How did the people of the Victorian era do instead of play parlour games? What games did they play to kill time? Parlour games in the Victorian era was to drive people into interacting and entertaining. While there were …show more content…
The way that you play lookabout is that it is like Eye-Spy. The second game Blind man's bluff is like the game mummy you have to try to find someone that is standing still and tag them blind folded. The way that you play the sculptor is that you have to try and make the player guess what you are drawing. Parlour games helped a lot with people getting depressed and people killing themselves and get themselves out of jobs. People in the Victorian Era times were amazed because they didn’t have anything to do back in the day and now they have stuff to do instead of work all of time for money and they could of enjoyed there time with family and friends and have a good time. It also took a lot of stress away during the deep depression because everyone was down at the time and you had to have a way to do more things than work all of the time. They tried to make up their own games with rocks and sticks most of the time but it did not really work a lot so other people made up all of the other games and they started to spread. And that is how parlour games became a thing because most of the people that spread the word about parlour games was in a bar at the time that they started to spread it around. But they spread it like how they spread now days everyone telling people about it. Another part of the parlour games was when they were doing …show more content…
Most of the people in the world now do not really think of parlour games because they have all tech and other things to do but in the parlour games they had to do the things that they could afford because back in the day they had no money there was a lot of debt because there was a lot of people that couldn't afford barely food. There was a lot of cheaper stuff but games and all of the new things that just came out at the time was pretty pricey.Another way the people of the Victorian Era solved up the boredom or how they did something not to be bored is that they had to pitch in and help other people get their stuff in I don't think that their was much play time because they were always doing something during the Victorian Era