flag is usually guarded as well but you probably won’t see them since they don’t want to give the location away.
Our church would play it when we did all night camp outs and we would do it at night and it was so much fun. I always stayed on my side tho and tried to catch ppl cause I didn’t want to get cuaght, lol.
(If that made no sense I will re write it so it will.)
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:14 pm.
LOL, Sabrina! I just finished editing my strip piquet scene from my September book. Great minds, eh? *g*
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:05 pm.
I can’t wait for that book!! I finished your last in less then a day!!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:20 pm.
Ooh, ooh, sounds good! But I can’t master Piquet. It’s just too complicated. Good for you that you could!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm.
I have heard of a game called Sardines. It was played in that time period, I think. This could be a great way for two of the characters to get together.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:30 pm.
We played Sardines when I was a kid!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm.
I’ve played a few of the sexy games mentioned, but never really enjoyed them. But I love reading the “game” scenes in books! That chess game was wonderful! I have tried to think of a game that could be made into a “sexy game”. And the only thing that keeps coming to mind is the card game WAR…you know, matching cards…I-De-Clare-War! And whoever loses has to remove something….
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:37 pm.
Ooh, I like that. Simple but sexy.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:40 pm.
I like those scenes if they are well done and full of tension. I also like it when the heroine is extra clever and beats the hero.
I think the only times I have played them IRL involved drinking shots or poker. Or both. I’m klassy like that.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:45 pm.
LOL! Yes, you are.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:40 pm.
You could have strip snapdragon
I love anything that’s playful.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:53 pm.
Julia Quinn’s Brodgerton pall mall games are fun to read
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:39 pm.
My family plays croquet the way the Bridgertons play Pall Mall. My brothers even put a pond and a hill in our mom’s backyard ‘to make it interesting.’ When my grandma was alive, she gave out boobie prizes that she picked up at the dollar store to the loser.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:57 pm.
Cool family. I love people who still play when they’re older.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:12 pm.
That sounds like so much fun! My family doesn’t really play anything together. I’m not sure why. We just eat a lot. *G*
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:42 pm.
We, also, play Uno, which my grandma called You-Know. Since she passed away 3 years ago, my sisters and I call it You-Know.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:25 pm.
Ooh, I forgot that I did Snapdragon in the Christmas novella. Not Strip Snapdragon, though.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:41 pm.
I have played strip poker with my dh as he was teaching me how to play poker. I won. While I didn’t grow up playing poker, I did grow up playing rummy. We don’t really play poker anymore because I think it bothers my dh that I can win even when I’m not really sure what I’m doing. In the past we’ve played Trivial Pursuit, and the loser has to do whatever the winner wants. We’re more evenly matched there.
Sexiest game scene in a book – Eloisa James’ domino game with Roberta and Damon in Desperate Duchesses.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:02 pm.
Wow, another vote for dominoes!
I played gin rummy a lot growing up. As I recall, I was pretty good at it!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:07 pm.
I somehow missed your sexy chess scene, which is odd because I thought I’d read all of your books. Hmmm. Sounds like a good excuse to get the reissue and check it out!
And yes, I’ve played a sexy game before — strip poker is bread and butter to a Tennessee girl and the secret is to Always Win.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:36 pm.
Sounds like the best way to approach it!!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:09 pm.
Any kind of card game could be interesting
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:50 pm.
I agree–I love cards.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:09 pm.
I’ve never played strip poker, but it’s never too late. I think that even though I’m an *ahem* older person, I still think my husband and I would love to do that. Thanks for the suggestion. I believe we’re in for a fun evening!!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:58 pm.
Ooh, have fun! I’d have to learn how to play poker first.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:10 pm.
Hmmm, sexy games? How about an old fashioned hide and seek game? We can all guess where a character might hide right? The anticipation of being found can just make things a bit more interesting.
I hadn’t really thought about sexy games in books before and aside from a few here and there, I don’t recall many except in yours Sabrina and Lydia Dare’s The Wolf Next Door.
Sadly, I’ve had no reason to play sexy games, but I have hope for the future. I have to or I’d go insane.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:25 pm.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your future, too!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:10 pm.
