Enjoy these classic cocktail favorites from the senior cruise:

• Grumpy Old Men (1993)
• The Intern (2015)
• Dirty Grandpa (2016)
• The Bucket List (2007)
• Book Club (2018)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Going in Style (2017)
• The Notebook (2004)

Senior Citizen Night playlist on Spotify

Forget the table shuffleboard that takes up all the space at your local bar. This activity is taking you straight to the legit retirement home shuffleboard court. Or, rather, the mini shuffleboard court that you are going to make right in your living room!

What you need for this activity

• Painter’s or masking tape
• Mop or broom
• 8 aluminum jar lids, round Tupperware lids, or similar household item (all same size, and preferably in 2 distinguishable colors)

Instructions

1. Find a spot to set up your shuffleboard court. This should ideally be a spot in your house that has a smooth, flat surface (like wooden or tiled floors) and enough space to play. See “Modifications” below if you are limited on floor space.
2. Use your tape to make the following triangle shape on the floor. The tip of the triangle should be pointing toward where you will be standing. Make your shape as large or as small as you have space for – even small courts are fun, if not a little more challenging!

3. Put one more line of tape down that marks where you will be standing and shooting from.
4. Put your pucks (lids or whatever you choose to use) on your shooting line separated by color. You should each have 4 pucks.
5. Take turns shooting your pucks by pushing them with your mop or broom. You can knock each other’s pucks out of play or aim for getting the most points.
6. The points are awarded for each zone as follows:

7. You score points for each of your pucks that you have in a section.
   • Pucks/points do not cancel each other out. If you have 2 pucks, one in the 8 point section and one in the 7 point section, you get 15 points. If your partner has pucks in the same 2 sections, they also get 15 points.
   • In “real” shuffleboard, your pucks have to be 100% within a section in order for the points to count. We modify the game to say that you can still get points if your puck is on the line. Score your points for the section that the majority of the puck is in.
8. The first player to get 100 points wins!
   • In “real” shuffleboard, you must get exactly 100 points to be declared in the winner, but for our game we just say it’s the first player to get 100 points or more.
9. Check below to see what the winner gets as a prize!

Modifications

If you don’t have space to play on your floor, you can play a mini version on a table using bottle caps or other smaller objects as your pucks. Instead of using a broom or mop, just use your hands to push your pucks!

Normally a very calming activity, we up the stakes on your normal puzzle-making. Can you and your partner work together to beat the clock?

What you need for this activity

• 2 100-piece puzzles

Instructions

1. Remove the puzzles from their boxes and blend the pieces together in one pile.

2. Start a timer for 40 minutes.

3. Put the two puzzles together using whichever strategy the two of you work out together. See if you can put both puzzles together before the timer goes off!

What would a retiree’s Sunday morning be without a little crossword puzzle action? Test your crossword skills with this puzzle made specifically for Dating in Captivity!

What you need for this activity

• A print-out of our Dating in Captivity crossword puzzle below

Instructions

1. Fill out the crossword puzzle together!

We bet grandma isn’t playing this version of the game at the Bingo Hall! Take your usual Bingo experience and turn up the fun and sex appeal to make this a totally date-worthy way to spend your evening.

What you need for this activity

• Bingo game set

Instructions

Choose your prizes or punishments for the winner and loser of your game. Here are some suggestions!

• The winner gets a 15 minute massage from the losing partner
• The winner gets a kid-free sleeping in morning with breakfast in bed provided by the losing partner
• The winner is free of laundry duty for a week, and the losing partner must take care of all of the laundry
• The winner gets a sexual favor of their choosing, and the losing partner can’t say no
• The winner gets to choose the next Dating in Captivity date!

1. Each player randomly chooses 3 Bingo scorecards.
2. Alternate taking turns calling the Bingo numbers. Mark the called numbers that you have on all of your 3 cards.
   • For example if B7 is called and you have it on 2 of your cards, mark B7 on both cards.
3. Follow the special additional instructions below
   • If you are using a traditional American Bingo game that includes the BINGO letters on your cards, use the Rules for BINGO with letters and numbers. If you are using the version common in other countries that includes only numbers on your scorecards, use the Rules for BINGO with just numbers.
   • Each of the quick actions recommended in the additional instructions only need to be done once per partner per turn, even if you are able to mark more than one of your Bingo cards.
     • For example if you have B7 on your 2 of your 3 cards and there is an action you must do based on the additional rules, you only need to do that action once for that turn even though you have 2 B7s.
4. You score a BINGO for completing an entire row on one of your scorecards, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
   • If you are using a Bingo game with just numbers instead of the Bingo letters, follow the instructions included with your game to determine what makes a BINGO.
5. The winner of the game is the first player to get 3 BINGOs across any of their 3 scorecards.
   • The BINGOs can be on 3 different cards, all on the same card, or split in any other combination across the 3 cards.

Rules for BINGO with letters and numbers

Rules for BINGO with just numbers

If you knew with certainty you could live to 100 by becoming a vegan and exercising 30 minutes a day, or that you could live the lifestyle you live now but you will die by 75, which would you choose?

Where do you want to retire to?

What are 3 bucket list activities for when you are retired?

If you suddenly had to use them right now, would you rather need a hearing aid or reading glasses?

What’s the best part about growing old?

Would you ever have cosmetic surgery (including botox or hair implants) to appear younger as you age?

Which activity would you each be most likely to be caught doing at the nursing home when you’re old:

1. Racing your wheel chair down the hall
2. Smacking the nurse’s butt when you get your daily meds
3. Reading the same book every day in the garden
4. Plotting your elaborate escape plan
5. Napping all day every day

What do you want to be called as grandparents (grandma, nana, papa, etc.)?

Would you rather live with your grown children in old age or at a nursing home?

What hobby will you do together in retirement?