How to Have an Oscar-Betting Game

This game uses chips or candies to bet on the outcome of the Academy Awards.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Poker chips
• Pens and pencils
• Bowl for placing bets
• Printed sheets of betting categories and stars up for awards

Oscar Party Betting Game

1. Type and print out a list of the major nomination races in the Academy Awards before the party. Include the big races, such as Best Actor/Actress, Best Animated Film and Best Director.

2. Copy enough lists for all of your guests.

3. Hand out a pile of 20 poker chips, crackers or candies to each of your guests, including yourself, before the awards show starts.

4. Give guests a reference list and a way to mark their picks. Supply pens and pencils.

5. Have your guests bet on who will win before each particular category award. Have them mark it on their sheet so no one fudges the rules.

6. Have your guests place as many chips as they wish for that bet into a central bowl.

7. Divide the winnings among everyone who won for that category with each award. Luckily, there is a lot of time between awards.

8. Present the guest with the most chips with an award at the end of the ceremony.

Tips & Warnings

• Bet actual money if you wish, but make the stakes fairly low, with each token being worth one to five dollars.
• Remind your guests that this is only a friendly betting game and to take everything in stride.

[ephobia]

on 2/22/2009 Steps 6 and 7 are flawed. You will have to keep track of the individual bets in Step 6 in order to properly distribute the winnings in Step 7. In other words, you will need to calculate the winnings based on the how much each winner placed in their bets. You can calculate by percentages or use an odds system.

[ephobia]

on 2/22/2009 Steps 6

[ephobia]

on 2/22/2009 Steps 6

[Muzikpeach]

on 1/12/2009 Thanks for the information!