I think sexy games in an historical romance is more interesting if the woman wins. The man usually always wants the same thing, so having the woman win the bet is a nice twist. LOL
I’ve read some romances where the h/h bet over a chess game. It usually involves the heroine trying to get something back from the hero. Characters could also play a sexy Blind Man’s Bluff as happened in Julie Anne Long’s, What I Did for a Duke. Finally, they could play a game of strip Pall Mall (croquet). Remember Julia Quinn’s funny and vicious Pall Mall matches between the Bridgertons in The Viscount Who Loved Me?
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:59 pm.
I DO remember those!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:11 pm.
I don’t know it’s been suggested, but croquet could get pretty risque, especially in teaching mode. “No, my dear. You hold the mallet like this.” Yep, that would work.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:01 pm.
LOL!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:11 pm.
Ooops, looks like I should have read the previous post!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm.
lets see something sexy how about this one sabrina strip dice played in the same manner as strip poker only involving dice this was just idea off the top of my head angelwolfmystic@yahoo.com
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:04 pm.
They played Hazard with dice in the Regency, so that would work. Hmmm.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:12 pm.
Megan McKinney wrote a real nice, sensual, game of pool in When Angels Fall. I read that book in the 90′s so I think it was memorable.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:17 pm.
Oh, yeah, I remember that. I loved that book. Still have it on my Keeper shelf, as a matter of fact.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:13 pm.
They used to play Blind Man’s Bluff back then, I think, but as an adult game. Perhaps a very private game of it for two might have possibilities.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:20 pm.
Yes, I saw some very interesting pics of it!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:14 pm.
Eloisa James wrote about chess in one of her books and that was pretty sexy. But it really depends on the characters, I think!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:24 pm.
That’s for sure!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:14 pm.
I think t would be fun to have a sexy game of chase. know where each person is kinda giving a half hearted struggle to run from or catch the other, maybe even have the woman playing ring around the couch while she takes something off just to intice the man even further, with a little come hither smile as she looks at him. But whe he comes towards her she moves to just out of reach, knowint that she is driving him wild as she does it, but also know that the more she keeps out of reach from him the more the excitement will build. He could reach for her and lightly brush her skin almost having her and then she pulls aways with something like “ugh ugh ugh, not yet, you have to earn it first” smiling over at him. Especially if he is maybe the mild mannered sort and she doesn’t expect him to lose control, ever, but she teases him til she thinks she will be in control and then he surprises her with finally getting his hands on her and dragging her against his chest at last and giving her a hungared and hard kiss before he picks her up, once again shocking, but pleasing her because it is so out of character for him and he carries her to the bedroom, where he is most definately the one in control.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
Lisa, I sort of have that in my School for Heiresses anthology story. He’s definitely chasing her around the couch!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:35 am.
Never played any of those “naughty” games myself, though I’ll keep them in mind for fun with the hubby
. One card game I can think of that one could have fun with would be cribbage, losing something when your opponent reaches certain points on the board. You could map out the board in advance and then just play, and hope you don’t get “skunked”.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:07 pm.
I’ll have to take your word for it–I’ve never played cribbage!!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:36 am.
Touch football can be pretty sexy! Not that it would work in a historical. Maybe touch golf would work?
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:08 pm.
LOL! Only in Scotland.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:36 am.
I remember my mom telling me a story about her, dad & some couple friends of theirs playing strip poker — mom never lost cause dad would slip her the good cards
I’m sure charades & blind man’s bluff were often turned naughty in the right (or is that wrong) palors & gardens during the regency
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:14 pm.
I’m sure they were!!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:37 am.
Well I’m sure most of the men would take a dare if it came to truth or dare and would hope that the women would also.
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I did play spin the bottle when I was younger but I don’t think I was really old enough to appreciate the game or maybe it was the guys weren’t that great
I think hide and seek or a scavenger hunt would be fun with the rules altered a little. Solving a clue could either cause you or your opponent to lose a piece of clothing or maybe finding hidden clothing is the clue. The prize is when you find the last article…..maybe still on the “hidee”. Nothing to athletic. I can’t see doing archery in the buff.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm.
