Any ideas for a room-to-room party?

Picture this: People are allowed in one at a time (keep everyone else entertained in the hallway with low quality domestic beer served in plastic cups)as each person is admitted into the room, the door slams shut behind them, and a hood is forced over their head, a strange smell permeates the frabric. When they come to several minutes later, they find themselves to now be wearing an orange jumpsuit, and shackled to the floor in the centre of an entirely empty room, windows and walls painted a uniform shade of dirty grey. A single uncovered lightbulb swinging from an overhead fixture. A voice crackles out of a speaker mounted high on the wall "what'll it be?" they ask for their drink, whatever they say they want, you serve a large shot of jager. When they finally come to again (you'll need to put a strong dose of rope or GHB in each drink) they're back in their normal clothes and have been moved to the next room, which is themed "recovery from the trauma of being punished for the excesses of our corrupt Western cvilisation aided by the consumption of tasty alcoholic beverages". It'll be great.

The Prisoner. NOBODY will do a theme around http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/! No man is a number (your grades); University is supposed to be idyllic but often feels like a prison; there are tests, and paranoia... it's heavily referenced in Lost for you young folk. It's a great allegory, you'll stand out and be cool, and um also ohpleaseohpleaseohplease?

Also, any ideas on how we can make a beach party interactive? Kiddie. Pool.

I've been to many a room-to-room in my day, there have been tropical rooms with fake hammocks, bright lights, and beachy music- calypso, steel drums, whatever. They were pretty fun and usually served sex on the beach. Another good room was a lemonade stand that had a fake stand and the two people behind it like kids on the street. They served hard lemonade, of course. You could have a space themed room with "Buzz Aldrins" (or as I liked to call them "Tang Drivers"), which is just vodka and Tang. I've seen ski chalet type rooms with spiced wine and people in sweaters. Maybe a James Bond/Casino room with martinis and poker? The best/worst room I can remember was a BBQ room. The guy got an industrial sized bottle of BBQ sauce from the kitchen and poured it into a couple of cups. He also added Winner's Cup Gin. I think only one person tried it- it smelled terrible- but the guy ended up with most of a handle of gin. I think that was his plan all along.

Are you in Berkeley? This isn't at Cloyne Court, the rooms were numbered differently. Is it Loth, CZ, Wilde? You're best off sectioning off part of your room by the door as the common party space and only letting known (i.e., friends, potential make-out types, etc) folks behind that part. As for themes, my favorite (for good drink and decoration) was Ski Cabin: serving Irish Hot Chocolates and a slope build of 4 blocks of ice with ah channel down the middle, you pour your liquor of choice down the channel and someone drinks from the bottom by kneeling at the base (the "slope" has to be high up enough that it can be reached it to top and not so low that someone can't get at it by kneeling). And then go crazy with decorations (skiing equipment, scarves, woven hats, fake fire with a fan and red, orange, and yellow tissue paper attached to it, fake snow (out side the windows means less mess), etc.

As I'm writing from DC, I feel compelled to offer the cheap alternative of the "Election" theme. You can have two booths set up with two different boozes/beers, and people 'vote' by choosing either booth. You can add up red or blue solo cups at the end of your allotted time and announce a President of Alcohol. Make sure there's someone in a black suit with sunglasses that can over-react to any party fouls (a la Secret Service). I don't know... I'm just throwing ideas out there, and trying to keep it a)doable, b) inexpensive, c) not esoteric and d) slightly timely. Play "election" on your tv with the sound off... just spit-balling here... whatever you do: make sure you have some American flags prominently hung... or any flags, really. hehehehe... you could make a "third party" booze candidate that's just gross... or almost impossible to find...

Sounds fun! Here are a few ideas off the top of my head: - Beach party - decorate with coconuts and pictures of palm trees and have beach-activities like beach balls and buckets and spades. Play beach party music. You could even set up a small sandpit, although that could get messy. Oh, and wear a bikini/bathing shorts :-) Drinks are easy - Pina Coladas! - Spooky party - make it pitch black so people have to sit and talk in the dark. Play spooky music, and place weird feeling things around the room. Gunge optional! - Kids' party - do everything that you would for a party for 4 year olds - balloons galore, cupcakes, cheesy music, and kiddy party games - pass the parcel, musical chairs etc (not sure what games you played at a kid where you are, but those were my favourites here in the UK!) Not sure about drink...something fruity and fizzy that tastes like coke or fanta!

Highlighter parties can be funt, give out cheap white t-shirts, have the whole room lit in black light (make sure you have no, uh, stains), and hand out highlighters for people to write on other people's shirts. You could go sophisticated and serve wine and cheese and have some jazz playing or something. Karaoke is always fun at a party. Can't go wrong with beer pong or flippy cup.

The classic room-to-room arty is around the world, where every room is a different country. You could co-opt the idea and be a place or country. I was once Jamaica with reggae, cheap rum and Stones ginger wine. Taking this one step further, you could be the moon (or somewhere else off world). Blow up aliens, a fake moon lander, silver suits and moon-juice to drink. Or you could be Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole. Fake snow, fuzzy clothes, rugs to snuggle under and alcoholic hot chocolate. Oh and the south pole propped up in the corner of your room of course.