These are encouraged to elevate the conversation. So you can spend less time arguing with your Grandpa, and more time exchanging factoids and telling some possibly bad, possibly funny jokes (while wearing paper crowns).
Take your cue from the host
Possibly the most important rule – whatever you do, don’t bring your own traditions to another person’s house. You have to go by the law of whoever’s house you’re staying in – be that another family or new in-laws. Perhaps most…

