Maybe ask him if he has games he likes to play. He could bring something that works well for him and teach you guys to play.

Verbal games like taboo could work, if you’re into casual party games. Just pause the timer so he can read the cards with a phone app or something before each card, or he can be a permanent guesser if that’s not his style.

Dungeons and Dragons, or any other type of TTRPG. Check out $1 for resources and a community.

Just treat him like any other friend. I would say.

They sell brailled playing cards and brailled Uno, if he can real braille. If not, they also make large print playing cards.

I played d n d with friends. I also used to have sighted assistance playing all kinds of board games you can buy adaptive board games like chess monolopy braille card decks scrabble all sorts of things if you are serious and dont mind dropping a little cash on it.

Cards against humanity... If he has an iPhone, SeeingAI plus a Bluetooth headset/earpiece will allow him to play along at 85% the speed of sighted players.

Just keep an open dialogue with this person. You respect each other, so when you approach them with questions just be respectful. Come from a place of curiosity and wanting to understand.

I’ve played these group trivia games on Xbox where everyone participates from their phone. Can’t remember what it was called but it was accessible. Jenga and kings cup are some of my favorite drinking games.

https://64ozgames.com/

This company makes accessibility kits to add braille to almost any game. For a moderate fee, you can ship your copy of the game to them and they'll braille it for you and ship it back.

I personally love this: https://64ozgames.com/products/mille-borne-accessibility-kit?_pos=1&_psq=mille&_ss=e&_v=1.0

They do all kinds of games, even ones as complex as Catan.

I always have my screen curtain turned on, since there's no need to use it. Like others have said, I, too, only turn off the screen curtain if I need visual assistance. What screen reader do you use? If you use NVDA, you can go into the input gestures, and configure the command for enabling and disabling screen curtain.

appyshot app has would you rather, whos most likely, everyone can play that type of games as long someone is reading!

Those speaker devices like Google home will play trivia games. I've used large uni cards. An escape room place might be fun. Then there is that old standby spin the bottle to make things zesty.

We have enjoyed Trivial Pursuit with teams.

This is how I became best friends with/fell in love with my now husband lol. Agree to just treat him like any other friend. My husband is low vision and we basically just enjoy a lot of the standard things (video games etc) up close, and avoid board games, sports, or anything that requires you to see small things quickly, but vision and interests will vary loads from one person to the next. For games, we just mostly play single-player stuff and pass a controller back and forth. Important to keep in mind that not all blind folks use braille too.

If you're playing drinking games, don't let him drive home.

But, seriously also don't forget that it's possible to hang out and be included in the fun without playing a particular (or every) game. My mother in law has gone bowling with her friends every couple of weeks for the past thirty years. She has never once rolled a ball.

Quentin C's Playroom is a platform with a bunch of accessible card and board games, but since it is made by a blind dev and with blind players in mind, I have no clue how well it would look for sighted players.

Some jackbox games are accessible, though not all (drawing games for example are obviously a no-go).

Pretend You're Xyzzy is a website for playing Cards Against Humanity. Perfectly accessible via computer, and presumably also phones, although I haven't tried that yet.

As others have mentioned, some card games can be bought with braille. But if your friend or someone he knows has a braillor, you can save the money and just modify normal cards instead. Similarly, while braille TTRPG dice can be bought, they're ridiculously expensive; you can download the models from the Dots RPG Project and print them wherever there is a 3D printer near you, such as at a friend's place or at a library with one.

As for being a friend to a blind person ... works about the same a being a friend to any othe rperson, I would think. You might just have to lend him an arm here and there so he doesn't have to worry about taking care not to crash into things.

Honestly, far too many people are worried about how, ahem, "doing it" with a blind person could be possible. Given that you could get past that and figure out it's not that much different, I don't think you have anything to worry about here either.

Drinking game I’m a champion of is Flip Cup.

Cooperative board games are generally fun - it is easier to describe what is going on when that’s also part of the game and no one is worried it will make them lose.

Pandemic is a good one; covid notwithstanding

I love playing cribbage. Braille cards and I let my partner peg for me. So works best when playing with 4 people.

I've never played a drinking version of Simon Says, but now I kinda want to.

Have a look through 64ozgames.com and see if any of those appeal.

One of the best things you can do is just treat him like all of your friends because he is. Music is a great way to interact, described movies, sports. We have a blog and it talks about gifts but i think this will give you a great start on some ideas on what you can do when you are hanging out. https://myblindcoach.com/blog/f/the-top-11-gifts-for-the-visually-impaired