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The most common way to blindly taste is to wrap the bottles in brown paper bags and number each one. Sometimes it's easy to pickout a few of the wines based on bottle size/shape but, since this is just for fun, it's not a big deal. Tasting Helper.com will tell you how to number the wines once they have been input.
If you have access to multiple decanters then this is the ideal way to blindly taste. You can put a piece of masking tape on the decanter and write the wine's number on it. I have found that having 4-6 decanters works well. When we're tasting more wines than we have decanters for we taste in phases. We'll taste 4-5 at a time and then clean out the decanters for the next batch. (If there is still wine left in the decanter you can use a funnel to pour it back in it's original bottle.). Tasting Helper.com will tell you how to number the wines once they have been input.
If you're tasting both red and white wines taste the whites first followed by the reds.
It's a lot of fun to have a blind tasting contest during the tasting. The tasters try to guess the characteristics of the wines they are tasting. The person with the most correct answers wins a prize! Tasting Helper.com is designed specifically for a blind tasting contest. I usually buy some wine related prizes and award them to the most astute tasters.
If your tasters bring their own wines for the tasting it's fun to award a prize for the most popular wine based on the tasters ratings. Tasting Helper.com will also calculate this for you.