Next guest please

A great way to get your guests to remember each other’s name is to play this game.
You seat everyone in a circle and ask them to call out their name.
You as the host, are seated in the center of the circle. You point to one person with either your right or your left hand and say to them “who is the next person?”

The person must then say the name of the guest next to him according to you hand. If it’s your left hand they call out the name of the person on their left  and vice versa right hand.
The next player repeats this process and points to another guest with either his left or right hand.
The game continues this way at some pace and anyone who forgets a name is out.