Archery in the buff might be a bit much, BUT betting on archery might allow for some good endings. *G*
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:38 am.
How did I not think or archery… shame on me!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:41 pm.
A card game. They can get pretty entertaining. Plus I love to play cards.
Use to love playing truth or dare when I was younger. That might be interesting in a story.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:54 pm.
It might be indeed!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:38 am.
I wonder how far back “Simon Says” goes? A little private game of Simon Says where the couple takes turning being “Simon” while the other has to do “whatever Simon says!”
I think it would be a great scene in a book. They would try to concentrate and play along with the game, but then one of them would do something out of passion, or without thinking, and the other would say, “No, no, no, naughty, naughty, Simon didn’t say to do that.”
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:32 pm.
Hahahaha I like that one
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:39 pm.
I like that, too! I don’t know how far back it goes, but I’ll bet it goes farther than we realize.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:39 am.
I think the Hide and Seek game would be great.
We were on a backgammon kick for awhile – we played strip backgammon. Anything involving stripping is good.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:41 pm.
Truer words were never spoken!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:40 am.
There was a scene in an historical romance where the hero and heroine were playing cups. They never touched. The only met each others stares and gave body gestures but the scene was so well written…. Very hot! Sometimes sexy doesn’t have to be graphic or overt for it to really work!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:31 pm.
That’s so true. What’s cups? And do you remember what book it was in?
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:40 am.
I wish I could remember what book the scene was in. I racked my mind last night and just couldn’t remember. My understanding of what the author called cups was a tiered stand with cups and the players try to get balls or chips in the cups. It’s like an overgrown version of tiddlywinks (or that show Minute To Win It when contestants bounce a ball to get it into an impossibly small container). If I think of the name of the book, I will let you know. It really bugs me when a book name eludes me.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:37 am.
I don’t know any historical games, so the one that I’ll suggest will, hopefully, be given a historical spin to it.
What I think would make a “sexy” game would that game one does as one is taking a long trip on the coach/car. The “I See” (I don’t know the actual name, so I hope the one that I give will be enough for anyone to know what game I’m talking about) could be given a “sexy” twist by the seemingly innocent interlude between the hero and the heroine. The heroine plays the game as it is, but the hero, however…I guess you can say he has “naughty” thoughts and the “innocent” answers he gives can be proven ‘false’ as he has a lustful look on his face, though he only does it whenever the heroine gazes out of the coach’s window. And whenever the heroine glances back at the hero, he has an impassive expression on his face, though the heroine has a tingling feeling of missing something.
You know, as I typed that, I just felt like an author/editor of a sort. Ha!
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:39 pm.
There you go, E.R. Maybe you should try writing it!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:41 am.
Congratulations on the book! I think billards.
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:31 pm.
Billiards really is a great one for doing sexy scenes.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:42 am.
Just had a thought (can’t sleep) what about Twister? That could get all sorts of interesting.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:06 am.
My assistant suggested Twister, too. In the nude. *G* Sadly, I don’t think they played Twister in the Regency. But it would work for a contemporary!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:45 pm.
Or they could build a house of cards together. Taking turns and the first to knock it over loses a forfeit. They could do interesting things to distract the other while placing their cards. Makes me think of that Brady Bunch episode where the boys and girls where builing the house of cards.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:46 pm.
You could also try a card game like Gin if you are going to have a lady who would never know how to play poker with a rogue who was trying to seduce her. She would probably know how to play Gin depending on the time period, I do not knwo when Gin became popular to play, but it is an idea, maybe a bet that would be for every hand the lady loses she has to allow the rogue to remove one thing that she is wearing himself. Actually the allowing the man to remove the article of clothing would work for any of the ‘naughty’ games you go with.
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:24 am.
It sure would, Lisa!
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:45 pm.
In those times when I was a naughty girl, I once played strip poker with a bunch of (male) friends. Guess I was rather good at the game, as all the men lost their clothes, and I was still wearing my bra and slip. I also remember we drank a lot of champagne that night, and at one time I was playing Tarzan and was swinging on the chandelier!
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:46 pm.